#Statist

lex

postlexical

Did not make it 30 minutes into convention before a caucus claimed that medicare for all is “conservative and statist” and “should be replaced by councils of disabled advocates” Before

John Hayward

Doc_0

Stupidity is extremely useful to statist politicians, not just because stupid people are easily manipulated, but more importantly because they believe the world can be remade to fit their incorrect

Black Socialists in America

BlackSocialists

Something that must be understood:The term “dual power” was coined by Lenin in 1917, but most of the core conceptual underpinnings for this term were spoken to by Proudhon in

Simon Cooke

SimonMagus

Got round to readng @AntBreach report on zoning for @CentreforCities ...it is interesting but something of a curate's egg. Would have liked to see more depth to international comparators beyond

Dr Nitasha Kaul

NitashaKaul

My #15August2020 thread...I grew up seeing the Indian tricolour flag waving around me on 15 August. As the Prime Minister of my school cabinet and the President of my college,

Serana Verina Mistress of AR-14s.

UsagikoNat

This is where the whole "Save us from the federal government" really bothers me. A long way back when they were protests against mask mandates those very same people wanting

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛

hamandcheese

Ancaps became white nationalists because they realized the institutions that would form spontaneously in a stateless society would mirror racially separated prison gangs.Murray Rothbard, for ex, supported both the Black

Philip Gorski

GorskiPhilip

1/ I've been revisiting the intellectual history of proslavery Christianity, and it is becoming increasingly clear to me that the kind of "John Wayne Christianity" that @kkdumez analyzes so brilliantly

scientism

mr_scientism

The alternative to the 'development state' that pursues industrial policy is not the 'regulatory state' that merely regulates 'the market' but the 'accumulative state' that pursues business policy. Both are

Joshua Tait

Joshua_A_Tait

Salazar offers little to truly emulate to the right. Domestically, Salazarism was personalism, of a diligent and relatively benign sort compared to other dictators. 1/https://twitter.com/Joshua_A_Tait/status/1327345722413367297 Authority ca

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

I often have pretty libertarian instincts about things, but a lot of what I’m seeing in regard to the pandemic is just nonsense, a miserable version of libertarianism that doesn’t

Alexander Hellene ☦️🇬🇷

AHelleneAuthor

Definitions matter!The opposite of “democracy” is not “authoritarianism.”You can have democratic authoritarianism, i.e., you vote for an authoritarian leader, or to give a leader authoritarian powers. Democracy: how leaders are

Garrett ☭ ✟

GarrettLacan4

There really have been few autocrats in this world who were as cunning and gaul as General Ne Win of Burma. A member of a Right-Wing nationalist group during the

Amanda Kolson Hurley

amandakhurley

Oh godhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/well-protect-americas-suburbs-11597608133 Not even going to get into what AFFH did vs what they allege it did/would do, but a couple of points “We reject...that the federal bureaucracy should dictate

I'm Not Pox Populi

Pox_Populi2

A lot to unpack here.1st of all...Arbitrary definition? Lmao. If civnats weren't so scared of the realties of racial differences, they'd realize how stupid such a statement is. 2. I

Gift

JGiftmacher

Back on this again... But really, lock down again, including schools, was an inevitability. The NHS has a finite capacity that, thanks to the Tories, is strained even by seasonal

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