Socialdem. 21st Century

That is the state of affairs in Britain today, as it made clear by a UK government report headed by Sir Eric Pickles, as reported here, here, and here, reporting on the widespread voting fraud and corruption within certain immigrant ethnic communities in Britain.The original report is here.Of the worst abuses is the systematic misuse of postal voting:“70. Postal voting on demand attracted the greatest degree of comment from respondents. It was considered by some to be the UK’s main electoral...

What would an anarcho-capitalist America run on lines imagined by Rothbard or Hoppe look like? We have their vision described here, here, and here.On the one hand, it would be an economic catastrophe, as the mixed capitalist economy that has been the foundation of US prosperity since the 1940s would be destroyed, and a depression would ensure. As all barriers to trade and capital movement would be removed, the collapse of manufacturing and industry would be accelerated as free trade under...

In fact, he goes so far as to say he doesn’t even consider some Postmodernist ideas or criticisms even left-wing at all. Chomsky also refers to Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont’s book Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (New York, 1998), which tears to pieces the charlatanry of the Postmodern attack on the natural sciences.See the video:[embedded content]Chomsky is correct. Postmodernism was an invasive, disastrous blight on the left, overthrowing a lot of important...

From Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things they Don’t Tell you about Capitalism:“Here are the profiles of two developing countries. You are an economic analyst trying to assess their development prospects. What would you say?Country A: Until a decade ago, the country was highly protectionist, with an average industrial tariff rate well above 30 per cent. Despite the recent tariff reduction, important visible and invisible trade restrictions remain. The country has heavy restrictions on cross-border...

As can be seen from this and this on the disaster of ethnic voting fraud in the UK.In continental Europe, we have things like this, this and this.And then we have the outrage of children raped and abused by immigrant gangs on an industrial scale in the UK. The full facts on this can be read in Peter McLoughlin’s Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal (New English Review Press, London, 2016), or summarised in these videos:[embedded content][embedded content]The fact that the UK...

It seems this diagram always provokes more criticisms. The last complaint is that there needs to be a line from Marxism (I assume via Michał Kalecki) to Post Keynesianism.So now we have this third version, which needs to be opened in a separate window: However, the link to Marxism should not be exaggerated. It is important to remember that Michał Kalecki rejected the labour theory of value (LTV), and we know this from the Polish Marxist economist Włodzimierz Brus, who knew Kalecki personally...

Ralph Nader, a great man of the American left, discusses American politics with the Paleoconservative and populist Patrick Buchanan, in an older but very thought-provoking interview here.What is remarkable here is how much agreement there is in this interview.There is a real sense in which America might be able to get a mass, populist movement against neoliberalism, if people on the right and left could put aside certain differences and unite beyond a political figure who combines the best...

I was pleased to see my older diagram used here in a critique of Noah Smith.Some people pointed out that Knut Wicksell, given his influence, needs to be included in the diagram. That is true.So I have revised the diagram as follows (open in a separate window to see it properly): I have included Knut Wicksell, the American School (Henry C. Carey and Alexander Hamilton), Georg Friedrich List, the Birmingham School, the Stockholm School, and Karl Polanyi and Primitivism.On Knut Wicksell, see...

I mean a Left not made useless by neoliberalism, identity politics, French Poststructuralism, Marxism, Postmodernism, cultural and moral relativism, extreme multiculturalism, the cult of open borders, and the bizarre excesses of SJW nonsense.Some things spring to mind:Reformed Left (well, obviously… ) Rational Left New Left? Alternative Left Old Left Uncucked Left (this is nothing but a *joke*, people… ) Realist Left Sane Left 21st Century Left. Of course, “New Left” is already taken (e.g.,...

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