Socialdem. 21st Century

The most crazed and unhinged anti-Trump ad I have ever seen in this unusually unhinged campaign, run some months ago by the Citizen Super PAC, which is connected to the Republican party:[embedded content]If there was a recent Republican administration whose international violence and war crimes evoked memories of Nazi Germany, then it was most certainly the administration of George W. Bush, whose Neoconservative warmongers were responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, torture,...

… can be seen right here in the modern regressive left at the University of Cape Town:[embedded content]More discussion here.Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left BlogRealist Left on YouTubeLord Keynes on FacebookSocial Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern LeftAlt Left on the Internet:Alternative Left on FacebookAlt-Left on Google+Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube ChannelSamizdat: For the Freedom...

Wicksellian loanable funds theory still lies at the heart of neoclassical economics.This was developed by Knut Wicksell. Wicksellian monetary theory was widely accepted in the period before Keynes’ General Theory, and indeed Keynes himself accepted the natural rate of interest in the Treatise on Money.The real natural rate of interest lies at the heart of Wicksell’s version of loanable funds theory to equilibrate saving and investment, and links Wicksell’s capital theory with his monetary...

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Here:[embedded content]I agree. The attempt to provoke conflict in Syria with Russia has to be the single most outrageous and dangerous policy being pushed by Clinton.Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left BlogRealist Left on YouTubeLord Keynes on FacebookSocial Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern LeftAlt Left on the Internet:Alternative Left on FacebookAlt-Left on Google+Samizdat Broadcasts...

In this kind of thing here, which is now all over the media.So now Trump stands accused of being an anti-Semite, apparently because of this speech in West Palm Beach, Florida?:[embedded content]These accusations are pathetic, and a new low in this presidential campaign.Exactly how Trump can be anti-Semitic when he’s taken some of the most pro-Israel positions of any American presidential candidate ever remains a mystery (see also here and here).More than this, Ivanka Trump (Trump’s own...

The YouTube personality Sargon of Akkad analyses the American presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton below. Food for thought.[embedded content]Responses?You cannot help but notice that some of the worst people on the American political spectrum hate Trump: namely, libertarians, Neoconservatives, free trade conservatives, the free trade liberals, the neoliberal Democrats, liberal interventionists, and the regressive left. Say what you like about him, but Trump is anti-establishment and...

Note well: I am all in favour of the welfare state – a generous, decent, and humane one. But there is a terrible threat to the welfare state under the current system of neoliberalism and open borders.Take Europe as an example.The threat comes from the following factors:(1) market economies do not automatically adjust to full employment. The governments of Western Europe – in thrall to neoclassical economics and neoliberal insanity – refuse to use fiscal policy to create full employment. The...

An important interview on the ongoing attempts to create conflict between the US and Russia:[embedded content]Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left BlogRealist Left on YouTubeLord Keynes on FacebookSocial Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern LeftAlt Left on the Internet:Alternative Left on FacebookAlt-Left on Google+Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube ChannelSamizdat: For the Freedom Loving LeftistI’m...

Here:[embedded content]It doesn’t seem like the Trump tape hurt him much, if we go by this.I couldn’t help notice the favourable references to Bernie Sanders by Trump. Part of a strategy to placate the Bernie Bros??But I have to laugh at Trump from 34.58 bashing Canadian single payer health care, given how he was *in favour of something like it* until (apparently) just a few years ago:[embedded content]What Trump would put in Obamacare’s place is unclear, but he does seem to be making noises...