He speaks from the heart!
IMO, #neoliberalism and #libertarianism were justified for a maximum of about 5-10 years in the era of #Kohl, #Thatcher and #Reagan, when e.g. the so called “Deutschland AG” had to be broken up.
Instead of dying afterwards, the ideology mutated into a delusion, enslaved people, created monopolies, plundered natural resources, murdered, putsched and invaded other countries “when needed”.
#Trump and his #fascism are just the visible fruiting body of this deadly fungus.
"Transgression and disruption as aesthetic ideology, from Marinetti to experimental art, counterculture, neoliberalism, and Trump" is an article originally written in Dutch by me and Nienke Terpsma. It was commissioned for, and published in, the new issue (2/2005) of the art magazine Metropolis M which is covering the 60th anniversary of the Dutch Provo movement.
The text reflects on how futurism, accelerationism, and chaos aesthetics have become part of neoliberal, right-wing libertarian, and contemporary fascist politics, but how seeming antidotes like community and care can also be hijacked.
We've made a slightly expanded and revised English version of the text available here:
http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/essays/transgression_and_disruption_as_aesthetic_ideology/
#accelerationism #futurism #communityart #transgression #disruption #neoliberalism #libertarianism #fascism #populism
Who Advertises on Twitter? Its Biggest Investors: Saudi Arabia
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/twitter-x-saudi-arabia-advertisers-elon-musk-prince-alwaleed
Musk's deep ties to billionaire royals
#billiionaires #Musk #Twitter #Xcorp #DOGE #fascists #ElectoralFraud #Trump #Koch #SaudiArabia #HumanRightsViolations #capitalism #libertarianism #ClimateCrisis
"Over the past two decades, the self-avowed libertarian’s melding of genetic pronouncements with bootstrapping family-values talk has served as the bridge spanning divergent factions of the racialist right, from its IQ-obsessed, DEI-hating Silicon Valley wing to its white nationalist fringes.
Far from rejecting the dynamic of market competition, this new formation deepens it. From the United States and Britain to Hungary and Argentina, so-called populists on the right have not rejected global capitalism as such. Rather, they have rejected the 1990s model of governing global capitalism that revolved around large multilateral trade agreements—opting instead for unilateral action, as in Trump’s use of tariffs as leverage to open markets for U.S. investors and U.S. products and services. In general, the leaders of this right offer few plans to rein in finance, re-industrialize, or restore a Golden Age of job security. On the contrary, their calls to privatize, deregulate, and slash taxes come straight from the playbook shared by the world’s leaders for the past thirty years.
In other words, this new right does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it—one that accepts an international division of labor while tightening controls on certain kinds of migration. It assigns intelligence averages to countries in a way that collectivizes and renders innate the concept of “human capital.” It appeals to values and traditions that cannot be captured statistically, shading into a language of national essences and national character. The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/free-markets-and-fixed-natures/
#Libertarianism #Neoliberalism #Racism #Eugenics #Capitalism #Immigration #Scumbags #Populism
Are there any chat rooms for discussion / actions on climate and economic dismantling.
Please share.
#climatechange #climateaction #economicdismantling #EatTheRich #anarchism #communism #socialism #libertarianism
"The output of new fusionism was and continues to be virulently, nauseatingly racist. One prominent figure in the movement gleefully recalled watching a peer tell “a black intellectual that his race’s problems might be caused by an hereditary IQ deficiency.” Another, Richard J. Herrnstein, a co-author of the notorious “The Bell Curve,” wrote in a letter to a friend: “It continually amazes me that even biologists deny having eugenic sentiments, as if they were shameful.”
The end goal of such a noxious politics was to enshrine racial and gendered inequalities as inevitable, to outsource the difficult work of democratic dispute to pseudoscientists, and to appeal to the ostensible authority of biology to quash dissent. (Never mind that virtually all credible biologists rejected its assertions.) It was a political movement that aspired to eliminate politics altogether, replacing disagreement in the public sphere with the fatalism of genetics.
“Hayek’s Bastards” can be dense — a risk for any serious work of intellectual history — but it can also be entertaining. Slobodian’s wry commentary offers welcome respite from both the difficulty and the moral odiousness of his subject: He describes a neoliberal economist’s choice to live in an artists loft as “off-brand” and decries the “punitive neo-Victorian tone” of new fusionist books with titles like “The Loss of Virtue.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/04/04/hayeks-bastards-quinn-slobodian-review/
#Neoliberalism #Racism #NewFusionism #Libertarianism #Anarchocapitalism #PoliticalEconomy
"If you are a libertarian and you believe in the power of markets ... how can you be so stupid as to not also be a socialist?
If you believe that competitive markets are the way that we're creative, then you should be doing everything in your power to maximise the number of skilled, confident, unafraid, joyful market participants. In which case poverty is a crime against libertarianism."
#DavidBrin, 2023
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/256-david-brin
(1/2)
"Never has libertarian ruling-class theory been put more clearly or forcefully than in the words of (James) Mill: there are two classes, Mill declared, ‘The first class, those who plunder, are the small number. They are the ruling Few. The second class, those who are plundered, are the great number. They are the subject Many’." https://mises.org/library/book/austrian-perspective-history-economic-thought #aphet #jamesmill #libertarianism #rulingclass #economics #rothbard #politics
#usregierung #POTUS47 #MAGA #USA #uspolitics #uspolitik #libertarianism #Trump #France #Frankreich #Europa #Europe #Souveränität #sovereignty #sovereignty
wo sind wir eigentlich? Was bilden sich diese Kolonialisten ein? https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/europaeische-firmen-sollen-trumps-anti-diversitaets-linie-folgen-a-6ae3db2a-ce90-40e8-b807-4d7a872c249e
Where are we now? What do those colonialist imagine themselves? American embassy in France urges French companies to drop down diversity politics in less than 6 days.
The Trump Administration: Government by Billionaires, for Billionaires
https://cepr.net/publications/the-trump-administration-government-by-billionaires-for-billionaires/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wikiCenter_for_Economic_and_Policy_Research
#billionaires #capitalism #inequality #plutocracy #meritocracy #oligarchy
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Musk #DOGE #libertarianism #privatization #Christofascism
التحررية و الحركة الرجعية الجديدة في البيت الأبيض
يقف #بيتر_ثيل صاحب الشخصية الغامضة، عند مفترق طرق التكنولوجيا والسياسة والفلسفة. وله تأثير كبير على عالم السياسة والتكنولوجيا اليوم. يُعرف بيتر ثيل بأيديولوجيته المعقدة والمتناقضة في بعض الأحيان والتي تمزج بين الليبرالية والمحافظة المتأثرة بحركة الرجعية الجديدة ورؤية مستقبلية للمجتمع.
#peter_thiel
#elonmusk
#libertarianism
https://newsfrontpage.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%87%d9%88-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%b1-%d8%ab%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%87%d9%86%d8%af%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ba%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b6-%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%ba%d8%a7%d8%b1/
[#TwoWords : Elon Musk] Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/palantir_covid_inquiry_comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470010
#billionaires #oligarchy #libertarianism #meritocracy #plutocracy #capitalism #protofascism
#surveillance #Palantir #privacy
#TwoWords
#SocialJustice #sustainability #HumanRights #EnvironmentalRights
CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate
Your elected/appointed fascists at work: IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-predicts-doge-lost-half-a-trillion-dollars-for-the-usa
Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-revenue-loss-federal-budget
Staff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue
#USpol #USlaw #Trump #fascism #billionaires #Musk #DOGE #oligarchy #libertarianism
Elon Musk is accelerating a 50-year government privatization project
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/22/elon-musk-is-accelerating-a-50-year-government-privatization-project-_partner
Trump’s DOGE campaign accelerates a longtime Republican trend
#USpol #Trump #fascism #Musk #DOGE #billionaires #Lutnick #privatization #oligarchy #Koch #libertarianism #USPS
Gone are the numbered worlds.
You know, as in ‘third world’.
Now we have only zones of gray.
Less or more “libertarian.”
And, given a moment to think, most Americans should realize which way we slid on that scale.
Sudan got more libertarian, too.
#usregierung #POTUS47 #MAGA #USA #uspolitics #uspolitik #libertarianism #Trump
Wer hinabtauchen will in die lange zurückliegenden trüben Quellen aktueller amerikanischer Politik sollte dieses Buch lesen: Nancy McLean - "Democracy in Chains". Es handelt von James Buchanan, Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger & Autor eines grundlegenden Lehrbuchs, das Generationen von #vwl Studis lesen mußten
Who wants to dive deep down in the very old muddy sources of actual american politics should read this book:
Donations for Seasteading Institute
#Seasteading #Libertarian #Libertarianism #AnCap
#SeasteadingInstitute asks for donations in their 2025 fundraiser: https://www.seasteading.org/halfway-there/
They want to create so-called "Classification Society" so that seasteads can be "legalized" in order to get maritime flag with insurance, making them not "pirates" 
in the international waters.
I can't see me living in the sea, but I like their initiative in principle.
Their latest video:
"The majority of people in Argentina (53%) are now living in poverty. Their purchasing power and standard of living have been crushed by Milei’s brutal austerity.
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of Argentines said in June 2024, after half a year of Milei’s rule, that they were worse off economically.
While Argentina’s real economy is in crisis, the stock market has boomed, enriching local oligarchs and rich foreign investors.
Milei’s government has also promoted a notorious carry trade scheme known as the “bicicleta financiera” (financial bicycle) that has guaranteed massive returns for the few Argentines wealthy enough to invest.
Aside from finance, the few other sectors of the economy that are growing under Milei are agriculture and mining — extractive industries that rely on exports and benefit from a falling currency and weak domestic demand.
In short, Argentina is being turned into an impoverished, deindustrialized resource colony for foreign corporations and oligarchs."
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/02/28/javier-milei-argentina-economy-resource-colony/
#Argentina #Milei #Privatopia #AnarchoCapitalism #Libertarianism
So, VCs and "enterpreneurs" are parasiting the public infrastructure payed by U.S. taxpayers to create their fantasy islands throughout the U.S. I guess it's cheaper than paying for that infrastructure in their own desert islands...
"Several groups representing “startup nations”—tech hubs exempt from the taxes and regulations that apply to the countries where they are located—are drafting Congressional legislation to create “freedom cities” in the US that would be similarly free from certain federal laws, WIRED has learned.
According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trey Goff, the chief of staff of the startup nation known as Próspera, tells WIRED that he and other Próspera representatives working under an advocacy group called the Freedom Cities Coalition have been meeting with the Trump administration about the idea in recent weeks. He claims the administration has been very receptive. In 2023, Trump floated the idea of creating 10 freedom cities. Now, Goff says that Próspera’s vision is to create “not just 10, but as many as the market can handle.” They hope to have drafted legislation ready by the end of the year."
https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/
Freedom Cities
