Great article. I’ve never found him consistent and I watched a youtube
of him taking questions from people, he sounds VERY arrogant.
But his crux is identity. Right or wrong, we are seeing the emergence of ethnic politics. Due to BLM, mass immigration, anti- white sentiment, woke political ineptitude and inflation, whites are starting to become aware of their identity.
This places Sohrab in a very difficult spot, his wife’s Chinese, he’s Iranian and his kids are half with Prussian names. So this is why Sohrab is always critical of right wing aspects which unite whites.
This is why he is ping ponging around with no consistency.
The west is changing. Liberalism is dying. But I’ve noticed a MASSIVE change since October, 7. The world’s gone tribal and it’s hard if you don’t fit within a secure tribe, let alone a tribe at all…
“At the time, it was a necessary corrective for exploitive capitalists, and was responsible for uplifting millions of people from poverty.”
That’s just bad economics—the same kind of bad economics that leads to Ahmari-ism. Real wages are determined by general productivity levels (which is determined by capital investment/technology), not a quasi-Marxist tug of war between capital and labor for profits/wages. Also, trying to escape the evils of Wokeism by capturing the state is not realistic. The libertarian solution of a modus vivendi around principles of liberty is the only escape because then you can freeze people you don’t like out of your neighborhood, schools, etc.
Neoliberal economics is most definitely an enemy of traditional conservative and rightist values; Margaret Thatcher was terrible and did nothing to help the native British working classes nor stop mass immigration. She and Blair were the tag-team that destroyed The Old Britain. If you love chavs thank Thatcherism for producing them. Sohab is largely correct on economics but wrong on race and culture.
> It predominated in the early Biden years, before Musk bought Twitter, and where Woke Capitalism seemed a leviathan, in need of state sanction if it ever were to be brought to heel.
Another proposal that suffers from the "if we had enough power to implement this, we wouldn't need to" problem.
It just goes to show you can’t build a conservatism that doesn’t acknowledge HBD. HBD teaches you that class and racial inequalities are just natural genetic outcomes, not problems to be solved.
Certainly there are dumb things conservatives did in the past. They wasted a lot of political capital talking about entitlement reform even though it’s never going to happen. They thought immigration reform was the way to win over Hispanics, when in fact they hate immigrants and like trumpism.
One could certainly build a party that recognizes Reaganism died with Romney and tries to win over male POC outside the underclass by being friendly to their interests. But there’s a smarter more freedom based way to do it. Not “industrial policy”.
Great article. I’ve never found him consistent and I watched a youtube
of him taking questions from people, he sounds VERY arrogant.
But his crux is identity. Right or wrong, we are seeing the emergence of ethnic politics. Due to BLM, mass immigration, anti- white sentiment, woke political ineptitude and inflation, whites are starting to become aware of their identity.
This places Sohrab in a very difficult spot, his wife’s Chinese, he’s Iranian and his kids are half with Prussian names. So this is why Sohrab is always critical of right wing aspects which unite whites.
This is why he is ping ponging around with no consistency.
The west is changing. Liberalism is dying. But I’ve noticed a MASSIVE change since October, 7. The world’s gone tribal and it’s hard if you don’t fit within a secure tribe, let alone a tribe at all…
I intended to write a comment here, but it was too long so I published it as a separate piece. Please see the link below, and good work!
https://open.substack.com/pub/sjtucker/p/on-sohrab-ahmari-and-safe-dissent?r=1lyqk5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Just wanted to say I learn about more interesting writers through your essays than anywhere else.
“At the time, it was a necessary corrective for exploitive capitalists, and was responsible for uplifting millions of people from poverty.”
That’s just bad economics—the same kind of bad economics that leads to Ahmari-ism. Real wages are determined by general productivity levels (which is determined by capital investment/technology), not a quasi-Marxist tug of war between capital and labor for profits/wages. Also, trying to escape the evils of Wokeism by capturing the state is not realistic. The libertarian solution of a modus vivendi around principles of liberty is the only escape because then you can freeze people you don’t like out of your neighborhood, schools, etc.
Neoliberal economics is most definitely an enemy of traditional conservative and rightist values; Margaret Thatcher was terrible and did nothing to help the native British working classes nor stop mass immigration. She and Blair were the tag-team that destroyed The Old Britain. If you love chavs thank Thatcherism for producing them. Sohab is largely correct on economics but wrong on race and culture.
> It predominated in the early Biden years, before Musk bought Twitter, and where Woke Capitalism seemed a leviathan, in need of state sanction if it ever were to be brought to heel.
Another proposal that suffers from the "if we had enough power to implement this, we wouldn't need to" problem.
> civilizationally corrosive force of the LGBT movement
That is merely the most extreme form of the civilizationally corrosive force that is sexual liberation.
https://movingtorussia.substack.com/p/sexual-restraint-helps-cultures-flourish
It just goes to show you can’t build a conservatism that doesn’t acknowledge HBD. HBD teaches you that class and racial inequalities are just natural genetic outcomes, not problems to be solved.
Certainly there are dumb things conservatives did in the past. They wasted a lot of political capital talking about entitlement reform even though it’s never going to happen. They thought immigration reform was the way to win over Hispanics, when in fact they hate immigrants and like trumpism.
One could certainly build a party that recognizes Reaganism died with Romney and tries to win over male POC outside the underclass by being friendly to their interests. But there’s a smarter more freedom based way to do it. Not “industrial policy”.