The Synthetic Left
An actual Communist explains where the present-day Western Left originates from.
Murray Rothbard: Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal (1968)
Rothbard’s classic. By Murray N. Rothbard Note A classic article in which Rothbard denonce the move by the political and cultural right in support of militarism, police power, and the corporate state. This is relevant today as when it was written. Source: Ramparts, VI, 4, June 15, 1968. […]
Refusing to Sort Bundles is a Fundamental Human Flaw
By William P. Meyers, iii Publishing This essay is inspired by a lifetime of trying to sort through the lies told by my fellow human beings. And by hearing some news reporting saying Harry Reid was “lying in state.” Thinking: why not, he was a politician, he lied […]
Moderates still don’t understand why conservatives voted for Trump
By Samuel Goldman, The Week It’s not just ‘wokeness’ and social media. It’s order, fairness, and basic governance. What’s wrong with conservatives? The question has dominated prestige media since Donald Trump emerged as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2016, and especially since his campaign of election […]
They’re Not Going To Leave Us Alone
By Peter R. Quiñones I hope that you understand, or are at least beginning to, that the radical Left is not going to stop. Many people have pointed out that their belief in equity for all, which really means the destruction of the status quo and the lifting […]
Stop Calling These People ‘Conservative’
By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles Two years ago, Gracy Olmstead, a journalist who writes on farming and farming communities, partnered with Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) to compose a list of those whom she and the Institute view as “conservatives.” Of the now deceased figures who appear on Olmstead’s list, […]
Fascism is Not Bourgeois, Marxism is Not Proletarian
A reader asks: In the case of the fascist movement in Italy, several early founders were Marxists, so the connection between fascism and a (relatively) developed industrial society may be mostly due to the intellectual crisis among Marxists like Mussolini, who were psychologically impacted by nationalism during WWI. […]
Marianne Williamson on CHALLENGING Biden from the Left, Andrew Yang, Reparations & Healing America
After a week of dominating headlines — from Politico speculation about a 2024 run, to the New York Times Sunday Style’s two page spread — Marianne Williamson revisits Bad Faith podcast to talk about progressive electoral strategy, the future of the Forward Party, the left’s spiritual void and […]
Conservative Policy Institutes: The Same Old Same Old
By Sean Gabb (16th January 2022) Before deleting it all, I have just skimmed the contents of my junk folder. One of the messages is from the Bruges Group, and is New Year greetings from the 2nd January. The message from Barry Legg, a former Conservative Member of […]
Breadtube Serves Imperialism (feat. Caleb Maupin)
I don’t agree with the rosy view of Communism held by these folks, but their discussion of the role of intelligence services in creating a faux left is interesting, along with their on-the-money discussion of intra-ruling class divisions. The main thing that is missing from their analysis is […]
Should the Left PRIMARY Joe Biden? w/ Chris Hedges & Kshama Sawant
Is it time for a 3rd party challenger in 2024? Last week, Politico reported that several major progressive voices are confident that there will be a left challenger to Joe Biden. Jeff Weaver, Bernie’s 2016 campaign manager, said it’s a given, and names like Nina Turner and Marianne […]
Latin America’s Left Turn
The Signal Why are voters across Latin America rejecting right-wing authoritarian populists? Amy Erica Smith on economic inequality, cultural backlash, and a shifting anger with elites. Right-wing authoritarian populists have been building power and rolling back democracy around the world for more than a decade. From Donald Trump in […]
Yaron Brook Individualism vs. Yoram Hazony Conservatism
This is a discussion between Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony. Yaron Brook argues for individualism and capitalism. Yoram Hazony argues that individualism is an incomplete philosophy and argues for conservatism. This segment is the last exchange of the debate.
Fascism and Futurism Forever by Gio
By giovannifascio Futurism My political journey has been abnormal compared to most people I’ve met in the online “Third Position” community. So I’ll start by divulging a bit about my background. When I was 15 or 16 I heard The Feeding of the 5000 by Crass for the […]
The self-radicalizing logic of conservative intellectuals
By Damon Linker, The Week How an unlikely hope led to a dark new radicalism among the right’s intelligentsia. Much has been written about the transformation of the GOP over the past several years from the party of Ronald Reagan to the party of Donald Trump and his […]
Vaush TRIGGERED, Calls the Grayzone ‘Fascist’
For those people who wonder why Vaush and people like him call other Fascists: “The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the […]
What happened to “The Left?”
By Peter R. Quinones I have a few confidantes who contact me for private discussion or send me articles, etc. I was sent an excerpt from a Washington Examiner piece titled, “Archaeology of Freedom,” by Geoff Shullenberger, which looks into the question many have asked: what happened to […]
Lyceum Round-Table #49: Where Have All the Ideas Gone?
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Terminal Philosophy and Swithun Dobson to discuss the current lack of new and creative ideas to deal with the problems of modern 21st century America.
Our Friend, the Trump Propagandist
This is an interesting piece by two centrist neocons who discuss the infiltration of Trumpism by right-neocons. There seems to have been a genuine split in neocon circles over how to respond to Trumpism. There are those like Kristol, French, Will, Brooks, Frum, the Kagans, Goldberg, and Hayes […]
Jason Stanley Warns: “America Is Now in Fascism’s Legal Phase”
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees January 6, 2021 as part of a history of fascist impulses in American politics. This is the focus of his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” His latest article in The Guardian is titled “America is now in […]
Is Christopher Hitchens’ Life A Cautionary Tale For The Left?
Ben Burgis is the author of the upcoming book: Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters, as well as the host of “Give Them An Argument” on YouTube. His previous book Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left was […]
Noah on the CIA CCF & BreadTube as the Priestly Class of “Leftism”
Clip from the recent #EwoksUTheoryClub with Noah talking about how BreadTube discourages their viewers for having a solid grasp of Marxist theory in order to lead them towards Anti-Communism.
The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism
By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times The crypto market’s inevitable crash will pull America’s politics in an even scarier direction. Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to […]
Fairly Consistently Anarchist
The Center for a Stateless Society political compass test is one of the best there is. These are my results. I’m fairly consistently anarchist, although as with all of these tests the answers I would give to some of the questions are a bit relative to context.
Left-Leaning Anarchist Isolationist Bleeding-Heart Libertine
So says my political compass test. Take the quiz here.
Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
Society is Founded Upon Blood and Torture
By AntiBoomerEquation ProphetBattlestone’s Amysterium Joseph de Maistre and Society Red in Tooth and Claw Joseph de Maistre is one of the greatest thinkers of the right in history. Not a reactionary, he is rather a realist on the bloody nature of sovereignty and nature in general. He (like […]
How to rise above the partisan fray
By Damon Linker The Week As a liberal centrist, I’m used to taking heat from both sides of our political and cultural divides. When I criticize progressive “woke” trends, the left lashes back. And when I take aim at intensifying anti-democratic derangement among rank-and-file Republicans, the right retaliates. […]
Zizek DEFENDS Voting for Biden on “Bad Faith” Podcast
The Vanguard is bringing lively conversations to the left and platforming independent voices with ideas on the “vanguard” of modern leftist thought and politics.
Attacking The Right From The Right w/ Daniel Francisco
Daniel Francisco is a former executive director for Project Veritas and is now a city councilman in Englishtown NJ and is running for congress out of the 4th district Pete invited Daniel on to talk about various subjects including his gun rights activism, trying to red-pill the Right […]
FIRST Socialist Elected In Florida In 100 Years Launches Creative New Working Class Project
St. Petersburg, Florida councilmember-elect Richie Floyd breaks down what it takes for progressives and democratic socialists to win in red and purple states.
The Left MUST Primary Biden
Krystal makes the case for why the Left needs to start preparing for a primary of Joe Biden in 2024 even though he is the Democratic incumbent and the 2022 midterms are right around the corner
The Psychology of BreadTube
Breadtuber throws himself into pursuits he just recently found about and never before thought of or cared for with the intensity of a professional flamenco dancer, with such enthusiasm that one cannot help but be confused by their level of emotional investment. But if you dig a little […]
The truth about “Red Browns” & “Nazbols” – Caleb w/ Peter Coffin & Ms. ACD
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 […]
Reading Rothbard On ‘Why He Left The Libertarian Party’ w/ Andrew of Popular Liberty
See Rothbard’s article on “Big Government Libertarians.”
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Chris Hedges
Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. He has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) and reported from more than fifty countries. Hedges […]
The Problem with “Left vs. Right”
By Gary Galles Mises Institute As a libertarian, I have long objected to being characterized on a left-right political spectrum (as with studies of political affiliations that group libertarians with republicans or conservatives on the right). In response to inquiries about where I fit in that framework, over […]
In 2022, Pay Attention to Right-Wing Authoritarianism
By VERONIQUE DE RUGY Reason For decades, libertarians have focused on illiberalism coming from the political left. But authoritarianism has taken root among many conservatives across the world. At the eve of a new year, it’s traditional to make a resolution or two. I have no such list […]
2 decades of right turns
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week This article is part of The Week‘s 20th anniversary section, looking back at how the world has changed since our first issue was published in April 2001. Saint Paul considered himself an “apostle to the Gentiles” though he did not number among them, […]
Anarcho-Fascism: It’s a Joke, but Not Always
By AntiBoomerEquation Prophet Battlestone’s Amysterium Those who put any effort into studying historical fascism will know that it was associated with syndicalism (worker self-management of industries) and corporatism (as in medieval or Roman society, where the different orders have representation on government and self regulation of affairs). It […]
A Message To Conservative/Right Allies w/ David of The Anti Establishment Podcast
From Freeman Behind the Wall.
Pete and Aaron From Timeline Earth Read ‘State and Revolution’ by Lenin Pt. 2
Watch Part 1 here.
2 decades of left turns
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Leftists are stronger than they have been since the 1940s. But it might not last. This article is part of The Week‘s 20th anniversary section, looking back at how the world has changed since our first issue was published in April 2001. Rep. Barbara […]
The Anarchist and Fascist Overlap
I gave a talk a few years ago where I explored this question a bit. You can take any idea anyone ever had and find someone somewhere who put an “anarcho-” in front of it. As readers probably know, I call a lot of the left-anarchists things like […]
The Forgotten Old Right
Tom Woods Show In a recent episode of the Mises Institute’s Human Action Podcast, hosted by Jeff Deist, we discussed the Old Right, the loose collection of writers and thinkers who opposed domestic and foreign interventionism. Their names have almost been forgotten, and Jeff and I want to […]
Charles Sykes: How the Right Lost its Mind
From 2017. The rise of the neo-know-nothings is in part a pushback against the rise of the alliance between digital capitalism, the traditional financial elites, and the professional-managerial class, with totalitarian humanism its ideological superstructure, along with the parallel cultural and demographic decline of traditionally hegemonic WASP culture, […]
Where do you fit in the political typology?
Depending on how I answer some of these questions, I test out as either “Outsider Left” or “Ambivalent Right.” Pew Research Center Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Or somewhere in between? Take our quiz to find out which one of our nine political typology […]
Vaush has no clue what he is talking about – PROOF!
“The peasants were the proletariat”- Vaush the self described anarcho-syndicalist
Why US far-right groups are shifting their focus to local communities
Ideological questions aside, what these groups appear to be doing is tactically correct. By Sergio Olmos, The Guardian The far-right is moving towards decentralized movements in regional venues where, experts warn, they can have far-reaching and dangerous impacts. This month more than 100 members of a white supremacist […]
Hippies and Evangelicals: Monist and Dualist Countercultures
Meaningness Francis Schaeffer, hippie guru and architect of the modern Religious Right “The counterculture” generally refers to the youth movement of the 1960s-70s: rock and roll, anti-war protests, psychedelics, the New Left, hippies, and the sexual revolution. While puzzling out how these elements cohered—to understand the counterculture functionally […]
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