Comments on: New Statement of Purpose for AttacktheSystem.Com?

By: Medusa

Medusa — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:43:05 +0000

I enjoyed reading your “New Statement” like a breath of fresh air personally.
I have been rejected many times by Anarchists in Eugene, Corvallis & Portland.
I grew up in LA County and it was not fun. I worked after school where the musician, ‘Beck’ grew up. McCarther Park area. I worked in that big business building. And it was not fun.
I always got the Un-Welcome mat from the local Anarchists in Eugene, Corvallis & Portland because I was not real excited about going down to the border and protesting the ill treatment of the non-citizens of the US coming in and they did NOT like it.
Prolly because of the horrific experiences I went thru growing up in LA County.
I moved way far North, and now I’m moving again, further into the mountains, where I find peace.
None of the Anarchists I met in Eugene, Corvallis and Portland could understand why I did not want to help the non-legal citizens of the US get into the US and get more HHS Services.
Anyways, I was wondering Keith, do you ever consider ‘the U.N.’s Agenda 21′ when you are thinking or writing or studying about Imperialism, Globalism, particularly Global Governance, and the Sustainable Developments that will be the only living areas once Agenda 21 is fully Implemented by these Uber Rich Elites?
I have done extensive work researching Agenda 21, and have lots of beginners links to understanding what the Government of the US has in store for the surviving populations, it’s not pretty.
So, if you would ever care or want to check out my links, just let me know.
I’m sure you prolly already know all about all this, so excuse me if I overstepped on my first post here.

By: Quagmire

Quagmire — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:30:47 +0000

Personally, I always thought the new American radicalism should draw upon the populist-isolationist America First tradition of Bill Kauffman and Gore Vidal.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:02:38 +0000

ATS.com explores the possibilities for a serious, focused, cross-ideological radical movement synthesizing the best of classical anarchism with the revolutionary American tradition.

It’s not there, but maybe it’s a start?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:57:15 +0000

I like this very much.

It might not be a bad idea to come up with a short summary (preferably one sentence) of this to set to put at the top, setting the mood for the overall statement and providing a succinct, hard-hitting sound bite. A lot of people react to that.

By: Rmangum

Rmangum — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:16:24 +0000

“We stand in ruthless opposition to the domestic American police state, its prison-industrial complex, therapeutic state, legal caste, and the institutions responsible for the dissemination its propaganda, from the state-licensed media to the state-run educational system.”

Throw in something about racism and this could fit into any New Left manifesto of the 1960′s. And yet the same tendency today is bound to be dismissed by the children of the 1960′s as a kind of heartland reactionary ressentiment.

Interesting times.

By: keith

keith — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:01:58 +0000

Thanks, Andrew.

By: Andrew Yeoman

Andrew Yeoman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:58:49 +0000

I subscribe to the ARV Statement and will formally request that BANA adopt this platform as well.

By: Keith Preston

Keith Preston — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:54:48 +0000

It’s more or less the same worldview as ARV.

By: Quagmire

Quagmire — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:10:59 +0000

It works. I began my political life as an old rightist/paleolibertarian and eventually began to develop a new creed, viewing globalism (manifesting itself in both corporate globalization and liberal internationalist institutions) as the chief enemy, with the illegitamate state-capitalist system being its prime motivator. I view totalitarian political correctness and multiculturalism as the ideology of the elites, and retain my Gottfriedite critique of the New Class managerial/therapeutic state (which exists to serve the interests of state-capital, as shown by Kevin Carson.) Additionally, I question the validity of boundless economic progress. I consider my (on the surface, syncretic) worldview to be the next logical step in the development of the “alternative right” that rose to semi-prominence with the ron paul campaign. How much of this is compatible with the worldview of the ARV?

By: keith

keith — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:22:25 +0000

So whaddya think, folks? Good, bad, or indifferent?

It seemed to me that the old statement was too broad, contained dated material, and often sounded more like a paleocon or constitutionalist site than an anarchist one. Nothing against paleos and constitutionalists, but I would prefer taking a more radical stance than pushes things beyond the usual “alternative Right” as well as “left-anarchist” crowds.