Category: Left and Right

Radosh’s Rant Against the Old Right

By Paul Gottfried,  Chronicles A recent posting on neocon-lite website, Quillette, by its go-to authority on foreign affairs, Ronald Radosh, makes unkind references to Pat Buchanan, Pedro Gonzalez, and me: The current issue of Chronicles, meanwhile, includes an article by Pat Buchanan condemning President Biden’s “vilification” of Putin, […]

Point of Compact

A neocon attacks the paleocons. By Ronald Radosh, Quillette The late literary critic and social democrat Irving Howe once quipped that when radicals fail to build a movement, they start a magazine. Howe knew what he was talking about—his own magazine, Dissent, was one of them. The latest […]

Dissidents For Establishment Oligarchs

By Banned Hipster The Paypal Mafia and their propaganda arm, the neo-conservative think tank Claremont Institute, have been promoting the so-called “Neo-Reaction” of Curtis Yarvin since 2007. Yarvin is from a State Department (thus) family and enrolled in various elite university programs since he was twelve years old. […]

The End of Progressive Intellectual Life

By Michael Lind, Tablet How the foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left. I have never liked the term “public intellectual,” but like its 19th-century predecessor, “publicist,” it describes a social type that plays a useful role […]

Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics

By Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal Gray Zone By covertly recruiting popular YouTube influencer Abigail Thorn to counter growing opposition to UK gov’t Covid restrictions, psy-ops pros are bringing home the tactics they honed in the Syrian dirty war. Leaked documents have revealed a state-sponsored influence operation designed […]

National Populism at War

By Russell Berman, Telos One of the surprising aspects of the Ukraine War is that it came as a surprise. After the devastation that Russia wreaked in Chechnya, after the invasion of Georgia, after the occupation of Crimea—and the list goes on: after Russia’s complicity in the destruction […]

Left-Wing YouTubers Co-opted By Security State

Caleb Maupin is the author of “BreadTube Serves Imperialism: Examining The New Brand of Internet Pseudo-Socialism,” a book describing the ways left leaning YouTubers have been co-opted and manipulated by elite interests to shepherd anti-establishment and revolutionary energy back toward the center and into traditional, corporatist outlets like […]

From Stirner to Mussolini

The “anarchist abduction” story from 1910 described in this article sounds like the idiotic drama that goes on in anarchist circles today. By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman […]

Otto Rühle on “Red Fascism”

The following article first appeared anonymously in the September 1939 edition of American communist journal Living Marxism. Its author, Otto Rühle, was living in Mexico at the time, having fled there by way of Czechoslovakia during the early ’30s to escape the rise of National Socialism (Rühle’s wife, Alice […]

Is Futurism Left Wing?

By CSD, Futurism is Forever Is Futurism a left wing ideology? Short answer yes. Futurism is very much a part of the left in its belief in historical progress, liberty of all kinds including free love and a strong rejection of the old and conservative ways of doing […]

PRIMO RADICAL #262: Matt Taibbi

Award-winning author and journalist Matt Taibbi returns to the show to discuss the recent censorship that has taken place across the United States and Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Taibbi also shares his thoughts on why anti-war leftists are branded as “right-wingers,” political amnesia, the […]

Was Hitler Really Right-Wing?

By Rainer Zitelmann Mises Institute Was Hitler really “right wing”? The German-British publicist Sebastian Haffner, who wrote one of the most notable essays on Adolf Hitler, has pointed out that the only opposition which could really have become dangerous for Hitler came from the Right: “From its vantage, […]