Jack Graham

New essay. On Protestantism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and their relation to capitalism. New essay. On Protestantism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and their relation to capitalism. The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. And for a society based upon the production of commodities, in which

The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. And for a society based upon the production of commodities, in which the producers in general enter into social relations with one another by treating their products as commodities and values, whereby they reduce their individual private labou

The alt-right is now a past mode, but its influence as a stage in a process is still working itself out. Paleolibertarianism was a consciously devised mutation of Austrian-influenced libertarianism, concocted by the late-20th century’s most prominent devotee of Austrian dogma, Murray Rothbard (and h

A glib answer to the question ‘Why does Protestantism happen?’ would be ‘the printing press’. But this begs the question... To say that the protestant Reformation is an expression of the rise of capitalism is not to say that you have capitalist Protestantism on one side, feudal Catholicism on the ot

In The Reactionary Mind, Corey Robin claimed – drawing on Naomi Klein & Greg Grandin – that Hayek “admired Pinochet’s Chile so much that... In The Reactionary Mind, Corey Robin claimed – drawing on Naomi Klein and Greg Grandin – that Hayek “admired Pinochet’s Chile so much that he decided to hold a

On the legacy of fascist and reactionary libertarian theory in neoliberalism. All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision. – Carl Schmitt Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons

The Nazis won the war. They invaded and colonised the Western consciousness. They marched into, occupied, and restructured our heads. They redrew the maps in our minds. They razed and rebuilt our perceptions. They re-engineered our entire civilisation. They purged the libraries of our brains of the

Star Wars, America, and the politics of Republic, Empire, and Rebellion Three political categories dominate the Star Wars galaxy: Republic, Empire, and Rebellion. This is the arrangement in The Force Awakens just as much as in the original trilogy. Indeed, it is the apparent impossibility of telling

This is a slightly edited and rewritten version of something I posted at the old blog years ago. Since I'm thinking about Star Trek at the moment... * The Federation is supposedly post-capitalist, post-money, etc., yet it has many of the important hallmarks of advanced capitalist social organisation

An Examination of a Classic Statement of Reactionary Thought (I am republishing an edited and slightly expanded version of this essay here, since it came up in the most recent IDSG bonus episode. This essay was originally written in 2018, and I have not troubled to update references, so the reader w

This was written some years ago. It remains depressingly relevant. It is now clear to a great many people that what happened to the Native Americans as a result of the institution and independence of the United States of America was a scandal, a holocaust and a tragedy. The idea is so commonplace it