Category: Political Thought
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Henry A. Wallace Spiritual Ideals and Fascination with the United States Motto
Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) was a progressive Republican and Episcopalian, a high ranking official during the war, New Deal Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President of the U.S. 1941-45. He is considered a notable contributor to American liberalism and political culture. This brief will not cover his life or political work but highlight his particular…
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Dance of the Parties in Warnings of Fascism in American Politics
Giovanni Gentile taught that Fascism was a development from Italian liberalism and represents a new spiritual and revolutionary ideal of order and progress. It combined elements and minds from the left and right. Mussolini heavily sought the promotion and power of Fascism and believed that the liberalism of Italy had become outdated. We moreso associate…
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Testimony of Communist and Civil Rights Activist Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
“In the first place, wherever I’ve been in the world, the first to die in the struggle against Fascism were the Communists (…) I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist (…) You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of…
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‘Black Lives Matter is a Communist Movement’ — or so we hear! Trump and the Right’s Alarming Tactic
From Australia to the United States, we are hearing echoes of the statement ‘Black Lives Matter is a Communist Movement.’ This article dissects right-wing media portrayal of Liberals and Democrats as Communists. “This belief in a broad liberal conspiracy is standard in the highest echelons of the conservative establishment and right-wing media.” DAVID A. WALSH,…
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Red-Scare Tactics in 1960s against Black Communist Revolutionaries: “Revolution Underway”
DOCUMENTARY REPORT ON BLACK COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARIES “Revolution Underway” is a preserved documentary report on Black Communist revolutionary activities during planned riots throughout 20 states in the 1960s. Conservatives are sharing it to de-legitimize the real issues of police brutality, militarized police, racism, and so forth. In these times, the classic red scare propaganda aims at…
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Cornel West on America as a Failed Social Experiment
Cornel West has been bringing Anderson Cooper to tears as of late on national television in his dialogue with the philosopher and civil rights activist, who shares his insight on the eruption of protests in America, explains what he means when he says “…what we see, is America as a failed social experiment.” On the…
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First Black Service Chief in U.S. Military History Shares Moving Message on Race in America
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. message must not be forgotten after one week. The general was confirmed to serve as a service chief in the U.S. military for the first time in a historic vote by the Senate 98-0 this month. As chief-of-staff of the Air Force, he spoke to a nation embroiled in deep…
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James J. Sack on Right-Wing Hatred of Dissenters in the 18th century
The European Right in the Era of Republicanism The attitudes and thinking-patterns of intellectuals on the political Right in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century remain as they are in today’s American Right. From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain In James J. Sack’s From Jacobite to Conservative, speaking of the “ubiquitous right-wing hatred of…
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Dugin and Right Wing Nationalist Rulers
American political influencers on the Right have welcomed and engaged in political subversion in the name of Pro-Americanism and Patriotism. It was concerning, because the trajectory of movements followed the plans outlined by philosophers like Dugin. Aleksandr Dugin admits that his ideas are a strategic ploy to undermine “Democracy” or America. Dugin believes the West…
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Richard Spencer Rages at Jews and Blacks Post-Charlottesville Rally Death of Heather Heyer (Leaked Audio)
RICHARD SPENCER RAGES AT ‘KIKES’ AND ‘OCTOROONS’ IN LEAKED AUDIO POST-CHARLOTTESVILLE The entire “American Right” is compromised, corrupted and confused, whether “America First” conservatives (i.e., Trumpism) like Charlie Kirk’s “Koch-Conservatism,” or the so-called ‘Groypers’ — Alt-Lite, Zoomer and Dissident (Alternative) Right. Before Charlottesville, all these sides were trying to impress each other with how “based”…
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Helena Blavatsky on Government Systems: “They have no sway over the inner man…”
“…Whether the physical man be under the rule of an empire or a republic, concerns only the man of matter. His body may be enslaved; as to his Soul, he has the right to give to his rulers the proud answer of Socrates to his Judges. They have no sway over the inner man.” (H.P.…
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Benjamin Rush and Early Federalist Republicanism: Fear of Democracy, Moral Degradation, and Corruption
Fear of Mob Democracy and the Roman republic’s fate of corruption The stories of Marius, Tacitus, Livy and Sallust stress importance of morals, reason and the rule of law in a virtuous republic; also corruption of these through avarice, luxury, parties, factions and venality. According to the Roman statesman, Sallust, a republic should be free…
The American Minervan 