SWIMMING IN OUR ENEMIES

by Colin Liddell

The Engelman controversy has been interesting. Not since watching Busby Berkeley’s Babes on Broadway (1941) have I seen so many knees jerk in unison. The hatred of Engelman, a poor soul who is driven to live his life on comment boards, is clearly palpable, like an open wound or a grisly, throbbing case of butt hurt.

FREEDOM OF INQUIRY OR IDEOLOGICAL CONTROL?

A recent "tempest in a teapot" controversy regarding a certain unpopular writer getting a piece published at Alternative Right has prompted co-editor Andy Nowicki to ponder certain weighty matters.

Just who precisely are we of the dissident right, and what exactly do we aim to accomplish in our fierce opposition to encroaching totalitarian control by our would-be "betters"—those who daily thrust their smelly little orthodoxies in our faces and expect us to curtsy simperingly before them?

WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BE LIKE?

by John Engelman

One way to predict the future is to think of a future one desires, and to think of ways that future will be achieved. The most famous example of this can be seen in the writings of Karl Marx. Marx was disturbed by the effects the industrial revolution was having on the lives of the factory workers who made the industrial revolution possible. He managed to convince himself and his followers that in the economic and social chaos of laissez faire capitalism were macroeconomic tendencies that would lead to the creation of an economy and a society without war, poverty, or crime, where everyone would like his or her job.

There would not even be jobs in the traditional sense. In The German Ideology, chapter three, Karl Marx wrote, “In a communist society there are no painters but only people who engage in painting among other activities.”

Before we sneer at Marx we should acknowledge that the economic system that inspired his writings had serious injustices. Millions of men, women, and even children worked twelve hours a day six days a week in dangerous factories and mines for subsistence incomes.