Allen Gindler

Allen Gindler


  • Rubio’s Rise: Can He Steer Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision?

    March 6, 2025

    Rubio’s Rise: Can He Steer Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision?

    Dear reader, before you proceed, I need to make a confession. I supported Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.  As a libertarian, I strongly oppose the leftist agenda of infringing on property rights, collectivizing consciousness, and redi...

  • Trump’s Economic Outlook: Policy Shifts and Early Impact

    March 4, 2025

    Trump’s Economic Outlook: Policy Shifts and Early Impact

    After a little more than a month back in the White House in 2025, Donald Trump’s presidency has already left a profound mark on the U.S. economy, reigniting debates over tariffs, inflation, unemployment, and the broader economic trajectory. His...

  • Why Ukraine Is Cautious

    February 26, 2025

    Why Ukraine Is Cautious

    By now, it seems that almost every global citizen has absorbed a prevailing belief: if Donald Trump had been president, Russia would never have invaded Ukraine.  This idea permeates discussions about the ongoing war, framing Trump as a figu...

  • The Challenges of Utopian Thought in a Complex World

    October 19, 2024

    The Challenges of Utopian Thought in a Complex World

    The phenomenon of children inventing imaginary friends is a well-documented and common occurrence in early childhood development. These imaginary companions are often endowed with idealized features, representing perfection in both character and beha...

  • January 21, 2021

    Where to Find a Principled Right-Wing Party

    During the Cold War, Soviet propagandists mocked the American political system by pointing out that its two major parties are the same.  According to Marx's understanding of societal and economic processes, if the means of production di...

  • December 24, 2020

    Destination: Socialism

    In a recent article, I stated that the U.S. lacks an influential right-wing party, and our two major parties — Democrats and Republicans — are left and center-left, respectively.  That is, the perceived rightness of the GOP make...

  • December 11, 2020

    Critical Race Theory: As 'Pseudo' as Pseudoscience Gets

    Racial relations are a complicated and controversial topic, so many are uncomfortable and even afraid to discuss it.  I consider myself an exception, given my "suitable background": I am a European-American, based on my geographic...

  • November 18, 2020

    News Flash: Most Republicans Are Socialists, Too

    Many people ask how we got to this point in our country, where everything now hangs in the balance, and the socialist takeover is quite real.  The answer to this question is twofold. First, neither ordinary people nor public opinion lead...

  • January 28, 2020

    Obama Prefers a Republican President

    During the 2016 presidential election, I had the feeling that Barack Obama was not very enthusiastic about the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.  His rare rallies in support of Hillary were not energetic enough and were held in the same style....

  • July 3, 2019

    How Libertarianism Fails

    Modern libertarianism is founded on ideas of the prevalence of individual rights, privacy, and respect for private property and the absolute negation of coercion and involuntary restrictions toward sovereign individuals.  Traditionally, com...

  • June 10, 2019

    My Memory of Chernobyl

    Last April marked the thirty-third anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.  This date is devoted to many publications of memories from participants in the aftermath of the accident and ordinary residents who lived ...

  • May 26, 2019

    Debunking Another Leftist Myth: Nazi Fascists and Fascist Nazis

    The Left has put out an enormous effort to convince humanity that Italy's fascism and Germany's National Socialism have been a phenomenon of the right.  In the course of building this myth, the leftists have created yet another...

  • May 20, 2019

    No, the Fascists and the Nazis Were Not Right-Wingers

    The Left and mainstream political science identify Italian fascism and German National Socialism as right-wing ideologies.  Their motivation is clear: they do not want to be associated with regimes that brought civilization horror and suffe...

  • May 2, 2019

    Explaining Ukrainegate

    The election of the president of the United States in 2016 was shamefully overshadowed by the so-called "Russia collusion" hoax propelled by unscrupulous Democratic operatives and their henchmen in the media.  Now that Robert Muel...

  • April 26, 2019

    How 'Evolutionary Socialism' Saved Marx's Failing Theory

    This article concerns a particular flavor of socialism that is the most relevant to our time.  Especially intriguing, this revision of Marxism was undertaken by a direct disciple of the founders of Marxism: Engels's personal friend and ...

  • April 22, 2019

    What Did Marx and Engels Think of Other Races?

    For over 150 years, proponents of socialism have been perceived as adherents of internationalism and carriers of societal moral authority.  However, where did this perception come from, and how did it come about?  Does perception ...

  • April 19, 2019

    The Ideological Roots of Modern Socialists

    More often than not, socialism is associated with Marxism.  But this is a misconception, as Marxism is an ideology of communism, an extreme and exceptional current of socialism.  Marxism left a significant ideological im...

  • April 14, 2019

    What Is Socialism?

    The word socialism has been around for quite a while.  It would seem that everything should already be transparent with the meaning of this word.  Alas, every new generation of troubled hearts constantly refers back to the notion ...

  • April 10, 2019

    The Marxist's Paradox

    In people's perception, both revolutionaries and laypersons, Marxism has always been the theory of socialism and a call for revolution.  However, this is a misconception or even an urban myth regarding genuine, orthodox Marxism. ...