Tag: Karl Marx

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Sebastian and Paul from Antelope Hill Publishing were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed their company, its mission, their publishing process, movement publishing in general, and the QAnon phenomenon, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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He [Rousseau] had nothing new, but he set everything on fire. — Madame de Staël

Starting from unlimited freedom I arrive at unlimited despotism. — Shigalev, in Dostoevsky’s The Devils

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, not Karl Marx is the real father and inspiration for the theater of the absurd that is today’s Left. Rousseau’s “Man is born free, everywhere he is in chains” is the original formulation of the adolescent anarchist rally-cry, “Rage against the machine!” (more…)

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Like all journals of dissident ideas, Counter-Currents depends on the support of our readers. So far this year, we’ve raised $71,665.56, or 24% of our $300,000 goal. I want to thank everyone who has donated so far. (Please donate here!) Today we are announcing a one-week bonus for donating $120 or more (in other words, paywall and up): Aside from all the usual paywall perks, all donors who give at least this amount or more will also receive a paperback copy of Greg Johnson’s latest book, The Trial of Socrates. And now, Stephen Paul Foster offers a few words on why Counter-Currents needs your support. (more…)

YMMV. Courtesy of Stonetoss

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Marx 101

Here we get John Galt’s speech — albeit of a very different type — in miniature. (more…)

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The second half of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was an Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson and Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube), and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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…)

James Burnham

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In The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom,[1] James Burnham sets forth a Machiavellian method for interpreting political texts. (Methods of interpretation are also known as “hermeneutic” methods.) Burnham distinguishes between the “formal” and the “real” meanings of texts. The formal meaning of a text is “what it explicitly states when taken at face value” (p. 8). The formal meaning also expresses, albeit in an indirect and disguised manner, “what may be called the real meaning” (p. 8). (more…)

Whittaker Chambers

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The first significant anti-Communist victory in the Cold War’s early years did not involve any soldiers. In a century filled with warfare, the two principal contenders in this fight were men who were just too young to have served in the military during the First World War and yet too old to have served in the tragic and disastrous Second World War. (more…)

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Ian Kershaw
Personality and Power:­­­­ Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
New York: Penguin Press, 2022

This book caught my eye when it came out a few months ago because its format reminded me of Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right, which I reviewed here some seasons back. That is to say, a collection of short critical biographies of a dozen or so worthies, assembled together on a common theme. (more…)

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…)

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…)

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Introduction here, Chapter 6 here, Chapter 8 here

Translated by F. Roger Devlin

“To be on the Right is to be afraid for what exists,” said Jules Romains. A nice definition. We find it again in many authors. (more…)