Progressive Media Starts Criticizing AOC & Bernie
Elite Theory: Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto
General Strike & Outsiders Organizing Is The Only Hope For Real Change
How convenient for the power elite that everyone is under a shelter-in-place order. It’s been great to see some leftist commentators like Kyle, Jimmie Dore, and Krystal Ball (finally) call out the failures of “left-wing” politicians. This is a good commentary. Kyle strikes me as one of the […]
End of “WOKE” & the Politics of PROSPERITY #CANCELLED
Will Coronavirus and Great Depression Two be the end of “wokeness”? I doubt it. “Wokeness” actually increased by an order of magnitude after the Great Recession. I see no evidence that the “culture wars” have subsided in the context of the present crisis. If anything, extremist movements, left […]
Why are Middle-class People so Left Wing?
Historically, totalitarian revolutions have been driven by the left-wing of the middle class during times when the middle-class (or at least segments of the middle class) is rising on a socioeconomic level but has its political ambitions frustrated by deeply entrench elites. I believe this theory explains the […]
Michael Brooks: What’s wrong with the intellectual dark web?
Bernie-idolator Michael Brooks takes on the IDW. For the record, I frequently agree with much of Brooks’ criticisms of capitalism and imperialism (though not his solution of socialist-statism) and I frequently agree with the IDW’s critique of the cultural left (though not their solution of turn-back-the-clock reaction).
Yes, I’m Definitely an Anarchist
Neoliberals Co-opt AOC with Cultural Leftism
The same pattern the US Left has followed since the 1970s. A relevant observation from the comments section: “I never drank the AOC kool aid. 90% of the interest in her derives from the fact that she’s a young woman of color and she’s from NYC, which we’re […]
The Response To Coronavirus ‘Is Central Planning on Steroids’: Rep. Thomas Massie
The “Who Cares? Act” is statism on steroids, ruling class looting on steroids, and political class opportunism on steroids.
Coronavirus, Gun Sales, & Self-Defense
Like so many paleconservative types, Tucker Carlson is excellent on gun rights, but horrible on civil libertarian and anti-police state issues generally (e.g. supporting the drug war, opposing weed legalization, opposing “criminal justice reform,” opposing coronavirus-driven prisoner releases, using standard conservative cop-lover rhetoric, etc.). Coronavirus is causing a […]
Donald Trump and Conservative Intellectuals
An interesting discussion of Trump from November 2016, immediately after Trump’s election, that nails the essence of Trumpism fairly well, i.e. a symbolic triumph of populism against elitism where the principal division is social class. The speakers in this video are “conservative intellectuals” of the old-bourgeois variety, and […]
Submit to Freedom: Bronze Age Mindset
Submit! to Geoffrey Miller & Justin Murphy talking about the book ‘Bronze Age Mindset’ by Bronze Age Pervert. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that sparked a lot of new ideas for us. Topics include freedom, power, sex, space, submission, domination, hierarchy, religion, glory, Mannerbund, Indo-Europeans, evolutionary psychology, social media, […]
Operational Thinking for Survival
Lawrence Dennis’s much neglected and long-forgotten masterpiece from 1969. Available from Amazon. “Operational Thinking for Survival” is Lawrence Dennis’s 1969 follow up book to his 1940 book “The Dynamics of War and Revolution”. It would be worth the while of the modern reader of either book to read […]
The Life and Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche
A good documentary on Nietzsche. The primary weakness that is demonstrated by most anarchists and leftists is their failure to confront Nietzsche’s critique of modern liberal-humanism generally and leftism specifically as forms of secularized theocratic neo-Abrahamism, which is why we find so much zeal among leftists for rooting […]
Kevin Michael Grace explains Trump’s presidency
A paleoconservative commentator explains why Trumpism represents an insurgency by the old bourgeoisie and its allies against the managerial elite. I frequently find the work of reactionaries and traditional conservatives interesting because they offer many cogent critiques of the contemporary ruling class, given that their vantage point is […]
Ben Shapiro Vs Tucker Carlson | Capitalism & Populism
This video is over a year old, but it’s a good description of the neoliberal vs. populist division that is growing on the US right, just like there is a growing division between neoliberals and social democrats on the US left. The consequences of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama neoliberal paradigm […]
How Would A Libertarian Solve The Pandemic Crisis?
A great an-cap libertarian vs. left-civil libertarian discussion.
A Reminder of Why I am an Anarchist
The current public health/economic crisis is definitely a reminder of why I am an anarchist. Thus far, the responses to the situation by the various factions of the state/ruling class/power elite have been as follows: Republicans: “The ruling class is suffering. Let’s bail them out! Maybe give a […]
Is Canada really a progressive’s dreamland? Christo Aivalis explains.
No, it actually sucks.
The Wall Street Trilogy: A History
The global banking cartels have been the international ruling class since the early modern era when landed wealth began to give way to monetary and merchant wealth as the basis of class rule. The old bourgeoisie of the Enlightenment/classical liberal/Industrial Revolution periods were simply the national-elites of capitalist […]
The War within the Democratic Party: The Managerial Elite vs. the New Class?
Anyone who is familiar with my writings knows that I am a vengeful hater of the neocons. However, one thing the neocon godfather Irving Kristol (father of Bill Kristol, of “benevolent global hegemony” scumbaggery fame) may have gotten right is his analysis of what the called the “new […]
The Left Is Angry Over MSNBC Fake News: Call For Resignations And A New News Network
The ongoing falling out between the Left and the neoliberals is a great thing to behold. This is the real future of the Left/Right battle in the US, i.e. social democrats vs neoliberals with the neoconservative-turned-faux populist Republicans increasingly becoming a fringe right-wing party as their demographic base […]
1919: When the Bolsheviks Turned on the Workers
Crimethinc One hundred years ago in Russia, thousands of workers were on strike in the city of Astrakhan and at the Putilov factory in Petrograd, the capital of the revolution. Strikes at the Putilov factory had been one of the principal sparks that set off the February Revolution […]
The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement
I have a chapter in this book where I argued that the postwar conservative movement was nothing other than a front for the military-industrial complex and right-wing of the US ruling class (the Sunbelt industries that were in conflict with the “northeastern establishment”). The other authors were all […]
Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970s
Anyone who wants to understand how we got today’s uneasy alliance of corporate neoliberals and left-wing “social justice warriors” needs to read this work by a Democratic Party strategist from the early 1970s. Available at Amazon.
BOOK: Leviathan & Its Enemies – Intro
A good discussion of a great book. As long as I’ve been politically aware, I’ve been anarchist. I’ve never been anything else. I’ve always despised both left and right totalitarians (fascists, nazis, communists) as well as mainstream liberals and conservatives. When it comes to other fringe ideologies, I’ve […]
Covid Will Not Kill Social Justice Warriors
Beware of the wolves, left and right. By Rod Dreher The American Conservative James Lindsay is a mathematician and academic gadfly who has made his name outside of academic circles as a harsh and witty critic of “critical social justice” theory, and of its progressive crusaders. Along with […]
Why are Millennials and Zoomers going socialist?
I have long argued that in the future the domestic politics of the US will increasingly resemble those of the European Union, with neoliberals solidly representing the right, social democrats representing the left, and a comparatively small but loud right-wing populist tendency. Every cultural, demographic, generational, and partisan […]
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
For who are not familiar with James Burham’s 1941 classic, it is a must read if you want to understand modern institutions. ‘Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.’ – George Orwell Burnham’s claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced […]
Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America
For those looking for an interesting book to read during the shutdown, I would suggest Sam Francis’ “Leviathan and Its Enemies.” It’s long (around 750 pages) but it’s the best modern work that I know of explaining how the modern American political and economic system actually works. Francis […]
Progressives SHOCKED That Trump Supports Their Aid Package Idea And Democrats Oppose Them
On the political spectrum, populism is to the left of neoliberalism, and social democracy is to the left of populism, which makes the Democratic establishment the “new conservatives,” with the Trumpians being to the left of them, and the Bernie, etc. progressives/social democrats being to the left of […]
Reaching Across the Aisle
Todd Lewis is joined by Derrick Jensen from the Deep Green Resistance; Keith Preston from Attack the System to discuss the important of reaching across the aisle to communicate with people in camps you don’t agree with and why that is so important and at the same time […]
Ocasio Cortez Is REFUSING To Campaign For Bernie Because He Isn’t Far left Enough
A growing split between the social democrats and SJWs?
Can left populists win older voters?
Left-populists (Sandernistas) tend to be young, while neoliberals (Bidenists) and right-populists (Trumpians) tend to be old.
Strange Bedfellows: Unlikely ideological allies
Todd Lewis joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss why unlikely bedfellows arise in modern politics.
Noam Chomsky: Requiem for the American Dream
America’s Great Divide: Steve Bannon
The Empire Strikes Back On Super Tuesday & Bloomberg Drops Out
Kulinski gives a pretty good view of what’s happening with the Democrats in this. The DNC, neoliberals, corporate Democrats, and media unite to deflect Sanders’ populism with Lizzie the Scamster playing the role of the spoiler.
Neoliberals Stage a Comeback
In a few decades, if not sooner, “conservatism” in the US will look a lot like the Biden Democrats of today, and “liberalism” will look like the Sanders Democrats. Today’s “conservatives” will assume the same role as the right-wing populist parties in Europe, i.e. loud but rather marginal.
Let’s Not Wake Up Like This
On November 2nd, 2019 at http://www.free-flo.org , Seth Andrews gave this presentation as an encouragement to get the facts, understand ideological opponents, and not lose ourselves in the deafening white noise of online outrage. It’s a speech given in good faith, with the hope that it will also […]
SJWs are ‘The New Church Ladies’: Jim Goad explains how and why
Failure of the Ron Paul Revolution
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Right Ruminations to discuss the failure of the Ron Paul Revolution.
Socialism Without Anti-Imperialism: A Different Flavor of Tyranny
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well dearest motherfuckers, socialism is back and it only took about a century, or at least so it appears. Nearly half the country has polled as being down with Debs. In spite of the worst efforts of his […]
America is in Danger
‘I Was In Three Riots In Four Months’ – A 30+ Year Anarchist Journey
Pete invited Keith Preston to return to the show to talk about his 30+ year journey through anarchism. Keith has devoted much of that time to anarchism’s historical study and hosts the largest pan-archist site on the web, Attack The System. Listen here. AttackTheSystem.com Keith’s Books Donate at […]
Why the Left Fails
Todd Lewis and Keith Preston discuss the failure of the political left in its historic mission of checking private power.
Lyceum Round-Table #8: Defining Right and Left
The Real Reasons Tulsi Gabbard Did Not Vote to Impeach Donald Trump
BINGO! Sputnik News ” She also introduced a resolution calling on the House to censure Trump on five issues she implied were far more substantial. Those include carrying out wars without congressional approval, illegally “occupying and pillaging” Syria, “recklessly enabling” Turkey to invade Northern Syria and ethnically cleanse […]
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