By Jordan Jardine, Center for a Stateless Society Muammar Gaddafi was, is, and always will be a controversial figure. Though his rise from Bedouin nomad to ruler of Libya is impressive, many of the things he did while in control of the country were unquestionably authoritarian and criminal. […]
By Malcom Kyeyune The Unherd They call it “The Honkening”. Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, is currently being besieged by a novel kind of protest. Honkening is a fairly appropriate name for what’s going on. Thousands of truckers have driven to the capital, and barraged the city with the noise […]
The Woke-Azov Pact.
Tankie round two! Caleb Maupin and AnCom Brent Legnel join us. Lively and fun discussion on the situation in Ukraine, Cancel Culture and the alt-right, as well as anything that comes to mind!
“Scary Gary” was nothing if not controversial. Faketarians This post was made by Ron Paul yesterday in response to the deaths of two men. I’m only familiar with one of them: Gary North. While I’m not one to celebrate anyone’s death and totally understand expressing condolences, Ron Paul’s […]
By Craig Bulkeley When Gary Kilgore North passed away on February 24, 2022, at the age of 80, he left behind a massive storehouse of Christian scholarship without parallel in the modern church. For nearly fifty-five straight and solid years he applied himself as a craftsman with single-mind […]
By Tess Owen VICE Far-right personalities have declared Russia a beacon of anti-wokeness and Putin a strong ethnonationalist. White nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes has made no secret of where his loyalties lie in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “I wish Putin was president of America,” he mused to his 45,000 […]
Peter Pan Maoism and Minon Communism.
Jeremy W. Peters, author of Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted, joins The Realignment to discuss how the transformation of the Republican Party during the Trump era shattered American politics.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by policy expert Oren Cass of American Compass and Jacobin writer Paul Prescod for a debate on the GOP’s new legislation geared towards getting workers on corporate boards
None of these folks are quite where I am but they’re on their way.
Ultras and radlibs have no conception of tactics. Everything runs with feelings and perennial, essential moral absolutes
A good read of “BreadTube Serves Imperialism.” Thanks, Caleb and Sofia.
Author and activist, Marianne Williamson, explains why Democrats need to support non-corporate-backed candidates in the primaries.
Keith Woods is joined by @joeldavis to discuss Nationalism and Liberalism as the essential political dialectic of Modernity.
Ryan Grim details the class divide in public support for the Canadian truckers.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books How Frantz Fanon came to view violence as therapy. They were out to get him. It was at once a source of terror and a form of tribute. Frantz Fanon was targeted as an Algerian revolutionary, but he was […]
By Lisa Miller, New York Magazine Even her haters call her a “generational talent,” a disparagement candy-wrapped as a compliment, the implication being that the astonishing rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was somehow encoded in her DNA. Frame a thing as expected and it can be discounted. But rewind […]
A lot of good comments in the thread: Providing and administrating sterile syringes for IV user, not only can save lives, also it can prevent a slew of infectious and viral diseases, and save millions in the cost of emergency calls in our hospitals, since our health care […]
This is quite interesting. This is what a real communist looks like. If I were a Marxist-Leninist, I would be inclined to take the same positions as this fellow.
The fact that Bernie Sanders and Cornel West have been omitted from the leftist list says enough about the motivations behind whoever made it.
This post, from an Antifa-friendly blogsite, points out the interesting situation presently happening where many people increasingly regard the “left” as the establishment, with the “right” as the opposition. This is happening not merely in response to pandemic-related mandates, but within the political context spanning across the Western […]
By Joe Scotchie Chronicles In 1920 a group of writers gathered at the home of playwright Sidney Hirsch in Nashville for bi-weekly sessions of reading and dissecting each other’s prose and poetry. It was the beginning of an outpouring of creativity from a group that would try to […]
By Hunter P. Thompson, Peoples Samizdat How does one determine his purpose in his life? How does a man seek out finding his life mission or vocation? In today’s society, these are largely left as open questions, at least by most Western Governments. On the surface, this decision […]
Reposted with the permission of the author. Originally published on Motpol in Swedish and re-published on Euro-Synergies in French. “The alt-right is probably well known to most people, the burgeoning alt-left was crushed in its infancy when Trump disparagingly but incorrectly associated the term with the AFA. Less […]
This is a must listen.
All things considered, it is a good thing that the phenomenon of “left-wing anti-woke” has emerged in recent times with writers from across the spectrum of “left” opinion (from centrist liberals to Marxists) increasingly expressing discomfort with the “woke” paradigm. For a long time, critics of totalitarian humanism […]
CLOSING DEBATE: GLOBAL VS. NATIONAL Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher, Filmmaker and Activist vs. Stephen Bannon, Former White House Chief Strategist, United States
Back in the 1980s and 1990s when the US religious right was more influential, I used to be a Richard Dawkins/Christopher Hitchens-like opponent of social conservatives. And I still maintain that a lot of conservatives would gladly maintain a cancel culture of their own when it comes to […]
Once elected, it’s amazing how quickly they become part of the establishment.
This course provides an introduction to Maoism as a global political ideology. The course is meant for listeners who are curious about radical ideologies and political movements, but who don’t know much already about global Maoism. This course will give you some basic insight into the origins and […]
By Neil Monahan, Medium Introduction For much of its long history the Democratic Party has been regarded as the party of the people. It was the party of the workingman, the party of the unions, the party of the New Deal. The Republicans were thought to represent the […]
An interesting critique of Kropotkin and anarcho-communism from the neocon magazine The New Criterion. Reading the list of names associated with this publication is a “Yikes!” moment. Of all the scams the neocons have pulled off, one of the most successful has been the way they present themselves […]
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
The Synthetic Left is going to go nuts over this: “Red-Brown Alliance! Strasserism! Nazbols!” This is great stuff. Carlson seems to be straddling the fence between being a professional culture war propagandist for the right-wing of the ruling class and actual serious criticisms of the system. Interesting. The […]
By Grayson Quay The Week French right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said Saturday that anyone who wants to leave her National Rally (RN) party should “do it now,” Reuters reports. The announcement comes in the wake of several defections to rival candidate Éric Zemmour, whose overtly reactionary campaign […]
By Andrew Sullivan There is a better way to defeat left indoctrination than banning books. One of the more familiar experiences on Twitter is being called a grifter, a person who issues takes entirely geared toward more clicks, readers, dollars or followers. It’s an exhausted slur, but, to […]
By Pat Buchanan, The American Conservative Before he appeared at his first solo news conference of 2022, President Joe Biden knew he had a communications problem he had to deal with. Namely, how to get off the defensive. How to avoid spending his time with the White House […]
Because it is fashionable for right-wing propagandists to describe anything and everything as “Marxist” nowadays, for which there were plenty of past prototypes and as a recent book by Mark Levin indicates, it might be helpful to examine the question of to what degree Marxist philosophy and/or economic […]
A lot of culture war crap seems to me to be mostly a battle between the CIA Left and the FBI Right. Robby Soave examines the role of undercover FBI officers in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
By Jan Olof Bengtsson History of European Ideas 26 (2000) 127–142 Book reviews Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the origins of radical social theory Warren Breckman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 1999, 335pp.The well-known theme in modernist and postmodernist literature of the dissolution of what was perceived by radicals […]
Jen Pan speaks with Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute about the importance of unions for creating a basis of solidarity for progressive politics in places like West Virginia, how Democrats have abandoned working class voters in the state, and the importance of factoring in the […]
By Paul Gottfried, American Mind The Left’s support for civil liberties has always been contingent on its own relative strength or weakness. In a thoughtful commentary on “The New Normal and the Assault on Reason,” Glenn Ellmers makes this historical observation: For several centuries, at least since John […]
By Peter R. Quiñones This will be short but it’s a simple way to look at the political culture in the United States (and probably most of Europe as well). If I told you a common tactic of the Left is to demonize any opinion to the Right […]
What Nicky describes here is a perfect summary of what is wrong with today’s “Left.” ATS was created in part to challenge the hegemony of what might be called the “anti-iconoclastic left.” Most of today’s “leftists” are actually late 19th century/early 20th century progressives, only they have done […]
The more pervasive totalitarian humanism has become, the more there has been a pushback, not only from the right but from the left. Hence, the emergence of opposition to totalitarian humanism on the Left. The development of a “left-wing anti-totalitarian humanism” is what I have been hoping would […]
By Jeff Salzman In this episode, I discuss a terrific essay I stumbled upon that brings an integral sensibility to a new cultural emergent: the differentiation of the political left into “woke” and “anti-woke” ideologies.. Cultural evolution proceeds through a process of 1) differentiating and 2) integrating. […]
An actual Communist explains where the present-day Western Left originates from.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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