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Nexus X HumectressAn-com Wayne Price on post-capitalism. I should probably point out that NONE of the perspectives I have posted here recently care for my position. Not Price, not Carson, not WSA, not LibCom, not Anarkismo, and not orthodox libertarians. I’m generally too libertarian for the libsocs/libcoms/an-syns/an-coms, and “too left” […]
Carson replies to Wayne Price By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Wayne Price’s overall summary of my approach in Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (also available online) is quite even-handed and fair (unlike some others, e.g. the critique of Markets Not Capitalism, ed. by Charles Johnson […]
An-com Wayne Price critiques Carson’s individualist-anarchism. By Wayne Price Anarchist Library Kevin Carson is attempting to resurrect anarchist economic theory. This is interesting because most current anarchist political economy is speculation about a post-capitalist, post-revolutionary, economy—what it would look like and how it might work. There is little […]
By D. Morse and B. Sousa Anarkismo Have you ever noticed that when you are in an argument you want to have the last word? It often feels like the last word contains its own authority, as if you are the assaulted party and now you have defended […]
The libcoms attack Carson. LibCom.Org Kevin Carson responded to an article in Ideas and Action, the webzine of Workers Solidarity Alliance criticizing C4ss. I am member of WSA and have contributed to Ideas and Action and plan to regularly so I thought I would respond to Carson. I […]
Carson defends himself against the an-syns and bashes paleolibs along the way. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Most of the hatred directed at Center for a Stateless Society these days comes from the paleo-conservatives at Mises.org and LewRockwell.com, and their almost indistinguishable friends on the […]
An anarcho-syndicalist critique of “left-wing market anarchism.” It’s hilarious to see the uber-SJWs at C4SS being accused of being running dogs of capitalism and fascism. As a caveat, I used to belong to the WSA decades and was the local distributor for Ideas and Action. By Greg R […]
An orthodox libertarian critique of Kevin Carson’s “freed market” concept. By Tate Begley Libertarian Papers How accurate is Kevin Carson’s characterization of “freed” markets? Carson, a left-libertarian “free market anti-capitalist,” portrays free markets as so radically different from actually-existing markets that they are almost unrecognizable. In The Homebrew […]
By Jennifer Medina and Robert Gebeloff New York Times The staggering American death toll from the coronavirus, now approaching 100,000, has touched every part of the country, but the losses have been especially acute along its coasts, in its major cities, across the industrial Midwest, and in New […]
This interview with Chomsky is generally pretty good. He calls out the use of the pandemic as a pretext for expanding the surveillance state and the role of “big tech” in facilitating it. But there is one glaring contradiction. He criticizes the US inadequate response to the pandemic […]
Todd Lewis joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss the true issues of oppression and the politics of victimhood.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m pretty sure this place use to be a democracy. Not America. Contrary to what Broadway may have told you, even our saintly Founding Fathers were little more than racist neocons in pantaloons. I’m talking about the fucking […]
The works of Antony Sutton are essential reading for those who want to know how the 20th century’s “managerial revolution” took place, and how it was spread throughout the developed world by global capitalism in a way that transcended national, cultural, ideological, and governmental-structural differences. Sutton tended to […]
Keep in mind that China is a permanent member of the US-created UN Security Council, the World Trade Organization (which manages the global capitalist empire), and the G-20, which the Asian Development Bank has characterized as the steering committee of global capitalism. In other words, China is just […]
By Tim Stickings Daily Mail A JP Morgan study suggests lockdown measures have not only resulted in economic devastation but could have also resulted in more COVID-19 deaths Strict stay-at-home orders put in place in most states to stop the spread two months ago has so far seen nearly […]
Hopefully. By Sabrina Tavernise New York Times Patricia Millner, a nurse in Hershey, Pa., was born the year Dwight D. Eisenhower was re-elected. The economy was booming, and trust was high: When national pollsters began asking the question two years later, about three-quarters of Americans said they trusted […]
Although I am more interested in meta-politics, this is more or less why I tend to hold an eclectic set of views on topical issues.
According to the most recent CDC data, roughly 1 in 3 people who become infected with COVID-19 are asymptomatic. Of people who display symptoms, about 0.4% (about 1 in 250) will die. For people over age 65, 1.3% (about 1 in 77) will die. By Armand Azad CNN […]
I always said the “new fascism” would not be under the guise of national or racial chauvinism but would be wrapped in the banner of “progressive” causes like “safety,” “health,” or “equality.” Where have you been, Antifa? I originally introduced the concept of totalitarian humanism in this article […]
Not bad.
Interestingly, I tested out as a “progressive activist” which is the furthest left of any of the seven categories. This more or less confirms how I have always seen myself, i.e. a generally “far-left” anarchist guy who merely things the SJW/Antifa/anarcho-Democrat types are a bunch of idiots. I […]
Running Ed Snowden as the LP candidate would be a damn good idea. Essentially, it would be a modern version of Eugene V. Debs’ SPUSA campaign from federal prison. By Avens O’Brien Libertarian Republic The Libertarian Party is choosing its nominee for President and Vice President of the […]
Apparently, “democratic centralism” is the one aspect of his time on the “far-left” that Bernie has retained. Along the way, he has apparently sold out to electoralism, and then to liberal-imperialism, and now to neoliberalism itself.
Lizzie the Scamster keeps on conniving. Editor-At-Large of Jacobin magazine, David Sirota, discusses Elizabeth Warren’s pivot on Medicare for All in a bid to try to win Biden’s VP.
The Neoliberal Party’s dream team? Krystal and Saagar discuss reports that Biden has asked Sen. Amy Klobuchar to undergo vetting as his possible running mate.
Yang had the best economic analysis of any of the presidential candidates (not that he really had any competition). But I don’t agree with him and others who are calling for a “federal jobs program.” Reparations from the ruling class, yes. Make work on the king’s and lord’s […]
Don’t give him any ideas. Krystal’s commentary in this is pretty good. She talks about how Team Blue and Team Red have come to literally regard each other as existential enemies. This is the “Flight 93 Election” article from the Claremont Review of Books they are referring to. […]
This is like a parody of Dinesh D’souza’s “Democrats are the real racists” agitprop. Krystal and Saagar discuss Joe Biden’s interview on the Breakfast Club with Charlamagne tha god where Biden says, “If you got a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or for Trump then you […]
Kids die in these places. By Jesse Hyde Rolling Stone In the darkness of early morning, 16-year-old Bruce Staeger lay splayed across his mattress, sleeping soundly for once. Most nights, he would smoke a blunt and crash, but not this one. Lately, his mother had been watching him […]
Of course. The Neoliberal Party doesn’t want a Duterte-lite managing their assets, and they want to deflect the faux populists and faux leftists in the process.
Listen here. Andrew, Jay, Stratty, and Tim sit down with Keith Preston, author of books such as Attack the System, The Tyranny of the Politically Correct, and Beyond the End of History, to have a discussion about different forms of anarchism, his history as an activist, his outlook […]
Breonna Taylor, who was working as an EMT in Kentucky when the coronavirus pandemic started, was reportedly killed after being shot 8 times by police who mistakenly entered her apartment. Her family is filing a lawsuit accusing the officers of wrongful death, excessive force, and gross negligence. Back in March, […]
Notice that the majority of these 37 scumbags are Republicans (plus some corporate Democrats like Mark Warner and Tim Kaine), which shows how seriously they take their rhetoric about “limited government.” And the great man of the people, Bernie Sanders, didn’t even bother to vote on this. By […]
Tom Woods interviews Thaddeus Russell on left-wing support for scientistic therapeutic totalitarianism. Listen here. ————————————————— It’s been quite remarkable to me the extent to which the lockdowns have divided people along ideological lines. A left-wing case against lockdown seems so easy to make and so obvious, and yet […]
It seems like it would be best to just forget about the whole school thing for now.
Sanders seems to have three motivations: 1) he doesn’t want to be seen as a “spoiler” like Ralph Nader; 2) he thinks he might actually be able to exercise influence on a Biden administration, and 3) he probably views this as the equivalent of KPD/SPD unity against the […]
Biden is not going to “hire” Bernie people any more than he is going to hire Trump people. As I said, there are three parties now.
If I had a daughter being born right now, I don’t think I would name her “Karen.” Mika’s comments also need to be considered in light of who her father was. Krystal and Saagar discuss Mika Brzezinski’s tweet that states she is reaching out to Twitter about policies […]
The New York Times’ “dream Cabinet” reaffirms my view that there are now essentially three political parties in the US: neoliberals, Trumpists, and social democrats. Notice how this NYT “dream Cabinet” includes both Democraps and Repugnicans, but all of the figures mentioned are neoliberals. What I see happening […]
Since plenty of Americans, left and right, still seem to be hung up on the Civil War and its legacy, perhaps the following Wikipedia description of the early individualist-anarchist Lysander Spooner’s position on the Civil War would be helpful, i.e. support for the abolition of slavery with parallel […]
Dementia Man is assuming the lead over Orange Man. Trump’s faux economic populism is the only reason he won in 2016. If he can’t hold on to that and allows Biden to win the “economy first” vote, he’s finished. On the economic questions, I’m generally in favor of […]
Kyle calls out the media sector of the new clerisy. This is good.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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