Category: politics

Republics are great. The greatest wealth, the best heights of civilisation, come from Republics. Unfortunately Republics require rather special conditions, as used to be well known. Republics tend to destroy the conditions that make them possible, and these conditions have been destroyed. For a Republic to actually work: The voters, the enfranchised, own property. Without this, elections degenerate into advance auctions of stolen goods. The voting class is intelligent, educated, and literate, or else you are going to get rule …

We act in the realm of ideas. How do ideas get translated into concrete actions? Groups of men coordinate under a strong leader and on ideas. Which means that to have his team all working together, the leader needs some ideas, which he and his team get from what the Chinese call knowledge factions. We are a knowledge faction — which is to say, a rival priesthood to the one in Harvard. So we do not perform concrete actions. We …

Leftism has no essence, except an endless campaign against the next applecart. When it runs up against an obstacle, it is apt to instantly discard its latest high ideals, write them out of history or deem them extreme radical right, and adopt some new high ideals. Socialism stopped 1949. Replaced by ever more extreme regulation and direct redistribution, which redistribution had the effect of redistributing wealth directly to the state, and redistributing ownership of capital to vast Dilbertesque quasi state …

Starting, of course, with Don Lemon. If an individual disrupts a church service, is individually asked to leave, and fails to leave, he is individually guilty of trespass. If a group of people conspire together to disrupt a church service, you cannot individually ask them to leave, you cannot individually prove individual trespass, because too many of them and too much chaos. The state has to perform its primary function — as the sole group whose job is organised violence …

And George Galloway is a straight commie. George Galloway is in his seventies, and for as long as I can remember he was the leading voice and face of the radical left of the British labour party, and was organising protests against the western side in every war that I can remember. (In 2003 he was purged from labour for being too far left.) He is now self exiled from Britain, from his house, his home and the circle of …

Thermidor always breaks left or right. Because Thermidorians see themselves as sinners, and the radical left as their moral superiors, they find it very difficult to organise effectively against their radical left opponents. Some times they recognise this and hire reaction to the dirty work for them, as Cromwell hired Monck, and the French Thermidoreans initially tolerated the white terror of the incroyables. Sometimes they fail to hire reaction, and wind up rolling over for the left. When Charlie Kirk …