Los Angeles Times  Letters to the Editor  letters@…  timothy.rutten@…  Re: The extreme-right way to make a buck,” by Tim Rutten, LA Times, Aug. 16, 2008  Dear Sirs,  The title of Mr. Rutten’s piece suggests that the surest way for a conservative scholar to become rich is […]
Quote of the Week: “In 2042, the Republican Party platform will include a plan for comprehensive reform of the US’s national health care program. Republican Congressmen will engage in furious debate in an attempt to limit the penalties for discrimination against homosexuals to fines rather than imprisonment. Anybody […]
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 […]
Consider these grim statistics: -There are 36,000 paramilitary police raids on private homes in the United States on an annual basis. -The United States has five percent of the world’s population but twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners. -One in thirty-one American adults is in prison, on probation […]
Ever wonder why anti-System movements never get any further than they do in spite of near universal disdain for the American government and ruling class? One obvious problem is that while most people agree they don’t like the status quo, they disagree wildly on WHY they don’t like […]
Among some secessionists, there is a debate going on as to whether secessionist groups should collaborate with other groups whose political ideology or cultural values are the opposite of their own. This is particularly common to secessionists with “liberal” or left-wing values and who look askance at those […]
Quote of the week: “[W]hen the Justice Department prosecutes an organized crime family, I’m not sure which side to root for. Violent urban gangs are scary things. So are police forces who face no competition in the market for extortion. I don’t know which is worse….The best argument […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/magazine/15wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Gore Vidal- The New York Times interviews the patrician radical http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis113.html Is the U.S. going to war with Pakistan? by Eric Margolis http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1382115/Getting-to-know-the-Hitlers.html Hitler’s long lost relatives-they’re living on Long Island! No, really! http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/06/18/legalize_all_drugs Legalize All Drugs! by John Stossel http://vdare.com/roberts/080617_obama.htm Obama Grovels to The Lobby, GOP Grovels […]
Recently, on another blog, a somewhat well-known figure in the “left-libertarian” milieu attacked the circle around the Ludwig von Mises Institute for their association with so-called “neo-Confederates”. I don’t like to attack other radicals/libertarians/anarchists publicly unless they attack me first (like ChuckO Munson and Daniel Owen), so I’m […]
Some months ago I wrote an article for LewRockwell.Com discussing the role of the state with regards to immigration. You can read the full article here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/preston7.html Joshua Holmes offers a rebuttal here: http://noonefreer.blogspot.com/2008/01/another-terrible-argument-against.html Joshua hasn’t converted me, but he makes some points worth addressing. First, he addresses […]
From Peter Bjorn Perls: (thanks, Peter) Chances are that McCain will be the next US prez. That means more military activity abroad, and “staying the course” for Iraq. (Obama is softer and not a hawk like McCain, but will he be much different when he is behind the […]
Most Americans agree that the political system in the United States is incompetent, corrupt and not likely to be reformed in any meaningful way. More and more Americans are getting fed up with the Tweedle Dee vs. Tweedle Dum so-called “electoral process”. The problem is that while Americans […]
http://middleburyinstitute.org/secessionconvention2008.html THE THIRD NORTH AMERICAN SECESSIONIST CONVENTION November 14-16, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire CALL Issued March 31, 2008      MARCH 31—The Middlebury Institute has announced that the Third North American Secessionist Convention will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire, on November 14-16, 2008. Delegates […]
New video on secession from the Middlebury Institute: Part One Part Two Part Three
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It seems as if Barack Obama has continued in the tradition of Howard Dean insofar as being unable to resist the impulse to insult the working class. Dean, some will recall, said he wanted to reach out to those folks with Confederate flags on their pick-up trucks, and […]
As you can tell, I’m in the process of creating a whole new look for AttacktheSystem.Com. This new blog format will include many of the features of the old site such as the essays by myself and others and a comprehensive links page. I’m also hoping for this […]
It would appear that Ron Paul’s heroic but quixotic presidential campaign is all but finished. That said, what lessons can be drawn from the Ron Paul experience? To some degree, it would appear that those of us advocating a “third way” beyond left and right have been on […]
Found this amusing post on the Revolution International blog: Very strange website. I note you link to Keith Preston (thinks Jews control the world), Peter Topfer (attended Teran holocaust denial conference), the National Bolshevik Party (neo-Nazi and old KGB), Black nationalists who are anti-Semitic (and anti-White), and Folk […]
British emigre and paleoconservative John Derbyshire has an interesting discussion of Ron Paul, Libertarian and Classical Anarchism on today’s VDARE.com: http://www.vdare.com Some responses to Mr. Derbyshire’s critique: “The libertarian Establishment has disdain for Ron Paul‘s presidential campaign. The geeky idealists of Reason and the Cato Institute failed to […]
http://www.deadanarchists.org/avrich.html The late Anarchist historian Paul Avrich probably met and got to know more people from the original anarchist movement than anyone who was young enough to be alive at the beginning of the 21st century. He was acquainted with the sons of Johann Most and Rudolph Rocker, […]
The on-line journal Good Magazine has a very well-done article on the growing secessionist movement in the US: http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/most_likely_to_secede Some highlights: “In an October, 2006, poll broadcast on CNN, 71 percent of Americans agree that “our system of government is broken and cannot be fixed.” A Daily Kos […]
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000725.php#more Under Curfew, This Is No Life Inter Press ServiceBy Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, Jan 24 (IPS) – Continuing curfew has brought normal life to a standstill in Baquba, capital of the restive Diyala province north of Baghdad. Through nearly three decades of rule under Saddam […]
Martin Van Creveld’s masterful work “The Rise and Decline of the State” argues that the nation-state system as it has been known since the time of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia is on its way out. As the twenty-first century progresses, conventional states of the kind that began […]
The first time I ever heard the term “anarchist” was in 1983, when I was a senior in high school. My English Lit. textbook included a unit on the British poet Percy Byshe Shelley and the brief biographical synopsis of Shelley mentioned that he had been the son-in-law […]
http://foster.20megsfree.com/417.htm Kurt Eisner, the leader of the revolutionary socialist Bavarian Republic, devoted his first book in 1919 to the philosophy of Nietzsche. Though he criticized the “megalomania” that he found in Thus Spake Zarathustra, he also praised its aristocratic ideals. The aristocratic values found in Nietzsche, he said, […]
http://fair-use.org/benjamin-tucker/instead-of-a-book/ Instead Of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One This is a complete electronic transcription of the second edition (1897) of Instead Of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One by Benjamin Tucker, a self-published collection of Tucker’s writings from the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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