Socialdem. 21st Century

In the video below.[embedded content]Once again, good and bad points. Yes, working class Americans savaged by neoliberalism have a lot to do with the rise of Trump, but so do the issues of regressive left nonsense, political correctness and open borders.Chomsky is also clueless on the EU, just as much of the left.

Steve Keen was interviewed recently on various issues in the video below.[embedded content]

Some observations from Clyde Prestowitz from about 10 years ago on China, but still relevant: “… China has become the location of choice for global manufacturing. This is usually attributed to its low wages. Chinese factory workers today earn 50 cents to $2 an hour and often work long shifts, getting minimal time off for weekends and holidays. But low wages are not the only factor; after all, wages in places like Vietnam, Myanmar, and Africa are even lower. China’s workers are not just...

The list below complements this post and the works are listed in chronological order: Kaufmann, Moritz. 1879. Utopias: Or, Schemes of Social Improvement: From Sir Thomas More to Karl Marx. C. Kegan Paul, London.Cunningham, William. 1879. “The Progress of Socialism in England,” Contemporary Review 34 (January): 245–260.Ely, Richard Theodore. 1883. French and German Socialism in Modern Times. Harper, New York.Rae, John. 1884. Contemporary Socialism. C. Scribner, London.Wicksteed, Philip H....

For once he gets something right when he examines the views of open borders left libertarians and pro-open borders right-wing libertarians: “Let us begin with a proposal made by the editors of the Wall Street Journal, the Cato Institute, the Foundation for Economic Education, and various left-libertarian writers of an ‘open’ or ‘no’ border policy—not because this proposal has any merit, but because it helps to elucidate what the problem is and what needs to be done to solve it.It is not...

The libertarian Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s ideal model for a libertarian society is a “covenantal community” which requires a single property owner (or owners) who owns a whole territory or area and who then leases the right to live within this community to other people. A strict enforcement of a set of laws or rules on everybody is also necessary: “The standard libertarian model of a community is one of individuals who, instead of living physically separated and isolated from one another,...

The chapter from Paul Johnson’s book Intellectuals (1990) criticising Karl Marx can be read here (warning: I’m afraid it’s been reprinted on some idiotic and crazy far right site).But Johnson’s chapter on Marx makes interesting reading.BIBLIOGRAPHY Johnson, Paul. 1990. Intellectuals. Harper & Row, New York.

Gad Saad interviews Bruce Bawer in the video below, the author of numerous books, including The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind (2012).Bruce Bawer’s The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind (2012) is an excellent work examining the rise of Postmodernism in the academy and its development into the Social Justice Warrior (or SJW) catastrophe we see today. I highly recommend this book, even...

[embedded content] The crucial point he makes at the end: Trump and Sanders are appealing to a constituency fed up with 30 years of neoliberalism, free trade, mass unemployment and an economy that doesn’t work for them. Add to that the issue of endless mass immigration, the last fraud of neoliberalism, and regressive left insanity, which naturally Chomsky and the left-wing Democracy Now are totally unwilling to discuss. But, unfortunately, Chomsky gets Trump wrong as well. He wants us to...

Bill Mitchell was recently in Spain and gave this talk below on the Eurozone catastrophe. More details here.Start the video at the 25.00 mark to skip the Spanish introduction.[embedded content]