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 […]
By Eric Fleischmann Center for a Stateless Society There is a stereotype perpetuated by the political right that anarchists tend to be rich, white kids radicalized by the ‘postmodern neo-Marxists’ that have apparently taken over institutions of cultural production. This is clearly a tactic to strategically simplify and […]
By Eric Fleischmann, Center for a Stateless Society Two years ago, I gave a presentation titled “Prerequisites for Freedom: An Individualist Anarchist Perspective” to a philosophy discussion group, in which I talked about the connection between thick libertarianism and 19th century North American individualist anarchism and how progressive […]
This is a segment of a longer work (“The Rotting Carcass Behind The Green-Scare: How Anti-Civ Anarchy Became the Most Controversial Position) which can be read in its entirety here: https://raddle.me/wiki/green_scare by ziq Post-Civ: Leftist-Drift While much of the fallacious green-scare red anarchists have been stirring up since […]
The world doesn’t owe you shit. The universe doesn’t know you exist. Stop waiting for things to happen – only you can make a change. – “Do It Yourself” by PUNCH —————————————– I remember once over-hearing a conversation in which there was a debate between using “post-left” or […]
From It’s Going Down Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined by YouTuber Chill Goblin, as we discuss the growing current of right-Libertarianism that includes popular online personalities such as Michael Malice and organizations […]
Balaji has turned his attention to the creation a Network State, in particular a polis with a transhumanist mission “which starts with a virtual university, bootstraps a digital economy, and can be forked to create new opt-in polities.” Such “cloud cities” allow their members to collectively negotiate with […]
by Lewis Call The Debate: Critical Awareness of Le Guin’s Anarchism The Novels: Le Guin’s Postmodern Anarchism Works Cited It is easy enough to locate anarchist themes in the science fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin. Her frequent critiques of state power, coupled with her rejection of capitalism and […]
Anarchist News How do you express anarchist ideas in mixed company? We are told that “anarchists must say what only anarchists can say,” but what must we say, and how? The Duponts encourage us to be “poppers of balloons” to dispel the illusion of liberalism, which to them […]
By Paul Raekstad One of the more debated topics in the recent realist literature concerns the compatibility of realism and utopianism. Perhaps the greatest challenge to utopian political thought comes from Bernard Williams’ realism, which argues, among other things, that political values should be subject to what he […]
We go over episode 3 of the Anarchists the HBO DocuSeries More Episodes Anarchists Review The Anarchists Episode 2 2022-07-22 25 Anarchists Review The Anarchists Episode 1 2022-07-13 80
From Center for a Stateless Society by Ash P. Morgans Bloody Rule and a Cannibal Order! Part III This final essay began as a few scattered notes meant originally for the Egoist and the Anarchist which I’ve worked to develop into something of their own piece. My aim […]
From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Margaret talks with comedian and podcast host Brodie Reed about Kaneko Fumiko and Kanno Suga, two Japanese anarchist women who did their best to end the lives of emperors and almost changed history.
From Vice News by Ella Fassler HBO’s new docuseries explores Anarchapulco, a not-so-utopian den of ‘free market’ capitalists. Anarchists say their goals couldn’t be more different.
Stephen Carson of Radical Liberation Explains How Medieval Anarchism Built the West. Listen Here. Was the West built on anarchist principles? Stephen Carson, the host of the YouTube channel Radical Liberation, argues that medieval anarchism helped propel the West to economic and social greatness. He joined José Niño […]
From Red and Black Notes by Matt Crossin Horizontalism and Autonomous Spaces
by Iain McKay Also titled: “Objectivity and Right-Libertarian Scholarship” For general information on Anarchist Theory, see the Anarchism FAQ File 1. Introduction In his essay, Caplan decides to expose the secret statist nature of the Spanish Anarchist movement. He states that “many discussions of the Spanish […]
By Bryan Caplan In the spirit of F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom , I dedicate this essay to anarcho-socialists of all factions. Preface In “Looking Back on the Spanish War,” George Orwell writes, “I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish civil war. I […]
From No Selves, No Masters by reed w ingalls A friend of mine who teaches foreign language reminded me today of a curious problem in English. We don’t often take the time to understand what our compound words and prefixes do to the meaning of a term. For […]
From Anarchist Writers by Anarcho The new issue of Black Flag: Anarchist Review is now available: https://www.blackflag.org.uk This issue includes articles on and by the Federalist wing of the First International, to mark the birth of revolutionary anarchism at the St. Imier Congress of the First International in […]
We are back for more of the HBO DocuSeries The Anarchists as we anarchists lampoon and critique the series. LISTEN HERE
LMFAO, ” I’ve never watched a show on HBO and wanted to kill the people in the show. “
By Dana Williams The goal of this article is to explore the characteristics of North American anarchists who are union members. New social movement (NSM) theories suggest that movements have changed in recent decades to focus less on economic issues and have divorced themselves from the working class. […]
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 […]
By Dana Williams Racial justice social movements often fragment when their goals do not seem completely achievable. Former participants in the radical Black freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, most of whom were Black Panther Party (BPP) members (and also participants in the Black Liberation Army) and […]
Today we review episode 1 of HBO’s Docuseries “The Anarchists” LISTEN HERE
July 2022 (1860) Paul-Emile de Puydt, パナーキー (Panarchy) [Japanese] (1924) Errico Malatesta, Democrazia e anarchia [Italiano] (1924) Errico Malatesta, Democracy and Anarchy [English] (1962) Tomás Ibáñez, Porque he elegido la anarquía [Español] (1962) Tomás Ibáñez, Pourquoi j’ai choisi l’anarchie [Français] (1962) Tomás Ibáñez, Perché ho scelto l’anarchia [Italiano] […]
Since the new HBO series, “The Anarchists,” is here (six episodes airing every Sunday at 10 p.m. EST)—and since the inevitable tantrums about the term “anarchy” have already begun—I thought it was time to clarify a few things about anarchism, “anarcho-communism,” “anarcho-capitalism,” etc.
By Matthew A Hall I study the interwar libertarian-socialist movements in Germany and Spain. This encompasses movements of industrial unionists, councilists, and syndicalists, as well as more traditional anarchists. Currently, I’m looking at the construction of the “working class” during the Ruhraufstand (1920). I also study Spanish anarchism, […]
By Bill Angelbeck and Colin Grier Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. […]
By Gian Piero de Bellis Note Further notes on the difference between anarchy and pseudo-anarchy. In the beginning In 1840 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in an imagined dialogue with a reader, after having denied of being a democrat, a monarchist, a constitutionalist, in favour of the aristocracy or […]
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, […]
By Alison Lanier Pajiba Jeff Berwick had a brain blast while partying his way around the world in the wake of the dot-com crash, protected by legal and military systems that regulated the safety of his air travel and allowed him to exchange currency for accommodation: it’s so […]
From Anarchy Tube by Cyber Dandy Brenton Christopher Lengel is a screenwriter, playwright and Ringo Award-nominated comic creator who found his artistic voice along the windswept peaks of the northern Appalachians. Shortly thereafter cutting his literary teeth in the NYC underground. His body of work is broad-based and […]
By Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly. It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and the chair of the […]
By Luis Fernandez This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future, this edition will strike a chord […]
By Sidney E. Parker “The question of Anarchism is not the concern of a single class, consequently also not of the laboring class, but it is the concern of every individual who values his personal liberty.” John Henry Mackay “The Masters have never lacked for a kind, sweaty […]
By Dana Williams Although the period of highest activity for anarchist movements peaked in the early 1900s, such movement continues in the present. Contemporary antiauthoritarian movements are a product of the 1960s and New Left, as well as the USSR’s demise. Antiauthoritarian movements are either explicitly anarchist or […]
The tragedy of so many intellectuals in the contemporary world is that while opposing extreme forms of totalitarianism, they are themselves half-totalitarian; that is to say, they express a desire for a society which is half-controlled, half-regimented, half-planned, part capitalist, and part socialist. This strange hybrid they will […]
By Shmuel Lederman Anarchism is often considered to have inspired the New Social Movements emerging in the last few decades. The 2011 mass demonstrations in Spain, Israel, the United States, and other places seem to confirm that what is often called “new” or postanarchism indeed inspires the visions […]
Hyphenated forms of anarchism are the yin and yang. By James J. Miller The topic of canon is more than a discussion revolving around texts, historical figures, or someone’s status in relation to that canon. This paper argues that the canon itself includes a way of applying and […]
Liz Wolfe points out inconsistencies in Americans’ views towards federal government spending.
From Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur For me, the last few years have involved a rather public renegotiation of my relationship with anarchism—and more specifically with the possibility of an anarchism-in-general that is not just a jumble of incommensurable theories with some superficial resemblances. I have most […]
By Ian Mayes, Parenthesis Eye I’ve noticed a pattern that I have. Every few years I feel the need to publicly re-think and re-clarify what exactly it is that I personally believe regarding anarchism. This usually corresponds with me affixing a new anarchist label to my beliefs and […]
The Anarchy Wars continue From ChillGoblin This video answers the age old question, what the H is going on with this guy Michael Malice? Is he an anarchist? Why not? Also, could there be a largely unrelated Kropotkin- themed game show in the middle of the video please? […]
From Center for a Stateless Society by Ash P. Morgans There is something else happening in Byas’ account of our own self-enslavement that I find interesting. It’s not just that Byas’ portrayal of anarchism is meant to be retroactively binding, emerging from our selves only to ensnare us […]
From It Could Happen Here Podcast Andrew joins us to talk about what an anarchist society would actually look like and how it would function.
Anarchist News From Militant Wire by The WannabeWonk Exclusive Interview with an Anarchist Fighter of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine Militant Wire’s Tom Lord Speaks with a Member of The Resistance Committee One of the defining aspects of the current war in Ukraine is the presence of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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