Marxism

July 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Unholy Alliance

Featured image We have written many times over the years about the weird alliance between the far left and Islamic extremism. Is it just a marriage of convenience between seemingly antithetical ideologies, or are Communists and Islamists natural allies, since what they really care about is hating Western civilization and human freedom? I think the latter. This is an instance of the alliance, embodied in a single individual: The madman who screamed »
July 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker

On the Left, Dogma Beats Reality

Featured image I wrote here about Zohran Mamdani’s hate-filled, anti-American July 4 rant. It was filled with poisonous distortions of American history, and Mamdani denounced “oligarchs”–an oligarch is any rich person who is not on the Left, and whose money liberals would therefore like to steal–and attacked Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire. (Relax, Zohran–Elon isn’t a trillionaire any more, as SpaceX shares have slid off their opening highs.) But I »
August 24, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley

Dreams from Her Father

Featured image With his daughter in the running for president, Donald Harris’ 1978 Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution is getting attention. Check out this anonymous review in the July 24 Economist: The probable Democratic nominee for president breaks into a laugh at the turn of phrase before explaining, somewhat philosophically, the message of the story: “you exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.” For »
April 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker

The Power of Weakness

Featured image Modern liberals have distilled the true essence of Marxism, which is the idea that every human relationship is exploitative. Lenin summed it up as “who/whom”–who is doing what to whom? Of course this idea is ridiculous. Most human relationships, whether personal or economic, are not exploitative. But Marx’s idea has a perennial appeal to the discontented, and is endlessly malleable to suit the neuroses of the day. Thus, modern Marxists »