Doug Stokes

Professor of International Relations. Modul, Vienna. Hon. Prof., Exeter University. Think tanker. Confront the infinite.

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

Industrial capitalism's dynamism ended the need for coerced labour. Race communists have this exactly the wrong way around. A tractor can do in 1 day what a 100 people can to do in week. Look at any chart of human development. So much bs just floats in the cultural ether.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”

Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”

Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”

Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”

Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”

Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”

Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”

Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”

Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”

Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”

Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

Soldier shouts at Pete Hegseth's group to 'maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect' - YouTube https://t.co/yRUylleLeH Nicely captures things...

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

Radomir Tylecote reflects on how the Left’s antisemitic heritage met Islamist grievance.

https://t.co/UFthl47lPU

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

The full launch event at @iealondon with the indomitable @NigelBiggar and @DanielJHannan
discussing reparations, universities, and the West's future. https://t.co/kPo0ECQ0mX

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

Very Anglo Saxon of me. 😂

[spiked @spikedonline]

‘Tell them to f*ck off’

@profdws on how Britain should respond to calls for slavery reparations

From the latest episode of Last Orders

[spiked @spikedonline]

‘Tell them to f*ck off’

@profdws on how Britain should respond to calls for slavery reparations

From the latest episode of Last Orders

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

Doug Stokes – author of The Atonement Complex – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. @spikedonline @iealondon
https://t.co/sSsfL5jYmf

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

For the author of Theories of Nationalism, this is a remarkable conceptual confusion. Migration and intermarriage don't erase identifiable genetic ancestry; they're precisely what population geneticists study. Britain's regional genetic structure reflects centuries of migration and admixture. Basic science. 10k a year at LSE for this? Wow.

[Umut Özkırımlı @UOzkirimli]

This you? Tell me, what do you mean by "historically identifiable ethnic ancestry"? Yes, there is an identifiable English ethnicity today - though, of course, people will define it differently depending on their politics and interests. But "ancestry"? How can an identity which "emerged historically through migration, intermarriage and cultural change" have an "identifiable ancestry"?

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

English ethnicity emerged historically through migration, intermarriage and cultural change. It's entirely compatible with its existence today. You're confusing ethnogenesis with essentialism and blaming me for your error. Sloppy.

[Umut Özkırımlı @UOzkirimli]

What is this English ethnicity that "simply exists"? The Saxons? The Normans? Did you know that the term English was applied to the low-born who were ruled after the Norman conquest? Did the English know that they were English before the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

I know this is Twitter and that everything goes. It so happens that there are people who have devoted their whole career to the study of these issues too here, so I suggest you read a few history books before making absurd claims on an eternal English essence. I can suggest a reading list if you want.

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

I think, @Johnmcternan, that you conflate English national identity with English ethnic ancestry. English ethnicity isn't willed into existence; it simply exists. See https://t.co/WGeEMsj2Jm for example.

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

@profdws Englishness is nothing to do with DNA or colour. Yet those are the core obsession of those who wish to will an English ethnicity into existence.

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

@severnaya66 Presumably, only white people can be ethnically English, but culturally, it's a different story, and it gets heated around the political/moral weight one attaches to the primacy of ethnicity and the political implications of that.

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

I am mystified by this debate. English people haveling an historically identifiable ethnic ancestry is not a 'belief' but a scientifically non controversial fact. Am I missing something here?

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

@thepublicgets @ItsTaz1989 @FT I simply said the strange belief in English ethicity was a racist evil

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The British state still purports to be the government of a cohesive nation. But the truth is that more and more it resembles an imperial regime ruling over competing peoples, say David Betz and Michael Rainsborough. https://t.co/xYuEzc8xHA

[spiked @spikedonline]

📺 🎧 LAST ORDERS 🎧 📺

The reparations grift

@profdws joins @cjsnowdon and @Tom_Slater_ for Last Orders

They discuss slavery reparations, the bursting of the AI bubble, and Rupert Lowe’s defence of gambling

Watch here👇

[Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm]

1. Woke left colonizes norms and institutions, wearing them like a skinsuit while injecting cultural radicalism in by stealth. Effects of left overreach put the right in office.

2. The populist right criticizes norms and institutions. Partial but chaotic reform.

3. ‘Move fast and break things’ right takes it too far. Right-wing outrage entrepreneurs descend into nihilistic, chest-thumping amoralism. Politicians like Trump into wanton incivility and corruption. Policy failures follow from hubris.

3. Voter backlash chastens the right, putting the left in power.

4. GOTO 1.

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

Slavery reparations claims are gaining political momentum, even as the economic case behind them remains largely untested.

In a new IEA paper, Professor Doug Stokes @profdws examines whether Britain’s prosperity was really built on slavery, weighs that against what abolition cost the country, and argues the real priority should be the 50 million people still in slavery today.

Read our new paper, The Atonement Complex by Professor Doug Stokes, out today 👇

[Ben Raho 🇪🇺 🚲 @BenAntRaho]

Things in Western Europe will improve when a few hard realities are understood:

1. Europe has no God-given right to be wealthy or stable. Things can & will decline and fall apart if not maintained and adapted to new realities. Things that worked in the 1970s may be counterproductive now.

2. Energy is the basis of the economy. Without it, nothing else matters. While efficiency will be important, any economy where energy is scarce will inevitably be one that struggles

3. Not all cultures are equal. Some create prosperity, some lead to misery, some are outright evil. If Europe doesn't accept this, the cultural basis of its previous success & prosperity will be destroyed forever

4. Have kids, or die out. In the long term, few things matter this much. You can't create a European future if there are no Europeans left for it, and as the experiences of the last few decades show, non-European immigration simply makes Europe culturally less European - and doesn't magically make these people culturally European.

5. The state can not - and should not - save every individual from him/herself from him/her bad choices or ineptitudes. The idea of a nanny state which can ensure that everyone always live comfortably with minimal effort & contributions 100% of time is not feasible. The socialist promises of 30 years of wealthy retirements for everyone and Europe being able to take on endless low skill immigration were lies.

6. If a society has no way for ambitious & creative people to get rich from working hard, everyone will get poorer because of it. The hard truth is that much of our economic future depends on businesses being built & transformed by ambitious & sometimes ruthless individuals. Not everyone is able or willing to do this, and without them, there is no one to employ others and no wealth & growth to tax. But if businesses & wealth are seen solely as an evil force to be taxed into oblivion, they will go elsewhere.

7. In some cases, the best way for society to deal with a criminal is to lock them up and throw away the key. A small percentage of humans are ticking time bombs - low IQs, high aggression potential, psychopathic traits, socialised into criminal structures or a culture of lawlessness. Society can't fix them. They go in and out of court rooms and across Europe states, NGOs & social workers waste billions of hours & Euros to try & fix the unfixable. Not least because of mass immigration from dysfunctional societies, our legal systems & high trust societies built on principles such as the benefit of the doubt & correction via socialisation are overwhelmed by the amount of aggressive young men with no interest to contribute to society.

All of this is fixable. But the first step is accepting reality.

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

Demands for slavery reparations amount to international blackmail and giving in will only invite further claims.

Writing in the Daily Mail, Professor Doug Stokes @profdws draws on his new IEA paper, The Atonement Complex, to explain why Britain should reject demands for reparations👇

https://t.co/Cw2bEXsY6N

[Doug Stokes @profdws]

Ending slavery cost Britain more than it ever profited. Demand for compo is blackmail https://t.co/kcoeOSUh7w based on my latest @iealondon paper. Political leaders need to start defending British history and get off their knees.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

IEA: £18.8 Trillion Reparations Claim Exceeds Britain’s Entire Net Worth https://t.co/uXFjgYQbtg