Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Who Drinks More, the Rich or the Poor?“, on the age-old debate. See below. (more…)
Tag: the working class
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October 1, 2023 Jim Goad
New Video!
Who Drinks More, the Rich or the Poor? -
Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”
Statistics have shown, again and again, that whites have higher per-capita levels of alcohol consumption than any other race — even the notoriously drunken Injuns. (more…)
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May 16, 2023 Kenneth Vinther
Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 5, Part 1:
Democracy Against the PeoplePresident Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act into law, surrounded by his supporters.
3,031 words
Part 6 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 4 Part 2 here, Chapter 5 Part 2 here)
When a term has become so universally sanctified as “democracy” is now, I begin to wonder whether it means anything, in meaning too many things. — T. S. Eliot (more…)
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We, a select group of human beings . . . — John Kerry speaking at Davos
In this life, one thing counts.
In the bank, large amounts.
I’m afraid these don’t grow on trees,
You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.
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January 23, 2023 Alain de Benoist
The Populist Moment, Chapter 11, Part 3
“Multitudes” Against the People
On the Theses of Michael Hardt & Antonio NegriIntroduction 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…)
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January 20, 2023 Alain de Benoist
The Populist Moment, Chapter 11, Part 2
“Multitudes” Against the People
On the Theses of Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri5,250 words
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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January 5, 2023 Alain de Benoist
The Populist Moment, Chapter 9, Part 2:
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December 14, 2022 Alain de Benoist
The Populist Moment, Chapter 8:
Ernesto Laclau & Left-Wing Populism3,974 words
Introduction here, Chapter 7 here, Chapter 9 Part 1 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Podemos, a populist movement that became (with 20.6% of the vote) the third-largest political force in Spain following the elections of December 2015, said shortly thereafter that one could “define Podemos by saying that we have done everything the Left said must not be done.” (more…)
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November 16, 2022 Sir Oswald Mosley
Revolution of the Nation
The following text is being presented in commemoration of Sir Oswald Mosley’s 136th birthday. — Ed. (more…)
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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…)