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Nexus X HumectressThis is interesting even if it’s pathetically tragic. The neocons have the Democratic Party under their control, which they can use to advance liberal imperialism on a general level through the wider set of institutions that comprise the global capitalist empire (UN, NATO, IMF, World Bank, WTO, G20, […]
The neocon Democratic Party recolonization effort is now complete. The neocons are now fully in control of both parties (if they weren’t before). They even trotted out George W. Bush’s own Tarik Aziz in the person of Colin Powell. The role of the Democrats is advance a hawkish […]
The upper strata proletariat has been destroyed by outsourcing and the global economy and now the petite bourgeoisie has been destroyed by the pandemic-inspired state-induced depression. All that’s left are the ruling class, professional-managerial class, lower proletariat, and lumpenproletariat.
Trump has embraced the FAUX News tactic of attacking everything as “socialism.” Ironically, while it’s fashionable among the chattering classes to compare Trump to Hitler, his supporters are more analogous to Communist voters in Weimar, i.e. traditional working-class folks hit hard economically by the aftermath of WWI and […]
It’s good to see that Americans are tuning out this crap. In addition to their lame politics, MSNBC is also boring as hell. Their commentators are basically the Stepford Wives of neoliberalism and associated nerdboys. At least the Spiro Agnew impersonators at FOX are entertaining in a pro-wrestling […]
The punk rock anarchist ethos of “do it yourself” very much applies the exercise of “class struggle” in the present world economy. The objective should be to agitate for more and more zones of economic and political autonomy. By Mark Frazier Progress.Org The rapid technological and economic changes […]
Regrettably, progressives, social democrats, and Communists are just as “reactionary” and “backward” as anyone on the right. While social conservatives may want to turn black the clock to the social norms of the 1950s, the “left” wants to return to the economic policies of the 1950s (and, apparently, […]
This book explains how traditional nation-states that have their roots in the Treaty of Westphalia and came into full fruition in the 19th era of classical liberal are largely being absorbed into a transnational framework in which other institutions assume a hegemonic position. The “populist-nationalist” movements that have […]
This book is not perfect by any means, but it’s the best academic work for explaining how the global capitalist empire actually works. It is important for radicals to avoid both the anti-Eastern propaganda perpetrated by Western elites, and the view that the East is somehow an alternative […]
I agree with much of Lind’s analysis but his solutions seem a bit implausible. He calls for strengthening labor unions and religious institutions, the two institutions that are arguably the most in decline at present. His general economic paradigm amounts to “economic nationalism” (mercantilism), i.e. the standard “let’s […]
The discussion of the actual politics of Weimar in this is important. The real backers of the National Socialists were the managerial classes and ideas industries of Weimar, in collusion with sectors of the industrial class and the military, in the same way our educated elites, tech-oligarchs, and […]
Anyone who wants to understand social class in modern America (and the modern West generally) has to read Joel Kotkin, Sam Francis, Michael Lind, Paul Fussell, and David Brooks’ writings on “bourgeois bohemians.” ——————————————— Joel Kotkin’s latest book is now available at Amazon. Our society is being rapidly […]
It is interesting how the totalitarian humanist ideology is largely replacing mainline Protestantism (like Episcopalianism) as the dominant religion of the WASP upper middle class, and is even finding its way into traditionally “conservative” religious denominations like the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, and even non-denominational “low […]
The founding generation of Americans during the revolutionary period were not especially religious. The leadership was comprised mostly of nominal Anglicans, lukewarm or lapsed adherents of the Reformation churches, deists, Freemasons, and (probably) some closet atheists. A few, like Patrick Henry, were low church pietists associated with the […]
The United States has always been an unusually religious nation for an advanced industrial society. Other nations with comparable levels of advancement in Western Europe, East Asia, and Oceania are generally far less religious. But that seems to be changing. However, it is a coincidence that totalitarian humanism […]
By Joe Pinsker The Atlantic During the past five months, many prognosticators have prognosticated about how the coronavirus pandemic will transform politics, work, travel, education, and other domains. Less sweepingly, but just as powerfully, it will also transform the people who are living through it, rearranging the furniture […]
This is a pretty “liberal” vs “conservative” discussion on race issues. Watch Braver Angels’ July 22 American Public Forum event on the data surrounding Systemic Racism. Featuring Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University Wilfred Reilly and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grand Dominion University Roderick […]
This is a must-watch. These fellows discuss how totalitarian humanism is a type of secularized Christian moralism that is primarily rooted in the upper-middle class. The “social justice camp” that Coleman Hughes describes sounds like something out of the “Jesus camp” movie. I remember the days when totalitarian […]
With Biden and Harris on the ticket, the Democraps have arguably moved to the right of Trump, or are at least in a dead heat with Trump in terms of who is most “far-right.”
How progressive.
This guy Vaush, a self-identified anarchist/libertarian socialist, seems to epitomize what I call an “anarcho-Democrat.” This is more or less the left-anarchist/anarcho-social democrat version of “Libertarians for Trump.”
Ellison’s comments remind me of what progressives were saying when Bill Clinton was elected in 1992: “We can work with this centrist guy to get all kinds of do-gooder stuff done.” Clinton ended up consolidating the neoliberal “Reagan Revolution,” expanded the Nixon-Reagan-Poppy Bush police state, continued Poppy’s war […]
This is a pretty good critique of MSNBC, which is basically a technocratic neoliberal version of the Communist Party.
As I have said before, we really have three political parties: the neocon/neoliberal party (with two factions, the Pelosi Democrats and McConnell Republicans), the Trumpist party (mostly Trump, his immediate circle of family and friends, and his general base of voters), and the social democratic party (the Bernie/AOC […]
Are recent events having a Nixon ’68 effect?
#militiamenaretherealantiracists By Charles Davis Business Insider
A New York mafia family (the Trumps) vs a DC-based criminal gang (the FBI).
Obama sounds like he was the typical status-seeking yuppie who happened to make it to the CEO position.
Trump realizes he needs the libertarian vote so Democraps become jingoists.
Totalitarian humanists attack a gay leftist professor.
The white middle-class do-gooders at DSA disown a black man who actually grew up under Jim Crow and is an accomplished Marxist academic.
US intelligence: “No matter which of these scumbags wins, it’s someone else’s fault. Our leaders are cretins because all these foreigners keep causing trouble. Our own ruling class couldn’t possibly be doing anything wrong.” By Kevin Breuninger CNBC Russia is trying to “undermine” presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s […]
This study is quite interesting, although the term “anarchist” is being used metaphorically to describe generically “anti-establishment” views. The “real enemy,” at least in developed countries, is the neoliberal center, which is why friends of neoliberal centrism keep fanning the flames of hysteria about the supposed rise of […]
The most powerful state in the world is also the most violent and dangerous (big picture-wise). Gee, who would’ve thought? It’s not necessary to mislabel American power elites as fascists, communists, or any other cultic ideology that came out of the 19th and 20th centuries. The USA simply […]
Marx actually referred to indigenous peoples like the Native Americans, Scottish highlanders, and Basques, along with hunter-gather societies and native tribes in the colonial era generally, as “non-historical peoples.” Russell Means’ autobiography is a great read. He writes about, among many other things, getting into armed confrontations with […]
The true test of whether an individual, movement, ideology, organization, or government is authentically anti-imperialist is their stance on indigenous peoples’ rights. Virtually every regime in the world, even the most liberal ones, have awful histories and policies on indigenous peoples’ issues. By Annette Ruzicka The Guardian
The sentiment behind this image is well-taken although most people in “traditional” societies didn’t live in the manner depicted. Most people lived the way people in the least developed countries live today.
I’m sure most ATS readers are sophisticated enough to understand that legitimate popular rebellions against authoritarian regimes can take place, only to be turned into so-called “color-coded revolutions” hijacked by the imperial overlords and bent toward the overlords’ own purposes. This has happened in countries all over the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Donald Trump is the worst president in American History! That seems to be the downright unanimous opinion of every left wing wonk from here to Noam Chomsky, and I might have a bit more respect for the view […]
The English anarchist who tried to assassinate Francisco Franco. There were actually factions on both sides of the Spanish Civil War for which I have some degree admiration, such as the anarchists on the Left and the Carlists on the Right. Although the anarchists could often be a […]
My general view of liberal and left welfarist proposals is pretty much the same as my view of conventional conservative and libertarian “tax cut” proposals. Medicare for All is not something I am going to go to the barricades for (whether in support or opposition) but I wouldn’t […]
What an idiot. At least Sean Hannity and Noam Chomsky finally agree on something, lol.
Bars and restaurants are one of the largest sectors of the economy in terms of lower-level working-class employment.
“Let them eat cake.”
LOL. The banskers are happy with Princess Kamala.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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