Quote of the week: SOMEWHERE there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren: here there are states. A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples. A […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/07/updated-news-digest-july-27-2008/
Of all the contemporary scholars and theorists of the state of which I am aware, the one whose work I find by far the most compelling is the Dutch-Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld. It is his position that the conventional nation-state system that emerged from the time of […]
Quote of the Week: “Soledad O’Brien, at the beginning of CNN’s “Black in America: Reclaiming the Dream,†cited as evidence of the at least partial fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream that “Some are CEOs. Some are Secretaries of State.†Well, I have a dream of my own: To […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/07/updated-news-digest-july-20-2008/
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If we were Soviet or East European citizens in the 1950s, 60s or 70s, and we were attempting to build a revolutionary underground, classical criticisms of the state would certainly be helpful. For instance, the Augustinian view of the state as a “robber band writ large”. However, we […]
Quote of the Week: “ Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine  Strip Search a Thirteen-Year-Old and Keep Your Job Proudhon Seminar: What is Property? Ch. 2 notes, Pt. 1 by Shawn Wilbur Gangsters […]
(Thanks, Jeremy) Text of a speech from Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War  http://kokesh.blogspot.com/2008/07/duty-to-resist.html Saturday, July 12, 2008 Duty to Resist Text of speech delivered 080712 at the west lawn of the capitol: When I joined the Marines at a little strip mall in Santa […]
Thanks to Josh Rhodes for digging this up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7420469.stm Meeting Spain’s last anarchist By Alfonso Daniels San Buenaventura, Bolivia Hours after flying on a rickety 19-seater propeller plane and landing on a dirt strip, you get to the village of San Buenaventura in the heart of the Bolivian […]
In response to my statement “Is the Left salvagable? In and of itself, it does not appear to be,”, Jeremy raises some helpful points concerning the defintions of “left” and “right”: That begs the question: what is this “Left”? If it is merely establishmentarianism with a cultural attachment […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/07/updated-news-digest-july-13-2008/
NA23 offers this suggestion: The key is the breaking down of the Left/Right dichotomy with a real social alternative. We have to disrupt the labels and stereotypes held by the left, right and the media. This can only be done succesfully through frequent street actions and public involvement, […]
Jeremy raises an interesting question in the Comments section: I don’t think the Left is so utterly irretrievable as you seem to, but a line must be drawn in the sand when it comes to revolutionary potential. Many on the Left (and Right, no doubt) will be found […]
What does it mean when the Right is becoming more revolutionary minded than the Left? Nowadays, there are “left-conservatives”, “left-libertarians”, “left-secessionists”, “conservative revolutionaries”, “left-nationalists”, “national-syndicalists”, “national-anarchists”, “national-bolsheviks”, “national-maoists”, “left-populists”, “left-decentralists”, “national-communists” and lots of other labels that defy the left/right stereotype. What does is mean that the official […]
The primary ideological war of the future will not be between the left and right, or between socialism and capitalism, or even between nationalism and imperialism. The struggle will be between anti-universalism and decentralism on one end and totalitarian humanism on the other. I first became aware of […]
Recently, Thomas Naylor of the Second Vermont Republic issued something of a challenge to the League of the South: http://vermontrepublic.org/to_the_league_of_the_south_from_vermont_with_love Naylor begins: When the Second Vermont Republic, through its sister organization the Middlebury Institute, first began reaching out to other independence movements in November 2006, four such groups […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/06/updated-news-digest-july-6-2008/
‘Tis the day to consider the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson: “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts […]
Saith the Lefto-Totalitarian aspiring Stasi at Libcom.org: I’m particularly bothered by these so-called “anarcho”-nationalists that are trying to take advantage of the increase in interest in anarchism. The leaders of this fake “anarchism” are Keith Preston (USA), Troy Southgate (UK), Richard Hunt (UK), Peter Topfer (Germany), Hans Cany […]
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, […]
An interesting new book by Bill Bishop, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart, explains how Americans are self-separating along cultural, political, religious, ethnic and racial lines. Here’s how the book is described: This is the untold story of why America is […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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