Lukas Organ



Articles by Lukas Organ

The Technocracy Movement and Howard Scott

The 20th century was full of ideological movements. Were we to look at American-made political movements alone, we can see the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the several Civil Rights Movements coupled with 60s Radicalism, Reagan-era American Conservatism, and closing the century off with a weird mixture of Bush-Clinton-Bush-era Conservatism and Liberalism. One American-made political movement that is not talked about enough, however, is technocracy.First, as a quite unique ideology, it inspired a mass movement during its height in the 30s and 40s. During that time, the movement built itself an organizational body with hundreds of thousands of adherents, it had its own mass rallies, its own caravans of cars, its own charismatic leader in its founder Howard Scott. But it did not come from

Read More »

The Jacobin Origins of Nationalism

It is a worthwhile project to examine, detail, and prove the leftist nature of nationalism, its core aspects, its history, and the effect it has played in history. This article will be about the beginning of nationalism and on exactly which group created it. It seeks to demonstrate that there is no such thing as leftist nationalism since all nationalism is leftist by nature.Origins of NationalismIn the modern political context, many associate racial or ethnic nationalism with the “right wing” as opposed to the cosmopolitanism, internationalism and universalism of the “left.” This, however, is very much mistaken, as racial and ethnic nationalism can only be considered “right wing” if in the context of being the “right wing” of the Left—much like how neoliberals and neoconservatives are

Read More »