With thanks to the Ludvig von Mises Institute Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom of the … Continue reading
Joseph Stalin Who was he: History is filled with truths as well as half-truths and at times it can be complete fiction, but history does say that the man who turned the Soviet Union into a world superpower always felt unfairly … Continue reading
Leon Trotsky Who was he: Leon Trotsky was a Russian theorist, Soviet politician, Marxist revolutionary and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. He was a supporter of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, but he joined … Continue reading
The Bolsheviks were originally part of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), whichl followed the teachings of Karl Marx. They became a separate entity at the Second Party Congress in 1903 when the majority (‘bolshinstvo’ means majority in Russian) split … Continue reading
Who was he: Adolf Hitler was the Führer [English: leader] of Germany from 1933-1945 and the creator of the National Socialist (NAZI) party. Hitler is still among the most widely discussed and most reviled men in the Western world, more commonly … Continue reading
Tsar Nicholas II was responsible in part for the Russian Revolution due to his continued repression of the Russian Peasantry. The one incident that turned the tide completely against the Tsar was the shooting of unarmed demonstrators in St. Petersburg Square … Continue reading
“Zionism” is a term that has led many lives, which accounts for the confusion – sometimes intended, sometimes inadvertent – that frequently accompanies its use. The word has been attached, after the fact, to the emigration of organized groups of Jews from … Continue reading
Collectivism Collectivism is a vague term referring to almost any kind of sociopolitical/economic organization that gives precedence to the group over the individual. In other words, the individual is at all times expected to subordinate his or preferences for the … Continue reading
In the 20th century, alternative media was mostly known as “leftist” and gave readers insights into the world that mainstream publications did not, but with a distinctly collectivist perception. The alternative press was also, obviously, a paper press, with distribution mostly in … Continue reading
Fascism, like socialism and communism, is another “ism” that seeks to justify the role of the state in the means of production and the organization of society. Fascism was originally the work, apparently, of Italian “national syndicalists” who proposed the system in the … Continue reading