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White Supremacy Confronted and the Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. Professor Horne’s White Supremacy Confronted describes the origins of opposition to the Anglo-Dutch race regime in the African sub-continent and continues until the final end of NP rule in 1994. Horne’s prolific historical research, more than 30 books published, established him as a historian. However, his South Africa book is not only scholarship but also first hand reporting, even autobiographical in quality. Before bec...

A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power Sheldon Richman Posted on Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that “war is a continuation of politics by other means.” I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there’s a more elevated philosophical sense) is what Frederic Bastiat called “legal plunder.” Other thinkers have elaborated this idea. Franz Oppenheimer’s book The State comes to mind. Oppenheimer influenced Albert Jay Nock, Frank Chodorov, Murray R...

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:59 UTC The unprecedented storming of the US Capitol on Wednesday following Trump's Save America March is a classic Color Revolution tactic, though one which has divided Americans like never before over whether this stunning development is an anti-constitutional coup attempt by the incumbent's supporters in order to help him cling to power instead of abdicating in two weeks' time, or a legitimate "Democratic Security" movement by patriotically inclined people who desperately want to stop the steal and prevent an illegitimate placeholder from seizing power. Color Revol...

The article concludes: “[John Rawls] remains an inspiration to those of us who believe that it is possible to reason together about the meaning of justice and the common good, at a time when we seem to despair of the possibility of doing so.” The spirit of his work is summed up in the injunction that we should “agree to share one another’s fate”. This, says Sandel, “is an enduring moral argument against inequality. And a reminder that the world is not necessarily the way it has to be.” Unfortunately I think the more clear-eyed view is that expressed by Yves.

Remembering One of the Inspirations of the Arab Spring Ten years ago, uprisings in the Middle East found inspiration in the writings of an American non-violence scholar. Editor’s note: Political scientist and non-violence scholar Gene Sharp , was first published in 1973. It was , that found its way into the hands of anti-authoritarian activists in the Arab world. The book was conducted an interview with Sharp for The Progressive —one of the last before Sharp’s death. It appeared in the magazine in April/May 2017, but we are republishing it today on the tenth anniversary of ...