Are Republicans Actually Moving To The LEFT?
Not so much moving left as much as escalating faux populist rhetoric.
These ‘Dirtbag Left’ Stars Are Flirting With the Far Right
Alexander Reid-Ross on the latest maneuverings of the Learned Elders of Thule. By Alexander Reid-Ross, The Daily Beast Over the past year, as the far right trafficked in wild anti-masker and pro-Donald Trump fantasies that led to the Jan. 6 putsch on the Capitol, some prominent members of […]
The Left, Vaush, and Previous Socialist Societies – Debating Ewoks Unhinged
Well, this looks absolutely horrid.
Glenn Greenwald Says ‘I Consider Tucker Carlson To Be A Socialist’
Okay, this does merit “criticism.” It’s interesting how the left and FOX News are now converging in their definition of “socialism.” Carlson is not a socialist. He’s an economic nationalist. Glenn’s not a socialist either. He’s a progressive liberal. Given that it’s now once again fashionable for a […]
Jimmy Dore Desperately Tries To Siphon New Fans From Fox News
The Sedarites attack Jimmy. I’m not a fan of Jimmy’s progressivism, which I think is far too milquetoast, statist, and reformist. But it’s interesting how folks like Dore or Glenn Greenwald or others on the left who make any effort at all to build working class solidarity, anti-imperialism, […]
Jimmy Dore Controversy & Marxism is NOT postmodernism
It’s interesting that one of the most reasonable of the Left’s prominent commentators today is an actual tankie, albeit a revisionist/Dengist rather than a hardline Stalinist.
Cancel Culture is a Right-Wing Lie to Attack the Left
Liberals and leftists who fail to recognize the totalitarian humanist cultural revolution are on par with conservatives who think the cops are all a bunch of nice guys who just want to serve and protect.
How Biden LOST The Left In A Single Day
The more conflict between the neoliberals and the Left, the better. And the more in-fighting within both the Left and neoliberals, the better. Krystal Ball outlines how President Joe Biden is slowly losing the support of the left.
My journey From Neo-Nazi To Anarcho-Communist
Based on my own extensive observations of and interactions with people who have been in both camps, I’d say it was usually the same thing on “both sides.” Mostly assholes who just like to fight about shit. I’m also suspicious of anyone who refers to themself as a […]
Leftism Against Anarchy
By No-Wing Anarchy, Medium The Bolshevik “betrayal” of anarchists during the Russian Revolution is a commonly known, and almost overly debated instance where anarchism has come into open and bloody conflict with leftism. There is no end to the accusations of murder at Kronstadt, or in Ukraine, and […]
The Factions of the Left?
Actually, there are a lot more than these, particularly when single-issue or identity-driven conflicts are included. I would generally be fine with any of those as long as they are voluntary or at least localized enough where exit costs are low enough to make them quasi-voluntary. Although some […]
Why Conservatism & Progressivism Are Wrong: Spike Cohen & Keith Knight
They’re not so much “wrong” as “unnecessary” at least when applied in a statist context. I suppose any kind of society would always have conflicts between those who want to remain static or turn back the clock, and those who want to experiment with new ways of doing […]
As fractures emerge among Proud Boys, experts warn of a shift toward extremist violence
The Proud Boys fracture? About what? The jerkers vs. anti-jerkers? The System is fracturing. The Red and Blue tribes are fracturing. And the fringes of the Red and Blue tribes are fracturing. Awesome. By Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post As members of the Proud Boys arrived at the […]
Left vs. Right vs. Nu-Metal vs. Traditional Metal
A comment on social media sums up US politics perfectly, both mainstream and marginal. “Watching people shift from arguing about the merits of pop-punk to which strain of Marxism they like the best without changing tone or argumentation method is a real headfuck.” Says another commenter: “I’ve compared […]
DEBATE! Walter Block vs. Ben Burgis on Libertarianism
This debate was a reminder of why I prefer elite theory and institutional/behavioral economics rather than Marxism or Austrianism.
The Neocons: Exit Stage Left?
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative Before the current realignment but after the one Karl Rove tried to engineer, there was yet another attempt to realign American politics. A small crew of antiwar Republicans wanted to push the neoconservatives out of the party and maybe even over to […]
New Review of Carl Schmitt’s The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts
TELOS In the Spring issue of American Affairs, Blake Smith writes at length about Carl Schmitt’s “The Tyranny of Values,” the title essay of the collection The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts, published by Telos Press. Edited by Russell A. Berman and Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, translated by […]
DEBATE! Socialism Vs. Libertarianism With Keith Knight
Libertarian YouTuber Keith Knight (https://twitter.com/an_capitalist) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ew…) hosts Ben Burgis for a discussion on the merits of democratic socialism versus the merits of libertarianism.
U.S. FAR-LEFT GROUPS
This is a fairly interesting report from the Counter-Extremism Project which provides a generally accurate view of the “far-left” in the US. Read the report here. As a caveat, the Counter Extremism Project is a systemist group associated with former high-ranking government officials. Their objective is to legitimize […]
Prof. Richard Wolff, Censored on Facebook: Here’s the Story
Almost as soon as the party of the tech-oligarchs and new clerisy won the election and took power they began purging the sectors of the left they don’t want or who are no longer useful: Marxists, anarchists, Trotskyists, Antifa, etc.
The false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings: Racial, Gender, Religious and Political views of these killers from 1998 through January 2021
The state, ruling class, and media are trying to spin the narrative that there is a white supremacist insurgency in order to turn the “war on terrorism” inward. Crime Prevention Research Center Entertainment television continually provides a false impression of those who commit mass public shootings and how […]
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski Interview Glenn Greenwald
For our eighth episode, we spoke with Glenn Greenwald to discuss his political work and his philosophical roots. Co-founder of The Intercept and current author of the Glenn Greenwald Substack, Glenn is someone whose opinions we want to know when it comes to important topics, as Kyle points out in the episode. […]
Taibbi & Eskow: The Marcuse Match
A pretty good pro and con discussion on Marcuse.
Some reasons to be against the Union
By Ally Marie McLean The problems a nation that would otherwise be independent suffers under the globalist system which is currently consolidating its power, a state which would otherwise be independent suffers under the yoke of the Union. That is to say, the Union is on the national […]
Why Dave Rubin And Many Liberals Are Turning Conservative
I actually think someone like Dave Rubin and the #WalkAway types represent the future of mainstream conservatism (socially liberal and economically conservative but tolerant of the alt-lite as long as they’re pro-Israel). The big question is what are they going to do with Trump’s nursing home/trailer park/insane asylum […]
Coleman Hughes on 50 Years on the Left with Noam Chomsky
Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today needs no introduction, but I’ll give him one anyway. Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, social critic, and activist. Noam is considered the father of modern linguistics, and has written more than 100 books. His most recent […]
The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party
Again, this is two years old, but the general content still holds up pretty well. Although it’s funny that the furthest left people are basically just Ted Kennedy liberals or, at best, McGovernites. By Perry Bacon, Jr., FiveThirtyEight There’s a lot of news right now about conflicts within […]
The Five Wings Of The Republican Party
This article is two years old but I think its basic argument still stands. The “five factions” amount to differences between where each faction stands in relation to Trump. By Perry Bacon, Jr., FiveThirtyEight When President Trump entered office, it wasn’t clear if he would consolidate control of […]
What Does the Radical Left’s Future Look Like?
One thing Kazin mentions in this interview is that the anarchist left that emerged during the time of the anti-globalization movement and Occupy Wall Street has largely been co-opted by the social democrats and, therefore, the Democratic Party. I think that’s actually a good thing because it creates […]
The thing about “Cultural Marxism” – Sontag, CIA, Cold War, Deconstruction
The intersection of the Marcusean “cultural Marxists” and Trotskyite “neoconservatives” with the US intelligence services and the corporate class is probably one of the most important, interesting, and yet ignored aspects of US political and intellectual history.
Debate a Libertarian: Comedian Dave Smith Vs. Ben Burgis
Dave Smith (https://twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith), comedian and host of the podcast ”Part of the Problem,” (https://gasdigitalnetwork.com/gdn-sho…) joins Ben Burgis and they have a debate about the fundamentals behind both of their preferred ideologies.
Misogynistic Responses To AOC From Right AND Left MUST Be Called Out
Is a crack emerging among the Blue Tribe? The response to AOC sharing her deeply personal experiences have been troubling. It comes from both the right and the left, and it reeks of misogyny. We need to call it out.
America 2021: “Woke Capitalism” and Its Enemies
By Keith Preston Between the time that Donald Trump entered the Republican primaries in 2015 to the moment of the January 6, 2021 supposed “coup attempt,” the specter of “fascism” has been raised by critics of Trumpism. Analogies to the failed Weimar liberal-capitalist regime of the pre-Nazi era […]
The Best of Times for the “Libertarian-Left”?
It seems that right now things could be considered better for the “libertarian-left” than at any point in the past, at least in US history. By “libertarian-left,” I mean that umbrella of philosophies with a generally anti-authoritarian ethos but which also do not deify corporate tycoons as Nietzschean […]
No Kings, No Plutocrats
Most leftists are actually pretty weak on the state, from Noam “I’d like to see the power of the federal government increased” Chomsky downward. It’s like medieval peasants who thought the king was going to save them from the landlords. Most libertarians are terrible on capitalism: “The state […]
The Rise of Illiberalism
Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal
Murray Rothbard’s classic article from 1968 outlines perfectly what is wrong with American-style “conservatism” of the Buckleyite/neocon variety. After 53 years, nothing much has changed. By Murray Rothbard Twenty years ago I was an extreme right-wing Republican, a young and lone “Neanderthal” (as the liberals used to call […]
Unity
My advice to the full range of liberal, left, and libertarian opinion would be to take the arguments Lind raises in this seriously unless you want a right-wing guerrilla insurgency developing in the US. By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As expected, the main theme of President Joe […]
Kick the Puppy S2: E5
Keith & RJ Study claims vaccines saved 37 million lives mostly children over the past two decades, anti-vaxxers are growing, backlash to over-medicalization, the complexity of the immune system, a long history of human poisonings, paranoia and the American tradition, criticisms of scientism, SpaceX Starship SN9 explodes during […]
Marxism, Anarchism, & the Genealogy of “Socialism From Below”
by Tom Keefer It is Marxism itself, in what was the best and most revolutionary in it, namely its pitiless denunciations of hollow phrases and ideologies and its insistence on permanent self-criticism, which compels us to take stock of what Marxism has become in real life.-Cornelius Castoriadis, The […]
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell’s journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of this era’s greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors. Hosted by Jason Riley, a member of “The Wall Street Journal” editorial board, this one-hour program features […]
Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 19 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 3 of 4 In this third part of James Lindsay’s lecture series on Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance,” we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn. Having set up the framing of the essay […]
One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 18 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 2 of 4 In this second part of his annotated reading of Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance,” James Lindsay reads and explains the portion of the essay where Marcuse defines the “administered society” that he claims […]
How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 17 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 1 of 4 We live in a crazy world today that seems to have gone off the rails. That’s because it is being driven by a broken logic, and, for all the flaws on the […]
Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0
I generally agree with Gramsci’s theory of revolution even if I don’t share many of his political views. If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci wrote a series […]
Edmund Burke Warned Us About the Woke
By Casey Chalk, The American Conservative Burke warned us this might happen. No, not Tom Brady…although the 18th-century Anglo-Irish statesman’s penchant for the ancient and tried would have likely led him to predict that the “GOAT” was capable of another Super Bowl run. Rather, I’m talking about the […]
Talking to right-wingers & libertarians (Jimmy Dore controversy, etc.)
It’s good to hear an actual Marxist take down the idiocy of the do-gooder left. This is a great segment. Refreshing.
After 20 Years: A Lot Has Happened Since 2001
I recently wrote about how January has been the 20 year anniversary of the founding of Attack the System. It is interesting to reflect on what has happened in the subsequent two decades. In 2001, the US empire was arguably at its apex, firmly in control of a […]
Why Online Dems Hate Jimmy Dore! w/ Glenn Greenwald
For decades, I advocated that anarchists move in a direction more like pan-secessionism. And now some anarchists have picked up the torch. I advocated for a libertarian-influenced insurgency, and now the Boogaloo Boys have picked up the torch. I advocated for a rapprochement between the radical left and […]
Capitalism’s Just-So Stories
An interesting essay on economic history from Kevin Carson. I’ve found that it’s possible to make interesting comparisons and find interesting parallels between different public intellectuals. I’ve said before that Noam Chomsky is the Bertrand Russell of our time, the elder left-liberal icon whose ideas range from the […]
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