Tag: Forms of government

  • Rethinking Liberalism and Fascism

    Rethinking Liberalism and Fascism

    Liberalism thinks of fascism as the domination of extremist precision, the suppression of some creative vitality. The deliberative character of parliamentary democracy – the inconclusiveness of dialogue – is contrasted with the absolutist closure of fascism. What if we reversed the liberal value judgement regarding fascism? What if fascism consisted not of dogmatic fixity and […]

  • Let Us Celebrate the People’s Patriots and End the Ignominy of Monarchical-Patriotic Legends

    Let Us Celebrate the People’s Patriots and End the Ignominy of Monarchical-Patriotic Legends

    An assembly of some 6,000 Quebec patriots, the Assembly of the Six Counties, was held October 23-24, 1837 despite public assemblies being banned by the British colonial government. The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) is calling for Victoria Day to be renamed Patriots’ Day. The aim is to engage people in discussion on the peoples’ […]

  • The Only Populists that Billionaires Fund are Right-wingers

    The Only Populists that Billionaires Fund are Right-wingers

    The 372-page book that the European Center for Populism Studies published in March 2023, The Impacts of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Right-wing Populism in Europe, opens its Chapter (p. 200-209) on “The Russia-Ukraine War and Right-Wing Populism in Latvia” by saying something that has broad applicability across all U.S.-and-allied nations, Right-wing populism, and […]

  • The Tampax King and His Vessel

    The Tampax King and His Vessel

    In December 1936, love won out for the British king Edward VIII, and he gave up the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite. What is socialite? According to Google Dictionary: “a person who is well known in fashionable society and is fond of social activities and entertainment.” Typically, this term is applied to […]

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