Tag: Karl Marx

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Max West writes at Logical Meme, on X at @Logicalmeme, and is the author of Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald (2021).

In this essay, I argue that the movie Weapons (2025) is a latent critique of radical transgender ideology, particularly its barbaric application to children and its associated violence (e.g., Trantifa, trans-related school shootings, etc.). Whether this critique is the subtle intention of the film’s writer/director Zach Cregger or is an unconscious byproduct of his art, Weapons channels our society’s collective anxiety over the trans issue. (more…)

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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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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
-Niccolò Machiavelli

There are two distinct ways in the modern world to be a victim. The first is to be an individual who suffers from an act of evil, moral or physical, deliberately inflicted by another individual or individuals. (more…)

Heinrich Füger, “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind,” 1817

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Follows “Goethe’s Prometheus”

Hier sitz ich, forme Menschen
Nach meinem Bilde,
Ein Geschlecht, das mir gleich sei,
Zu leiden, zu weinen,
Zu genießen und zu freuen sich,
Und dein nicht zu achten,
Wie ich! (more…)

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Resident Bidet has said on at least two occasions that you need planes and tanks to fight the government. These remarks didn’t age so well; the Commander-in-Cheat had his ass handed to him by cave-dwelling Afghan zealots with room-temperature IQs. For the most part, they were armed with AK-47s manufactured back when disco was still a thing. (more…)

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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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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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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…)