The solution is simple: “Dear government, ruling class, power elite, banksters, and others whom it may concern…We want a complete moratorium if not a jubilee on rents, mortgages, car payments, credit cards, student loans, utility bills, and medical bills. We want it now. Please deliver immediately. Or we’ll […]
Ten years ago, I identified what I considered to be the “ten core demographics” that proponents of the ideas we discuss here at ATS will have to reach in order to eventually find the Holy Grail. The original piece is available here. It is interesting to evaluate the […]
This interview contains my general take on the great lumpenproletarian cultural revolution of 2020 from a Howard Cosell perspective.
It’s interesting how the potlatch or the Jewish concept of jubilee are forms of what FOX News fans would probably denounce as “socialism” that are largely cultural rather than political in nature. By Troy Southgate Some of you may have heard of the potlatch system, an economic practice […]
And Trump’s critics actually thought he wouldn’t “act presidential.” Wasting time on the golf course while everything falls apart is what presidents are for. The Guardian Donald Trump prompted a familiar barrage of criticism on Saturday by visiting one of his own golf clubs as the country remains […]
The economic future: Living in cubicles in Internet cafes while working remotely.
In the future, places like this will start to appear in the US as housing becomes more and more unaffordable. And the first thing that will happen is the bourgie sectors will try to use zoning laws and building codes to repress them.
An old article from the 1980s describing Libya’s economic system. There were many problems with Qaddafi, but the reason he was so hated by the Western imperialists is that he expelled Western petroleum interests from the country and created the wealthiest nation on the African continent. The Western […]
An interesting libertarian/ancap vs Marxist debate. I tend to lend more toward the idea that concentrated economic power is the primary problem rather than wage labor per se and that the relationship between the state and economic elites (the “power elite”) is what makes massive concentrations of economic […]
The ruling class continues with its “Let them eat cake!” attitude. Are the guillotines on the way?
The US is #9 on this list. Unbelievably, I am constantly coming across “libertarians” who think this doesn’t matter. Read some Aristotle or Tocqueville, folks. By Grant Suneson and Samuel Stebbins USA Today In American politics, the issue of income inequality comes up frequently. As wealth continues to […]
Notice how the USA is starting to resemble Latin America and South Africa in terms of class divisions. World Economic Forum Global leaders will meet at the Annual Meeting in Davos this week to discuss how to improve the state of the world and address its most pressing […]
The ruling class continues to dig its own grave.
Great Depression Two is here and the ruling class doesn’t give a damn. Krystal and Saagar react to news that the U.S. GDP fell 9.5% and 1.43 million Americans filed new state unemployment claims.
Duh?
Anti-Empire.Com Additional conditions which do nto apply to the financial part are unacceptable for Belarus, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said when speaking about external lending during a meeting to discuss support measures for the real economic sector on the part of the banking system, BelTA has learned. Aleksandr […]
The new Standard Oil.
Class divisions in the US are now moving into full Third World, if they weren’t already there.
Fossil fuel companies, one of the most significant sectors of the old bourgeoisie/right-wing of the ruling class, are among the funders/backers of the Republican Party, as opposed to the rising tech-oligarchs who back the Democratic Party, with Wall Street and banksters having their hands in both. By Nina […]
Last Real Indians Kinder-Morgan’s application for approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX) has been bouncing around in Canada’s federal courts like a pinball since 2013. First Nations tribes and environmental groups have valiantly worked the flippers of the judicial pinball machine for years, filing lawsuits and […]
Municipal police typically function as the private army of politically-connected business and real estate interests. This is a fairly significant fourth-generation warfare victory, relatively speaking.
I came across this recent statement from a leftist activist. The comments below were made as part of a wider argument that opposition to PC is nothing more special pleading by reactionaries who merely want to be exempt from criticism, which is the standard leftist reply to criticisms […]
By Keith Preston A book published a couple of years ago, which is reviewed by the Guardian below, outlines the structural methods the Democrats will eventually use to create a de facto one-party state as they continue to gain the upper hand through cultural, demographic, technological, generational, and […]
James Lindsay on the theology of the new theocracy. The two most important things that are happening in the developed world at the present time are the re-feudalization of class relations and the growth of totalitarian humanism as the self-legitimating ideology of the rising ruling class. Just as […]
We already have a massive depression now.
Interestingly, it’s about even between Trump and Biden.
Advance the class struggle: Abolish zoning. Is anti-zoning the perfect wedge issue for anarchists? By J. Brian Charles Governing.Com Seattle’s housing market has been red-hot for almost a decade. Across the Northwest’s largest metropolitan area, real estate is not only expensive, upward of a million dollars for homes […]
The Republicans are going to have just as much trouble co-opting the class issues as the neoliberals and SJWs. There is no way the interests of the right-wing of the ruling class can be reconciled with those of the working class, much less the homeless and unemployed, on […]
Class struggle is on the way. A set of dangers that we will face in the future will be efforts by left-wing and right-wing authoritarians to exploit the class issues as a means of gaining state power. We already see this happening across the political spectrum, with sectors […]
I strongly suspect that at least some Republicans are closet Lincoln Project sympathizers who are trying to sabotage Trump’s reelection effort. The Republicans seem to be splitting into multiple factions, including movement conservatives who are party loyalists first (because they make their living as “professional Republicans”), neocons and […]
The shit is ready to hit the fan. Krystal and Saagar reveal another 1.4 million Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week.
The presidential election has more or less become a PSA about the problem of mental illness between Trump (narcissistic sociopathy), Biden (dementia, Alzheimer’s), and West (psychosis, bipolar disorder). By Chloe Melas CNN (CNN)Kim Kardashian West has shared a message about her husband Kanye West and mental health. In […]
This article provides a pretty good overview of how “wokeness” is mostly quasi-religious moral masturbation for affluent white liberals, and essentially a “Great Awakening” for the post-Christian era. Nietzsche is right once again. This also fits the historical pattern of the upwardly mobile sectors of the middle class […]
Great Depression Two is here. Apparently, Trump’s top economic advisor is Arthur Laffer, the man whose theories destroyed the US middle class. It is rather interesting how the ruling class is waging an upgraded class war against everyone else in the midst of a depression. The power elite […]
No matter how stupid the Left gets, the Right usually never fails to one-up them. The Know-Nothings are alive and well.
When the therapeutic state, medical martial law, and oligarchic capitalism converge. By Chip Cutter and Thomas Gryta Wall Street Journal Companies have a new question for employees: Any plans this weekend? As U.S. states reopen, sending residents back to work as well as social life, employers are urging […]
One thing about Trump that I have never seen any commentator point out is that while Trump is a billionaire, he does not originate from the traditional Anglo-Saxon American elite. Trump originates from a German immigrant family, and Germans and the Irish were the original “immigrant undesirables” in […]
Wokeness, “cancel culture,” political correctness, etc. is merely the loyalty oaths, satanic panic, or the “just say no” of the present era. Has any of this do-gooder stuff helped even one person pay rent, resulted in the release of a single prisoner, or prevented even one bomb from […]
Notice that the War Street Journal couldn’t care less about what double-digit unemployment could mean for the actual working class. They’re just worried about their dumbass election. By John McCormick Wall Street Journal President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are campaigning for the White House in […]
The aristocracy realizes there is money to be made in pretending to be friends of the peasants and mouthing the platitudes of the clerisy, all the while building the new feudalism. Notice that this statement contains nothing about class or economic subjects, just the standard Do-Gooders, Inc. laundry […]
By Ramon Blecua Responsible Statecraft The current global health emergency provoked by COVID-19 is accelerating deep changes that will have far reaching implications not only for the way international relations are conducted but in every aspect of social life and economic activity. The influence of powerful non-state actors […]
“A Latino friend of mine pointed out today that what we are seeing in Portland is a light version of CIA operations in El Salvador, Columbia, Chile and other Latin American countries in the 70s and 80s. The US propped up dictators and organized coups. The US helped […]
“Banks, Media, Universities, Military, Prisons, Big Pharma, Frankenfood Agribusiness, etc. There’s a whole bunch of power-elites that consolidate into an ever-evolving ruling class.” Adil Sarker
I disagree that the existence of the Electoral College or the bicameral Congress is the main thing that is wrong with the current system. It is not unreasonable to have institutional mechanisms to prevent mob rule. The main problem is that, if you read the enumerated powers and […]
This segment indirectly provides a reasonably accurate though very basic overview of how the different factions of the ruling class are aligned with the two parties. The tech industry, the media, and the managerial class side with the Democraps, and the fossil fuel, real estate, and other traditional […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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