The Liberation of Venezuela – Maduro captured!

In one of the funniest developments of world history, U.S. forces have successfully captured the socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, in an operation that lasted about three hours. Despite the best attempts of the impotent cult known as the Revolutionary Communist International, no one was able to ‘mobilise’ in the face … Read more

What is socialism? An examination of a monstrous ideology!

Socialism is when the entire population is the property of the state. Socialism is Venezuela. Socialism is when the entire population is starving for lack of access to basic necessities because of the government’s economic mismanagement. Socialism is when you are constantly reminded that the individual is worthless and that the collective is everything. Socialism … Read more

Why you should abandon Trotskyism today!

We are five years on from my desertion of the International Marxist Tendency (now rechristened as the Revolutionary Communist International). Nonetheless, here I am to tell you why you should desert Trotskyism. If you are a doubting member of any one of the dozens of fissiparous, impotent, hermetic Trotskyist sects existing on the fringes of … Read more

Emerson on the virtues of renegacy

“On my saying, ‘What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?’ my friend suggested ‘But these impulses may be from below, not from above.’ I replied, ‘They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from … Read more

Schopenhauer on the stupidity of socialism

And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from … Read more

The Lost World of British Communism by Raphael Samuel

Raphael Samuel (1934-1996) was part of that extraordinary crop of British Marxist social historians that emerged out of the crumbling world of the Stalinist British Communist Party – among them, E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams and Eric Hobsbawm. He wrote a series of essays on the ‘lost world’ of British Communism during the 1980s, which were … Read more