This post certainly raises some interesting theoretical questions By Jason Brennan Bleeding Heart Libertarians Some libertarians claim that the good consequences of markets and private property form part of the moral justification of these institutions. However, others endorse absolutist or near absolutist deontological political philosophies. They hold that by following […]
There are some good nuggets in this. Listen to the interview at Traditional Right. As an anarchist, I am sometimes asked why I am interested in the work of “right-wing reactionaries” such as Lind, an unreconstructed Hapsburg monarchist. First of all, it’s not a terrible idea to be […]
Good critique of Rand Paul’s flip-flopping unpredictability by Nick Gillespie. I’m glad to see Reason is not merely sucking up to Rand. Still, Reason is considerably to the right of ATS on foreign policy “More than ever, we need a strong voice to argue that $600 billion is […]
I first read Alan Pell Crawford’s Thunder on the Right in the late 1980s, and to this day I continue to think he is one of the very best critics of so-called “movement conservatism.” I have certainly spent more time in recent years criticizing the Left rather than […]
This article and the discussion that follows are an interesting discussion of ethnic and national conflict within and between anarchist movements around the world both historically and today. By Budour Hassan The appearance of the Egyptian Black Bloc in Cairo’s streets in January 2013 triggered gullible excitement in […]
The issues raised in this piece from 2012 by Sheldon Richmond are extremely important. Like it or not, libertarians are widely regarded by critics from the Left and Right alike as mere apologists for the nineteenth century model of capitalism. As long as libertarians are regarded as a […]
Fortunately, some of us are developing a whole new model of radicalism that is totally devoid of this shit.
Bill Moyers interviews Robert Reich. I have serious philosophical and ideological disagreements with these guys but the economic analysis they’re offering here is spot on. Unfortunately, they often no solutions beyond mere Keynesian social democracy.
By Nate Cohn The New Republic The electoral map divides the country neatly into blue states and red states. But blue states include vast conservative stretches; and most red states harbor liberal enclaves, too. In recent years, as partisan polarization has grown, some political minorities in these disaffected […]
If only… By Chris Cilliza The Washington Post Secessionist movements are all the rage these days. A handful of counties in Colorado tried to secede from the rest of the state earlier this year. There’s an attempt to create the State of Jefferson (northern California/southern Oregon) via ballot […]
Nobel Laureate economist Gary Becker’s article from the Wall Street Journal from two years ago. Right now, the War on Drugs appears to where the Vietnam War was in the period between 1971-1973. The war was still going on, but it was obvious it was a doomed effort. […]
The picture says it all. UndercoverInfo Towards the end of last year reports filtered through of an ‘anarchist’ revolution underway in the Kurdistan province of Rojava. It appeared to have all the trappings in place – equality of gender, redistribution of wealth, levelling of hierarchies – and even, […]
As I would have predicted, it would appear that the youth should be our primary demographic target as far as age is concerned. Pew Research Center Even in an increasingly Red vs. Blue nation, the public’s political attitudes and values come in many shades and hues. Partisan polarization […]
I may come close to being a minority of one among anarchists and libertarians on this issue, but that’s too damn bad. This is an eminently sensible law that aims to strike reasonable balance between concerns about discrimination and equal rights, and concerns about the religious, economic, associational, […]
There are many such prototypes for anarchistic, voluntarist, or self-determined communities all over the world: Marinaleda, Christiania, Twin Oaks, Mondragon, Orania, Emilia-Romagna, and many others. Anarchists do not need to invent other-worldly utopias. We just need to expand the models that we already have. Two, three many Marinaleda’s!!!!! […]
The university system is the primary institution in North America where the hard Left has achieved dominance as opposed to other institutions (government, business, religion, military) where the Left has to share power with other political currents. The contemptuous disregard for individual rights and freedom of opinion combined […]
An interview with Ayaan Hirsa Ali. As intelligent as this woman obviously is, she seems to have bought into the neocons’ “clash of civilizations” thesis that views the primary dividing line as being between the liberal West and reactionary Islam, and that’s hardly the case. It’s not surprising […]
If we needed more proof that Rand Paul is worthless as far as being any kind of genuine opposition leader, this is it. By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute Time reports that Rand Paul has come out in favor of a sizable boost to defense spending, [U]nder Paul’s new […]
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Kevin Carson reviews David Graeber. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society David Graeber. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Brooklyn and London: Melville House, 2015). This book is, properly speaking, not a book at all, but a collection of […]
James C. Wilson Center for a Stateless Society This election cycle’s crop of uninspiring presidential hopefuls, now including Texas Senator Ted Cruz, must be a relief to those favoring mass disillusionment with electoral politics. No candidate, Rand Paul included, represents a convincing alternative to the status quo. Contrast […]
A libertarian municipalist response to Kevin Carson. By Hagbard Celine33 Post Scarcity Economics This is a response essay to Kevin Carson’s essay in response to libertarian municipalism. Here is a link to Kevin Carson’s essay so you can see what I am responding to. I wrote this essay […]
By William T. Hathaway “I’m getting hot,” croaked the frog as he floated in a pot of water from which steam was beginning to rise. “Me too,” croaked the other frog as she paddled listlessly. “This water used to be warm. Now it’s too hot.” “Oh well…nothing we […]
The police state rooted in the war on drugs, civil liberties, crony capitalism, and militarism. In other words, the big issues that affect society and humanity as a whole rather than partisan economic concerns or identity politics. By Ed Krayewski Reason Election Day 2014 is just two weeks […]
Interview on Kevin Barrett’s Truth Jihad Radio. Great discussion. Listen here. There is a Muslim libertarian group in the United States, the Minaret of Freedom Institute. There are also anarchistic strands that run through Islam and tendencies of this kind continue to exist today. Varieties of Islamic Anarchism […]
By Paul Marks Libertarian Alliance Well there is only one form of economics – as Ludwig Von Mises makes plain in “Human Action” and other works. Economics shows that different policies, different “social systems” if you like, have different results – but they do not have different economics, […]
By Navid Nasr Thank you again Tim Anderson for laying things out so clearly. These are the options. There is no “C Team.” A half dozen anarchists in Damascus and Aleppo are not “C Team.” The tiny, and now severely compromised, enclave of Rojava is not “C Team.” […]
Panelists (Free for All): 1) Godfrey Bloom (Economist and former MEP) 2) Sean Gabb (Director, Libertarian Alliance) 3) Keith Preston (Attackthesystem.com) 4) Jakub Jankowski (Student) 5) Oliver Wilson (Student)
By Kevin Carson Future of Freedom Foundation Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap 2014), 696 pages. The basic phenomenon that Thomas Piketty devotes this book to describing is simple: “When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Murray Bookchin. The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies & the Promise of Direct Democracy. Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin (New York and London: Verso, 2015). This book is a collection of Bookchin’s essays on libertarian municipalism and communalism, extending from […]
Fantastic interview! Sean Gabb, director of the Libertarian Alliance, discusses what he calls the myth of Margaret Thatcher, plus much more. Subscribe to the Tom Woods Show: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/t… http://www.TomWoods.com/362 http://www.TheLibertarianAlliance.com http://www.SupportingListeners.com http://www.RonPaulHomeschool.com http://www.TomWoodsHomeschool.com http://www.LibertyClassroom.com
“The Market for Liberty” by Morris and Linda Tannehill was published in 1969, and was one of the first books to really provide a fine-tuned description of how an anarcho-capitalist economy might work. It continues to be perhaps the most detailed of any work describing anarcho-capitalism in practice. […]
This is a conversation between Abby Martin of Russia Today and Tyler Ventura that discusses some of the growing axis of dissent that I referred to in the previous post. The question is whether or not this growing axis of dissent will eventually replace the reactionary right and […]
This is a very interesting notification I recently received from a reader that illustrates something I have been noticing for a while. It appears there is a broad “axis of dissent” that is developing in the United States that transcends the normal political and cultural boundaries, and whose […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society I keep resolving not to comment on any more of Alternet‘s by-the-numbers anti-libertarian puff pieces, but a recent one from David Masciotra (“You’re Not the Boss of Me: Why Libertarianism is a Childish Sham,” February 26) is in its own […]
Interesting data. By Tobin Grant Religion News Service Curious what the political positions are of the various, and all too numerous some would say, religions and churches in America? This new graph, courtesy of Tobin Grant, maps the ideologies of 44 different religious groups using data comes from […]
An interesting discussion of prospects for a leftist third party in the US.This individual provides an opportunity to point out the differences between the ARV-ATS approach and that of the “normal” Left. I would actually consider ATS to be considerably further to the left of this woman. She […]
Eliminating the hold that this kind of leftist groupthink and cultism has on much of the wider anarchist, libertarian and radical milieus is the principal task that needs to be achieved in order to develop a larger, more viable, and more effective revolutionary anarchist movement. Every radical movement […]
The bad news is that lots of people will die. The good news is that it will hasten the demise of the system. By Pat Buchanan The American Conservative With Hillary Clinton scrambling to explain her missing emails, much of America is wailing, “Please don’t make us watch […]
This article by Spencer Sunshine of Political Research Associates (led by “former” Stalinist Chip Berlet and funded by the Ford Foundation. representatives of the left-wing of capitalism) is well worth reading because it’s an excellent illustration of the pathology, paranoia, and hypocrisy that dominates the particular strand of […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society I normally associate terms like “treason” and “sedition” with right-wing know-nothings like the American Legion. So it’s eye-rollingly painful, in cases like the letter to Iran from Tom Cotton and 47 other Republican senators, to hear self-described progressives seize on […]
Rothbard’s classic 1965 essay, “Left and Right: Prospects for Liberty,” is a must read for anarchists, libertarians, anti-statists, and decentralists of any species. This essay as much as any other really defines the historical context and trajectory of our common fight, irrespective of our other differences. By Murray […]
An interesting discussion of right-libertarianism by the late Jonathan Bowden and Richard Spencer. Leftists will be happy to know that as an actual hard rightist, Bowden places conventional libertarianism firmly on the right arguing that it’s to the right of even fascism on economic issues. It’s interesting to […]
By Paul Marks Libertarian Alliance The Soviet Union was not a perfect socialist country – for example about 3% of farm land was owned by individuals (the other 97% was socialist – either state owned or owned by “collectives” – i.e. the state by another name). However, the […]
A fantastic piece by Carson. Paul Marks’ rebuttal representing “the other side’s” point of view is worth reading as well. By Kevin Carson Libertarian Alliance/Center for a Stateless Society As a libertarian masochist who keeps up with the regular by-the-numbers attacks on libertarianism at Alternet and Salon, I […]
The torch of civilization is being passed to the East, as the BRIC Axis rises and the West descends into stagnation and tyranny. Russia Today Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon) The strategic ties between China and Russia are mutually […]
The imperialists will not tolerate resistance anywhere. Based on my conversations with American and Canadian expatriates living in Latin America, I’m increasingly leaning towards the view that Central and South America are becoming the bastions of freedom (relatively speaking) in the Western hemisphere, while North America continues its […]
Apparently, it will be if Chris Hedges has his way. It’s interesting how hysteria over sex trafficking is slowly replacing the war on drugs as the dominant form of moral panic, and substantial sectors of liberalism and the Left are completely complicit or even leading the charge. Look […]
Interesting seeing a headline like this in the voice of the ruling class. Many Fernandez New York Times John Jarnecke, 72, president of the Republic of Texas, at his home in Fredericksburg, Tex. The group’s Valentine’s Day meeting in Bryan, Tex., was raided by local, state and federal law […]
Interesting. It looks like even sectors of both the left and right wings of the ruling class are concerned that the police state and prison industrial complex have gone a bit overboard. The right is apparently concerned about impending fiscal bankruptcy, and the spillover of state repression into […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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