Here’s a new statement of purpose I am proposing for AttacktheSystem.Com: AttacktheSystem.Com is maintained by American Revolutionary Vanguard, a dissident tendency within North American anarchism. It is our contention that the mainstream of the anarchist movement has become unduly focused on left-wing cultural politics, countercultural lifestyle matters, and […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “”The present state of public affairs shows clearly enough that the State is the poorest instrument imaginable for improving human society, and that confidence in political institutions and political nostrums is ludicrously misplaced. Social […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.” “Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.” “Politics is war without bloodshed, while war […]
by Peter Bjorn Perls What keeps a lot of people back is that they have too much to lose from an upheaval of the existing, mostly peaceful, order of things. The essence of the matter is that, to gain freedom, there must be some sacrifices, especially in the […]
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc187.htm [Keith: The text of a magnificent speech given by Dr. Sean Gabb of England’s Libertarian Alliance. My question: How can we go about turning all of these conservative, libertarian and populist government-distrusters into full blown anarchist revolutionaries?] The Conservative Challenge By Sean Gabb (Text of a […]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2343843.stm Iraq ’empties its jails’ Iraqi television has been showing pictures of joyful prisoners leaving jail, shortly after the authorities announced an unprecedented general amnesty.A nationally televised statement from the Revolution Command Council, read by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, said the “full and complete and […]
http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/bakunin/sp001862.html Republished from the (British) Anarchist Communist Federation’s original pamphlet in 1993 by P.A.C. (Paterson Anarchist Collective) Publications. This electronic version has the extra ACF text added to the PAC version, for more completeness. “The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “For what is freedom? That one has the will to self-responsibility. That one maintains the distance which separates us. That one becomes more indifferent to difficulties, hardships, privation, even to life itself. That one […]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/blood-rage–history-the-worlds-first-terrorists-1801195.html It was us!!! I have always been sickened by the fact that anarchists have this history of fierce martial struggle, but are today represented by the kind of riff-raff that constitutes the mainstream “anarchist movement.” A few years ago I did an academic paper tracing the history […]
from Western Australian National-Anarchists (WANA) http://wanationalanarchist.wordpress.com/ To many people, on all sides of the political spectrum, the question would be asked when they hear of our new philosophy, “why?”. Why would you choose to be a National-Anarchist, which is universally hated by the majority of the dogmatic left […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “”The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents — men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless […]
Over at the website for the Center for a Stateless Society, Kevin Carson has a very good article taking down the center-left liberal retards who regard the state as nothing more than One Big Cub Scout Master. Carson demonstrates how stupid this perspective is even from the point […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “Sir Norman Angell very accurately described human existence in a totalitarian state when he wrote: ‘From the day that a child is born in Nazi Germany or Russia, and to a lesser degree in […]
Lecture by Jonathan Bowden. Required viewing for those who want to know what really makes the PC Left tick. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven
http://networkedblogs.com/p12876300 Libertarianism is hard to define because it means different things depending on where you’re at. In most of the world, especially in Europe, it’s a synonym for anarchism. But that’s the dead opposite of what it means in the USA where your sober libertarians know they need […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “It is time that Americans reorganize themselves based on their geography and lifestyle choices according to the political outlook that most accurately reflects their views. For example, if this means Hawaii leaves the Union […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “Racist, sexist, homophobe, birth-certificate denier, 9-Eleven denier, moon-landing denier, lookist, logist, and all the rest of the epithets used by the enforcers of political correctness are despicable. As Murray Rothbard said, if someone advocates […]
[Keith: This is the best critique of liberalism I have seen to date. This is the critique I would write.] by Camille Paglia http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/index.html Sept. 9, 2009 | What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “The high-pitched activist liberals I collided with in college are living out one prolonged shit test that has its own ontological area code. I recall the effect of their overall swagger and posture to […]
You gotta see it to believe it!
The Sacramento National Anarchist Collective’s White Cross Patrol:
The full documentary: (hat tip to Ray Mangum) Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven, Part Eight Anarchism and American Traditions by Voltairine De Cleyre
from Ed D’Angelo (Anytime Now Discussion Forum) I think racial politics in the anarchist movement derives from the broader American Left, for which race has been a key issue since the abolitionists of the pre-Civil War period. Class based analysis is not common in American politics, especially in […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual trends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator…will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and… […]
by Keith Preston Three important works by Karl Marx, written early in his career as a revolutionary theorist, contain the core ideas that would provide the foundation of the vast intellectual system later to be identified with his name. Among these are his conceptions of historical materialism, class […]
On Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at 9 PM Eastern US time, Dr. Tomislav Sunic will interview founder and spokesman of the Bay Area National Anarchists (BANA), Andrew Yeoman. It will air on the Voice of Reason Broadcast Network http://reasonradionetwork.com/ (use the minicaster at the upper right of the […]
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “Most of the official left has retreated into the loving arms of Whole Foods culture and the self loathing feel-goodism of identity politics.” -Dylan Hales “It may be that the Old Right will […]
by Keith Preston Review of Critchlow, Donald T. The Conservative Ascendency: How the GOP Right Made Political History. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Donald Critchlow traces the history of modern American conservatism from its inception in the 1950s as an intellectual synthesis of the American […]
For three years in a row, between 2006 and 2008, a North American secessionist convention was held where delegates from actual secessionist organizations and interested observers gathered to discuss the possibility of decentralizing the United States into smaller political units. Thus far, it does not appear there will […]
Why Read the Sunday Paper When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com!! Quote of the Week: “A brilliant developer in Southern California did a market survey, and he found that in the area where he had the property, so he had to do the development, conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats […]
by Keith Preston I. Gandhi as Spiritual Godfather of the Indian Independence Movement II. Critics of Gandhi and the Conservative Hindu Backlash Early Life and the Beginnings of Gandhi’s Radicalism Mohandas K. Gandhi originated from India’s business caste and grew up amidst Vaishnovite and […]
Why Read the Sunday Paper When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! “You’re cultivating disrespect for government in your children!” protested a relative not long ago. “Every way I can think of doing so, with each opportunity that presents itself, every single day that God sends me!” I responded. Children […]
For any movement or system of thought to remain relevant or dynamic, it must possess the internal capability of periodically reassessing its present course and shifting its focus and direction. Thus far, political anarchism has experienced two distinct stages. The first of these was the era of “classical” […]
Why Read the Sunday Paper When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be […]
“Certain attitudes derived from the New Left and the so-called counter-culture permeated neo-anarchism and had a deleterious effect upon it. Chief among these was elitism. It was the common belief among the New Left that the majority of the population were “coopted”, “sold-out”, “racist” and “sexist”. For the […]
Quote of the Week: “My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England […]
Quotes of the Week: “We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.” -Errico Malatesta “We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they […]
For some years now, I have advocated for the anarchist movement in North America a change in direction from the course it has followed since the 1960s. Essentially, the general flavor of the anarchist milieu is one that expresses the same set of primary values as Marxists, social […]
Quote of the Week: ““Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany is a horror; Adolf Hitler at a town meeting would be an asshole.” -Karl Hess It’s Not Just Fundamentalists Who Are Ignorant by TGGP Rot in Hell, Robert McNamara: The Life of a Monster Considered by Ray Mangum […]
Quote of the Week: “I would love to be disassociated from anti-racists. I think their cultural leftism is a turnoff. And I say this as a non-white. I can’t speak for all people of diverse or non-caucasian racial makeup, but I for one am tired of some people […]
Quote of the Week: “A century ago, anarchism was a major force within the European revolutionary movement, and the name of Michael Bakunin, its foremost champion and prophet, was as well-known among the workers and radical intellectuals of Europe as that of Karl Marx.” -Paul Avrich, Anarchist […]
No matter how pissed off I get at liberals and leftists (a very frequent occurrence, I assure you), I have never been able to bring myself to start calling myself a “conservative.” Some of this is no doubt a reflexive reaction to being raised among right-wing Know-Nothings. But […]
Recently at the No Treason site, Josh Rhodes made the following point concerning the recent rhetorical warfare between myself and some in the “left-libertarian” community: As someone who has read quite a bit of Keith’s work and corresponded with him extensively, I can assure you that he is […]
Quotes of the Week: “No doubt in the days since we last gathered together as APOC (Autonomous / Anarchist / Anti-Authoritarian People of Color), much has changed for each of us. We’ve each experienced new joys and grieves, up and downs. Across the vastness of this metropolitan wasteland, […]
Recent dialogue between Kevin R.C. Gutzman, Christian Kopff and Tom Piatak concerning the tension between classical liberal-libertarians and traditionalist conservatives reminded me of an observation from my Portuguese “national-anarchist” colleague Flavio Goncalves concerning the clarion call issued by Chuck Norris a while back: “Seems like the US Right is as […]
Quote of the Week: “I participated in a forum on state sovereignty at Drexel University a short while ago where the subject of secession came up (naturally). A Pennsylvania state legislator was the other speaker, and while he did not dismiss the possibility of secession he said that […]
For some time now, I have argued for an alliance of left-wing anarchism and right-wing populism against the common enemies of imperialism and Big Brother statism. I have argued that the strategic application of such an alliance would be a pan-secessionist movement rooted in the traditions of the […]
A recent exchange at Taki’s Magazine between two of my favorite writers, Justin Raimondo and Paul Gottfried, prompted me to consider ways in which the thought of anarcho-libertarians and traditional conservatives might be reconciled or at least overlap. For many years, I was involved in the left-wing anarchist […]
Recently a reader of Attack the System wrote: Keith Preston, in his Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement in North America, writes of “anarchist” “city-states”, “anarcho-papis[m]“, and “anarcho-monarchis[m]“! In the same essay he writes that most anarchists favor the “town meeting” approach of “direct democracy”. To […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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