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Want to know why the Populist Right is rising in Europe?

[embedded content]For christ’s sake, I have genuine sympathies for real refugees (especially women and children), but what country could tolerate this level of lawlessness without serious political consequences? If you want to know why the Sweden Democrats, the Danish People’s Party, the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), the Freedom Party in Austria, the French National Front and UKIP are soaring in popularity, then look no further.A breakdown of law and order like this is what angers people and...

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Open Borders within and into Europe is a Disaster for Social Democracy

And I hope more and more left-wing people can see this now. Look at some of the news from Europe in recent days. This in Sweden is just a recognition of reality.Unfortunately, people in Sweden and throughout the EU have failed to realise that the evidence is strong that most of the migrants coming into Europe this year are not genuine refugees, but merely economic migrants. Europe cannot take in 1 million or 1.5 million people a year for the foreseeable future when most of these people are...

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Steve Keen on Austrian Economics

Steve Keen gives an interesting lecture below on the Austrian school of economics.[embedded content]Some critical points: (1) it is an oversimplification to say that Austrians do not support equilibrium as the essential feature of a capitalist economy (see 2.20 onwards), though admittedly there is some balance in this point later on. In fact, it is really only the stream of Austrian economics connected with Ludwig Lachmann that questions whether a tendency to general equilibrium is a feature...

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When the Left becomes a Laughing Stock

Trigger warningIt’s hard to even read this news story here. Even the politically correct UK Independent newspaper – well known for political correctness – appears to find it too much.It’s worse than this: it is unhinged. This is the result of 30 years of Postmodernist charlatanry, extreme identity politics, political correctness and that peculiar sub-species of Postmodernism called Postcolonialism.People are laughing their asses off at the left, and with good reason.The left is just turning...

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Sit Back. Relax. Meditate. Contemplate. THINK. Trip Out. And Enjoy..... SHARE THIS VIDEO!! ~Watch in HD FULL SCREEN~ Subscribe! 'Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for 'fair use' for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use'...

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A Bibliography of Critiques of Postmodernism

For those of you who want a good list of critical analyses and critiques of Postmodernism.General Critiques Dennett, Daniel. 1998. “Postmodernism and Truth,” Butterflies and Wheels http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2003/postmodernism-and-truth/Detmer, David. 2003. Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth. Humanity Books, Amherst, N.Y.Devaney, M. J. 1997. ‘Since at least Plato …’ and Other Postmodernist Myths. St. Martin’s Press, New York.Ellis, John M. 1989. Against...

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Keith Windschuttle on the Postmodernist Perversion of History

Keith Windschuttle is the author of the fascinating book The Killing of History: How a Discipline is being murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists (1994) and an insightful critique of Foucault’s history (Windschuttle 1998). I don’t agree with everything here (e.g., the introductory remarks on British imperialism), but nevertheless there are some very good points.[embedded content]Also, before people spew forth ad hominem fallacies, I’ll well aware that this gentleman is a...

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All Cultures and Cultural Ideas are not Equal

This is simply another bizarre and manifestly false idea that has infected the left from Postmodernism.I can refute it in less than 500 words.Take the culture of Nazi Germany or modern neo-Nazism: The traits of Nazi German culture: racism, authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, hatred of Roma gypsies, extreme Social Darwinism, and German racial supremacism. If you seriously think all cultures are equal in every respect, then it follows directly that you must believe that Nazi culture...

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Sweden Democrats Most Popular Party in Sweden

A recent YouGov poll for Sweden suggests that the populist right-wing party the Sweden Democrats might get about 26.7% of the vote in Sweden if an election were held now. That makes it the most popular party in Sweden today. The once great Swedish Social Democratic Party got just 21.4%. If one looks carefully at the figures here and compares them with the 2014 election (available in that same link), it would appear that many voters are abandoning the Social Democratic Party for the Sweden...

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