Category: Left and Right

What Is Postmodernism?

An explanation of the original French postmodernism, contemporary leftist identity politics postmodernism, and analysis of the ramifications of their difference. If you want to support the channel, here are the best ways to do it: 1) Watch the full video 2) Subscribe if you haven’t 3) Share with […]

David Grann On High-Seas Suffering

Appears in this episode Andrew Sullivan David is an extraordinary investigative reporter, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, and an old acquaintance. Several of his stories and books have been adapted into major motion pictures, including The Lost City of Z, Old Man and the Gun, and Killers […]

Distributism Isn’t Outdated

TAC Editor’s Weekly The latest in Main Street conservative news View this email in your browser Dear Reader, You might have seen Daniel Penny, the subway guardian, give a video interview over the last weekend. This marks a departure from the traditional media strategy for a man in his […]

Tools for enslavement

Dear Reader, This week: two product announcements and an anniversary. The American Conservative’s friends over at American Compass released a new policy paper yesterday, detailing a strategy for decoupling the U.S. economy from China. Assistant editor John Hirschauer wrote up the report in his column, concluding with the […]

The Utility of Right-Wing Anarchism

By John Wilkes Czolgosz Right-wing anarchism, the most common form of which are known as libertarian anarchism or anarcho-capitalism, encompasses a range of ideologies that advocate for the abolition of the state and the establishment of a society based on voluntary cooperation and private property rights. While right-wing […]

Anarcho-Monarchism

David Bentley Hart, First Things The only thing I know that J.R.R. Tolkien and Salvador Dalí had in common—or rather, I suppose I should say, the only significant or unexpected thing, since they obviously had all sorts of other things in common: they were male, bipedal, human, rough […]

MAGA-Futurism

By N. Dexia1 June 2023 N. Dexia examines Donald Trump’s recent proposals for futuristic cities and technological advancements, pondering the potential shift in futurism from the Left to the Right. This article was originally published here. I’ve been on this futurism kick for a while—and then I hear […]

The Relevance of Elite Theory to Anarchism

By John Wilkes Czolgosz Elite theory is a social and political theory that examines the distribution of power and influence within societies. It posits that power is concentrated in the hands of a small, dominant elite group, rather than being evenly distributed among the population. Elite theorists argue […]

The Leninist Model of “Vanguard” Organizing, Anarchist Criticisms, and Trotskyist Influences on Neoconservatism

By John Wilkes Czolgosz The Leninist model of “vanguard” organizing, derived from the political theories of Vladimir Lenin, proposes the formation of a disciplined and centralized revolutionary organization known as the vanguard party. According to Leninism, the vanguard party serves as the avant-garde, leading and guiding the working […]

Ron Unz Confronts the Far Right

A very interesting night among influential conservatives Richard Hanania May 24, 2023 [Last week, Ron Unz called me and asked if I’d like to go to a secret conservative meet-up. I told him I wouldn’t miss it for the world. Everything I’ve ever heard Ron say has either […]

The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless

The political landscape doesn’t fit on a simple map. Jesse Walker | From the June 2023 issue (Illustration: enjoynz/iStock) Here is one version of the left-right spectrum, as described in 1975 by a former Barry Goldwater speechwriter who had left the conservative movement to break bread with Black […]

Tory Autocracy

Over the past century, and even before, conservative political movements thrived by challenging the Left’s appeal to the working and middle class. Virtually all the successful movements on the democratic Right—Disraeli’s Tory Democracy to Thatcherism, Reaganism, and even Trumpism—won by establishing a link between conservative policies and upward […]

Counter Gangs, Sorelianism, Revolutionary Movements, Bonapartism

WATCH NEW FILM “Summit Against Hypocrisy 2023 (The Documentary)”    • Summit Against Hy…   Caleb Maupin will be live-streaming at 11pm Eastern! Tune in! Donate to Uhuru Defense Fund: https://handsoffuhuru.org/ Join the Center for Political Innovation: https://cpiusa.org/join-cpi Support our work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/calebmaupin Order NEW BOOK “Where is America Going? Marxism, MAGA […]

The Hitler of Legend

By Paul Gottfried Adolf Hitler’s iconic hair and paintbrush mustache. (Art by rudall30) In 1997, John Lukacs published The Hitler of History, a book that presents a provocative but also reasonable argument: Contrary to the standard view of historians, Hitler was not a conservative who embodied the values […]

Victims of Capitalism Day

Kevin Carson | Support this author on Patreon | May 10th, 2020 At Reason Ilya Somin, in keeping with his annual practice since 2007, has chosen May 1 — May Day — as his date for  observing “Victims of Communism Day.” Somin cites the “authoritative” Black Book of Communism as his source for a death toll […]

The REAL Faces of Black Conservatism

00:00 Intro and recap 11:14– The Distraction 43:35– The Double Agent 01:10:13– The Black Capitalist Further Learning The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power https://imixwhatilike.org/2020/05/25/… Lil Bill on Black Capitalism –    • Why Black Capital…   The missing story on Tulsa https://www.leftvoice.org/from-black-… Orgs and Initiatives to support Stop Cop City https://stopcop.city/ […]

A Murder in CHAZ

Dear Reader, “This is the type of story that should start journalists salivating: a brutal murder; an unsolved mystery begging for investigation; evidence destruction by corrupt government officials; villains begging for righteous condemnation; and the sick irony of a black teenager shot in the back by people who […]

Why Marx was Right: Alienation

Here’s the drop on Marx’s (and in the case of the alienation from nature, Marxist) different forms of alienation, including alienation from self, alienation from others, and alienation from labour and the products of labor. Along the way I give a few reasons not to listen to willfully […]

What is Authoritarianism?

Today I will be joined by Keith Preston to discuss the nature of Authoritarianism. Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862…

The “Rotten, Rancid Core” of Today’s Left: Mehdi/Taibbi, Woke Politics, & More | Norman Finkelstein

This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble. You can watch the full episode for FREE here: https://rumble.com/v2joxdu-system-upd… Now available as a podcast! Find full episodes here: https://linktr.ee/systemupdate_ Join us LIVE on Rumble, weeknights at 7pm ET: https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald […]