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Thread ID: 14298 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-06-23
2004-06-23 07:22 | User Profile
I got ahold of the July Chronicles. I must say, despite Flemming's usual 'there are no conservatives, we must all be conservatives' spiel, the issue is a vast improvement over recent ones. True, Chronicles authors don't seem to have the foggiest idea that protectionist policies were economic disasters in the past, nor do they give any sign of grasping that the economic resources we 'transfer' are not part of some unknown zero-sum game....
But they can cuts the free trade fanatics to rivets; and also give the impression that people in America care about and understand people in Europe, and vice versa. Plus we find perhaps the perfect anti-SPLC articl. An easy target, but one well worth our attention. Finally: Paul Gottfriend seemed in particularly good form this issue. He does appear to be their star intellect.
Now if they could just get some good MacDonald articles (although I think the Jewish Gottfried has already expressed some ire concerning MD's theories...).
But I wont wish for them to wise up on free trade. I sense a hardened position there. I do wish that there was a mag out that was somewhere between Chronicles/Amcon and the right-libertarian mags/sites, in terms of its content.
But apparently right-wingers can't seem to 'agree to disagree' when it comes to free trade and protectionism. Or at least not enough to run a decent magazine. Very odd, that. More stired up divide-and-conquer, I'll assume.
2004-06-23 09:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=darkstar]I got ahold of the July Chronicles. I must say, despite Flemming's usual 'there are no conservatives, we must all be conservatives' spiel, the issue is a vast improvement over recent ones. True, Chronicles authors don't seem to have the foggiest idea that protectionist policies were economic disasters in the past, nor do they give any sign of grasping that the economic resources we 'transfer' are not part of some unknown zero-sum game....
But they can cuts the free trade fanatics to rivets; and also give the impression that people in America care about and understand people in Europe, and vice versa. Plus we find perhaps the perfect anti-SPLC articl. An easy target, but one well worth our attention. Finally: Paul Gottfriend seemed in particularly good form this issue. He does appear to be their star intellect.
Now if they could just get some good MacDonald articles (although I think the Jewish Gottfried has already expressed some ire concerning MD's theories...).
But I wont wish for them to wise up on free trade. I sense a hardened position there. I do wish that there was a mag out that was somewhere between Chronicles/Amcon and the right-libertarian mags/sites, in terms of its content.
But apparently right-wingers can't seem to 'agree to disagree' when it comes to free trade and protectionism. Or at least not enough to run a decent magazine. Very odd, that. More stired up divide-and-conquer, I'll assume.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it was a great issue. Sam Francis' article pushes the envelope.
On the trade issue, I think that most of them miss the main point - that the massive structural trade imbalances are due to the "virtual reality" aspects of Capitalism - a wholly imaginary fiat monetary system, trillions in imaginary assets on derivative books, and the predatory class of managers of enormous transnational corporations who see Americans merely as producers and consumers to be chumped in their roles as modern P. T. Barnums.
The goal is to reinstitute private property and restore a truly free market by ridding our economy of the inherently distortive, "virtual reality" institutions of fiat money, publicly traded stock, unchecked advertising, and omnipresent (and omnipotent) usury.
Some of the Chronicles guys lean toward Distributism, but as far as I know none of them except [URL=http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=14292]Storck[/URL] actually identify publicly with Catholic social teaching (good article in this same issue by Storck, btw).
Walter
Walter
2004-06-23 21:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=darkstar]I got ahold of the July Chronicles. I must say, despite Flemming's usual 'there are no conservatives, we must all be conservatives' spiel, the issue is a vast improvement over recent ones. True, Chronicles authors don't seem to have the foggiest idea that protectionist policies were economic disasters in the past, nor do they give any sign of grasping that the economic resources we 'transfer' are not part of some unknown zero-sum game....
But they can cuts the free trade fanatics to rivets; and also give the impression that people in America care about and understand people in Europe, and vice versa. Plus we find perhaps the perfect anti-SPLC articl. An easy target, but one well worth our attention. Finally: Paul Gottfriend seemed in particularly good form this issue. He does appear to be their star intellect.
Good to see Chronicles is in better form. Though I'm sure without the inveterebrate Chronicles bashers here our discussion will be considerd by some to be incomplete. What a shame. :lol:
Now if they could just get some good MacDonald articles (although I think the Jewish Gottfried has already expressed some ire concerning MD's theories...).
He did write the Chronicles review on MacDonald, A Race Apart. He also exchanged letters at Chronicles with MacDonald, with some moderate disagreement. I don't know if there's anything very recent.