The Church of Totalitarian Humanism
In case anyone is wondering what I mean when I talk about “totalitarian humanism,” here it is:
Democracy: The Hanging Judge
My Takimag debut. The responses pretty much reinforce what I said in the piece about the demos. I noticed a fair few mentions of the phrase “death penalty” from UK news outlets last fortnight; little surprise, given that the antepenultimate Wednesday marked the half-century since this Sceptered Isle’s […]
Koch Brothers Take On Camo-Wearing Cops
It looks like some more “right-opportunism” is on the way. The upside is that this opens the door for those with more radical views to come in. The Daily Beast Democrats have long loathed the conservative billionaires, but they’re united on one topic, at least: militarized police. How […]
The Limitations of “System Libertarianism”
These two guys, who headed the Libertarian Party ticket in 2012, are perfect illustrations of what I call “system libertarians.” By “system libertarians,” I don’t mean “right-opportunists” who are simply trying to hijack libertarianism towards other ends like Rand Paul, Bob Barr, the Kochs, etc. By all accounts, […]
Why taxation should be voluntary
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Random Meanderings The Republicans and the Democrats disagree about the role that the government should play in providing social services. The former insist that it should be smaller and intervene less in the economy. In contradistinction, the latter maintain that the public interest would be […]
A Short Primer on US Party Politics of the Past 25 Years
I agree with the analysis in this piece by Robert Lindsay if we stick to defining the Left as “advocating state intervention in the economy on behalf of objectives sought by reform liberals, progressives, and socialists.” Over the past thirty years, US economic policy has mostly been about […]
Growing National Unrest Has Many Worried, Even Capitalists
A principal difficulty with the Randian “let them eat cake” model of libertarianism is that extreme inequality of wealth, whatever one thinks of it from the perspective of “social justice,” normally produces abhorrent political outcomes. It invites either the ascension of the demagogue promising to uplift the poor, […]
Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston on the Ferguson Riots & the Police State
Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston on the Ferguson Riots & the Police State Topics include: Update on the riots in Ferguson Riots Similarities and differences between the Ferguson Riots and past Why the incident itself is not the key issue […]
Robert Stark interviews Matt Forney on Millennials
Robert Stark interviews Matt Forney on Millennials Topics include: Matt’s Takimag article Twit Planet about the Millennial generation, social media addiction, and sexual dysfunction Roosh’s new book Poosy Paradise How Millennials are the least adventurous generation […]
Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism Summit – Alternatives for Peace
This is somewhat interesting. Each of the three guests are like a parody of their respective ideologies. But the host seems to understand the need to move past sectarian left/right silliness in favor of a greater unity against the system. It would have been nice to have seen […]
Anti-State Politics on the “Far Right”
Check this out. Check this out. Pretty soon we’re going to have to start paying publicists’ fees to these “watchdog” people.
The Essence of Totalitarian Humanism
“People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.” – Bertrand Russell, Letter to Ottoline Morrell, 17 December, 1920 h/t J. Ryan Moore
Ferguson: A Preview of America’s Burgeoning Police State
By Chuck Baldwin Even America’s smallest towns can be instantly turned into occupied territories as local police agencies quickly transform themselves from peacekeepers into Swat Team Photo Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAToccupying military forces. The small town of Ferguson, Missouri, is living proof of that. The London Guardian covers the story: […]
Ferguson: Ten Days That Shook the Country
A domestic police state is the logical outcome of imperialism. By Justin Raimondo The facts surrounding the murder of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old resident of Ferguson, Missouri, gunned down by Darren Wilson, a Ferguson police officer, are not entirely known – but enough is known that it’s quite […]
In Defense of Gavin McInnes
By Justine Tunney Last week, Gavin McInnes, CCO of Rooster and co-founder of VICE, was forced to take an indefinite leave of absence (a.k.a. getting fired) for posting an offensive article in Thought Catalog titled, “Transphobia Is Perfectly Natural”. In this article, he argues that transgender men and […]
Greening Out Interviews Dr. Sean Gabb, Author and Director of The Libertarian Alliance UK
Great interview with Dr. Gabb by Dan and Caitie Greene. This interview is spot on in terms of identifying what is wrong with the mainstream libertarian movement. Listen to the interview. Dr Sean Gabb is a writer and broadcaster and academic. He is the author of twenty […]
Predictable responses to resistance against the system
The Huey P. Newton Gun Club protested against police shootings with an armed march in Dallas on Wednesday. Dallas-Fortworth Fox News reports: Earlier Wednesday, other demonstrators held an open carry gun march through South Dallas to protest against police shootings. Organizers there said the show of force served […]
Roundtable on Religion and the State: Can Pagans, Christians, and Atheists Get Along?
Attack the System Roundtable on Religion and the State: Can Pagans, Christians, and Atheists Get Along? August 3, 2014 ATS contributors discuss their spiritual and theological perspectives, and the relationship of these to history, ethics, and politics. Features conservative Christians Brock Bellerive and Todd Lewis, pagan Rodney Huber, […]
University College London Bans Nietzsche Society
“One of the common driving forces behind Nietzsche’s thinking was the desire to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger,” he wrote in 1888, but the UCL students’ union wasn’t taking any chances.” Daily Beast story here UCL was cool with this […]
Robert Stark interviews Charles Lincoln on Tort Law
Robert Stark interviews Charles Lincoln on Tort Law Topics include: How Charles defeated the Insurance companies in Texas when he was a lawyer How Insurance companies made Tort claims profitable for themselves through their advertising campaign How […]
Robert Stark interviews Max Marco of the Renaissance Party of North America
Robert Stark interviews Max Marco of the Renaissance Party of North America Max Marco is the Chairman of the American Branch of the Renaissance Party of North America. http://rpnamerica.com/ Topics include: How the Renaissance Party was originally recreated in Canada by Sebastian Ronin The need to […]
Robert Stark interviews Colin Liddell on the Middle East
Robert Stark interviews Colin Liddell on the Middle East: Colin Liddell is co-editor of the Alternative Right. Topics include: The European New Right and the barriers of identity that the American version faces His article VERMINOCRACY II: THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE The Secular Baathist Parties […]
From Boston to Ferguson: Have We Reached a Tipping Point in the Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Ron Paul Institute “I thought I was losing my capacity to be shocked — but events in Missouri over just the last couple of hours have crossed a frightening line, one that makes me pray that this assault on fundamental American values is […]
Antifa of the Right: Throw the Fascist down the well
Fascism is abhorrent to a right wing sensibility. It is, after all, merely a slight variant of classical Marxism which retains all of that doctrine’s salient characteristics. It envisions a world in which the state is the director and protector of populations too feeble to understand their own […]
From the IWW to Genderqueer – the Transformation of the Left from Class War to Culture War
If you want to know what U.S. politics will look like a few decades from now, perhaps much sooner, imagine a U.S. election with the present day bourgeois technocratic “progressives” of the Democratic Party representing “conservatism,” and the “cultural Marxist” freak show representing “liberalism,” and there you have […]
Our Enemy, the State
The quote below from Robert Higgs reminds us of why it is the state that is the enemy of all mankind. Regrettably, the Left focuses all of its attention on alleged oppression, whether real or imaginary, sponsored by all sorts of Isms, Archies, and Phobias. Yes, class exploitation […]
That Does It, I’m Voting for Marine Le Pen
How the Right has become the Left, and the Left has become the Right. This fellow Robert Lindsay’s blog is well worth checking out. I said on Facebook recently that if I were a Marxist rather than an anarchist, I’d probably be Robert Lindsay. By Robert Lindsay Ok, […]
It’s Time for Conservatives to Stop Defending Police
Things must really be getting out of hand if even the National Review is coming down on the cops. By A. J. Delgado National Review The Thin Blue Line in the Big Apple (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Imagine if I were to tell you there is a large group […]
Land of the Reiching Sun? A Conflict Without Heroes
From the Inferno. _____________ A few days back, I had the displeasure of reading a clickbait “article”, on the misleadingly named Dangerous Minds blog, concerning the Far Eastern fondness for Nazi aesthetics. I made the mistake of thinking I’d get something momentarily interesting out of doing so, only […]
Organized Community Defense Is America’s Last Hope
From Alt-Market by Brandon Smith. Original here Not long ago, I felt compelled to address the idea of self defense as a moral imperative in an article titled “Violence In The Face Of Tyranny Is Often Necessary.” My intention was to perhaps undo some of the propaganda conditioning that Americans […]
Wendy McElroy: “I will leave the movement if thick libertarianism prevails…”
I apologize for my lengthy prelude to Ms. McElroy’s piece, but things are moving along in a way that merits comment. It would appear that totalitarian humanism is in the process of taking over libertarianism, which is predictable enough as libertarianism left too many gaps open that ultimately […]
Murray Bookchin’s Last Interview
h/t Todd Lewis.
Sovereign citizens seen as top terrorist threat by US law enforcement
Russia Today Reuters / Brian Blanco The sovereign citizen movement is considered the top threat for domestic terrorism, according to a survey of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. Islamist extremists and militia/patriot groups round out the top three threats to communities in the United States considered […]
What Is a Woman? The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism
Look for the various contentious issues involving gender identity and sexual orientation to become a major source of conflict on the Left in the future. The key issue for pan-secessionists is to figure out how to siphon libertarian and anti-establishment leaning feminists, gays, transgenders, and other sexual/gender minorities […]
Glenn Beck: I Said ‘Stupid Things’ While At Fox News
Contra Glenn, the real future of conflict in the US will not be between Left and Right as presently understood. The Right is rapidly dwindling in numbers, and while the Right will become more militant as it continues to decline, it will become increasingly irrelevant as the state […]
Hillary’s Candid Motto for Democratic Party: ‘Represent Banks’
As I have previously stated in the “Liberty and Populism” essay, in a relatively short period of time, the progressive therapeutic statists and totalitarian humanists will be the unquestioned status quo. These progressive statists will be allies of the neoliberal plutocratic elites, and the military industrial complex. They […]
Supporters, foes of pot legalization post rival ads in NY Times
This issue will probably become increasingly contentious as the movement to legalize marijuana spreads to more and more states. This will also likely be a divisive issue on the Left between the libertarian left and the therapeutic statists, health fascists, and anti-smoking crusader types. Reuters/MSN.Com SEATTLE (Reuters) – […]
It’s Time for Legalized Prostitution
I suspect that at some point in the not too distant future there will be a growing movement to decriminalize or legalize prostitution, comparable to the gay rights movement in its early phase or the present movement for legalization of marijuana. This is to be welcome from an […]
40 Years Since the Regime of Tricky Dicky Fell
Richmond Times Dispatch In this April 29, 1974, file photo, President Richard M. Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes after he announced during a nationally-televised speech that he would turn over the transcripts to House impeachment investigators, in Washington. The last 340 hours of […]
Latest Gallup poll shows young Americans overwhelmingly support Palestine
I’m somewhat surprised by this reaction to the Gaza situation, as things seem to be moving faster than I expected, but it looks like what I’ve been predicting for a while is starting to happen. Cultural, demographic, and generational change in the US is also creating a political […]
How the “Race is a Social Construct” Construct Undermines Nationalism
By Batidan Batu Black Liberation Army The denial of evolutionary sub-speciation, encapsulated by the “race is a social construct” mantra, is not merely a product of the Progressive’s confusion of scientific theory: it is also a political organ intended to quell Nationalistic sentiments among the races and to […]
In Photos: Worldwide protest against Israeli attack on Gaza
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2014 H.L. Mencken Club Conference
Come hear Keith Preston, Sean Gabb, Paul Gottfried, and others speaks at the HLMC in Baltimore this year! Find out more about the HLMC here. The Seventh Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference The Left October 31st – November 2nd, 2014 Friday, October 31st 5:00-7:00 PM – Registration 7:00-10:00 […]
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