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Activism as Education
By David Pan Telos This week we have released a podcast interview with J. E. Elliott, who discusses his recent article, “Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today” in Telos 200. I discuss with him the way in which activism has become the focus […]
Next Year in Digital Jerusalem
Technology has helped entrepreneurs launch new companies and currencies. Will it help them start a new nation? Michael Gibson August 8, 2022 Economy, finance, and budgets Technology and Innovation The Network State: How to Start a Country, by Balaji Srinivasan (self-published, 474 pp., $9.99) Israel started with a […]
What just happened with the mass street protests in China?
The Signal Alec Ash on the causes and consequences of an unprecedented show of popular anger at the communist state. Martin Sanchez After the biggest outbreak of political demonstrations since the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989, Beijing announced on December 7 that it would end its anti-Covid policies […]
Inside Liberland, the Balkan micronation becoming the first country to be built in the metaverse
By Lisa Gibbons • Updated: 15/11/2022 What do a strip of abandoned land, a former Czech politician, and virtual reality (VR) have in common? The answer is the self-declared Balkan micronation of Liberland. First founded in 2015, it’s poised to further its ambitions of statehood with the development of a brand new […]
The Network State: A Review
Can political states unmoor themselves from geographical borders and exist solely online? Balaji Srinivasan’s new book explores the political potential of emerging technologies. Aviezer Tucker 18 Nov 2022, 8:00 am The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan (self-published, 474 pp., $9.99) Once upon […]
Decentralized cities
Jonathan Hillis Mar 7, 2021 • 5 min read One of the favorite past times of tech twitter during the pandemic has been predicting the next Silicon Valley.Austin, with its natural beauty, weird-chill vibe, flagship university, killer BBQ, and long history of technology companies is an obvious choice. […]
What do I think about network states?
By Vitalik Buterin 2022 Jul 13 On July 4, Balaji Srinivasan released the first version of his long-awaited new book describing his vision for “network states“: communities organized around a particular vision of how to run their own society that start off as online clubs, but then build up more […]
The enduring relevance of the classical transnational labour movement and the ‘global justice’ movement
By Donnacha DeLong An examination of the enduring relevance of the syndicalist period of trade unionism and the ‘global justice’ movement, tracing the history of both and the influence on the first movement on the more recent and the aspects that have continued relevance. READ MORE
Proving that decentralization can win
Mises Institute Congratulations to three Mises Caucus-endorsed candidates who won their local races Tuesday: Aron Lam—Mayor (Keenesburg, Colorado) David Tyler—City Council (East Ridge, Tennessee) Bill Schult—City Council (Crescent Springs, Kentucky) Aron, Bill, and David asked for our endorsement*—and we gave it—because they believe the best way to win practical gains for […]
After yesterday, time to consider radical ideas
By Tom Woods Before we get into yesterday, here’s something odd. Yesterday’s email had one of the lowest open rates of the entire year. It was about what to do during inflationary times (and no, the answer wasn’t just to buy gold and sit there). We’re all suffering […]
It’s time to break up
By Tom Woods It’s difficult to know exactly when it happened, but not long ago many Americans suddenly looked around and discovered that they and their neighbors inhabited completely different moral universes. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, or teaching gender theory to children, or the usefulness or otherwise of […]
Private islands, forgotten California oligarchs, and Jewish converts. Say hello to our ruling class.
It’s not everyday that two of my seemingly disconnected interests — California oligarchic farmers and the weaponization of Jewish identity — come together. Yasha Nov 19, 2021 I’m sitting in our new place in San Francisco, just around the corner from Haight Street — trying to catch up […]
Simple Sabotage
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Simple Sabotage – #Solutionswatch The Corbett Report SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-sabotage/ Most people think of sabotage as explosive and sometimes deadly acts of violence against property and machinery. But from lying flat and quiet quitting to water […]
Smaller Is Better
Ep. 2223 Smaller Is Better Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins me to make a worldwide case for smaller states, decentralization, and secession. Special Offer We love our monthly Happily date box — it’s full of games, recipes, and activities that bring us closer together. With a […]
Notes on The Network State: Isocrates, Ardrey, Coulanges
The American Sun Posted by The Editors on October 25, 2022 By Epaminondas Whereas philosophers define religion as delusion, the Athenians defined religion as the prerequisite to action. The orator Isocrates in the “Panegyricus”, writing in the year 380 BC, argued for Athenian supremacy over the Hellenic city-states […]
Man 3D-Prints Guns For New York Buyback Event, Makes A Whopping $21,000
Free Thought Project (ZH) — Another person outsmarted a state government trying to confiscate firearms via a gun buyback program with merely a 3D printer and PLA filament. A man named “Kem” printed 110 firearms on a $200 printer he got for Christmas and turned them into a […]
“A million little dictatorships”: Reply to an Anarchist Critic
One of the most controversial pieces I ever wrote was an essay from 2005 called “Why I Choose to Collaborate with Racialists and Theocrats.” You can imagine the reaction to that in some anarchist circles, particularly the hard-left ones. A reader recently offered a response to that essay, […]
Fraguas, the state against an autonomous rural collective
By thecollective From Autonomies We return to Fraguas, spain, in solidarity with the effort to create an autonomous, rural collective in the mountains around Madrid, now confronted with the final act in a process of state persecution. The Fraguas six will go to jail (if we don’t do […]
Freedom Cells 2.0 – #SolutionsWatch
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Freedom Cells 2.0 – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-freedomcells2/ Frequent Corbett Report guest Derrick Broze of The Conscious Resistance joins us once again to discuss the newly revised and updated FreedomCells.org website. We also […]
Iranian Anarchists on Protests in Response to Police Murder of Mahsa Amini
By PodcastDogs From Black Rose Anarchist Federation by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – International Relations Committee Introduction On September 13th, 2022, 22 year old Mahsa Amini was arrested by an Iranian Guidance Patrol (also known as ‘morality police’). Mahsa was arrested in Tehran for not abiding by […]
Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power: Decentralization, Participatory Budgeting, Communal Councils and Comunes
By María Pilar García-Guadilla and Carlos G. Torrealba COMMUNES in Venezuela, once hopeful experiments in local direct democracy and popular power under the socialism of the XXI century have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping the country. . What can we learn from their demise? READ MORE
How Weaponizing Identity Politics Ended the Vietnam War
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ll tell you a secret, dearest motherfuckers, if you promise to tell everyone else. The two-party system is nothing but a great big fucking distraction. When it comes down to the big money issues like war and peace, […]
The Self Reliance Festival – October 1st and 2nd
Peter R. Quiñones My friend John Bush is at it again and this time it’s a true wealth of knowledge! He’s doing another Self-Reliance Festival!!! It features world-renowned experts in food production, self-defense, community building, health, entrepreneurship, taxes, and modern survivalism. Throughout the festival you’ll discover: How to […]
A Time to Dig Trenches
By Ernst van Zyl — 1 day ago What Westerners can learn from South Africa “Small nations. The concept is not quantitative; it points to a condition; a fate; small nations lack that felicitous sense of an eternal past and future; at a given moment in their history, […]
Ancient Russian Towns: Home for American Settlers with Traditional Family Values
English speaking families living in Rostov, Borisoglebsky, Yaroslavl, Pereslavl, Suzdal… Fr. Joseph Gleason Idyllic ancient ‘Mother Russia’ still exists, and it’s being settled by English speaking families who are coming from America, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Denmark, and all over the world. In this article we […]
I Hate To Burst Some People’s Bubble…
… well, not really Peter R. Quiñones 3 hr ago The criticisms thrown my way from my old compatriots do not bother me like so many people believe. I have repeatedly said there are some tenets of libertarianism that I still consider my personal preferences. But as a […]
On Loans
New York Review of Books In October 2011 Jeff Madrick wrote a dispatch from Zuccotti Park for the Review. Three weeks after protesters had first converged there under the banner “Occupy Wall Street,” he found that the movement—initially mocked in the media for its youth and unseriousness—was coming […]
Cultivate A Habit Of Small Acts Of Sedition
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes the status quo. It’s a series of disheartening failures and crushing disappointments amid an endless deluge of information saying that everything is getting worse and […]
El Nino Speaks 54: Why Radical Decentralization is the Only Way to Defeat the Managerial State
Conversation with Buck Johnson on the flaws of libertarianism and why localism is here to stay. Jose Alberto Nino Listen to José Niño sound off on contemporary political affairs. Is local political activism the only way out of America’s current political mess? José Niño and Buck Johnson, the […]
Rise of the Network State | Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan is an investor, founder, and Former CTO of Coinbase and GP at a16z and author of The Network State, which will be the main focus of the podcast today. The Network State explores ideas surrounding digital communities and the future of how we coordinate as a […]
The Initial Stages of the ATS Analytical Framework Are Now Taking Place
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
We’ve Been Trained to Accept Defeat
By Peter R. Quinones I’m as guilty as anyone of being one of those people who made it their life mission to point and say, “I told you so!” Being able to diagnose a disease and say, “Yep, that’s cancer,” and being right all the time is what […]
Sectarianism and Vanguardism: Debating a Problem on the Left
Anarchist Federation Sectarianism is intolerance towards the positions, opinions, ideologies or practices that are different from one’s own or those of the movement, organization or group to which one belongs. It is usually accompanied by arrogance, vanity and opportunism and ends up superimposing itself on the fight for […]
Satoshi Island: Crypto-Currency and Blockchain Driven Smart City
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What Happens If We Come Apart?
The geographically non-contiguous fragmentations we see today might well be a prelude to something like Balaji Srinivasan’s concept of the “network state,” which itself is only a few steps removed from the “panarchic” concept of non-territorial governments of Paul Emile de Puydt, Gustave Molinari, Max Nettlau, and John […]
How Do We Win?
By Peter R. Quinones Anyone who has been following me since my Rightward turn knows that one of the main strategies that I have been promoting is becoming politically active on the most local level specifically concentrating on Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “What Must Be Done” strategy. The speech is […]
Imagining Utopian Anarchist Communities
By Ian Mayes Having elaborated upon the kind of anarchism that I believe in, the question that immediately then comes up for me is: “How does one move forward with all these big ideas? How does one actually practice all of this stuff?” Okay, maybe that is really […]
Balaji Srinivasan on the Network State and How to Start a New Country
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A Final Plea For Unity Against Common Enemies
By Peter Q. Quinones Who are your friends and allies, and who are your enemies? The first part is not the easiest question to answer. I have taken to splitting my list into those who want me dead and those who do not. I consider anyone who wants […]
Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State: How to Build New Countries
Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native “Network States” are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics reorienting around cryptocurrencies in the 2020s, compares and contrasts the prospects of the United States, China, […]
The Quest for a Libertarian Island Paradise
By Brian Doherty, Reason Raymond B. Craib’s new book recounts how Michael Oliver repeatedly tried to create a new country with a government-funded entirely by voluntary contributions. (PM Press) Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, by Raymond B. […]
Libertarians Should NOT Support Texan Secession
“Secession is only good when our team does it,” said the special pleaders at C4SS. “As such, this is the distinction between defending the autonomy of territories like the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities, Freetown Christiania, and ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes from the states they exist within and supporting the […]
Texas SECEDING? GOP Pushes 2023 Referendum To Leave The Union
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Texas Republican’s push for a referendum on the state’s secession from the US.
Abortion “sanctuary cities”
Whether anyone likes it or not, pan-secessionism is indeed happening. Sanctuaries for everyone and everything. Axios Two layers of security fences have been added to the Supreme Court since the leak last month of a draft abortion opinion. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Some local officials in liberal […]
Mistaking Activity For Accomplishment Is To Be Avoided
By Peter R Quinones I’m still on vacation but it’s been so hot here in the Austin, TX area that I’ve spent as much time indoors as I have outside. Who am I kidding? I’ve been inside way more than outside. I wanted to type something out to […]
Wingnuts vs. Factions: The two theories of American government—one fantasy, one reality
One of the best descriptions of the mechanics of domestic US politics I have seen to date from Michael Lind. By Michael Lind, Tablet If the Republicans retake Congress in the midterm elections of 2022, as many expect, a lament will be heard in 2023 and 2024 from […]
Laboratories of Democracy: Why are two opposing legal systems forming in the United States?
The Signal Why are two opposing legal systems forming in the United States? Philip Rocco on how networks of Democratic and Republican activists are reshaping America at the state level. Joshua Fuller / The Signal A peculiar chain of action and reaction is appearing in new state-level laws across […]
‘The Palm Republic’: Group plans to ‘declare independence’ from South Carolina
By Tim Renaud ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD) – Some Isle of Palms residents are expected to “declare independence” from South Carolina as they look to form “The Palm Republic.” It stems from when a small group opposed Gov. Henry McMaster’s decision to close the beaches at the […]
From Alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
By Blair Taylor Taylor examines how political transformations within left social movements have helped to construct a “new spirit of capitalism” that addresses widespread demand for an ethical lifeworld, simultaneously innovating and modernizing while neutralizing critique. Today ideas and practices pioneered by oppositional movements have become mainstream political […]
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