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One of the Last Slave Ship Survivors Describes His Ordeal in a 1930s Interview
This was an interesting work from Zora Neale Hurston that was discovered only a couple of years ago. By Becky Little, History.Com More than 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last survivors of the […]
Jesse Ventura GOES OFF On Billionaires & Capitalism
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell’s journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of this era’s greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors. Hosted by Jason Riley, a member of “The Wall Street Journal” editorial board, this one-hour program features […]
Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 19 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 3 of 4 In this third part of James Lindsay’s lecture series on Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance,” we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn. Having set up the framing of the essay […]
One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 18 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 2 of 4 In this second part of his annotated reading of Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance,” James Lindsay reads and explains the portion of the essay where Marcuse defines the “administered society” that he claims […]
How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 17 Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 1 of 4 We live in a crazy world today that seems to have gone off the rails. That’s because it is being driven by a broken logic, and, for all the flaws on the […]
Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0
I generally agree with Gramsci’s theory of revolution even if I don’t share many of his political views. If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci wrote a series […]
Jeff Bezos STEPS DOWN As Amazon CEO As Anti-Union Efforts Increase
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO.
History Of American Oligarchy And How It ENDS
Author, Thom Hartmann, discusses his new book, The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class.
Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 80
R.I.P. And good work, dude. Rennie Davis, who lived out one of the more quixotic journeys of the 1960s generation when he went from leading opponent of the Vietnam War, as a convicted member of the Chicago Seven, to spokesman for a teenage Indian guru, died on Tuesday […]
Wokeness & Censorship Used To Defend Wall Street
This is important commentary.
The Culprit REVEALED In The Robinhood, Whodunnit Scandal!
Many Trump Rioters Didn’t Even Vote
So I guess they’re smarter than they appear on the surface.
Iran Is Only “Weeks” Away From A Nuclear Weapon, Says Biden Admin
As I was saying during the campaign, the neocons have successfully re-colonized the Democrats.
Small Amounts of All Drugs Are Now Decriminalized in Oregon
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams In what justice advocates celebrated as a major shift away from the devastating and failed policies of the nation’s so-called “war on drugs,” Oregon on Monday officially became the first state to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all drugs with a new […]
Words Beyond the Market and the State, Pt. I
An interview with Kevin Carson. Today, as you can see from the title, we bring you the first of two parts of an interview with Kevin Carson, a senior fellow at C4SS who holds the Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. Recently there has been a translation of […]
Edmund Burke Warned Us About the Woke
By Casey Chalk, The American Conservative Burke warned us this might happen. No, not Tom Brady…although the 18th-century Anglo-Irish statesman’s penchant for the ancient and tried would have likely led him to predict that the “GOAT” was capable of another Super Bowl run. Rather, I’m talking about the […]
Amazon Worker Death SPOTLIGHTS Alleged Unsafe COVID Conditions
Journalist and CEO of Status Coup, Jordan Chariton, discusses the death of an Amazon worker, Poushawn Brown, who was responsible for testing her coworkers for COVID.
GOP Civil War ERUPTS As McConnell Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene A ‘Cancer’
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the growing divide within the Republican Party.
Talking to right-wingers & libertarians (Jimmy Dore controversy, etc.)
It’s good to hear an actual Marxist take down the idiocy of the do-gooder left. This is a great segment. Refreshing.
Business Guru Tells Redditors To Workout And Get A Girlfriend
Krystal Ball reacts to statements made by professor, Scott Galloway, on MSNBC.
Jimmy Kimmel Says RUSSIANS May Be Behind GameStop Rise
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Jimmy Kimmel’s statements about Reddit and Robinhood.
Ocasio-Cortez reveals she’s a sexual assault survivor, recounts ‘trauma’ of Capitol riot: ‘I thought everything was over’
By Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post As rioters threatened to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6, a staffer rushed into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office and told her to hide. Soon after she ran into a bathroom, she heard a thunderous banging noise outside. “Where is she? Where is she?” […]
How to End the New Class War and Save Democracy From the Managerial Elite | Michael Lind
In Episode 120, Demetri speaks with Michael Lind, a highly accomplished intellectual, writer, and academic about his latest book “The New Class War.” According to Michael, contemporary populism is a kind of convulsive autoimmune response by the body politic to the chronic degenerative disease of oligarchy. Absent a […]
State Legislatures Eye Sound Money Reforms
By JP Cortez More state lawmakers than ever are introducing sound money legislation in the opening days of the 2021 legislative session. Several states will consider measures to remove sales or general excise taxes from the purchases of gold, silver, and other precious metals. Many other states will […]
GOP Civil War ERUPTS As Marjorie Taylor Greene 9/11 Truther Comments Come Out
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to comments made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Former SEC Commissioner Likens Redditors To CAPITOL RIOTERS For Destroying Hedge Fund
Saagar Enjeti explains how the stock market has always been rigged to benefit wealthy hedge fund managers and screw the little guys.
DEBUNKING Brian Stelter’s Call To Deplatform Fox News
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, reacts to CNN anchor Brian Stelter’s comments on Fox News and censorship.
Melvin Capital Lost HALF Its Value After Reddit Rescued GameStop
Krystal and Saagar provide the latest stock market updates and discuss the fate of Melvin Capital.
Robinhood Debacle Reveals Elite Tyranny
The Funky Academic, Irami Osei-Frimpong, discusses the newest stock restrictions on Robinhood and explains what the long term implications of them might be.
Gorsuch v. Over-Criminalization
Now that overcriminalization has started to spill over into the middle class and business class, even many on the right are turning against it. By C. Jarrett Dieterle, National Review Much of the media attention to date surrounding President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has centered on […]
The Bernie Sanders Paradox
Murray Bookchin’s critique of Bernie from 1986. By Murray Bookchin, Anarchist Library The posters that appeared all over Burlington — Vermont’s largest city (pop: 37,000) in the winter of 1980–81 were arresting and provocative. They showed an old map of the city with a label slapped across it […]
The Failure Of The State And The Rise Of Anarchism In Contemporary Anti-Systemic Praxis
By Morgan Gibson The centrality of anarchism to the praxis of contemporary anti-systemic social movements has been well documented. From the alter-globalisation movement to Occupy, many contemporary anti-systemic movements are defined by their commitment to some of the central tenets of anarchism, including the pursuit of decentralized, directly […]
Functional Anarchism(s) and the Theory of Global Contemporary Art
By Michael Frederick Rattray Functional Anarchism(s) and the Theory of Global ContemporaryArtinvestigates the intersection of art and anarchist philosophy in order to shed light on the phenomenon of global contemporary art. Many scholars have addressed the impact of anarchism upon modern art, yet such studies tend to stop […]
The Revenge of the Yankees: How Social Gospel became Social Justice
Probably one of the best discussions of “culture war” politics and related socioeconomic factors I have seen to date. The Red Tribe/Blue Tribe conflict is less about socialism vs. capitalism, or communism vs. fascism, and more a continuation of the historic American battles between the high churches and […]
The ZIP Codes That Rule America
By Michael Lind, Tablet The real divide isn’t between red states and blue states or cities and rural areas. It’s between mega-rich political donors and everyone else. Before the recent election gave President-elect Joe Biden a solid majority of the Electoral College, some fretful Democrats worried that it […]
The New National American Elite
By Michael Lind, Tablet In the third decade of the 21st century, the Social Register still exists, there are still debutante balls, polo and lacrosse are still patrician sports, and old money families still summer at Newport. But these are fossil relics of an older class system. The […]
Biden administration ditches May obligation to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
That didn’t take long. The Pentagon says the Biden administration will not commit to a full withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by May after it accused the Taliban of not honoring the commitments they made in their deal with the United States.
Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez: Campaign Finance Summary
In other words, the rising sectors of the ruling class: the tech oligarchy and the new clerisy. Antony Sutton would have said, “I told you so.” “These were the top campaign contributors to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2019-2020. An interesting combination of Big Tech, Big Media, a little Big […]
How America Changed During Donald Trump’s Presidency
BY MICHAEL DIMOCK AND JOHN GRAMLICH, Pew Research Center Donald Trump stunned the political world in 2016 when he became the first person without government or military experience ever to be elected president of the United States. His four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in […]
Kick the Puppy S2: E4
Keith, Emma & RJ Game Stop vs Wall Street, Robinhood, micro-revolts in the United States, Dodger Stadium’s COVID-19 vaccination site temporarily shut down after protesters gather at entrance, Robinhood was supposed to be for the little guy, Citadel, aristocrats pretending to be friends with the peasants, rich people […]
War is Not a Queer Right
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Even a bitter Queer curmudgeon like myself has to begrudgingly admit that we’ve come a long way, baby. I don’t know if I can join the chorus of pretty pink-washed celebrities in singing “It gets better!” After all, […]
Fallout From Insurrection 2021
Ken Klippenstein, investigative reporter at The Intercept, Post, joins Emma Vigeland to discuss the fallout from the failed Capitol insurrection in terms of our national security and law enforcement agencies, as well as a potential expansion of indiscriminate terrorism laws to domestic terrorists, and why that’s problematic.
After 20 Years: A Lot Has Happened Since 2001
I recently wrote about how January has been the 20 year anniversary of the founding of Attack the System. It is interesting to reflect on what has happened in the subsequent two decades. In 2001, the US empire was arguably at its apex, firmly in control of a […]
The Myth of the Private Sector, Part I: Why Big-Small and Vertical-Horizontal Trumps “Public-Private”
I generally agree with the framework Carson outlines in this. It is for these reasons that I abstain from the mainstream “capitalism vs socialism” or “big government vs private sector” debate, although Carson himself usually ends up taking the positions of a functional social democrat/anarcho-Democrat like the right-libertarians […]
Why Online Dems Hate Jimmy Dore! w/ Glenn Greenwald
For decades, I advocated that anarchists move in a direction more like pan-secessionism. And now some anarchists have picked up the torch. I advocated for a libertarian-influenced insurgency, and now the Boogaloo Boys have picked up the torch. I advocated for a rapprochement between the radical left and […]
Capitalism’s Just-So Stories
An interesting essay on economic history from Kevin Carson. I’ve found that it’s possible to make interesting comparisons and find interesting parallels between different public intellectuals. I’ve said before that Noam Chomsky is the Bertrand Russell of our time, the elder left-liberal icon whose ideas range from the […]
Why Does the F-Word Matter So Much?
A somewhat interesting discussion of different perspectives on both Trump and historic fascism from a hard-left perspective. The debate still churns among scholars and political commentators: “is this fascism?” Trump has ignited public interest in the decades-long and unresolved historical debate about the specific characteristics of fascism as […]
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