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Why are Lefty and Muslim Radicals Allies?
On March 28, 2026, while our beloved lefties here in the US were protesting for “No Kings,” their brothers and sisters in protest in England were protesting against “the rise of the Right,” i.e., Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party, writes John Aziz, a “British-Palestinian musician, peace activist, and analyst of Middle East politics and history.”
Alongside the anti-Reform placards were a sea of Iranian-regime flags, communist banners, transgender and other Pride flags, as well as the now-ubiquitous Palestinian flags.
I guess that’s who the Left is these days: All of the Above.
In that world, opposition to the right-wing policies of Farage sits astride a wider set of causes and loyalties organised around anti-Western sentiment and the politics of an amorphous so-called “resistance.”
Now, in my world it is important to understand the left more than deplore it, because Sun Tzu.
But Aziz does raise an important point. What in the world does the mullah-cratic Iran regime have in common with LGBTQ+?
Actually, it is not that hard.
Let us, with Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, divide the human world into three parts, as Caesar divided Gaul.
There is the political, divided into friend and enemy.
There is the moral, divided into good and evil.
There is the economic, divided into useful and harmful.
Actually, Schmitt had a fourth piece, the aesthetic, divided into beautiful and ugly.
If you go back Before the Dawn of time, as Nicholas Wade did, you find that the chimpanzee males were sitting around waiting to mobilize against an enemy threat to their territory. Meanwhile the females were doing everything else, useful stuff like gathering food and feeding baby chimps.
But females are not really into violence, so they maintain order in their communities with the help of good and evil. The evil females get shunned by the good ladies of the community.
And so it was down the ages. Did anyone bother about whether Attila the Hun or Genghis Khan was good or evil?
Still, the question of good and evil was becoming institutionalized in priests and temples. Zoroaster proposed that the gods be simplified into a good god and a bad god.
But down into the feudal age the goodness or evilness of the monarch was not much of an issue. He was the boss, and that was the way it was.
But with the modern era and the rise of the middle class, the question of good and evil becomes more salient; the question of whether a political regime was good or evil, just or unjust, became a Thing. And so feudal monarchs became so yesterday, and absolute monarchs an abomination. And really, kings and bishops were just in it for themselves, unlike good middle-class lawyers like Robespierre and Marx’s dad Heinrich.
When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were young men the hand-loom cottage industry was in its death throes. And we know why. The hand-loom weavers could not compete with the machine textile industry and its factories. It looked like the end of the world to young rich kids like Marx and Engels. Clearly, the cottagers were helpless victims of the factories financed and managed by a new class of bourgeois factory owners oppressing over the proletarian workers. Louis Blanc coined the word “capitalism” in 1849-50.
But what happened? The world adapted. The last 200 years has seen five technological revolutions, and each one seemed like the end of the world.
It was the genius of Marx and Engels to describe technological revolutions not as economic challenges but as moral catastrophes, of oppressors beating on the oppressed. And the oppressor were not just evil, but enemies of mankind.
And so the Left sees everything through the moral lens of oppressor bearing down on the oppressed, whether capitalists against workers, men against women, whites against blacks, heterosexuals against non-binaries, Israel against Gaza. In each case the oppressor is all-powerful and evil and the oppressed is helpless and innocent.
And the solution is to declare war on the oppressor.
How did that work out, Chuckie and Fritzi?
Where communism was tried it resulted in famine and poverty.
Where feminism was tried it fractured the family and hut the poor.
Where racial quotas were tried they failed to improve race relations.
Where homosexuality and transgenderism is normalized it leads young people into a sexual wilderness.
And what has their victim status done for the Palestinians?
It is my belief that the universal leftist solution, to collapse the political, the moral, and the economic into a single totalitarian state has proved to be a catastrophic mistake wherever and whenever it has been tried.
I believe the solution is what I call the Greater Separation of Powers: political, religious, and economic.
But this still leaves the question of the aesthetic, beautiful and ugly. That has to be a part of this, but that is another story.
Because the first thing we do is we teach all the lefties that everything they do Makes Things Worse.
| Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:29:53 GMT |
Who Wants to be the Global Hegemon?
I reckon that the US started on its way to become the global hegemon in the late 19th century with the Spanish-American War, courtesy President McKinley, when the US sent the cruiser USS Maine in 1998 to Havana “to provide protection for U.S. citizens.” And then somehow the Maine got blown up.
Then the US got into World War I in 1917, courtesy President Wilson. It emerged as clear global hegemon, supplying financial aid to Europe after the war, especially including Britain and Germany.
The US got into World War II on December 7, 1941, a day which will live, in infamy, courtesy of President Roosevelt. It emerged as the global hegemon of the ages, supplying huge amounts of military supplies to the Soviets and to Britain, and shoveling billions of aid to western Europe after the war.
The US got into the Cold War in 1948, after the western occupation zones in Germany unified into the Bundesrepublik Deutschland on June 20, 1948 and the Soviets began a blockade of the western zones in Berlin four days later. All through the Cold War the US was undisputed global hegemon.
Today, a month after attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran, experts agree that the US is a declining hegemon, including Niall Ferguson and Andrew Sullivan.
Meanwhile China has been rising in the hegemon stakes since Deng Xiaoping dumped Maoist socialism with “Reform and Opening Up” and brought China from economic ruin to an economic miracle. Will China develop into a global hegemon or regain its place as the Middle Kingdom at the center of the world surrounded by tributary states?
Then there is Islam. You could say that the Ottoman Empire became status quo after being repulsed at the Gates of Vienna in 1683. And then got chopped up by Sykes-Picot after World War I. Obviously Islam is on the march, in its Iranian version to conquer the world religiously and politically, and its Sunni version to leverage western economic ideas and technology in world partnership. Will Islam rise to global hegemony?
Europe used to be the global hegemon, starting in 1492 with Spain and Portugal trying to figure out how to get to the Indies and its spices using the new technology of ocean-going sailing ships. The result was that various European nations became global hegemons, developing trading empires, colonizing the Americas, and humiliating China. It all came to an end when France, Britain, and Russia ganged up on Germany in 1914.
So what happens now? Has the US blown Iran to smithereens and ended its bid for, at least, Mideast hegemony? Has it empowered Iran to manage the Strait of Hormuz as the key to oil hegemony? Has the US created a non-Shiite hegemony to unit Sunnis Muslims with the Abraham Accords? Has Europe descended into irrelevance with its energy dependence on Mideast Oil and useless wind and solar?
Or are we at the very beginning of a global tech-bro hegemony, as tech bros all across the world combine to create a worldwide AI venture-capital empire to replace the current educated-class secular hegemony in all the formerly Christian political entities?
And then there is India, truly a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
It’s all very confusing.
| Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:30:15 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
Passion is the distinction between love and hate.
There is no such thing as justice, only injustice.
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: Charles Murray and his books
