Socialdem. 21st Century

I don’t identify as Alt Left myself, but this Alt Left Facebook Page seems quite interesting, and free from some of the strange stuff I have seen on the Alt Left: Alternative Left, https://www.facebook.com/alternativeleft/I think there is now a sensible Alt Left that has managed to divorce itself from the more extreme original movement.It would be nice to have some Old Left (which can also be called the “Realist Left”) Facebook pages or social media forums too. I am now tempted to try and...

This is a major myth pushed by the cultural left and regressive left these days: that Spain in the period of Muslim rule was some kind of multicultural paradise and beacon of Enlightenment in Dark Age Europe. That myth is completely shattered by this book:Fernandez-Morera, Dario. 2016. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain. ISI Books, Wilmington, Deleware. See this interview of Dario Fernandez-Morera here:[embedded content]See...

Bill Mitchell sketches his views on international speculative capital movements here:“… I do not think that the imposition of country-by-country capital controls is the best way to eliminate the destructive macroeconomic impacts of rapid inflows or withdrawals of financial capital.If we consider that the only productive role of the financial markets is to advance the social welfare of the citizens – that is, advancing public purpose – then it is likely that a whole range of financial...

What happens when you leave the case against mass immigration or even against plain illegal immigration to libertarians?:[embedded content]As you can see, they will push their absurd libertarian narrative, with small government, toxic free market capitalism, and anti-welfare state positions, and in the process giving an unjustified credibility to these views, just because they correctly speak for many people’s strong feelings against mass immigration.As usual, the stupid cultural left is...

Here is Alexander Hamilton, one of the American founding fathers, discussing his view that the United States needed strong social cohesion through nationalism:“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family.The opinion...

Here:[embedded content]Yes, it is true that the Old Left was, broadly speaking, socially conservative, and certainly by modern standards. They did have their Bohemian fringe as well, however.But it remains true, for example, that, as late as the time of Clement Attlee’s premiership in Britain, the UK Labour party continued to support the illegality of abortion and homosexual acts, and the government itself did not even abolish the death penalty (despite a movement within the party for the...

Right here:[embedded content]So now mere basic truths expressed in words are politically incorrect, and we can’t even use them. Will it be a thought crime to call corporate criminals “criminals” soon, because it hurts their feelings?

See here.According to Owen Smith, Labour must be strongly “pro-immigration” even if it means “shedding votes to UKIP.” He’s also going full SJW, apparently endorsing quotas for women and ethnic minorities.What is there even to say about this?This would mean the final collapse of the Labour party into a middle-class, pro-mass immigration, SJW, multiculturalist party – possibly even still pro-EU, despite the Brexit vote, which will all show the final and contemptible betrayal of the working...

I am getting a bit tired of American liberals or leftists making up lies about the history of their country in the comments section on American history. These American liberals are saying that America was always open to immigrants from any background whatsoever and always a massive melting-pot that welcomed them as citizens.Now is that true?Why is it, then, that the first United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 says this?:“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives...

Exhibit A:[embedded content]So here Gary Johnson just repeats the lie that Trump said all Mexicans or all Mexican illegals are rapists, which even Salon admits just wasn’t true.Exhibit B:[embedded content]Oh my god, so national borders and any kind of effective immigration control are “racist”? The very idea that people illegally in your country, who have clearly broken the law, should be deported – even that is unacceptable and “racist”? Isn’t this the same rubbish you’d expect from an...