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Nexus X HumectressNational-Anarchism and Zen Buddhism
By Troy Southgate I don’t find it too far-fetched to claim that National-Anarchism is having the kind of impact – beneath the radar, in most cases – that Zen has had on Buddhism. When the purity of the latter was brought into question after its dissection into two […]
She Really Doesn’t Need to Be So Diligent
“ID T-Shirts” Will Probably Be Mandatory at Some Point
Giving a New Meaning to “Taking a Knee”?
At least in this case the cops involved were immediately fired rather than having the higher-ups cover for them. It remains to be seen if they will be criminally prosecuted. The first question I always ask about a case like this is “Would a civilian get away with […]
Japan Ends Coronavirus Emergency With 850 Deaths and No Lockdown
By Jason Lemon Newsweek Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced the end of his state of emergency declaration for the novel coronavirus pandemic, with just 851 deaths reported and without ever implementing a lockdown.
Ruling Classes, Old and New
Karl Hess, 1923-1993
𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝑲𝒂𝒓𝒍 𝑯𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒚 25, 1923
The World’s 25 Richest Billionaires Have Gained Nearly $255 Billion In Just Two Months
By Jonathan Ponciano Forbes The super rich are a whole lot richer than they were two months ago. Twenty five of the wealthiest people on Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires are worth a whopping $255 billion more than when the U.S. stock market hit a mid-pandemic low […]
Minneapolis police, protesters clash almost 24 hours after George Floyd’s death in custody
By Libor Jany Minneapolis Star Tribune Four Minneapolis police officers were fired Tuesday after the detention and death of 47-year-old George Floyd — a scene that unfolded in a Facebook video showing a white officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he pleaded with police, “I can’t breathe.” Floyd […]
Jo Jorgensen Wins Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination
By Bryan Doherty Reason In a day-long virtual meeting, after four ballots, the 1,035 delegates assembled for the Libertarian Party’s online convention selected Jo Jorgensen as their presidential candidate. She won with slightly over 51 percent of the vote (not every delegate voted in every round) on that […]
FALLOUT GROWS from Biden’s ‘you ain’t black’ moment, Diddy, Charlamagne weigh in
This dude is as narcissistic as Trump which is quite an accomplishment. Krystal and Saagar discuss Charlamagne Tha God’s interview with Joy Reid, saying that we should not place the burden on black voters to show up for Joe Biden, but put the burden on Biden to show […]
A Lot of Supposedly Anti-Government People are Only Anti-Western Governments
This is some pretty good commentary. I disagree with some of this but I do agree that the state everywhere is the enemy. Although some of his arguments would be stronger if he embraced Hardt and Negri’s “Empire” thesis.
Marianne Williamson endorses against Dem leadership, warns of ‘end to Democratic party’
Marianne moves to the left of AOC. Interesting. Although endorsing social democrats rather than neoliberals is not exactly revolutionary.
Ann Coulter accuses Trump of BETRAYAL on Sessions, is she right?
This is funny as hell. Jeff Sessions was one of the first RepubliCONS to opportunistically attach himself to Trump in 2016, only to be used, abused, and discarded by the Orange Man. Saagar Enjeti discusses the significance of Trump’s endorsement of Tommy Tuberville, who hired the chief GOP […]
Kyle Kulinski and Cenk Uygur fight over ‘moral superiority’ of Biden choice
I actually feel somewhat sorry for folks whose vision is so limited that “To vote Biden or not to vote Biden?” actually seems to them to be a profound question. Though I’m glad to see Kyle and Krystal taking the attitude that Biden can go fuck himself. Krystal […]
Lavish Parties, Greedy Pols and Panic Rooms: How the ‘Apple of Pot’ Collapsed
Big Weed. It had to happen. The US is moving away from Prohibition, but only one step down to crony/state-capitalism. True “legalization” or “decriminalization” would simply mean that whoever wants to farms marijuana and sells it whoever wants to buy. Those who want to smoke will smoke and […]
The Rise and Fall of the Bombshell Bandit
A heroine for our time. By Jeff Maysh BBC News Sandeep Kaur pulled on a wig and adjusted her designer sunglasses in her rear-view mirror. June 6, 2014 was a typically sunny afternoon in California’s Santa Clarita Valley and a quiet one, except for the screams of passengers […]
Is this the end of productivity?
People are realizing that wage slavery actually kind of sucks. By Sam Blum VOX Amid the pandemic, workers whose jobs once defined their lives are questioning what it was all for. Nina Rudnick sometimes dreams of an escape. As a director at a psychological research nonprofit, Rudnick, 37, […]
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
Poverty + poor diet + crummy healthcare=more diabetes/circulatory disorders/amputations By Lizzie Presser ProPublica It was a Friday evening in the hospital after a particularly grueling week when Dr. Foluso Fakorede, the only cardiologist in Bolivar County, Mississippi, walked into Room 336. Henry Dotstry lay on a cot, his […]
‘Silence Is Health’: How Totalitarianism Arrives
A description of life under the military dictatorship in Argentina during the 1970s. By Uki Goni New York Review of Books The white supremacists chanting “blood and soil” as they marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 were probably unaware that the leading Nazi ideologue who […]
The Witness
An interesting article about the death penalty in Texas. By Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Part I. Ms. Lyons, Hi, if you are reading this then they killed me. I wanted to tell you that I enjoyed talking to you, you seem like a really great lady. I’m sorry […]
How Bad Would Trump’s 2nd Term Be?
I generally agree with David’s analysis of what Trump’s 2nd term would be like. He would mostly govern like a normal Republican while using his position to attack his rivals in the state, among the politicians, and in the media. For those who care about the Democrat vs. […]
Michael Brooks and Ben Burgis Critique the Intellectual Dark Web
I am not a fan of Jacobin boys like Michael Brooks and Ben Burgis and their left-statist/social-democratic/reformist/Berniebro perspective, but I would have to share their disdain for the “Intellectual Dark Web.” The problem I see with the IDW people who are more leftward in their origins is that […]
How Gov’t is shoring up landlords, debt collectors instead of homeowners
Of course, that’s what government is for. What does anyone expect?
Cuomo Lies, Blames the CDC for Killing Thousands by Sending the Sick to Nursing Homes
Apparently, Andrew Cuomo was shipping COVID-19 victims off to nursing homes. Genius idea, Andrew.
The Case for Not Voting
Kyle takes his stand with the 46%. Between the 46% who either don’t vote or vote third-party, the 67% of voters who constitute the “exhausted majority,” the minority of Blue Tribers and Red Tribers who are tired of the bullshit, and former establishmentarians who see through it all […]
What Progressives need to do to actualize their legislative priorities
This discussion is somewhat interesting but kind of sad. Krystal says her favorite presidents were FDR and LBJ. No surprise there (“Welfare Statism Uber Alles”). For Saager, it’s John Quincy Adams, Lincoln, Grant, and FDR. Sounds rather neoconnish. I guess that’s what passes for “national-populism” nowadays. My favorite […]
“Socialism” is Fine When Rich Folks Do It
The purpose of the state is as follows: 1. Maintaining a monopoly on violence. 2. Monopolizing territory and resources. 3. Exploiting subjections while protecting, enriching, and empowering an artificially privileged elite. 4. Expanding its own power and realm of influence. 5. Maintaining a self-legitimating ideological superstructure.
Monday-Morning-Quarterbacking the Pandemic Response in New York City
My best guess is that virtually everything in this is probably correct. By Nexus X Humectress The following is a thought experiment imagining what the most effective response could have been, keeping in mind that the infection rate is determined by the intensity of exposure to virus particles […]
The Best Way to Honor Fallen Soldiers Is to Stop Sending Troops to War
By Carey Wedler Foundation for Economic Education Every Memorial Day, Americans pay their respects to soldiers who have died while fighting for the US military. Though the good intentions and courage of those who enlist in the armed forces are admirable, the best way to honor those individuals […]
Government: A Leading of Cause of Death
This data is a year old and was compiled by a researcher at PBS. I couldn’t find a credible source with up to date data.
‘The Anarchist Post-Capitalist Vision’
An-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” […]
Individual Autonomy and Self-Determination
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 […]
Kevin Carson’s Revival of Individualist Anarchist Economic Theory
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 […]
An-Coms on An-Syns vs. Freed Market Anarchists
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 […]
Left-Market Rambling
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 […]
In Which the Anarcho-Syndicalists Discover Free-Market Anti-Capitalism
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 […]
A Free Market Fantasy
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 […]
Kevin Carson and the Freed Market: Is His Left-Libertarian Vision Plausible?
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 […]
What the Coronavirus Revealed About Life in Red vs. Blue States
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 […]
A world redrawn: US coronavirus response fatally ‘chaotic,’ says Noam Chomsky
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 […]
Oppression or Bellyache?
Todd Lewis joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss the true issues of oppression and the politics of victimhood.
Proudhon v. Facebook: A Mutualist Solution to Cyber Tyranny
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 Necessary Trilogy
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 […]
China is monitoring employees’ brain waves and emotions — and the technology boosted one company’s profits by $315 million
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 […]
Many US states have seen LOWER infection rates after ending lockdowns that are are now destroying millions of livelihoods worldwide, JP Morgan study claims
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 […]
Will the Coronavirus Kill What’s Left of Americans’ Faith in Washington?
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 […]
The Limitations of Ideology
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.
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