The Post-Partisan Emporium

This is a three part article from 2017 that I came across today.  A few may object to some of his views, but he has an interesting analysis of how and why the old left, with it's emphasis on class, labor rights and economic fairness, was usurped by a new left based on identity politics and the cult of victimhood.  He also provides a decent explanation of what is meant by "Cultural Marxism", or what he calls "Biological Leninism". BIOLOGICAL LENINISM Part 1 It's 100 years now since the Russian Revolution. The Soviet Union. Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Leninism. It's been 100 years already, but you realize how present the whole thing remains when you look at the press these days. People are still praising or damning the revolution. As if it mattered anymore. As if it were something more than history. As if the left and right of today had remotely anything in common with the left and right of Lenin's day. I won't praise Lenin, an evil man. But great me...

Monarchism, Primitivism & Fascism? Some thoughts on anarchism and power Stone Age Herbalist As a change of pace from my usual writing I thought I’d spread my intellectual wings a bit and engage with a little niche political thought. Anarchism is one of those fringe adolescent movements which maintains itself on rebellious energy but does have some history of serious writing and theory. Like all fringe movements it has splintered into numerous, and quite dull, subsects: syndicalism, green, communism and so on, each trying to stick the appendage ‘anarcho’ onto something more outlandish. You might ask then why I’d be interested in three utterly insane sounding ideologies, two of which sound oxymoronic. I think all three represent some deep archetypes about ‘organicism’ - the interest in how societies and organisations develop naturally, rather than through imposed ideological blinkers. This to me represents a subterranean question or fault-line running through our political life, is i...