Democrats' Frankenstein Turns: Communist Ghost Dance Now Set To Devour The Party

Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

"Kill them. Murder them. Let the streets soak in their red capitalist blood.”

- Hasan Piker

You can’t overstate the power of ideas, especially bad ideas, and super-especially bad ideas that are really just manifestations of emotional states such as envy, vengefulness, enmity, sloth, and greed. Did somebody say communism? A lot of people are saying it lately. This garbage barge of management nostrums for the ills of advanced industrial society has steamed back into New York Harbor and is busy now dispatching its agents across the land.

It’s yet another youth movement in an America which cultivates them at regular intervals associated with Fourth Turnings. I happened to be in college during the last one, the hippie rebellion of the late 1960s. It was mostly adolescent sexual energy tinged with resentment over the military draft and the war that went with it, plus a lot of marketing opportunities for music and clothing.

The US economy back then was still a roaring industrial engine. The comforts of that bygone time are legendary. You could easily support a family on an assembly-line job. College was cheap as hell — my State U charged about $500-a-year for tuition and room-and-board. (Imagine that!) You could hide-out from the draft there, too. The new birth-control pill turned campus life into a non-stop orgy with classes for R & R. Is it any wonder that the hippies morphed so easily into hedge funders?

This time around it’s pretty ugly for the youth demographic. College for them turned out to be a life-altering swindle, burdening the young with unpayable loans that can’t even be escaped via bankruptcy. Even the sex angle was ruined by vindictive feminism and the trans fad. Work is scarce and it’s nearly impossible to make a living at it, that is, pay for food and a roof over your head (and, ugh, those loan repayments!). Plus, work is mostly found only in meaningless service to despotic corporations. The most enterprising might land a job in an NGO, but the work there is “activism,” which is pretend work, productive of nothing but the acting-out of grievances.

These grievances, it has been noted by many high-toned observers like VDH, are real enough to provoke a desperate reach for remedies, and communism is a ready-made portfolio for all that. In the 1960s, we still had the reverberations of the civil rights crusade setting a basic moral tone for hippiedom. But fifty years later, that has all mutated into a race-and-gender hustle that adds so much piquancy to the recycled communist agenda. (Note that a hustle is a low-grade racket, and a racket is an effort to get something for nothing.)

So, today’s communist program is not just a war against the injustices of capital, but a jihad against the Western Civ horse that capital rode in on, and most particularly the white horseman up in the saddle.

Stephen Kotkin explains the real reason Marxism keeps attracting intellectuals and young people, even after the body count.

It is not because the theory works. It is because it offers something far more seductive: total, rapid transformation and a special role for the intellectual class.

 In a market system, ordinary people make their own decisions. Under Marxism-Leninism, the intellectuals get to make the decisions for everyone. They become the engineers of society. Workers and peasants are treated as people with “false consciousness” who need to be led.

 The ideology flatters the people who believe they are smarter than the rest of society. That is why the blood does not put them off. The power is worth the cost.

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The US now has just a few weeks left of SPR drains left before it will be time to panic...

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“This is some of the clearest evidence yet that an AI model can run a complete cyberattack from start to finish without a human steering it...”

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AI STOCK ROUT: Hedge fund nightmare

Worst period for hedge funds since 2008 after AI stock rout

Falling US tech and Asian chip stocks hit investment pools amid bubble fears

Hedge funds focused on AI stocks have suffered their worst month since 2008, according to new figures.

A plunge in the value of US tech giants and Asian semiconductor groups led tech funds to drop by 7pc in July, according to new data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR).

This is the worst period for them since the depths of the global financial crisis in January 2008.

The slump underlines fears about an unravelling of the AI tech boom, which has driven Wall Street to record highs.

 Alarm over a possible bubble in tech stocks grew after an AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, founded by Leopold Aschenbrenner, came close to collapse amid a 67pc fall in value.

It forced the 24-year-old investor, once hailed as the “Nostradamus of AI”, to sell the bulk of his fund’s portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel, under pressure from Wall Street lenders whose money he was using to make big bets on AI stocks.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/10/worst-period-in-nearly-20-years-hedge-funds-ai-stock-rout/

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