Tag: Communism

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Communism’s hallmark, a command economy, is a failed system. Centrally planning pencil production over five years is ludicrous—even with AI. But the command economy has one use: as a reference point, or thought experiment, for other economic systems. Assuming we had a one-party state ruling the nation as conceived as one factory, one farm, and one office, how would we run things? (more…)

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No matter what happens with AI, it’s going to be an economic catastrophe. If AI is just a giant bubble, obviously that bubble is going to burst, and it will bring down the whole economy. Indeed, the American economy is mostly stagnant. All the growth right now is in AI.

If AI actually works, however, a whole lot of people will lose their jobs, and that will be an economic catastrophe as well. Moreover, neither the Left nor the Right can fix this problem.

Let’s say that you have a hotdog stand. (more…)

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To describe Jason Lutes’ masterful graphic novel series Berlin as enemy fiction would be harsh—but technically true. Sadly.

Lutes exhibits enough vision and artistry on every page to impress upon the reader his love of the sequential art medium as well as of his subject matter, which, in the case of Berlin: City of Stones (book 1 of his 3-part Berlin series, first published in 2000), is the eponymous German capital circa 1928. (more…)

Lothrop Stoddard

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Lothrop Stoddard
The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Underman
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922

Over a century after its publication in 1922, Lothrop Stoddard’s The Revolt Against Civilization still provides an excellent primer for Dissident Right metapolitics. On nearly every page Stoddard offers clear and logical reasons for the sheer necessity of race realism, white ethnocentrism, and eugenic policies. (more…)

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Declining belief in God is a verified long-term trend in the United States. For instance, the Pew Research Center found that Americans identifying as having no religion rose from 5% in 1972 to 29% in 2022.

It is also generally accepted that atheism is a belief of the Left, and the evidence for that is overwhelming. A 2024 Pew Center poll found that 84% of self-described atheists identified with Democratic Party policies, versus only 13% who favored the Republican Party. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021.

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Today is the birthday of Flannery O’Connor, one of America’s greatest storytellers and an underappreciated woman of the Right. In her short life of 39 years, O’Connor wrote two novels, 31 short stories, more than a hundred lectures, essays, and reviews, and a vast number of letters. Her fiction reflects her strong identity as both a Catholic and a white Southern woman.

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Some texts are not as daunting as their reputation makes them seem. Many years ago, an English talk-radio host named Nick Ferrari was in conversation with an American lady caller about some political scandal in her home country. The subject of the American Constitution came up, and the lady said that she presumed Ferrari, as a journalist, had read that document. He exploded into laughter: “Of course not! It must be hundreds of pages long!” (more…)

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The greatest ongoing tragedy of the 21st century is the Ukraine War. The war was and is utterly unnecessary. Its violence could have been avoided with a vote to divide or not divide Ukraine along ethnolinguistic lines using the Schleswig-Holstein Plebiscite of 1920 as a model. (more…)

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Nothing destroys a good idea so efficiently as success—not so much the success of the idea itself as much as the success of those, politicians mostly, who claim to be implementing it. This is why in Russia advocating privatization is more likely to get you punched in the face than listened to, (more…)

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Tom Cotton
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China
New York: Broadside Books, 2025

In 2020, the world shut down due to a global plague called COVID-19 which originated in Wuhan, China. When the plague first appeared, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas pointed out that there was a lab in Wuhan which specialized in the study of viruses and that lab was known to be unsafe. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021.

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Today is the 100th birthday of Flannery O’Connor, one of America’s greatest storytellers and an underappreciated woman of the Right. In her short life of 39 years, O’Connor wrote two novels, 31 short stories, more than a hundred lectures, essays, and reviews, and a vast number of letters. Her fiction reflects her strong identity as both a Catholic and a white Southern woman.

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Back when liberalism was still a good thing, for the most part – that is to say, the 18th century – all this was quite an advance. Up to that point, absolutist monarchy had been nearly ubiquitous since the end of the toga-and-sandal days. Although there have been some outstanding kings, far more have been despots. (more…)

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While Trump’s style continues to dazzle and seemingly lay waste the leftists, both in America and abroad, a recent film has captivated the critics and the box office, dealing, as it does, with political repression.

But is it that one-sided? As Monica Wood said in her novel My Only Story, people are more than just one thing. (more…)