Politics on a Human Scale
An interesting new book by Jeff Taylor. Check it out.
The Battle Within the Democratic Party
The Atlantic Molly Ball Dec 23 2013, 8:00 AM ET Mike Theiler/Reuters Things are not going well for Democrats. Riding high just weeks ago after Republicans shut down the government, the party now finds itself in a swoon: President Obama’s ratings have hit an all-time low. The implementation […]
Is the Politics of the Future Chauvinism vs. Multiculturalism?
By Patrick J. Buchanan “Across Europe, globalism and transnationalism, as represented by the eurozone and EU, seem in retreat, as nationalism is resurgent. Now it is the UKIP, a new British independence party, which seeks to secede from the EU that is surging—at the expense of the Tories. […]
Can Liberals Understand Politics Anymore?
By Daniel McCarthy “Liberals are so politically inert that I don’t waste much time criticizing them. The Democratic Party, to the extent that it’s liberal, wins nationally because the GOP is a basket case. The hard left, which knows that Democrats are about as neoliberal as the GOP, […]
Study suggests Occupy Wall Street movement undone by liberals’ need to feel unique
Raw Story Liberals tend to underestimate their similarity to other liberals, according to a recent study, while conservatives overestimate their similarities — and those differences may account for the relative political success of the tea party in comparison to Occupy Wall Street. While the tea party has grown […]
Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin It’s difficult to know where to begin with this open letter to the various European-american leftist (Marxist-Leninist and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, in particular) groups within the United States. I have many issues with many groups; some general, some very specific. The way in which this is presented […]
Attack the System: An Interview with Todd Lewis
Attack the System An Interview with Todd Lewis November 24, 2013 Keith Preston interviews Christian philosopher Todd Lewis. Topics include: Anti-state traditions within historic Christianity. The essence of the Christian faith and the nature of an organic Christian community. The Christian pacifist tradition of thinkers such as Leo […]
David Horowitz Holds Conference Where Neocons Attempt to Reinvent Themselves as Libertarians
Gay marriage, legal weed, anti-racism, anti-sexism, neoliberal economics, Israel-firsting and more wars for the empire. Yayyyyyyy! Puke. Gavin McInnes has sure gone downhill. Taki’s Magazine I just flew back from Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, and boy are my arms tired of the old narrative. I was on […]
Culture Wars and the Police State: A Reply to Kevin Carson
This is my response to Kevin Carson’s recently republished review of Sean Gabb’s book “Cultural Revolution, Culture War” Libertarian Alliance I doubt it’s possible to develop a thorough or effective critique of statism as it exists in contemporary Western industrialized democracies without a comprehensive critique of the PC […]
Words of Wisdom from a Fellow Anarchist
It’s common for anarchists to press people about whether they are “capitalist” or “communist”. I view this as embracing the left/right paradigm unconsciously. I’m anti-state. Anti-statism is the common denominator in all trends of anarchism. Therefore, there is common ground between all anarchists. I can’t imagine that any […]
That ‘Libertarian Moment’: It’s here. Now what?
By Justin Raimondo The failures of foreign interventionism litter the world stage. Libya is disintegrating into an inter-tribal battlefield, with rival militias shooting it out Wild West style. Iraq is collapsing into chaos, as the country’s postwar order frays and splits along sectarian religious lines: and in Afghanistan, […]
Slavery case: two arrested ran a revolutionary Communist collective
The Telegraph Police in Peckford Place, Stockwell, where the women were held captive Photo: JANE MINGAY FOR THE TELEGRAPH By Martin Evans, and Sam Marsden The two suspects in the south London slavery case ran a Communist collective in the 1970s that worshipped the Chinese leader Chairman Mao, the […]
When North American Leftists Were Real Revolutionaries
Robert Stark Interviews Keith Preston on the Declining Middle Class & the Rise of Populism
Listen to the interview. Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston of Attack the System on the decline of the American middle class and the prospects for radical populism. Topics include: Joel Kotkin’s book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 Neo-liberalism Left-wing oligarchy The Tea Party Cracks in the Left […]
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Nepali Maoist leader adopts millionaire’s lifestyle
The Telegraph The leader of Nepal’s ruling Maoists, who led the country’s downtrodden masses in the guerrilla war which eventually overthrew its monarchy, has provoked a row among his comrades after acquiring a luxury mansion with a swimming pool and badminton court. Unified Communist Party of Nepal Chairman […]
How the GOP Establishment Tea-Partied the Tea Party
The Atlantic After years of trying to accommodate conservatives, mainstream Republicans finally went to war on Tuesday—and won. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters On Tuesday, Republican Ken Cuccinelli lost the Virginia governor’s race by less than 3 percentage points—a far smaller margin than the polls had led people to expect. The […]
The anti-Southern vote in Virginia
Southern Nationalist Network Ken Cuccinelli won the vast majority of Virginia but lost Black urban centres, the DC suburbs and areas with large numbers of immigrants A recent article in The Washington Post by Luz Lazo and Debbi Wilgorn makes the point that Third World immigrants in Virginia […]
Who Are These Losers?
American Renaissance The origins of Anti-Racist Action. Many readers of American Renaissance are aware of “anti-racist” activist networks, but very little has been written about them. These networks are the most militant proponents of political correctness and are ideologically very much with the grain of mainstream social trends. […]
The Secret History of Guns
The Atlantic The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black […]
US conservatism as a Leftist movement
Southern Nationalist Network Ronald Reagan signed MLK Jr Day into law Polling data over the years point to self-identified conservatives as the largest ideological group in the United States. Gallup has found that about 40% of the public identifies as conservative, 35% as moderate and 20% as liberal. […]
Why a Permanent Democratic Majority is not a Demographic Inevitability: Part One
By Rick Perlstein This is an interesting series of articles that argues against the “inevitable center-left demographic dominance” theory that myself and others hold to.
Who is Jeh Johnson, and Why Should Black People Be Hanging Our Heads in Shame?
Black Agenda Report By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and soon, its own drones. Now it’s headed by a black man, a progressive Democrat, a Morehouse man & […]
Better To Not Protest the NSA Than To Hold Hands With Libertarians, Says Progressive Scribbler
By J. D. Tuccille Writing at Salon, “New York based journalist and consultant to progressive causes” Tom Watson objects to the anti-surveillance Stop Watching Us rally, scheduled for October 26 in Washington, D.C., because it commits the unforgivable sin of reaching across partisan lines. The fatal flaw of […]
“How (and Why) to Be a Free-Market Radical Leftist” by Roderick Long
Could the Republicans Sell Water in the Desert?
By Anthony Gregory Here’s a mystery. The Republicans describe themselves as the party of smaller government, and the Democrats generally agree. Polls indicate nearly unprecedented lows in public trust in the federal government. Yet the Republicans’ popularity seems to sink continuously. Some pundits believe the Democrats have a […]
Weren’t the Reagan Years Wonderful?
Let’s not forget Central America, CIA-backing of the Khmer Rouge, and the War on Drugs.
We wouldn’t want to “punish success,” now, would we?
“Communists on Campus”: Right-Wing documentary from 1970
Featuring the Weathermen, Black Panthers, and the CPUSA.
Neo-Nazi’s and racist skin heads of Reddit what changed your mind? When and why did you leave?
An interesting discussion. Read the whole thing here. —————————————————————————————————- Before you joined KKK/Nazi’s and racist skin heads what was your view on Jews, Blacks, Mixed race people and Hispanic people. Where you exposed to their culture? How much has being a member effected? I’m a little bit younger […]
Herbert Marcuse and the Tolerance of Repression
by Keith Preston
The rise of the New Left is typically considered to have its origins in the student rebellions of the late
It Gets Worse for the GOP
W. James Antle III Lightspring / Shutterstock.com Initially, the American people’s verdict on the government shutdown appeared to be “a pox on both their houses.” Republicans received plurality blame, but Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and both major parties took something of a hit in the early polls.
The Stupid Party
Left-wing conservatism
Panther Red I’ve long been curious about the phrase “left-wing conservative.” It’s a label that’s been applied to Christopher Lasch, for example. And Jacques Delors once declared that “We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives.” Though […]
Things Are So Bad for GOP That Conservatives Are Rooting for Dems To Take Back the House
Politics USA Things are so bad in Dreher’s mind that he writes that he can’t believe he’s saying this, “but I hope the House flips to the Democrats in 2014, so we can be rid of these nuts. Let Ted Cruz sit in the Senate stewing in his […]
The Rise of the New New Left
Peter Beinhart Maybe Bill de Blasio got lucky. Maybe he only won because he cut a sweet ad featuring his biracial son. Or because his rivals were either spectacularly boring, spectacularly pathological, or running for Michael Bloomberg’s fourth term. But I don’t think so. The deeper you look, […]
Is Peter Beinart Right About a ‘New New Left’?
Rick Perlstein Peter Beinart (AP Photo/David Goldman) Peter Beinart is out with a major new argument in The Daily Beast about what the political future might hold in store for us. The headline writer calls it “The Rise of the New New Left,” and it begins by citing […]
…But Not Constrained Enough
That’s why we need an anarchist revolution.
The Tea Party: Not as Dumb as They Seem?
“Whilst I think the Tea Party folk warrant critique along several lines, I’ve always found the general hatedom against them to be overblown and rooted in caricature. This seems to reinforce my view: “The shift to the right on the gray columns represents a positive correlation between tea […]
Is Red State America Seceding?
By Pat Buchanan In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR. Out of the decomposing carcass came Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all in Europe; Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in […]
NBC/WSJ Poll: GOP Approval Rating At All Time Low
Talking Points Memo AP Photo / Harry Hamburg Caitlin MacNeal – October 10, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT36015 Just 24 percent of Americans have a positive opinion of the Republican party, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday. The survey reflects a record low in approval […]
The tea party is giving anarchism a bad name
Washington Post (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) OPINION | In a recent impassioned speech, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren used the word “anarchy” repeatedly to describe the tea party’s role in the ongoing government shutdown. So did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said on the Senate floor that […]
Why Golden Dawn is the only Anti-Fascist Party in Greece
Excellent article by Greg Palast. I agree with every word. On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don’t believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife: The confessed killer is […]
Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Movement: Land, Nationhood, and Autonomy
By Jamie O’Hara and Craig Fitzgerald This essay is included in the recently released NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: HEROES AND VILLAINS, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Jamie O’Hara and Craig FitzGerald In order for decentralized autonomy to flourish, independent communities must be internally cohesive. This […]
U.S. Senator: “We Are Not a Country of Anarchists”
Not yet, but give us time. We Are Not a Country of Anarchists By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News 04 October 13 f you watch the anarchist tirades coming from extremist Republicans in the House, you’d think they believe that the government that governs best is […]
Leopold Kohr: The first anarcho-pluralist/pan-secessionist?
By Paul Kingsnorth Illustration by Andrzej Krauze Living through a collapse is a curious experience. Perhaps the most curious part is that nobody wants to admit it’s a collapse. The results of half a century of debt-fuelled “growth” are becoming impossible to convincingly deny, but even as economies […]
First, They Came for the Fascists…
. The leader of the far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, has been formally charged with belonging to a criminal organisation. Four more Golden Dawn MPs, a party leader in an Athens suburb and 15 other people face the same charges.
The Sixth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference
I’ll be moderating a panel on social decadence at this years H.L. Mencken Club conference. I’m particularly looking forward to hearing Richard Spencer’s defense of decadence. The Sixth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference Decadence November 1-3, 2013
The Panthers Were Right and Reagan Was Wrong on Gun Control
By Anthony Gregory I suppose it takes a true radical these days to question the progressive’s sacred cow: Ronald Reagan. You read that right. This paradigm of modern conservatism was one of the most important American champions of gun control in recent decades, and so he has become […]
Keith Preston Still Doesn’t Get It: A Reply to a Reply
By Todd Lewis Read the original critique by Mr. Lewis and the responding podcast here. Mr. Preston, thank you for wrestling with my work and giving me a voice, as well as for being open-minded in dealing with these subjects. However, I believe that your response was misdirected […]
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