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Nexus X HumectressGOP Senators try to KILL Columbus Day to stop workers from having too many Holidays
Wow. Someone actually recognizes this. Democrats and Republicans are the left and right wings of the Neo-Feudalism Party.
Big business wants Facebook to CENSOR anti-establishment voices
Well, at least we know which firms to attack during the next wave of uprisings (if we didn’t already). And intra-ruling class conflict is always welcome. It’s also interesting how “hate” has become the new “obscenity.” It shows that the ruling class can always use whatever mores are […]
Decentralist Anarchy versus World Domination Anarchism
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick, The Brilliant “Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it? I do not believe it can be done. The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold […]
To My Critics: My Own Peculiar Albatross
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick Under different circumstances, I would not have brought this issue up so early in my blog, and perhaps would never have brought it up, but the recent mention of me on The Solecast has made me think it is necessary to lay this issue to […]
What ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ Really Mean
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick Invocations of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are extremely common in political discussions. Typically, they are deployed as hopelessly vague terms of abuse or goofy indications of team loyalty, unfortunately including among anarchists, libertarians, and other radicals. I have argued for years that these terms are so […]
Aletheia: How and Why I Was Wrong About So Much, and the Purpose of this Blog
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick I have found a new humility. It was almost four years ago now that I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to this new place I have grown to love. It has been said that urban radical subcultures have a tendency to degenerate into […]
China Begins Brutal Crackdown Under New Law In Hong Kong, Starts Arresting Those Calling For Freedom
China is the global ruling class’ test market in a sophisticated, high-tech state repression. Recall how much praise China received from international opinion leaders for its heavy-handed response to COVID-19 (all the while disseminating fraudulent medical statistics).
Paris 1871, Seattle 2020
This is exactly what Mayor Ed Koch of New York said following the Tomkins Square Park riots in 1988. As I have always said, Trump is just a New York liberal, not a fascist.
The Cuban Revolution in Healthcare
A summary and review of Cuban Health Care; The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz, Monthly Review Press, 2020. Ted Trainer 26.6.2020 This book gives an excellent account of the nature, history and achievements of the Cuban health system. It is fairly lengthy, quite detailed, heavily documented, and easy […]
NSA Dissents From Other Agencies Over Russian Bounty Intel
The NSA is the most secretive, most heavily funded, largest, and most technologically advanced of the 17 US intelligence organizations, i.e. the elite of the “intelligence community.” There is no such thing as egalitarianism among the power elite just as there is no such thing as egalitarianism in […]
Taking Steps Towards a City Without Local Police
This article is 100% spot, at least as far as the local component of the police state is concerned, and far as the “criminal law” aspect of statism is concerned. Of course, even at the local level, we could develop a far more comprehensive critique of statism. The […]
Getting the Police Issue Right
The main limitation of most liberal and left critiques of the police state is that these are primarily limited to dubious killings of civilians, racial disparities, and official forms of “police misconduct” as conventionally defined. And usually, these critiques are limited to the municipal police. That’s a start […]
WHO warns it could take up to 5 years before the coronavirus pandemic is under control
From May 2014. I’ve been thinking this thing was probably going to drag on for years to come. That’s how it was with the Spanish Flu, which lasted for two years, and COVID-19 may last longer because there are more people now and the population is more mobile. […]
The Coronavirus Is Also Spreading a Dark New Era of Neo-Feudalism
The important takeaways from Kotkin’s work are these three basic points: 1) class relations in developed societies are increasingly resembling those in traditional (feudal), early capitalist or “Third World” societies; 2) the oligarchs of the new high-tech industries and financial institutions have replaced the old bourgeoisie as the […]
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
By Jodi Dean Los Angeles Review of Books IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged attachment to capitalism. Communism was supposed to come after […]
A New Book Warns of Our ‘Neo-Feudal’ Future
It’s interesting how class divisions in the US have become so wide that even the right-wing has started to pay attention, which was previously unheard of in the US. Trump got elected on an anti-neoliberal platform. Tucker Carlson often sounds like Bernie Sanders or even Noam Chomsky in […]
Joel Kotkin on the Rise of Neo-Feudalism
Joel Kotkin describes how the “California model” is being applied to the entire world. Kotkin’s analysis is the natural successor to Burnham’s “managerial revolution” thesis.
The West Bank- A Look Behind The Wall
Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with the civil rights groups that sparked a massive Facebook advertising boycott
It’s always great to see an enemy get his comeuppance. And at the hands of his fellow ruling class scumbags no less. The Romans had the Ides of March. Maybe there will be an Ides of July. By Sheila Dang and Katie Paul
Coming Soon to a COVID-19 Infected Theater Near You!
If I were a writer of comedy or absurdist fiction, I don’t think I could come up with anything more ridiculous than the real-life society we actually live in.
Always at War with East Asia
“Another National Defense Authorization Act, another distraction. The media and politicians are going on and on about Confederate names and Republicans stripping a requirement to report foreign election assistance (bc it did so much to keep human rights abusing governments from influencing US dEmOcRaCy ). Meanwhile, the bill […]
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Seattle Police begin dismantling CHOP area after mayor issues executive order
If it’s any consolation, the Paris Commune didn’t turn out so well either.
Police Reform “Unlikely” Laments CNN (Told You So)
I disagree with some of the philosophical premises that Styx is arguing from in this, but much of his factual analysis is correct. He offers some advice that is worth heeding.
Prof Richard Wolff: “Downright Silly” To Call US A Free Market System
As Joel Kotkin has said, what we have now is not socialism or capitalism but neo-feudalism, which is something that Marxists, Nazbols, social democrats, libertarians, ancaps, national-anarchists, and left-anarchists ought to be able to agree on.
Anti-eviction protests ends with arrests, window smashed at downtown Richmond courthouse
Nice work. A small gesture, but every little bit counts. BY C. SUAREZ ROJAS Richmond Times-Dispatch An anti-eviction rally and protest march ended with arrests and a smashed window at the John Marshall Courthouse in downtown Richmond on Wednesday. Following the rally at the courthouse plaza and a […]
St. Louis man who went viral defending his property speaks out on ‘Tucker’
If opinion leaders, activists, “radicals,” BLMs, etc. are wise they will outspokenly oppose the criminal prosecution of these two. The last thing that needs to happen is for public support for repression to increase, for inter-tribal warfare to escalate, or for Red State/conservative middle-class Falangists to emerge. The […]
America’s decline: More like Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome?
It’s important to remember that the modern American Empire is really just an extension of the British Empire, only the capital was moved from London to Washington. I’d argue (in fact, I think it’s indisputable) that the Anglo-American (Atlanticist) Empire is simply the Roman (Mediterranean) Empire of the […]
Will the Neocons Bait, Turn, Switch, and Purge the Antifa/SJWs While Suppressing the Lumpenproletariat?
This is important stuff. I recently put a couple of questions concerning current events to a well-known intellectual historian, a Jewish man whose parents fled Hungary during the rise of Hitler, and who is a specialist in the history of 20th-century totalitarian movements. His responses confirmed my suspicion […]
A Practical Solution: Run Police Departments Like Fire Departments
This is probably the best idea for reducing police brutality/unnecessary killings, along with police state intrusions generally. Some libertarians/ancaps suggest replacing public police with private police. They have that in some areas of Latin America, and police are merely mercenaries for the rich (kind of like our public […]
Want to reform America’s police? Look to firefighters
Well, as far as I know, there are no songs called “Fuck the Fire Department.” By Roscoe Scarborough The Conversation Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. The deaths of black youth and men at the hands of police have sparked a nationwide conversation on discriminatory policing practices. Media […]
The End of Policing
Alex Vitale’s book is probably the most comprehensive scholarly work on this topic at present. Thanks to Vince for the summary. – The origin of policing as a control mechanism for the upper class and rich to suppress the lower class and minorities. Strike breaking, enforcement of racial […]
“Why’d they have to end her life?”: Friends of Hannah Fizer look for answers, justice
This woman was shot by a cop who lied and claimed she had a gun when she didn’t. It’s also important to note that this was a white woman in a rural midwestern town. The police state is the enemy of everyone. By Emily Walton Friends, acquaintances and […]
Craig Johnson: Oklahoma police officer dies after traffic stop shooting
I haven’t been able to determine what this shooting was about, but the best way to prevent killings of either civilians or cops is to simply end traffic stops unless they are absolutely necessary, i.e. a clear and present danger to the safety of others is immediately present […]
What’s Going on in CHAZ, the Seattle Autonomous Zone?
By Bridget Read The Cut What is CHAZ? Your ex? Some sort of masked EDM DJ? One of the trolls in Trolls World Tour? CHAZ may be all of these, but it is also the acronym for the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” an area of about six blocks […]
Cops in Riot Gear Stormed a Violin Vigil for Elijah McClain
By Claire Lampen The Cut On Saturday, activists in Aurora, Colorado, convened for a peaceful rally and march to demand justice for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a brutal arrest by local police last August. The event included a violin vigil, a nod to […]
After Police Board President praised police for their restraint, police beat him hours later.
Diaspora 7 Police Board president Ghian Foreman praised the police for their restraint at protests and for not hurting people. The police beat him a few hours later. President of the Chicago Police Board Ghian Foreman said police beat him with a baton. This came just hours after […]
Hundreds of George W. Bush administration officials to back Biden, group says
The Neoliberal Centrist Party circles the wagon with the neocons having successfully colonized the Democrats. By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of officials who worked for former Republican President George W. Bush are set to endorse Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden, people involved in the effort […]
Advice to My Anarchist Comrades – Elisee Reclus (1901)
Progressives Propose 10% Military Cut
Only 10%? At the end of the Cold War, no less than Robert McNamara wanted to reduce the military budget by 50%. “Progressives” are so lame. Kudos to Kyle for calling them out.
Obama privately admits Biden BARELY up to job, tells him to cut interviews short
Some hilarious footage of Biden in this, and a great discussion of what a charlatan Obama is.
SHOCK SCOTUS decision on abortion shows GOP SELLOUT to big business
This is the best analysis of how the Supreme Court actually works that you will ever see in “big media.” The SCOTUS exists to ratify and uphold the class interests of the power elite and the state while deciding social issues on the basis of the prevailing consensus […]
What would “President Hillary Clinton” do to fight the coronavirus pandemic?
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog..That this great king may kindly say, coronavirus go away.” Nelson Oliveira New York […]
Northam extends state of emergency in Richmond, citing ‘civil unrest’;
Ironically, Virginia has a Democratic government that recently passed a bunch of “woke” legislation but is ranked 51st in the country, below the other 49 states and Washington, D.C, on the issue of workers’ rights. Thanks to the northern Virginia suburbs, Virginia is becoming the California of the […]
Amazing ranches for sale to give you a slice of the good life
The crowdfunded purchase of places like this could make for interesting intentional communities and startup societies. By Abi Harman Love Money Surrounded by stunning rural landscapes, these impressive ranches for sale around the world offer an idyllic slice of the good life. From acres of remote rolling land […]
More advertisers flee Facebook as boycott grows
It couldn’t have happened to nicer people. The most ironic thing is that the Facebook boycott is just a virtue-signaling scam by corporations, some of whom use child slave labor in the global South. This would be like the National Socialists denouncing the Catholic Church for its legacy […]
Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All
As an Asian friend of mine once said, “Hey, we can be fuckups, too!” By Viet Thanh Nguyen The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned to Derek Chauvin, his partner, as Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 […]
Statues, Monuments, and Community Self-Determination
If it were up to me, the controversies over statues, monuments, street names, and building names would be decided like this: Every such icon that was located on government property would be considered the collective property of those who currently live in a local community, and who currently […]
Palestinian Life Under Siege – Segregated Identification System
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