A good critique of the presidential race by a left-anarchist. The Trump-Mussolini comparison is standard leftist hyperbole (see today’s other post). Trump is probably more comparable to a figure like Nelson Rockefeller, although comparing Hillary to Nixon is reasonably accurate as is a comparison of Obama and Nixon. […]
An Italian leftist who actually battled fascists in Italy in the 70s debunks the Trump/Mussolini comparison. In looking for past figures from U.S. politics to which to compare Trump, one I keep coming back to is Nelson Rockefeller, also a billionaire moderate to liberal Republican statist-authoritarian known for […]
I’m not a fan of this guy but free speech is free speech.
As I have previously said, Hillary is now the most right-wing candidate on foreign policy and trade, with Trump in the center, and Sanders moving the conversation to the left of the Democrats. A number of important articles have recently emerged documenting this. Philip Giraldi at The American […]
The article below is an interesting critique of the alleged failures of the Alternative Right from Eugene Montsalvat, who holds to an “anti-capitalist nationalist” perspective. I agree with some of this critique, and disagree with other parts, though I generally share Eugene’s view that the the alt right’s […]
The “troll” accusation is fair enough. By Stuart Sudekum One of the problems with the so called “alt right” is that it is founded on the “left/right” political paradigm and assumes an argumentative political stance as its starting point. Though conservatism as a worldview is ultimately tied to […]
The poor social conservatives. They’ve gone from being useful idiots for Nixon, to useful idiots for Reagan, to useful idiots for the neocons, to useful idiots for Trump. They’re kind of like a woman that gets taken advantage of by one abusive husband or boyfriend after another. “We’ll […]
Whoa! Apparently, there has been a split among the neocons as the most far-right wing of the neocons, the circle around David Horowitz, has gone over to the Trump camp. Bill Kristol, whose father Irving was actually the one who coined the term “neoconservatism” and was one of […]
A more viable strategy for the progressives might be for someone like Jill Stein to enter the Democratic contest in 2020 and build on the Sanders legacy. Sanders has pulled a Ron Paul in the Democratic Party (though more successfully than what Paul achieved in the GOP), and […]
The host of this show discusses me in some detail from the predictable perspective of a far left hysteric. Listen here. Some good music on this podcast. I don’t recall my conversation with this guy, but I’d say he has me about 80% correct. I’m definitely about overthrowing […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right In this series of columns, we are exploring The Next Conservatism, the last book Paul Weyrich and I wrote together. It offers something this election year needs, namely a conservatism that addresses the issues of today and tomorrow, not yesterday. Ronald Reagan’s agenda […]
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason At first blush, the anti-political correctness crusaders that make up Donald Trump’s online army have little in common with the so-called “social justice warriors” they claim to abhor. Some will even argue that trigger-warning-happy, intolerance-intolerant campus activists and their digital counterparts are actually driving […]
By David Bedford The North Star This article originally published in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 1994. It is republished with permission; formatted for the web by North Star. Bird and Fish, Jackson Beardy1This paper will deal, in a preliminary way, with one of the least studied […]
By Chris Shaw While my economic views put me on the trajectory of left-libertarianism, with my belief in wider, distributed ownership and the return of mutual aid associations and voluntary, even democratic, structures, I’ve always maintained a cultural conservatism in my outlook, coming from the ideas of Edmund […]
This is an interesting analysis of the Sanders campaign and related issues from a hard-left perspective that I believe is largely accurate. Read it here. The same author has a couple of follow up posts here and here.
By Walter Bragman Salon.Com Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump(Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon) There are perhaps no three words more jarring to liberals than “President Donald Trump.” The GOP front-runner and presumptive nominee has undoubtedly made enemies with his nativist rhetoric and bellicose persona. That said, now […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Virtually all the reporting about this fall’s presidential election focuses on the candidates and the question of who is going to win nomination and election. That is to be expected. But it misses what really matters. The likelihood that either the nominating […]
Paul Gottfried explains what historic fascism actually was on the Tom Woods Show. Listen here. How about that: fascism has a definition after all, and isn’t just a term for whatever people happen to dislike. In his new book, Paul Gottfried traces the meaning of the word and […]
An interesting debate between Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist Tom Woods and conservative Catholic traditionalist James Kalb. Listen here. Liberalism portrays itself as the ideology of liberty and liberation, as neutral between competing views of the good, and as the position all right-thinking people should adopt. None of this is true, […]
Will the Soros-owned Democrats and the Koch-owned Republicans come together in opposition to the insurgencies that are developing on both ends? The ruling class always forms a united front in the end. By Kristen East Politico Billionaire businessman Charles Koch said Sunday that “it’s possible” another Clinton in […]
By Nicholas Casey New York Times IN THE MOUNTAINS OF COLOMBIA — The rebel camp is a Communist time capsule. An old guerrilla fighter sings songs about Che Guevara on his guitar as a crowd leans in to listen, armed with rifles and grenades. Salaries do not exist […]
Paul Joseph Watson (editor-at-large, Infowars) joins Dave Rubin, discussing libertarians, social justice warriors, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, European immigration and more.
Hear directly from a retired judge who has done a full 180 on the War on Drugs.
Two gay Jewish guys bashing totalitarian humanism. Excellent! Milo Yiannopoulos (journalist) joins Dave Rubin, discussing Milo’s support for Donald Trump, the terror attacks in Brussels, censorship on social media (including Milo’s blue check being taken away on Twitter), free speech, and more.
Michael Shermer (author, “Skeptic”) and Dave Rubin discuss skepticism, morality, conspiracy theories, political issues like gun control, abortion, libertarianism, and more
I was first introduced to Nisbet when I was a college student in the Reagan era. A left-anarchist friend gave me a copy of Nisbet’s Question for Community and said, “Check this guy out! He’s supposed to be a conservative but he sounds almost like one of us.” […]
A good liberal/conservative discussion.
Against the Alternative Right. By Cathy Young The Federalist Who’d have thought that in 2016, we would be discussing whether mainstream Republicans and conservatives should be nicer to white nationalists? Yet here we are. The debate is, of course, about the “alternative right,” suddenly propelled into visibility by […]
In defense of the Alternative Right. By Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannoupolis Breitbart.Com A specter is haunting the dinner parties, fundraisers and think-tanks of the Establishment: the specter of the “alternative right.” Young, creative and eager to commit secular heresies, they have become public enemy number one to beltway conservatives […]
A nuanced article on Trump from the Left. If all leftists were like James Petras, I might not criticize the Left so fervently. By James Petras Dissident Voice From left to right a raucous chorus has emerged to denounce Republican Presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump as a ‘fascist’. […]
The best response to the Trump campaign from the Left that I’ve seen to date. This is a must read, and a reminder of why Counterpunch is one of the few leftist forums to take their anti-imperialist seriously. This article is an almost perfect critique of the Left […]
Most liberal, progressives, and social democrats hold up the Scandinavian countries as their models. But are these really the paradises their admirers make them out to be? Tom Woods and his various guests in these podcasts think not. In these systems, not only do ordinary folks pay income […]
If anything, class divisions should be wider in the blue states because the upper classes in those regions are generally wealthier, and there’s also a larger upper middle class. In Vermont, for example, disparity between social classes is growing at as fast a rate as any other state. […]
Contra Chomsky, I’d argue Hillary is just as awful as a neocon which is why many neocons have moved in her direction. By Joseph Mulkerin Truth-Out Ever since the 2012 election results were certified, the conventional wisdom has been that Hillary Clinton is all but guaranteed a coronation […]
This is some months old now, but this is a really good overview of Chomsky’s thinking, and this criticisms of U.S. imperialism, neoliberalism, and his case of libertarian socialism.
This is interesting in that Chomsky goes into a great deal of detail explaining why he thinks Trump is extraordinarily awful, but then concludes that Ted Cruz is even more dangerous.
Chomksy’s interpretation of Leninism was relatively similar to Rothbard’s. Too bad they didn’t get along.
Not so fast, says the latest data. By Seth Abramson Huffington Post On February 27th, Hillary Clinton led Bernie Sanders among African-American voters by 52 points. By March 26th, she led Sanders among African-Americans by just nine points. And today, Public Policy Polling, a widely respected polling organization, […]
Non-voters are generally foreign policy non-interventionists, cultural centrists, and economic leftists. By Benjamin Wallace Webb The New Yorker merican elections are peculiar instruments of democracy, because they are so consistent in whom they leave out. In the past three Presidential elections, about forty-five per cent of those eligible […]
In the two videos above, Connor Kilpatrick, a Marxist writer from The Jacobin, takes on well-known vulgar libertarians Austin Petersen and Wayne Allan Root. I disagree with Kilpatrick on a number of points. He’s painting libertarianism with a pretty broad brush. However, the objections he raises to “vulgar […]
Bill Lind on why the GOP is merely the right-wing of totalitarian humanism. By William S. Lind Traditional Right From Washington a panicked Republican Establishment is denouncing Donald Trump as “not a conservative”. The Establishment claims custody of the word “conservative” and with it the right to pronounce […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko “And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew, 18:13 “In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but […]
Listen Here! Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldstein talk to Professor Paul Gottfried about his latest book Fascism: The Career of a Concept Topics include: How Fascism is used as a pejorative to describe any opposing political movement Defining Fascism and how most people who use the term cannot […]
It has probably never occurred to quite a few anarchists that racial persecution is a bad idea, regardless of the skin colors involved, or that oppression by reactionary Communists is just as bad as oppression by reactionary Fascists. Indigogo.Com
Perhaps everyone should just go their own way? Gods and Radicals The New Right is a Anglo-European intellectual, political, social, and cultural movement gaining influence within Paganism, Polytheism, Heathenism, and the Occult communities. Generally called either ‘proto-fascists’ or ‘crypto-fascists,’ their ideology mirrors many aspects of what we might […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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