William I Robinson is a sociology professor at University of California, and a specialist in globalisation, particularly in a Latin American context.  However, on 28th January this year he gave a more general talk titled The Crisis in Global Capitalism.  He’s a pretty long way left, but he thinks he knows a thing or two about the great enemy ... “fascism”.

He talked about it for a little under five minutes in his presentation, starting at 46.24 on the slider.  The idea was to answer the question: “What is the ability of the popular classes to resist this transfer of the cost of the crisis onto their shoulders?”  Robinson came up with five answers, one of which was the rise of “fascism”.  As he says:-

A crisis also opens up space for social forces from below, and collective agency, to influence the course of history in ways that are not possible in times of equilibrium and stability.

Now, what follows tells us nothing at all about “fascism” but quite a lot about the pitiful ignorance of himself and the left in general.  The thing is, they don’t want knowledge.  They don’t want to penetrate beyond the usual “resentment and fear” level of analysis of our motivations.  They think that’s enough.  They are happy with that.

Nonetheless, Robinson feels empowered to pass judgement on us.  Here he is doing just that:-

A fourth thing that we can imagine taking place here, or a fourth response to the global crisis - and, again, I’m not saying this is taking place and this is not predicted - is what I call a 21st century fascism.

The confusion here when I raise this with colleagues and with critics is when I say the term “fascism” they imagine it has to look like 20th century fascism.  And not in the least.  Not at all.  We don‘t go backwards in history.  We are not going to see a new Nazism or Mussolinnism.  21st century fascism would look very different - it‘s already looking very different.  There are signs of this as a response, as a project.

Well, alright.  This seems like it might be new and interesting.  Whatcha got?

Certainly, there were signs of the beginnings of an articulation of a 21st century fascist project with Bush and the neocons and the defeated McCain wing of the Republican platform.  But also around the world we see in Bolivia, we see in Columbia, we see in Venezuela, we see in Austria, we see in Germany, we see in many parts around the world the articulation of a fascist response.

Germany?  Would that be the Germany.  Next to Austria?  Nah, can’t be.

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You might be interested in watching this lecture on the collapse of the middle class given by Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren, who also authored “The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke”.

It debunks many of the standard libels of the middle class used to justify race replacement over the last generation.

A lot of us foresaw what she foresaw but her unique contribution is her academic credibility as well as best-seller status.

Update: She is also now occupying a highly visible public office as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP Funds.  You can see her most recent video report for an example of how she is filling her new public position.  My read is that her main role is to sit by and watch the Treasury department malfunction and report the resulting deterioration.  She’s basically powerless to prevent malfeasance—only to report it after it has happened and then based on limited authority to impose accounting criteria.

Update 2009/04/05: The UK Guardian reports that: Elizabeth Warren, chief watchdog of America’s $700bn (£472bn) bank bailout plan, will this week call for the removal of top executives from Citigroup, AIG and other institutions that have received government funds in a damning report that will question the administration’s approach to saving the financial system from collapse.

By exPF

Guessedworker asked what our answer is to the liberal concept of “happiness” which has been so vital to human life post-1787.

The answer is: tragedy. Or, as Dostoevsky described it: “the spiritually regenerative power of suffering.”

Nietzsche once commented that happiness and sadness are twin sisters, they either grow large together, or they grow small together. A life full of happiness has to be equally full of suffering; likewise, a life lacking in suffering has to be equally lacking in happiness.

What this means concretely is that, in order to truly become anything, one needs to go through processes which consist largely of negative experiences. Suffering tends to push one further down the road towards becoming, towards change - simply because when we experience suffering that is serious or profound, we tend to alter our approaches and ourselves in response to these painful stimuli. Having changed, having become something new, we can reap the benefits of our new state of existence, and thus have a higher degree of pleasure than we previously knew.

The lack of suffering, or pleasure, tends to facilitate continued being - i.e. people are lazy and will continue doing something as long as it continues to please them. Like electrons, humans tend to take the path of least resistance.

A person who experiences only pleasure after pleasure, finds little reason to become anything.

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The period covered by Red Riding - 1974 to 1983 - came as the classical Marxist cycle, with its prostitution of trade union activism for class-warfare, lost all traction and before the “cultural” cycle, with its bourgeois values of hyper-individualism, radical egalitarianism and anti-discrimination, gained any.  We plainly see that working-class life has completely lost its motor.  A strong sense of moral hiatus is present.  We are invited to supply meanings, and that is what I am doing in these essays.

I’ll pick up where we left off with Part 1 and get straight to the point.  That’s my point, of course.  Whatever the point that Tony Grisoni and, before him, David Peace intended to make – and they are wellnigh certain to be left-leaning so it wasn’t mine, I’m sure - the one that comes barrelling out of the TV screen and knocks you sideways is the power and meaning of a general and secular redemption.

In the world of Red Riding, in which innocence is so finally and absolutely betrayed, the redeeming agent is simple fidelity to that innocence.  Thus the corrupt but guilt-tortured Maurice Jobson finds redemption in confessing to the child-like Michael Myshkin (David Mays), a Stefan Kiszko figure whom he had framed eight years earlier for the abduction, rape and murder of three young girls .

The gluttonous and seedy John Piggott, the very model of the failed male, finds his redemption in the defining moment of the whole six hours of Red Riding … the moment when he recovers the missing child Hazel Atkins alive from some old underground workings.  These workings connect to a pigeon loft owned by the now very late Martin Laws.  The wordless, slow-motion emergence of Piggott, with Innocence in his arms, from darkness into a space whitened with rising pigeon feathers and shot through with sunlight is beyond poetic.  It has all the luminancy of archetype.

I think it deserves a closer look.

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I’ll have more to say about it later, but one of the things that struck me while reading “The 10,000 Year Explosion” by Cochran and Harpending is their theory of Indo-European expansion (p181):

We suggest that the advantage driving those Indo-European expansions was biological—a high frequency of the European lactose-tolerance mutation (the 1390-T allele).

Certainly plausible since, as they point out, not only does it expand the carrying capacity of grasslands by a factor of 5, it confers greater mobility than other forms of agriculture.

But they also mention the widely accepted fact that the Indo-Europeans were mead drinkers—although they don’t mention the fact that mead was also so highly prized that it was routinely used in rituals—quite possibly because the highest concentrations of sugars—hence fermented spirits—available to them was honey rather than grapes.

Which is all my way of introducing the idea that “The Land of Milk and Honey” would have had more significance to the Indo-Europeans than to a lactose intolerant group that didn’t have mead as its primary ritual drink.

This is something the Christian Identity folks should have picked up on but I don’t recall any references to that theory by them.

By exPF

This is the pilot episode of a new series of posts where rival Jewish theoreticians go head to head in a blood-and-guts extravaganza like nothing else you’ve ever seen! Its incredible, its shocking - at the end of the fight, only one theoretician will be left standing!!! Are you ready?
Predicates will fly, conditional sentences will crunch, assertions will go “snap” under the gruesome, bone-crushing force of Ashkenazi brilliance! Be prepared to be mildly startled!

In the far corner, weighing in at 190 lbs not including the facial hair, German jewry’s gift to Eastern Europe’s smart fraction: KAAARRLL MAAARX!

In the near corner, the reigning champion, 167 lbs of pure Jewish Freedom: LUDWIG VON MISES!!!

LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!! (cue music)

And they’re off! - Mises starts off with a critique from his essay, Marxism Unmasked (pfd). He describes Marxist theory in outline.

Marx developed what he thought was a new system.According to his materialist interpretation of history, the “material productive forces” (this is an exact translation of the German) are the bases of everything. Each stage of the material productive forces corresponds to a definite stage of production relations. The material productive forces determine the production relations, that is, the type of ownership and property which exists in the world. And the production relations determine the superstructure. In the terminology of Marx, capitalism or feudalism are production relations. Each of these was necessarily produced by a particular stage of the material productive forces. In 1859, Karl Marx said a new stage of material productive forces would produce socialism.

But what are these material productive forces? Just as Marx never said what a “class” was, so he never said exactly what the “material productive forces” are. After looking through his writings we find that the material productive forces are the tools and machines. In one of his books [Misère de la philosophie—The Poverty of Philosophy], written in French in 1847, Marx said “the hand mill produces feudalism––the steam mill produces capitalism.”3 He didn’t say it in this book, but in other writings he wrote that other machines will come which will produce socialism.

Its categorically impossible for one historical figure to reply to refutations of his theory which come into being a century after his death! Accordingly, Marx is just standing there, as Mises continues to pummel him with critique. This could get gruesome, folks …

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A Demographic Overview Of Whites Within The United States

By The Narrator

The following is a basic look at the demographics of White percentages by state(s) within regions. I’ve used general geographic definitions to cluster states that are, well, naturally clustered together. So, for example, my usage of the term “south-west” may not be what an American would necessarily concur with. But my compartmentalizing of the states is more functional and done with Europeans, Australians, etc in mind .... I hope it’s all clear.

The point here is not to advocate some sort of regional movement by saying this region is Whiter than that region. It is simply to provide basic information. Besides migration patterns can change quickly and what appears to be a doomed state or region today may be Whiter in years to come. And Whiter regions or states today may be dramatically less so in ten years time.

So this is a “Just the Facts” type of exercise.

The percentages here are not fixed and tend to fluctuate a point or two even within the Census material. We’ll know more after next year when the 2010 census begins. And I expect the news for us to be worse than some imagine. I hope I’m wrong.

A few things to keep in mind looking at these percentages is that they are based on estimates from 2007 by the Census Bureau, not concrete numbers. Also, the definition of white which the Census uses includes peoples from North Africa and the Middle-East. So it erroneously includes Jews, Arabs, Iranians, Turks etc, as “white”. And there are somewhere around 14 million of those peoples in America. Lastly, the numbers of illegals have been, by all accounts, rather obviously (and likely intentionally) underestimated.

So looking at these percentages, you could arguably subtract anywhere from 1 to 10 additional points from the percentage of Whites in some, or all, states.

With that said, here goes. The percentage of Whites will appear next to each state. At the bottom of each list will be a total average for that region, except with the single states and the District of Columbia which would be redundant.

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by exPF

Are you in good health? Well, what defines good health? Is it enough not to have cancer or debilitating diseases, or should one expect a spark of vivacity, vigor and animal spirits?

Here’s a website that lists some non-traditional (mostly herbal) remedies for ailments which many people have but are rarely diagnosed.

That website will repay some research into the various topics of discussion. Some of the website is the domain of “Quackery” so be warned - most of it however is quite good.

I recommend that everyone do the liver flush.  It is a cleansing procedure that takes 2 days, and requires only oil, juice and Epsom salt. After I did it, I shat out massive amounts of ‘sand’ and rocks - apparently the contents of my liver - and became, overnight, a far better soccer player. Apparently, I’m a lot faster when I’m not carrying the contents of a sandbox inside my liver.

I also recommend the bowel cleanse - it will eliminate the poo in you that is stuck in your system, the so-called mucoid plaque.  Basically its a rubbery black rope-like shit-tube. Everyone is carrying this around - unless you’ve eaten a stirling diet your entire life.

Next up for me is the parasite cleanse - recommended for anyone, because everyone has some type of parasites.  This last cleanse requires more reading as there are many possible avenues for treatment. Parasites are a big drain on a man - for example, Candida is an internal yeast infection that looks like cotton balls and eats up all your magensium. You feel it when magnesium gets low because you can’t think so clearly.

Beyond this is the kidney cleanse, halogen cleanse, and chelating stuff. The latter removes heavy metals stored in your fat supply.  Then you can proceed to lose weight, so you burn off fat which is likely used in your body for toxin storage.

Anyway, at least do the simple stuff, because our philosophy needs happy, thriving, bright-faced exponents who will be more vivacious than the other side in all things.  Also if you find yourself lacking the happy childhood energy, you feel yourself getting older, rings under the eyes, beer belly - it need not be that way.  Go on a cleansing diet and restore some of your youthful vivacity.  We all know by observation how the state of the material body effects “the spirit” - with that in mind I wish all participants here the best gift of all - good health!