Nikos Malliaris

We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore. —Donald Trump IN CONTRAST TO WHAT THE LIBERAL DOXA would like us to believe, Donald Trump’s victory should not be underestimated on account of the billionaire’s failure to win the popular vote. Trump’s victory should not be thought a surprise, either. It reflects a “structural” tendency of growing political polarization within Western societies over the past four decades. The extremes have been, on the one hand, the multi-cultural or “identity” liberalism/leftism with its origins in the social movements of the 60s, and, on the other hand, right-wing populism’s embrace of irrationality as a response to the excesses of the former. [Read More]

No coarser insult, no baser defamation, can be thrown against the workers than the remark, ‘Theoretical controversies are for the intellectuals’ —Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1900) Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement the only choice is – either bourgeois or socialist ideology… This does not mean, of course, that the workers have no part in creating such an ideology. [Read More]

We are the 99%! —Occupy Wall Street (2011) The Left must define itself on the level of ideas, conceding that in many instances it will find itself in the minority. —Leszek Kolakowski, The Concept of the Left (1968) Description THE DISTINCTION OF THE LEFT and the right was never clear. But following the failure of the Old Left, the relevance of these categories has increasingly ceased to be self-evident. [Read More]