Economics

I thought I would post something about economics.
My initial influences in economic theory came from UMNO, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke. They generally advocate free exchange, elimination of trade barriers and so forth. But as far as systematic economic theory goes I am largely a proponent of what has been called the 'Austrian' school of economics, which I became acquainted with through the Ludwig von Mises Institute website. Since then I have found other 'non-Austrians' I agree with, such as Brian Caplan and David Friedman, but the core of my views are still Austrian.
As a science, the Austrians argue that economic science is a priori or deductive in nature; that the basic existential facts of individual values, scarcity and so forth allow us to form apodictic laws of economic science which can not be refuted by empirical claims. It also criticizes numerical and especially 'model' schools of economics as being methodologically invalid and even meaningless.
The Austrian school is strongly associated with American and British libertarianism, who tend to advocate statelessness or near-statelessness to be replaced by market mechanisms and institutions of private property.
I am also influenced by Geoism (Henry George is one of the men in my blog banner) and Mutualism and, in a more involved way, syndicalism.

Hans Hoppe - Praxeology: The Austrian Method


The Banksters Unmasked: The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle


The Impossibility of Economic Calculation Under State Socialism


Geoism

Music

Someone brought up the subject of the radical right Oi! music in Malaysia, so I thought I would post some of my favorites.

Anti-Republik Singapura

Singapore, a shining example of non-democracy (click to see whole picture).

Sir Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Mosley, much denigrated in his homeland and all but forgotten by the rest of the world, was one of the most insightful members of the fascist movement. Opposed to Britain and the United States entering the second world war, Mosley warned about the growth of democracy, international finance-capital and the inevitable economic crises that would attend these two.

Unlike some attached to the fascistic and national socialist right, Mosley was well aware that there was no villainous conspiracy behind the state of the world - "Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis." - ordinary conspiracies, though, were everywhere.

Sir Oswald Mosley on the Third Way (small mp3).



OswaldMosley.Com is an excellent site containing books, essays, commentary, audio and pictures of the leader of the British Union of Fascists.

Random Bits

“Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way” - Will Durant

One has to wonder what the fetish for 'equality' inspires in so many men and women. What is it that causes them to want to deny obvious, important and inescapable differences between individuals? To pretend that all outcomes could or 'ought' to be equal - I'm not even sure what such a concept is supposed to imply.

Videos on Ineqaulity:









Climate Change
Climate change is a total pseudoscience. The 'evidence' is so biased and poorly explained that there is no scientific reason anyone ought to take it seriously: any honest climate scientist will tell you that they just do not know.

Some Notes on Ideology, Politics

First, due to some discussions I have had on internet forums, I want to make a few general statements of the concepts I employ:

I reject the dichotomy between materialism and idealism. The bodily and spiritual health are identical, the states of physical agitation affecting the manifest instinctual reactions and processes of reasoning.

I am not a racialist. Someone actually wondered if I was NSDAP, but - I am Malaysian and Han Chinese; though I consider myself to be Malay. I am a nationalist, in the belief in the moral and practical value of a complex web of personal identity, pragmatic ends, cultural, biological, social and economic connections which arrived at through voluntary agreements reflect the actual values and well being of the ideological and contractual mask they overly. I do not for a moment conceive of expelling the white man from Singapore or Malaysia, if they can live with the common laws and cultural norms they can do or think anything they want. But the community and national ideology reflected by honestly accumulated knowledge will be the party line - it will be reflected in the moral and legal norms.

I am a Futurist, which is not to say Utopian. I am at the establishment of general material conditions required for the improvement of human physical, spiritual, ideological and economic organization. I do not claim to psychically forsee what that will be for any given individual or society, but I do believe that it is possible and desirable. There will be no waiting for the 'final stage of Communism', the State will be abolished instantly. The improvements will be within the lifetime of individuals, advances in all fields will be applied by those best able - and willing - to undertake them.

The Man of Tomorrow and the Party

One of the ultimate aims of Human biological and ideological self-engineering. Spiritual and physical health are to be developed, they are codependent on one another. The most radical and innovative genetic manipulation and advances of scholarship and organization are to be applied in this rebirth of the human race.
This is no theory of death-camps and double-Ph.D.s in white suits. It is a principle to be applied by private covenants, contracts and confederations and restrictive policies of individual communities; animated by the ideological and spiritual rebirth of mankind it aims at; maintained by the Party organization.

The Party is to be an absolutely revolutionary and transcendent organization built around the founding of a new system of values and community within which individuals and nations can find their identity; and each party will be specific to the nation.
It must rely only upon the most reliable theories and, where knowledge is deficient, remain silent. It must not make a single move until it will succeed - and when the opportunity arrives it must be ready to take power seemlessly and immediately implement its animating ideology.
This is the secret of successful parties: to know how to gain power, to move when power is available, and to know what to do after power is achieved.
It will seize control however is necessary, acting strictly according to its principles and being the driving force behind the new ideology and its hierarchy.
The party exists, in other words, to actually achieve the goals defined by the ideology and theory.
The party will is hard-line - specifically, the executive of the party. The party's sole role is to look to the revisionist scholarship and follow what they lay out for it, and the party will strictly determine what the party-line is and is not on the basis of the ideological structure.


Of course most of what the party will be doing amounts to a deconstruction of the existing state mechanism. It does not aim at the ownership of the state. It aims at the legitemacy of the state's.
From there it will implement and expand its influence to revolutionize the entire political and social structure. Though that is not to say abolish it. Certainly no country has everything wrong.
Simply that all of the present 'parliamentary' systems are to be dispatched at once, and their employees give notice. All national debt will be repudiated.

The point is precisely that the party does not 'control' society, it is the active executive body which relies on the scholarly and ideological Weltanschauung. The party succeeds because the population has accepted the true, perhaps simplified but not distorted, case and views of the scholarship. And the party, embodying this, thereby gains legitimacy and real power.

But this is not to be bureaucratic, arbitrary power. Its own structure and legitimacy rely on its meticulous adherence to the scholarship. It is not to retain power; there will be no way it can once it acts. It is there simply to take action, to make the transition irreversable.