I have two speaking engagements coming up over the next few weeks. On Halloween I will be speaking to the National Policy Institute at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. My topic will be “American Imperialism vs The Identity of the World’s Peoples.”
I will also be speaking at the H.L. Mencken Club in Baltimore on November 7. My topic will be ““The Alliance of Transnational Capitalism and the Managerial Therapeutic State.”
I plan to smash a lot of sacred totems at both of these events.
Speaking of which, a self-styled “anti-fascist” (whatever that means) blog recently had this to say about yours truly:
“Preston will be known to people as he is a defector from the larger anarchist movements of the 70s and 80s, formerly a member of Workers Solidarity Alliance and was present at the founding convention of the Love and Rage Anarchist Federation. He now runs the “pan-Secessionist” Attack the System, where he promotes right-wing libertarian ideas and racialist National Anarchism. Here he will give his usual speech where he sadly attempts to soften anarchism to be compatible with authoritarian racial nationalism, which he sees as having common ground as they are both opposed to the current State.”
The description of my background here is largely accurate, although the description of my present views is a bit narrowly-focused. I suppose I could be considered a post-left, synthesist-anarchist, anarchist without adjectives, geo-mutualist-syndicalist, conspiracy-libertarian-populist, national-anarchist, paleoconservative panarchist. “Pan-secessionism” is a tactical and strategic concept, not an ideological one. Nor will I be speaking on “authoritarian racial nationalism” at NPI. I will be offering a critique of U.S. imperialism, and explaining why cultural, ethnic, or religious identitarians, including Europeans, should be opposed to the American empire.
Likewise, my name apparently came up during the course of a lengthy multi-part essay on a fellow named Michael Schmidt, who is supposedly a white South African “white nationalist anarcho-communist” or something to that effect, and who supposedly operates under multiple identities, including that of “Francois Le Sueur.” Apparently, this person has been the source of a great deal of drama in the left-wing anarchist scene in recent times.
“While Schmidt navigated what he described to us as a ‘whisper campaign,’ Le Sueur was so active online that Keith Preston, who runs the pan-secessionist blog, Attack the System, even quoted him in his book of the same name, calling him ‘one of my readers.’ Preston is a former-anarchist who believes that if everyone, left and right wing (inclusive of fascists and neo-Confederates), supports secession, humanity will break apart the greater evil of the federal government, and create metropolitan regions dominated by the Nietzschean ubermensch. Specifically, Preston quotes Le Sueur’s rebuttal of antifascist writer Matthew Lyons’s brilliant critique of pan-secessionism:
The questions raised by [Lyons] appear to reduce to one single fear: the question of power; that decentralizing power allows for no comprehensive/universalist (totalitarian?) enforcement of social norms. And this is clearly what the author wishes: some universal enforcement mechanism that can punish communities for their ‘deviant’ social choices. Surely that is true authoritarianism, writ large, compared with the possibility of some communities choosing authoritarianism writ small as a much lesser threat to civilization?
These communities would include, for Preston, Russia’s fascist National Bolshevik groups and Christian Identity fascist groups, which provides, in Lyons’s words, ‘a recipe for warlordism.’
“Le Sueur and Preston embraced national-anarchist formations, along with other red-brown secessionist assemblages, as an opportunity to join together in dismantling the perceived greater threat of the US federal government and Zionist imperialism. Not only was Michael Schmidt quoted by Keith Preston as François Le Sueur, but he was quoted as a critic of antifascist analysis, indicating to us that if he was doing “research” with his fascist personality, it was in service of and not to infiltrate the pan-secessionist and national-anarchist tendencies. Schmidt’s own appreciation for Keith Preston’s Attack the System blog was laid bare in an article written by Preston and shared on February 27, 2011, by the Le Sueur Facebook page called, ‘Am I a Fascist?’ Preston and Le Sueur were also ‘friends’ on Facebook.’
I do recognize the name of Francois Le Sueur from the social media forums I’m associated with and do recall quoting him in my book, though I don’t recall any recent interaction or communication with him. I also recall reading some anarchist material by Michael Schmidt, and I may have quoted him in my book or one of my articles (or both). I don’t care enough about this “controversy” to bother looking all of this up. However, the article once again offers something of caricature of my actual views.
Preston is a former-anarchist
Whether these guys like it or not, I’m still an anarchist who embraces the entire range of anarchist and decentralist thought. Sorry if that if upsets anyone.
who believes that if everyone, left and right wing (inclusive of fascists and neo-Confederates), supports secession, humanity will break apart the greater evil of the federal government,
Oh, the horror.
and create metropolitan regions dominated by the Nietzschean ubermensch
I imagine it would be pointless to explain social psychology and elite theory, let alone Nietzsche, to ingrates. So I won’t bother.
These communities would include, for Preston, Russia’s fascist National Bolshevik groups and Christian Identity fascist groups, which provides, in Lyons’s words, ‘a recipe for warlordism.’
Love them or hate them, National-Bolshevism and Christian Identity are very marginal tendencies in the US and not likely to have influence beyond the periphery. The comments about the N-Bs are a bit of a non-sequitur. Although Russia is not exactly under the rule of the U.S. federal government, the NBP is currently banned in Russia. Whatever the case, the actual idea is the building of an international coalition against the global plutocratic super-class with regional federations of autonomous and self-determined communities reflecting an infinite variety of themes being the alternative. See here and here.
Preston embraced national-anarchist formations, along with other red-brown secessionist assemblages, as an opportunity to join together in dismantling the perceived greater threat of the US federal government and Zionist imperialism.
Guilty but proud. The actual ambition is to build an international coalition against imperialism generally, and against the Anglo-American-Zionist-Wahhabist axis specifically, which is the dominant wing of the international power elite.
