Weekly Shaarli
Week 05 (January 27, 2025)

He got to choose his own fairly unassailable position statements, but I still think Alex did a fantastic job in this.
James Pogue's excellent reporting on the intellectual far-right always provides little glimmers of insight, though for the most part I still can't quite make sense of Trumpism. In this article he quotes Sumantra Maitra, of The American Conservative saying "It’s between national capital and international capital." I think that summarizes the outlines of the movement, though the appeals to the cultural right (like the anti-immigration or the general racism) seem to have little to do with giving capitalists more power (or more labor to exploit).
"The law of equal liberty is the fundamental precept of liberalism and socialism. Stated in various ways by many thinkers, it can be summarized as the view that all individuals must be granted the maximum possible freedom as long as that freedom does not interfere with the freedom of anyone else."