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Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged as some of the most powerful financial entities of the modern world. With assets surpassing $12 trillion, they represent both a promise and a peril: a promise of stability, savings, and development, but also a peril of misuse, corruption, and political entanglement. While some countries have managed their SWFs with discipline, others have fallen victim to abuse, leaving behind cautionary tales. (more…)
Levicová politika jako dobrovolná komodifikace lidské identity – zcela v souladu se zájmy kapitálu.
Levicová politika jako dobrovolná komodifikace lidské identity – zcela v souladu se zájmy kapitálu.
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English original here
Snad jedině slepec by si nevšiml, jak se současná levice svými stále nesmyslnějšími a nesrozumitelnými formami protestu odcizuje vlastním potenciálním voličům takřka spektakulárně. Jistě, halasně odsuzují Trumpa coby fašistu a Brexit jako projev jakéhosi ur-nacionalismu, ale jakou se doopravdy pokoušejí předložit alternativu? (more…)
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Introduction here, Chapter 11 Part 2 here, Chapter 11 Part 4 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Intellectual labor, say Hardt and Negri, is intrinsically associated with sharing and common production. This “common,” consisting in information, knowledge, and emotional and affective relations is both the condition and the result of today’s predominant form of labor — but of course it has nothing to do with what is generally understood under this term. It does not found a community, for it has neither unity nor identity. (more…)
Antonio Negri (left) & Michael Hardt
Antonio Negri (left) & Michael Hardt
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Introduction here, Chapter 11 Part 1 here, Chapter 11 Part 3 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
“The Empire is constructing a biopolitical order because production has become biopolitical,” states Antonion Negri.[i] That means that the emergence of the Empire as a paradigm of biopower is indissociable from the appearance of a new form of production, viz. “immaterial” labor, which is defined by Hardt and Negri as “labor which produces a non-material good such as a service, a cultural product, knowledge, or communication” (more…)
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As the world continues to convulse in economic and military strife, the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia is unlikely to be topping the thoughts of policy makers or the global public. Yet, sometimes by looking at the small details of world politics we can gain huge insights into the coming macro trends. By nature, commentators on the dissident Right tend to think in sweeping concepts such as imperial glory and the battle for global hegemony. (more…)
Barricade of the Communard National Guard, Paris, March 18, 1871.
Barricade of the Communard National Guard, Paris, March 18, 1871.
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Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Introduction here, Chapter 9 Part 2 here, Chapter 10 Part 1 here
The Revolution of 1789 was itself above all a liberal and bourgeois revolution — even “ultra-liberal,” as the very liberal Gaspard Koenig affirms, not failing to celebrate this. (more…)
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Introduction here, Chapter 8 here, Chapter 9 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
The ecologist Fabrice Nicolino, a member of Charlie Hebdo’s editorial board (he was seriously wounded in the Kouachi brothers’ attack in January 2015), declares:
I am nostalgic for a time when people had a place, when men and women were strongly bound. I am nostalgic for a time when rural civilization was not the garbage it is today, a monstrosity that stuffs people with pesticides. (more…)
Jean-Claude Michéa
Jean-Claude Michéa
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Introduction here, Chapter 5 Part 1 here, Chapter 6 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
No doubt we should have expected this. The views developed by Jean-Claude Michéa were not slow to earn him many critiques, mostly directed at two of his books, Orpheus’s Complex and Mysteries of the Left. (more…)
Jean-Claude Michéa
Jean-Claude Michéa
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Introduction here, Chapter 4 Part 2 here, Chapter 5 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
In January 1905, the regulations of the French Section of the Workers’ International, the Socialist Party of the time, still indicated that it was a “class party whose goal was to socialize the means of production and exchange, i.e. to transform capitalist society into a collectivist or Communist society, and that its means to this end was the economic and political organization of the proletariat.” Of course, no “socialist” party would dare say this today. Socialists have mutated into social-democrats and, increasingly, into social-liberals. (more…)
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The one and only Rich Houck was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed Yukio Mishima’s My Friend Hitler — a play about politics, friendship, and doing what is necessary — and answered listener questions, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:04:00 Yukio Mishima’s play My Friend Hitler
00:09:00 Who is Richard Houck?
00:12:00 Nick and Rich reflect on what it means to be a lawyer (more…)
Otto von Bismarck memorial in Berlin
Otto von Bismarck memorial in Berlin
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Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here
The average European is not yet very concerned that his country is slowly sinking in the quicksand of the globalist system. Demographic collapse and deindustrialization are truly deadly threats, but their effects manifest themselves gradually. One can make adjustments and ignore impending danger, much like the proverbial frog being slowly boiled alive. (more…)
