Category: Political

I heard about an article in the New Criterion a while back and did a little bit of examination and discussion of the article in a short video. The article is called “Leninthink,” and is written by Gary Saul Morson. It talks about the system of thought Lenin pushed as he reigned terror on the people of the newly formed Soviet Union.
Leninism, and, frankly, socialism of any type, are extremely dangerous and destructive ideologies, and it is important for any freedom-loving person to learn about these pernicious systems of thought, to better grapple with them and identify elements of them in modern political discourse.
My video is also available on Odysee at https://odysee.com/@MarginalNonHermit:3/leninthink-article-discussion:5

Update: The video is now also available on YouTube.

It always bugs me when people misdiagnose the cause of a lot of bad behavior by corporations, big ones especially. A lot of heat gets thrown at the corporations, and much is wasted burning the branches of this problem and ignoring the root, that is, the state.

Certainly, corporations can and will try to get away with a lot. But they have very little power to actually push people around before the state gets involved. And the state loves to get involved, because working with corporations gives them an excuse to use their power and find reasons to demand more!

I’ve been hearing a lot of what I would charitably term as concern trolls using late-stage capitalism as a rationale why so many firms today are becoming bad actors. No, it’s not because the Material Productive Forces are inevitably pushing us toward socialism. It’s not because voluntary trade has some kind of internal contradiction that will break upon itself and herald the next stage in social evolution.

It’s the state. The state’s velvet-covered iron fingerprints can be found practically everywhere these bad actors appear. And the idea of late-stage capitalism is just bad economics.

Enjoy.

Update: Video now also available on YouTube.

This showed up in the feed on Mises.org a few days ago and, even though it was published in the 1950s, it’s still extremely valid today. The video below is a short reading of a section of Mises’s book The Anti-capitalistic Mentality and it’s a good one. Enjoy!

The whole book is available for free from the Mises Institute at https://mises.org/library/anti-capitalistic-mentality. They also have a print version, if that’s more your style. All of the print books I’ve gotten from Mises have been very good quality, especially hardcovers.

Update: Video now also available on YouTube.