Category: politics

economics

The size of the difference between universalism and communism

Moldbug points out that universalist regimes such as the US government and its satellites, suppress dissent too, though by means less drastic and obvious than communist regimes, and that universalist regimes had disturbingly cozy relationships with communist regimes, were full of fellow travellers until there was no one left to travel with.  He proposes, therefore, to call them all communist. But,

politics

Communism or universalism

Mencius Moldbug proposes to explain what is wrong with the current political order by pointing out what it has in common with communism, thus he proposes to call the current regime communist, in that genuine opposition is for the most part successfully repressed.  According to Moldbug Communism is “Democracy without authentic political opposition”. Not so. Communism is primarily an economic system.

economics

The debt limit charade

US politicians are engaged in passionate debate and confrontation over the debt limit and spending.  The question is whether to “cut” two trillion over the next ten years, which is to say, about two hundred billion dollars a year, which is to say, whether, after ten years, spending will be five or six trillion dollars a year more than it is now, or whether it will be five or six …

economics

How well run is Oslo?

According to the bloggers who speak for our ruling elite (such as Matthew Yglesias) Norway is wonderfully well run.  But according to the terrorist Breivik, it is run much like Chicago, where the ruling party’s political mobilization of the disproportionately criminal underclass has produced a criminal party.