Category: Politics
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Thoughts on Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding
INTRODUCTION I have presented in some recent articles a philosophical and historical argument that ancient Greek and Roman thought, particularly through REPUBLICANISM and Stoicism, undermines any notion of inherent racial or biological hierarchies. It emphasizes universal reason (LOGOS), cultural malleability, civic virtue, and cosmopolitanism as the core of its classical ideals, and I use Aristotle,…
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Giuseppi Mazzini’s Political Theology on the Origin of Revolution
A rejection of the Marxist or materialist view that economic conditions drive history has been one of the most consistent aspects in my writings and views shared among colleagues who adopt the materialist view for many years. Revolutions indeed have their origin in the human mind and its guiding principles. A true revolution is not…
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Threat to the Humanities, the Right’s Identity and the Limits of American Civilization
MODERN CRITICISMS OF THE HUMANITIES THREATEN REPUBLICAN TRADITION Americans often have ideas of how our society should be structured without really understanding the roots of the ideas that our thinking brings out. Political slogans and speeches are often in memorialized moments using the terminology every American citizen kind of understands without having to think too…
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Perfect Political Systems as a Trap in Republics
I had recently edited and added points to a piece I think strongly explains my views in Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality: Here, it helps to not think of Democracy as a God, or perfect system. Be careful. “Perfect systems” belong to the autocrat, divine monarch, technocrat and utopian. Why do we want…
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The Republican Party’s role in accelerating Factionalism in U.S. Politics
REPUBLICANISM AND THE U.S. “REPUBLICAN’ PARTY” The Republican Party, while named after this tradition, and founded in 1854 with roots in anti-slavery and republican ideals, has evolved into a broader and delineating coalition with priorities that sometimes diverge from CLASSICAL REPUBLICANISM. However, we cannot say, that this merely began with Trump or even Bush. Trump…
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Simple Points on Republicanism and Liberal Democracy
It is very important to explain the historical and ideological context of the U.S. system. The U.S. system was not designed as a strict Roman versus English versus Athenian system. It is a mixed system. You may ask, what is really the difference here. Many people might still not understand. SIMPLE POINTS ON REPUBLICANISM TO…
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How Lenin and Bolshevism displaced Civic Republicanism with Socialism in Black Radicalism
After 1917, the global meaning of “REVOLUTION” was successfully seized by Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and their descendants. CIVIC REPUBLICANISM did not disappear because it was defeated in open ideological combat. It was crowded out by a louder, better-funded, more institutionally disciplined international movement that claimed the entire moral and linguistic territory of “revolution,” “liberation,” and…
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The Lost Meaning of Republicanism in Modern America
Americans often appear indifferent to “Republicanism” (meaning the classical republican tradition) because the word has been almost completely hijacked in everyday language by the Republican Party. When most people hear “republicanism” today, they think of the Grand Old Party, Trump, culture-war talking points, or at best vague slogans about “limited government.” The deeper philosophical tradition…
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Anti-Blackness as World Norm
Thoughts on Anti-Blackness as the norm in the world, asks “Do I Live in Your World?” DO I LIVE IN YOUR WORLD We do not live in “a White man’s world,” and certainly not in the world of the racists and anti-blackness far and wide across this planet. Is this not what we are taught…
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Letter on my Political Ideas, History and Critiques of Conservatism
THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA The purpose of The American Minervan began as a side project to question and refute by myself, certain unverified claims made in Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Destiny of America and to lay out what was addressed between William Q. Judge, Dolatram and H.P.B. on the question of Freemason and…
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Influence of Tsarist and Nazi Propaganda Tactics on Modern Normalization of Racism
The interesting pattern in the proliferation of political and religious conspiracies in the twentieth to twenty-first century is that many of their sources are rooted in Nazi era propaganda and older anti-Jew tactics. Many of these tactics and conspiracies emerge particularly in that era of pamphleteers and the technological advancements in the twentieth-century of the…
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Kalergi’s Vision of Europe and the Conspiracy against Him
INTRODUCTION TO THE KALERGI CONSPIRACY The Kalergi conspiracy has its roots in 1930s German National Socialist vilification of Kalergi for his pro-unity, anti-war views, and directly in the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels portrayed Kalergi’s vision of European federation as a Eurasian-Negroid dystopia ruled by Jews. Austrian Holocaust denier Gerd Honsik revived it and reformulated…
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