Feudalism

It is advised to speak no ill of the dead. So I don’t. I just add a bit of context to the headlines calling Lee Iacocca the man who saved Chrysler. With a hat tip to David Henderson, who dug up Cato Policy Analysis no. 4, from 1980, which David…

Since the summer of 1979, Chrysler executives have sought a federal subsidy to save their company from possible bankruptcy, and they appear to be near their goal. (Because the subsidy Congress passed December 21, 1979, will be given only if Chrysler receives …

It wasn't all trying, though.  Everyone had a job, school lunches were free, after-school care was free, people were generally happy, necessities were extremely cheap, and there was more community spirit than there is nowadays.  In those times, there were no …

Skip to comments. The Neo-Feudalists, they now fully own the Democrat party and all 20 candidates!RedNeckoBlogger ^ | 07/01/2019 | RedNeckoBlogger Posted on 07/01/2019 7:50:44 AM PDT by FiddlePig Twenty Democrat candidates in the "debates"... and every…

Members of the Communist Party of China reaffirm their oaths at the site of the first CPC National Congress in Shanghai on Thursday. The membership of the 98-year-old Communist Party of China has exceeded 90 million, the Or…

FACT’s John Twells traveled to Latvian capital Riga to check out the second edition of Erica Synths’ Kontaktor festival, a community-focused celebration of techno and technology. When I arrive in Riga, the first thing I notice is the city’s eerie, semi-mani…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The more reified the world becomes, the thicker the veil cast upon nature, the more the thinking weaving that veil in its turn claims ideologically to be nature, primordial experience. Theodor Adorno (Critical Models) Yea…

The communist playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote, The individual can be annihilated/But the Party cannot be annihilated (1977, 29). And yet, in the neoliberal era, the Party has been annihilated only the individual remains. Or so it seemed until a few years…

The Rhyme of the Depressed Economist Part 1: The Present The world has changed, it holds its breath and uncertainty taints the breeze, Economies stagger, governments topple and confidence is diseased. Nations jostle; pick their sides, nervously looking on, …

BY Ryan SmithIn 2019, workers across the U.S. are proving that the legacy of the Great Pullman strike is still alive today. (Wikipedia Commons)   Roaming the sleepy streets of Pullman on Chicago’s Southeast Side, it’s difficult to imagine a time when it was…