Socialdem. 21st Century

Here:[embedded content]Comments:(1) it’s a shame President Trump is shifting to Neocon-style agitprop on Iran, though admittedly he was always hawkish-sounding on Iran during the campaign. I hope sense prevails here, rather than another war in the Middle East.Trump was elected partly because of his promise to reject Neoconservative militarism and nation-building. This is what made him such a remarkable candidate. He must resist the demands to attack Iran from the usual suspects in the region...

Of course, it is well known that hot money inflows and financial deregulation in the 1970s caused a disaster in Latin America, since, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Paul Volcker’s quasi-monetarist experiment and hiking of US interest rates caused a debt crisis in Latin America that broke their economies in terrible ways. (A phenomenon which, incidentally, was a forerunner of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997–1998.)But I am not concerned with that here. This post is concerned with the...

At the University of California, Berkeley:[embedded content][embedded content][embedded content]This precisely confirms what I said in my last post.You can bet that tons of these far left idiots think Milo is Literally HitlerTM, even though Milo – for anybody who has taken the time to understand him – is gay, Jewish critic of cultural leftism, who sometimes speaks the language of cultural libertarianism, and at other times of civic nationalism.For instance, Milo, whatever you think of him,...

Replace “Liberalism” with “Neoliberalism,” Rod:[embedded content]And it’s not the end of Neoliberalism. To borrow from Churchill: it’s not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. I think the collapse will come fast, maybe in a few years.This is a very good thing indeed. We’ve seeing the collapse of the rotten Neoliberal world order that has dominated our world since about the late 1970s.You would think many more people on the left and...

Here:[embedded content]Instead of the lame question at the end, somebody should have challenged this charlatan and fraud to answer the following questions:(1) So, Mr Friedman, I cannot help but notice how you utterly botched the history of US immigration in the first few minutes. Don’t you know that before 1914 there were plenty of legislative acts that severely restricted immigration into America, as we can see here. So were you just ignorant of this, or lying?(2) Your contention that free...

Just have a 40 year moratorium on *all* Third World mass immigration of people who want to permanently live in the US. It’s that simple.Of course, you don’t need to ban vetted students or tourists, or people who might be temporarily employed for some job that can’t be done by a US citizen. Nor do you need to ban immigration invoking cultural exchanges, scientific research, or limited and reasonable asylum for people who are culturally compatible and genuinely fleeing persecution, especially...

Note well what Trump says here:[embedded content]“Sometimes you have to fuel the well in order to really get the economy going.”I sense huge deficits are on the way, even if Trump makes some politically-motivated cuts here and there to government spending. And just as I predicted here, the way to sell it to the public is by saying that it’s all about rebuilding the military and patriotism.We all know that the Republicans have a fetish for balanced budgets and deficit hawk hysteria. They...

It’s simple: the working class – and even a significant part of the non-cosmopolitan middle class that might vote for the Left – has always had a degree of cultural, ethnic and nationalist feelings, while the modern Left has bizarrely ejected all these thing out of leftist politics and engaged in the deranged fantasy that these things don’t matter at all. And yet, at the same time, the working class is supposed to function as the political base of the Left, a totally unworkable and absurd...

Here:[embedded content]This is a textbook case of how deranged and insane the modern cultural left is, and how these people simply cannot and will not understand modern Neoliberal capitalism. These people are basically just bigots and regressive left charlatans who only wish to blame European “racists” for everything that they don’t like.Look at the nonsense:(1) at 3.31–3.47, he says *explicitly* that modern legal and illegal immigration into America is “the same as the forced immigration...

An interesting audio discussion here:John Harrison, “Why Did the Left Get into Bed With Neoliberalism?,” Brave New World, 20 January, 2017.This is actually a pretty general discussion here, with an interesting overview of Keynesian economics and a brief discussion of mass immigration at the end.First of all, Steve Keen seems to take the line that only the economic hardships caused by neoliberalism lead to popular opposition to mass immigration. This is untrue. The Old Left before the 1960s...