Was WWII a Battle Between Capitalism and Socialism?
Lawrence Samuels
2020-01-23 09:21
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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The little hidden secret about World War II is that it was a giant struggle between two opposing economic ideologies—capitalism and socialism. Unfortunately, the public is mostly unaware that the Nazi and Fascist ranks were chock-full of hardcore socialists and Marxist-lite ideologues. This was no accident. For decades the public had been...
Why Are Most Socialists Anti-Semitic?
Lawrence Samuels
2019-11-14 15:23
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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Ever since a horde of Democrat Socialists became the darlings of the news media in recent years, the specter of anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head. This is no accident. Many of these Democratic Party politicians, especially Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have embraced the ideals of socialism alongside those of anti-Semitism. And the reason for...
The 'Free Left' Rises to Challenge the 'Statist Left'
Lawrence Samuels
2019-08-25 11:11
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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In 2015, libertarian author and broadcaster Jeff Riggenbach threw down the gauntlet and urged libertarians to retake their historical position as members of the “Left.” He argued that no longer should classical liberals hide in the shadows of a broken-down political spectrum that has been rigged. After all, it was the classical liberals and the...
Releasing the Kraken of Political Power
Lawrence Samuels
2017-09-19 07:27
Column by Lawrence Samuels.
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What to make of Trump? Never has someone with so little political experience offended so many with so few words. This has aggravated almost everyone, but especially those who did not even vote for him.
For instance, the founder of antiwar.com in San Francisco recently remarked that after he told his left-wing friends that he had voted for Gary Johnson...
Can Advocates of Violence (Like Che) Become Icons for Peace?
Lawrence Samuels
2015-06-24 07:29
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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One would think that those who work diligently in the peace movement would praise those who speak warmly of peace and non-violence. But is this the case for today’s peace movement? One recent incident puts that assumption into doubt.
On May 17, 2015, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center held a fundraising event in a Monterey, California hotel to...
Historical Sabotage of Italian Fascism and Liberalism
Lawrence Samuels
2015-06-05 07:45
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One of history’s dirtiest secrets of the 20th Century is the cover-up and sabotage of Italian Fascism as a Marxist-inspired ideology that clings to the statist Left. At various times, Benito Mussolini was an avowed Marxist, socialist, Revolutionary Syndicalist, and atheist, who sought to abolish the Italian...
Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty
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Lawrence Samuels
2015-02-18 07:43
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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Chaos gets a bad rap—from the academic and scientific world, even from some uninformed libertarians. Few people realize that without the dynamics of chaos, order would not exist. In fact, nothing would exist. Without chaos there would be no creation, no structure and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the...
Fixing Historical Sabotage
Lawrence Samuels
2014-05-12 07:20
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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Being something of an amateur historian, I find it reprehensible that there are so-called historians willing to rewrite history to suit their own ideological narrative. But then again, as George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four, he “who controls the past, controls the future” and he “who controls the present controls the past....
Has Government Legalized Fraud?
Lawrence Samuels
2013-12-12 08:33
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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The federal government must have made fraud a legal practice. What else could one conclude in light of Obamacare?
When President Obama, his administration and his Democratic cohorts promoted the Affordable Health Care Act, they advertised it with a slew of silver-tongued falsehoods, eloquent misstatements and outright lies. In other words, Obamacare was...
Political Remedies and Global Warming
Lawrence Samuels
2013-09-11 06:45
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action.
Groucho Marx came up with a memorable witticism concerning the contorted nature of politics. He quipped, “Politics is the act of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and...
Chaology and Market-Based Economics
Lawrence Samuels
2013-07-17 06:31
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action.
Market chaologists and complexity economists recognize Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” metaphor as the earliest reference to how economic systems spontaneously emerge within society. In this way...
Swarm Intelligence and Dynamics
Lawrence Samuels
2013-06-05 07:27
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action.
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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Intelligences take many forms, but the particular ways in which social animals—ants, bees, wasps, termites, birds, fish, and so forth—network into highly coordinated units without supervision has...
The Licensing Effect
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Lawrence Samuels
2013-05-10 07:28
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action.
Column by L.K. Samuels.
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Good intentions rarely make good laws. Those who do evil almost always think they are doing good for goodness’ sake. Nobody sees himself as evil. As Will Smith, the American actor, once quipped, “...
Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Political Anarchists
Lawrence Samuels
2013-04-17 07:21
Column by new Root Striker L.K. Samuels.
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The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action.
Why do things rarely turn out as they should? Why do plans routinely backfire? Why is life so contradictory? Is there some logical explanation or theorem that would account for so many...
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