Category: Left and Right

The Range of Ideological Opinion?

The conventional model of the Left/Right political spectrum might be summarized in this way: The Far Right: Sectors of the Right that are outside the Republican Party. These would include a wide range of often divergent or contradictory ideologies and and belief systems such as fascists, Nazis, hardline […]

Greg Johnson Interviews Vox Day

This includes an interesting discussion of some of the problems with conventional libertarianism, including free trade, open borders, and excessive reliance on ideological abstractions. From Counter-Currents: Greg Johnson talks to video game designer, musician, blogger, novelist, and publisher Vox Day. Topics include: His political outlook and its formation […]

Defining Revolution Down

By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Cass Sunstein is such an excellent, if unintentional, parody of liberal goo-gooism that it’s hard to tell him from a creation of The Onion. As proof that “our democratic system structures” are not rigged — whatever Gloomy Guses like Elizabeth […]

The Ruling Class Hissy Fit

This includes an interesting discussion of Angelo Codevilla’s theory of the ruling class. I have my differences with Codevilla (mostly because he’s too partisan right-leaning and not nearly radical enough), but his perspective is worth checking out, although I would suggest doing so within the context of a […]

Contra Preston: Defender of the System

Some refreshing criticism from the Right. By Todd Lewis Praise of Folly I was over at Attack the System (ATS) the other day and found Keith Preston’s disclaimer to an article, Why Evangelicals Worship Trump;[1] the disclaimer being: “The evangelical/fundamentalist subculture in the US really is proof that P.T. […]

My People, Black & White

By Rod Dreher The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue Gore Vidal famously said that he never missed a chance to have sex or appear on television. Me, I never miss a chance to eat in New Orleans. So when my literary agent proposed lunch there with the […]

Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish Resistance

By Joris Leverink Roar Mag Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy. The introduction to the new book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2015), explains how Murray Bookchin – born […]

Bernie Sanders and his enemies to the left

It looks like the Sanders campaign might actually be exposing some cracks in the PC coalition, i.e. between the neo-liberal but culturally leftist Hillaryites, the social democratic labor leftist Sandersites, and the identify politics-intersectionality oriented far Left. By Jack Ross The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) historic socialist […]

Why America Isn’t Socialist

My friend Jack Ross has a magisterial new book out on the history of the socialist movement in the United States. Samuel Goldman has an extensive review in The American Conservative. Wikimedia Commons Before it became a favorite trope of Republican presidential candidates, “American exceptionalism” belonged to the […]

Is Trump Our Last Chance?

My take on Donald Trump: Unlike many anarchists, I think immigration can be criticized on a variety of grounds. Mass immigration appears to be an effort to an effort to flood the economy with cheap labor for capital, thereby dispossessing the traditional working class. It also appears to […]

Bernie Sanders—Yes or No?

My take on Bernie Sanders: It’s interesting to see an actual major party presidential candidate who denounces the corporatists with as much fervor as Sanders, and the positive response he is getting. That said, Sanders is not one of us. He is a statist, centralist traditional Marxist economic […]

Keith Preston to Speak at the National Policy Institute

Register on the National Policy Institute website. Kevin MacDonald GUILLAUME FAYE JACK DONOVAN R.N. Taylor Roman Bernard Keith Preston Richard Spencer Michael Hill BECOME WHO WE ARE ARE is an all-day, one-track conference on Saturday, October 31, 2015, taking place at The National Press Club in Washington, DC. It features presentations, discussions, lunch and […]

Christian National Anarcho-Capitalists

I recently came across a group calling itself Christian National Anarcho-Capitalists. While this group doesn’t reflect my personal views or preferences, as a pan-anarchist I am for the proliferation of many anarchist societies based on the principle of free association, thereby enhancing genuine diversity, and “Christian National Anarcho-Capitalism” […]

Reflections on Anarcho-Syndicalism

By Vrijdag 20 National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands Anarcho-Syndicalism is not left wing The terms “left”, “right” and “centre” are, in the purest sense of the words, parliamentary concepts. These “directions” within the political spectrum are derived from the perspective of the representatives in parliament. On the […]

What is Fascism?

By Woensdag National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands On the 23rd of May, 1919 the former revolutionary Marxist Benito Mussolini established the “Fascio di Combattimento” (combat union) with a small group of sympathizers in Italy. Until 1920 it remained a marginal group in the extreme leftwing of the […]

Social Justice Warriors vs Reactionary Conservatives

By Scott Alexander SlateStarCodex.Com The social justice narrative describes a political-economic elite dominated by white males persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their culture, like blacks, women, and gays. The anti-social-justice narrative describes an intellectual-cultural elite dominated by social justice activists persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their […]

Here are 7 things people who say they’re ‘fiscally conservative but socially liberal’ don’t understand

By Greta Christina Raw Story “Well, I’m conservative, but I’m not one of those racist, homophobic, dripping-with-hate Tea Party bigots! I’m pro-choice! I’m pro-same-sex-marriage! I’m not a racist! I just want lower taxes, and smaller government, and less government regulation of business. I’m fiscally conservative, and socially liberal.” […]