Political theory
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The Simonini Letter, A Translation — Thread 🧵 https://t.co/Gv2LaN5NtG
The modern world is facing an "Aristocrat Shortage" H.P. Lovecraft talked about this more than a 100 years ago... A thread: https://t.co/mVDaeYaSeC
Important Life lessons: 🔹️Strategic ambiguity matters. 🔹️Be a mercenary 🔹️Legitimacy > Popularity 🔹️Pragmatism > idealism 🔹️Showmanship You can go very far if you learn these....
This is sort of like saying we should make sure everyone is 6 feet tall or that we should make sure everybody gets a perfect score on the SAT. Of course in a perfect world you woul...
Associates of the Claremont Institute (a Project 2025 partner) promote the late Carl Schmitt, a Nazi jurist who opposed checks & balances, said that politics is founded on the frie...
So we deal with a literal, hardcore Bolshevik. Alexander Bogdanov 'Bogdanov co-founded the Bolsheviks in 1903, when they split with the Menshevik faction' '... pioneered... gene...
After I published my civilism ideology one-pager, I was asked to publish about it in an online blog. But during writing the article I realized I was not able to answer a very impor...
Leftoid glorification of Aaron Bushnell self-immolation reminded me of this great book whose central argument is that socialism is best understood as a manifestation of the death d...
"The present system is a capitalist system. This means that the world is divided up into two antagonistic camps, the camp of a small handful of capitalists and the camp of the majo...
One reason I’m skeptical of right-wing readings of Nietzsche that emphasize hierarchy and strength is that they almost always fail to distinguish among the different ways in which...
Extremely interesting paper giving a birds eye view of ancient Indian political theory. @sanjeevsanyal highlights the oft forgotten point that Chanakya referred to himself being t...
1. My latest. @TheBlackHorse65 asked me to lay out the argument why elite replacement theory cannot work in the era of the administrative state. In the end your options are burn it...
James Burnham was a Marxist activist who led psychological warfare for the CIA THEN he took a hard turn to the right Burnham saw that capitalism would die and socialism won't rep...
Why Marxism is not Woke: Proving beyond possible doubt that James Lindsay and other rightists are fundamentally wrong about Marxism, and that Marxist theory in the West is meaning...
All right, it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room, and the elephant is Domenico Losurdo’s Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel. Hopefully the first in a🧵series picking apart...
the problem with discourse is that it facilitates simultaneous creation of hegelian opposite egregores, which is a prerequisite of self-replication. the basis of memetic warfare is...
For those interested in understanding how the Marxist mind works: 1) Read and understand Hegel 2) Read this essay from Marx himself with the eternal first para!: https://t.co/SaZ...
“Gurion argued for the reinstatement of the genius Spinoza within the Jewish people. Outside the Jewish world, Spinoza had long been regarded within the Communist enclave as a harb...
Domenico Losurdo, 2013: "Marx and Engels were perfectly well aware that reason and the light of reason can be employed to justify domination. However, this can be highlighted and...
"The phrase 'the masses of the people' assumes a class character in class society. An exploiter society is divided into the exploiter class and the exploited class, or the ruling c...
this!! these posters are exactly what i've written abt in the section -"Brings us to the doorstep" https://t.co/KGGj03BBbt jaati-varna is the exact opposite of capitalism/communism...
@clintballinger I read these posts, they seem to thoroughly miss the point of Marx's argument. How is it possible for a MMTer attempting to engage with Marx not to cite "money in...
I have so much contempt for Analytic Marxism such that if I was forced to choose between it and Trotskyism, I would choose the latter. Analytic Marxism rejected dialectics, labor t...
Italian Leninism, a thread 🧵 https://t.co/INiQjKiHVa
