Greg Johnson on the Alt-Right (Interviewed by Laura Raim)
An interesting and wide ranging discussion with a leading figure in the Alt-Right.
Perspectives: What Is The Alt-Right?
An interesting discussion between an alt-rightist and a more conventional conservative.
How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
A must read for anyone that wants to understand present days economics and politics. The article, appearing in a leading liberal journal, acknowledges what I have been saying for years, i.e. that what passes for the “Left” in today’s world is simply the left-wing of capitalism allied with […]
The Rich Vote Republican? Maybe Not This Election.
The left-wing of capitalism, the newly rich, the rising upper middle class, the managerial elite, and the new class are eclipsing the traditional WASP elites and the Sunbelt insurgency of postwar era as the dominant factions of the US state, ruling class, and power elite. By Robert Frank […]
Trump is Not a “Fascist,” and Hillary is not a “Liberal”
An interesting comment from William Gillis, the director of Center for a Stateless Society. “There’s a number of folk celebrating the collapse of the legitimacy of US civic institutions, but regrettably it’s not so simple as de-legitimize the state and presto anarchism. Liberal democracy is an incoherent, ultimately […]
Green Party’s Jill Stein on “Donald Trump’s Psychosis and Hillary Clinton’s Distortions”
After Wednesday’s debate, Democracy Now! spoke to Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential nominee. She and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson were excluded from the debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties.
The Green Party: A Party for Working People
Jill Stein is the only candidate in this election that comes close to being an actual radical, or even an actual liberal. The Trump movement is a parallel to France’s National Front. The normal Republicans are even further to the right (more like El Salvador’s ARENA or Israel’s […]
POLITICS ARE THE REAL ‘SPORTSBALL’: ELECTION AS PSY-OP
Andy Nowicki grabs himself a front-row seat at the Circus Maximus. I sure hope popcorn isn’t part of the psy-op! ~MRDA~ Three Presidential elections ago, I wrote an article for The Last Ditch entitled “I Loathe Democracy.” In that piece, composed just days prior to the W. vs. […]
NO CONFIDENCE: Vote for Yourself
In the face of a particularly pitiful election selection, Ann Sterzinger makes the case for giving oneself the first and final vote. Personally, were I American, I’d either just stay home or turn up only to draw a cock on the ballot paper, in line with my anti-democratic […]
Savage Hippie Episode 18 B – Jim Goad: There Are No Good Guys!
On what is probably my favourite episode of this ‘cast, the Savage Hippie crew discuss moralism and its discontents with Jim Goad. (Catch 18A here.) ~MRDA~
A Native American White Nationalist?
Lingit Latseen Anti-Fascist News has been engaging in some lazy investigative journalism about me; either that or they’re running a deliberate disinformation campaign. Given Antifa’s track record of cultish, conspiracy-theory behavior, either or both could be true. For the uniformed, Antifa is a network of Communists and anarcho-communists […]
Say It Again, Jill!
Praise of Folly Podcast #25: The Alt-Right and Statism
Todd Lewis and Andy Nowicki discuss the important issue of excessive statism on the alt-right.
Alt Left Support of Men’s Liberation – the Left Wing of the Men’s Movement
By Robert Lindsay Men’s Liberation was sort of the left wing of the MRA movement. Warren Farrell was pretty much a Men’s Lib type. Men’s Libbers and feminists started fighting pretty quickly because the feminists were so insane. Also because a lot of Men’s Libbers realized that feminism […]
The Various Factions, Types or Wings of the Alt Left
By Robert Lindsay By Ryan England, one of the main Alt Left theorists. From one of the main Alt Left groups on Facebook: I’ve come up with colloquial expressions of subtypes I’ve noticed in my short time with this movement. Note that these are not hard fast rules […]
What is Fascism?
Todd Lewis and Keith Preston discuss the most controversial ideology.
The Need for a New Revolutionary Framework Pitting Liberty Against Power
Some thoughts on what it would take for “anarchist success” to be achieved. A good point of reference is the history of revolutions. In the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a wave of revolutions (American, French, 1848, etc) that essentially pitted the Enlightenment against the Ancient Regime, […]
An Exchange with a Left Wing Critic
From “Rosa Luxemburg Comics“:
NPR Diane Rehm show on the Alt-Right (ft. Jared Taylor) 8/29/16
Given that the alt-right is now getting a lot of attention in the mainstream press, this interview with Jared Taylor is worth checking out. Taylor along with Richard Spencer are arguably the most influential alt-right leaders. This is a video of Taylor describing the alt-right Jared Taylor, editor […]
The Rise of the Radical Right: The Alt Right Neoreaction and the Trump Campaign
The best overview of the intellectual foundations of the alt-right that I have seen to date. By Jakub Jankowski Libertarian Alliance The Rise of the Radical Right: The Alt-Right Neoreaction and the Trump Campaign By Jakub Jankowski (29th August 2016) Equality is bullshit. Hierarchy is essential. The races […]
Poll: Fear, not excitement, driving Clinton and Trump supporters
U.S. electoral politics is primarily driven by fear of the Other. The U.S. is descending into total tribalism. By Susan Page USA Today Not even their own supporters are all that excited about winning. A nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, taken as Labor Day launches the final sprint […]
Thick Libertarians
This is a pretty good summary of why the libertarian movement has failed to provide a viable alternative in the U.S., i.e. it’s just a microcosm representation of the wider established paradigm, and not an alternative paradigm. This author identifies 8 major libertarian factions, ranging from far left […]
How America’s mass incarceration disaster became a bipartisan rallying cry
It really is interesting how the police in the US has become so pervasive that it’s starting to get attention from both the mainstream Left and mainstream Right, in spite of the divisiveness that otherwise defines contemporary politics. This article also makes the interesting observation that reform efforts […]
Thinkers Against Modernity: A New Book from Keith Preston
Available from Black House Publishing. The prevailing sentiment of contemporary intellectuals is that the human condition has never been better. History is regarded as lengthy episode of oppression that human beings have gradually but steadily fought to overcome with considerable success. Evidence of these successes that are commonly […]
The Psychology of Political Polarization in the U.S.
The best analysis of political polarization in the US (Red Tribe vs. Blue Tribe) that I have seen to date. Jonathan Haidt argues that political ideology and party affiliation are the major dividing lines in American politics, with race and class being a distant second, and religion and […]
Praise of Folly Podcast #23: Marxism
Todd Lewis and I discuss Marxism.
The Ruling Class Circles the Wagons? Anti-Trump Republican Evan McMullin to launch independent bid for presidency
The neocons throw out another jobber as an anti-Trump candidate. Read the article from Politico.Com here. It looks to me like what is happening is that the ruling class is circling the wagons. I’ve always thought there was no way in hell the power elite would ever let […]
Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
An interesting discussion of Sanders vs. Clinton’s neoliberalism from a Marxist perspective. The apparently escalating divisions between centrist neoliberalism, the identity politics oriented Left and the socialist/labor Left are described in some detail. The only thing that unites the liberal and Left end of the spectrum is their […]
Social Justice Warriors: Who They Are, and How to Deal With Them
Vox Day is interviewed by Tom Woods. Listen here. This is a great discussion. What exactly is the ideology of the “Social Justice Warrior”? What do you do when you’re targeted by one, whether at work or in general? Vox Day — popular blogger, author, SJW slayer, and […]
Our political parties are based more and more on absurd tribalism
By Matthew Gagnon Pine Tree Politics The decline and fall of the Roman Empire is a fascinating moment in world history. Yet, the Roman Empire did not cease to exist in 476 as most people believe. Rome had long before been split into two administrative divisions — a […]
Questions Blacks Have For SJW’s
My videos are made under the U.S. Fair Use Law. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise […]
Exploring Geo-Mutualist Panarchism w/ Will Schnack
Derrick Broze interviews writer, author, and activist Will Schnack. Will has been an organizer in North Texas for years, including co-founding the Black Cat Collective and the People’s Arcane School. Will runs the website Evolution of Consent which promotes his views on what he calls Geo-Mutualist Panarchism.
Twitter Bans Milo Yiannopoulos, Initiates Major Internet Free Speech War
It’s interesting how when a Christian bakery refuses to bake a gay wedding cake, the Left calls for compulsory association in the name of equality. When a private media company denies it own services to outspoken conservatives, the Right calls for compulsory association in the name of free […]
Murray Bookchin’s New Life
By Damian White The Jacobin Murray Bookchin. aqua mars / Flickr Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the center of a new vision of socialism. Here is a thinker, who in the early […]
Fernando Cortés: “Massive Mexican Immigration—a Business of Crooks”
An interesting take on immigration, economics, and US-Mexican relations from a Mexican nationalist. The economic analysis he gave was quite good. I wish these identitarian folks would emphasize that more. Often they sound like ordinary Republicans grousing about “colored folks on welfare.” He didn’t say anything Ralph Nader […]
Abby Martin with Dr. Jill Stein – Symptoms of a Sick Society
Part of the way the U.S. Empire’s elections are rigged is the corporate media’s censorship of third-party candidates, despite their nationwide campaign efforts. The Green Party, running Dr. Jill Stein for President—on a platform more progressive than Bernie Sanders—has been totally ignored by the establishment. Abby Martin sits […]
The Myth of Cosmopolitanism
By Ross Douthat New York Times NOW that populist rebellions are taking Britain out of the European Union and the Republican Party out of contention for the presidency, perhaps we should speak no more of left and right, liberals and conservatives. From now on the great political battles […]
Marxism 101: Dr. Richard Wolff interviewed by Abby Martin
Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl […]
Remain: The Left Has Lined Up with the Establishment
By Tom Slater Spiked Online “Brexit is a fake revolt’, writes Paul Mason in the Guardian this week: ‘Working-class culture is being hijacked to help the elite.’ A withering article in Vice agrees. ‘Brexit is the upper classes in revolt’, writes Sam Kriss. ‘They see an undemocratic and […]
Like the Alt Right, the Religious Right is Being Taken In by Huckster Trump
These poor folks keeping falling for one scam artist after another. By Nick Gass Politico.Com Former Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann leads an alphabetical list of names announced by Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday as the presumptive Republican nominee’s evangelical executive advisory board. Along with […]
Clinton losing interest in accommodating Sanders and his liberal followers
A big split seems to be emerging between between center-liberalism and the Left. By Ben Wolfgang and S.A. Miller Progressive leaders are still hoping to force likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to the left, but a party insider said Thursday she’s rapidly losing interest in accommodating any […]
Michael Eric Dyson Calls for Massive Protests at GOP Convention
I’d like to go to Cleveland and rent a hotel room with a balcony overlooking the convention center. I’m hoping the GOP convention degenerates into a fistfight between neocons and Trumpians on the convention floor, and a full blown street fight between Trumpians, leftists, BLM and cops in […]
Leading Antiwar Progressives Speak Favorably of Aspects of Trump’s Foreign Policy
This is important news because it signifies a genuine tension between the seriously anti-imperialist Left and the center-Left. These cleavages are becoming every more pronounced all the time whether the issue is foreign policy, labor policy, trade, civil liberties, criminal justice, the environment, the war on drugs, police […]
If We Are Going to Take Down the Establishment: Progressives, Libertarians, Anarchists, and Non-Voters Need to Unite
It looks like ATS ideas are becoming increasingly closer to the mainstream. I am seeing more and more writing like this all the time. By Tim Bryant The Last American Vagabond Anyone paying even the slightest attention to the 2016 Presidential Election can see that this election cycle […]
5 Reasons To Question The Official Story Of The Orlando Shooting
By Brandon Turbeville As more and more evidence emerges regarding the mass shooting in an Orlando gay club that resulted in the death of at least 52 people and many more injured, signs are increasingly pointing toward the possibility of a false flag operation. Already, a number of […]
Election 2016: Back to the 1970s?
If the Trump and Sanders movements become a permanent fixture of US politics, the real effect of this will be to repeal the Reagan Revolution and bring American politics back to what it was in the 1970s, and with relatively similar political, economic, and social circumstances (minus the […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #17: A Critical Evaluation of the AltRight
Todd Lewis, Andy Nowicki, Colin Liddell and Keith Preston to have a roundtable discussion/debate about the state of the Alternative Right.
A Hello to Arms: A New Generation of Steely-Gazed Anarcho-Communists Head Off to Syria
By John Knefel Village Voice Illustration by Matt Mahurin Billymark’s is the most working-class bar in Chelsea, if not all of Manhattan. On a Thursday afternoon in early March, union guys play darts as both TVs air a CBS report on the early days of Syria’s fragile cease-fire. […]
Who’s the Fascist?
By Margaret Kimberley Counterpunch/Black Agenda Report Joseph Sohm | Shutterstock.com Donald Trump is the ill spoken, boorish, graceless version of every American president in modern history. He differs from them only in his unconcealed appeals to white nationalism. But Democrats aren’t much better. They pretend to work on behalf of […]
Bill Kristol Plots a Neocon Coup
My guess is that Kristol is hoping for one of two outcomes with this. Either his candidate will throw the election to Hillary and his own neocon camp will defect to her side and try to puppet master her. Some neocons like the Kagans and Max Boot are […]
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