Socialdem. 21st Century

As stated in this Alt Left video here:[embedded content]This principle, then, is important:Alternative Left Politics, so far confined to the internet and social media, centred around advocacy of a program of protecting Western civilization from decline due to an erosion of humanist values caused by regressive leftism.The “regressive left” is a perversion of everything an intelligent, rational and moral left should stand for.The “regressive left” is an outgrow of all the rotten ideas of...

Recently on RT’s Boom Bust:[embedded content]Note well: it’s actually not necessarily a bad thing if the right-wing parties are in power when these debt crises happen in the West, because this will help to discredit neoliberalism and conservative free market theology.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...

In a great and thought-provoking new video here: [embedded content]Some interesting points:(1) will Gary Johnson take more votes from Clinton or Trump?(2) I 100% agree that Trump’s performance crashed as the debate proceeded, and Trump’s best moments were in the first 30 minutes or so on the economy.(3) there does seem to be evidence that the popular perception was that Clinton won the debate. (4) but a very interesting point is this: are the polls skewed by the possibility that a...

The Alternative Left Facebook group seems to be growing quickly, and I am very glad to see this.So I have some suggestions for them to create a coherent political program. First, the Alt Left needs to get a coherent economic theory. This is extremely important. I urge them to read up on why Classical Marxism is a flawed economic theory here, and why Marxism is based on the mystical labour theory of value.At the same time, practically all other economic schools of thought from neoclassical...

See here:[embedded content]Hillary got hammered on the economy. She never clearly committed to rejecting the disaster of free trade, nor even mentioned the issue of free trade or deindustrialisation *except* when Trump raised it and in response to Trump. In the first few minutes, Trump was all over the disaster of free trade and the catastrophe of deindustrialisation, even if he should have concentrated on protectionism rather than corporate tax policy. Trump was completely correct that...

Unhinged identity politics is one of the worst aspects of the modern world, and the worst is on the left.But, you might ask, isn’t every kind of politics a form of “identity politics”? Well, yes, every type of political movement is ultimately based on some kind of identity, but this is really a trivial sense of “identity politics.”Some “identities” and political movements based on them aren’t really a problem, and, generally speaking, tend to be a very positive force in politics, e.g.,(1)...

We can see them right here, but they just haven’t found the Alt Left / Realist Left yet: We can also see them here in the statistics on European youth unemployment for 2015 (i.e., the number of unemployed people from 15 to 24 years old as a percentage of the youth labour force):Greece | 49.8% Italy | 40.3% Spain | 48.4% Portugal | 31.9% Slovak Republic | 26.4% France | 24.7% Belgium | 22.1% Finland | 22.0% Ireland | 20.9% Poland | 20.8% Sweden | 20.3% Hungary | 17.3% Luxembourg | 17.3%...

Steve Keen on the recent outbreak of criticism of neoclassical economics from actual neoclassical economists:[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...

Paul Romer, recently appointed Chief Economist at the World Bank, has a stunning idea for Sweden described here. See the original article here.According to Romer, Sweden should just allow a *completely independent* new state within Sweden, free from Swedish law where millions of migrants can live under their own laws without even being Swedish citizens. In other words, let’s just create a massive No Go Zone right in the middle of Sweden! Because these have worked so well in the rest of the...

Realist Left has a new Realist Left YouTube channel, and this is the great first video:[embedded content]Also, a massive shout out to Realist Left for having done so much brilliant work so quickly, which we’re all grateful for!I look forward to more videos, and to more Realist Left / Alt Left presence on YouTube!In the meantime, please check out the Realist Left / Alt Left here:Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left...