“YOUR WELCOME” with Michael Malice #209: Angela McArdle
Sorry, left-libertarians, but this woman doesn’t really seem like much of a “fascist.”
You’re Only As Free As You Allow Your World To Be
By Caitlin Johnstone The struggle to obtain power is the struggle to gain control over the people around you. Trying to gain more control over a romantic partner, a family member, workers, the citizenry; all of these things are an attempt to obtain power. Gaining control over others […]
The Steps to Anarcho-Pluralism
Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy
By Luis Fernandez The link below is to a pdf…. “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 […]
Anarchist Communities: Past, Present, and Future
N-AM-Conference 2018-Anarchist Communities-Past Present Future A powerpoint for a talk on historic anarchist practice that I gave a few years back.
Anarchist Keith Preston of AttackTheSystem.com talks anarchism, geopolitics, globalization, and the multipolar world, on TNT Radio
Anarchist @zxcsvdf43_zx77 of https://t.co/hSRdP2JSFu talks anarchism, geopolitics, globalization, and the multipolar world, on @tntradiolive. https://t.co/lJiaeU7QQE — Geopolitics & Empire (@Geopolitics_Emp) May 26, 2022
The Age-Old Question: Is Anarcho-Capitalism Anarchism?
I have a much broader definition of what anarchism is than this author, but this is a very good articulation of the general left-anarchist perspective. I am more of the view that left-anarchism (with its many schismatic subdivisions and hyphens) is one major branch of anarchism. The liberal-libertarian-anarchist […]
Anarchy & Society: Reflections on Anarchist Sociology
By Dana Williams Anarchy and Society explores the many ways in which the discipline of Sociology and the philosophy of anarchism are compatible. The book constructs possible parameters for a future ‘anarchist sociology’, by a sociological exposition of major anarchist thinkers (including Kropotkin, Proudhon, Landauer, Goldman, and Ward), […]
Victor Serge and Anarchism: The Russian Years
By Mitchell Abidor Victor Serge became a propagandist for the revolutionary government almost immediately after arriving in Soviet Russia in 1919. He wrote in praise of the new state and called on anarchists to support the Bolsheviks. However, contemporary reports in anarchist journals and memoirs by his contemporaries […]
Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left
By William Darling A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements Ammon Hennacy was arrested over thirty times for opposing US entry in World War 1. Later, when he refused to pay taxes that support war, he lost his […]
A Schematic Anarchism: Rethinking Anarchism Without Adjectives and Synthesis
Anarchist News from Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur The schematic anarchism introduced over the last few months is at once a comparatively adjectiveless anarchism and a tool for synthesis. It is, however, not an example of anarchism without adjectives or anarchist synthesis in their most familiar senses. […]
A Question for Anarchists
“The Lighter Our Task, the Heavier our Burden” An Ethnography of Political Dissidence among Punks and Anarchists in Indonesia
By Louis Gerald Plottel Punk and anarchism, as lived practices that espouse antiauthoritarianism and prefigurative politics as their guiding principles, share a close affinity. Yet, the political value of punk has tended to be overlooked in favour of the punk “identity.” This paper considers the overlapping politics of […]
Freedom Digest: TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2022
Man is an individual being. Man is also a social being. His material success — even his existence — depends on the progress of others. Yet, man’s fortunes and existence depend also on himself. In some respects he is tied to others, but in most respects he must […]
Praise of Folly Podcast #62: Can Anarchists federate together?
I will be joined by Thought Bat to discuss his thoughts on anarchism without adjectives and how he envisions an anarchist federation organizing all the disparate groups of anarchists; or how do you thread the needle organizing cats to resist the state?
The Challenge of National-Anarchism
By Adam Ormes Nowhere News (Originally published in Tribes Magazine, 2018) “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination.” – Attributed […]
3 PM Eastern Sunday May 1: Praise of Folly Podcast #62: Can Anarchists federate together?
Todd Lewis will be joined by Thought Bat to discuss his thoughts on anarchism without adjectives and how he envisions an anarchist federation organizing all the desperate groups of anarchists; or how do you thread the needle organizing cats to resist the state?
Anarchists Against Putin – International Anarchist Mobilization
Anarchist News via Freedom News Freedom is pleased to present the next Ukraine video dispatch produced for us by film-maker and journalist Alexis Daloumis. Alexis spent last few weeks in Kiyv, and previously you may have heard of him due to his other production, Belkî Sibê: A Journey […]
160 Years of Libertarian Writers
An interesting discussion of historic anarchism, including an interesting, occasionally insightful, but IMO overly negative critique of Murray Rothbard. Anarchist Writers Many men, I know, speak of liberty without understanding it; they know neither the science of it, nor even the sentiment. They see in the demolition of […]
What Is Anarchist Literary Theory?
By Jesse Cohn Over the course of its history, the anarchist movement has produced a form of literary theory – a critical aesthetics and epistemology grounded in its emancipatory ethics. In sketching an outline of this body of thought, this essay attempts to call attention to several aspects […]
Anarchism and Critical Security Studies
By Chris Rossdale My research sits at the intersection between international relations theory and the study of resistance, looking at the ways in which our understandings of international politics shift when we begin from the perspective of radical social movements. My major research programme to-date has looked at […]
An Interview with Keith Preston (2017)
This is an interview I gave to a Swiss magazine around five years ago. I don’t think it has ever been published in English before. 1-In your book “Attack the System” you describe the current ideology of the West as a “totalitarian humanism,” yet you claim to be […]
Hoppe: “My Dream Is of a Europe Which Consists of 1,000 Liechtensteins.”
My views are basically the same as Hoppe’s although I am a little more “left-wing” in the sense of being much less sympathetic to business corporations whom I regard as the economic arms of the state, and a little more “right-wing” in the sense of rejecting Lockean universalism […]
For Post-Statist Geographies
By Anthony Ince This article critically investigates past and contemporary treatments of the state within geographical scholarship. We propose that there is a silent statism within geography that has shaped it in ways that limit geographical imaginations. Statism, herein, refers to a pervasive, historically contingent organisational logic that […]
Atlanticism vs. Eurasianism and Its Implications for Anarcho-Pluralists and Pan-Secessionists
By Keith Preston The Russian war in Ukraine has accelerated the rising trend toward multipolarity (or even a multi-order order) within international relations. The Western retaliatory sanctions against Russia have pushed the BRICS nations and their economic allies closer together. The conventional wisdom is that the 21st century […]
Utopian Anarchism and Communes with Parenthesis Eye
Discussing Utopian Anarchism, Non-Violent Communication, and Communal Living with Parenthesis Eye!
Performing anarchism, practicing freedom, pursuing revolt
By Simon Springer If anarchism is a spirit, it is the spirit of revolt. For those unfamiliar with the actual content of anarchism or the enabling possibilities of revolt this statement might appear doubly negative. Just as so much of the contemporary discourse surrounding anarchism is framed by […]
Neoanarchism and the New Spirit of Capitalism: From Alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
By Blair Taylor From Alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street: Neoanarchism and the New Spirit of Capitalism The Research Group on Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Tuesday, September 29th This talk will present an overview of my doctoral research, which examines how political transformations within left social movements have helped […]
Realism, Utopianism, and Radical Values
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 […]
Anarchist Theory and Archaeology
By Bill Angelbeck, Lewis Borck, Matthew Sanger The theory of anarchism primarily concerns the organization of society in a way that fosters egal- itarian or equitable forms of association and coop- eration and resists all forms of domination. An anarchist perspective involves an awareness of, and critique of, […]
Keith Preston on America becoming third world, anarchism + more
An interview I did with Joseph Cotton in early February. WATCH HERE
Interest in Anarchism and Libertarianism is Declining in the US Even as Interesting in Secession and Overthrowing the Government are Rising
The data doesn’t lie. It seems that populism is the in-thing right now. Not surprising given that anarchists and libertarians have done an absolutely horrible job at communicating their core ideas, and have largely become mere appendages to various culture war factions.
Why Be Anarchist?
A reader writes: I think you make an absolute mistake of allowing your silly anarchistic tendencies to blind you into being anti-American just for the sake of it and this is a terrible way to start objective analysis. History has a track record of overturning the analysis of […]
From Stirner to Mussolini
The “anarchist abduction” story from 1910 described in this article sounds like the idiotic drama that goes on in anarchist circles today. By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman […]
Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies: Resistance to Centralization in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast
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. […]
Non Serviam – Anarchism as a Dialectical Subversion Tool
An Eastern Orthodox conservative challenges the anarchist position. By Jay Dyer The appeal of anarchism is understandable, especially in our day of what seems to be spectacular corruption on the part of members of the establishment. In the online-fueled furor of Ron Paul’s libertarian surge in 2008, those […]
The Bonnot Gang, Chapter 14: The End of Anarchism featuring Keith Preston of Attack the System
A great discussion on the final chapter of the Bonnot Gang by Richard Parry
Challenging State Sovereignty: Mutual Aid or Civil War?
By David Pan, TELOS State sovereignty has a complicated relationship to individual rights. They are clearly in opposition, and both left-wing anarchist and right-wing libertarian critiques of the state have attempted to defend individual freedoms against the power of the state. Yet more traditional liberals and conservatives often […]
Nation-states are destroying the world. Could ‘bioregions’ be the answer?
By Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo, Ashish Kothari Open Democracy From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature. It is becoming increasingly obvious that we need to think about the problems of […]
Even if Russia Captures Kyiv, Putin has Already Been Defeated After Starting Unwinnable War
By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch Russian tanks and artillery are deploying to attack Kyiv and Kharkiv, but, even if they succeed in capturing the cities, this will not alter the fact that Russia has already been defeated in the war in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin started a war he […]
Panarchist Constitution – A Global Military Alliance
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Conceiving of a post-left adjacent neo-anarchist libertarian movement
SirEinzige, Anarchist News Conceiving of a post-left adjacent neo-anarchist libertarian movement What brings me to make this post is what I see as an obvious problem of post-left anarchist discourse, it doesn’t scale up. It’s(for now) a niche discourse. As much as I hate large scale leviathan situated […]
Ukrainian Anarchists Mobilize for Armed Defense, Draw Solidarity from Abroad as Russia Invades
The Militant Wire The international reaction of anarchist movements to Russia’s current war in Ukraine has overwhelmingly been one of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and resistance towards Vladimir Putin’s irridentism. However, there has been some variation therein, with almost no support for Russian aggression, which one can […]
Against Annexations and Imperial Aggression: A Statement from Russian Anarchists against Russian Aggression in Ukraine
Against Annexations and Imperial Aggression: A Statement from Russian Anarchists against Russian Aggression in Ukraine Yesterday, on February 21, an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Security Council was held. As part of this theatrical act, Putin forced his closest servants to publicly “ask” him to recognize the independence […]
International Relations and Organized Crime
The UN Security Council is the international version of the Five Families of New York. The Americans are analogous to the Gambinos in the sense of being the international crime family that has the longest reach and decades of dominance behind it. The Chinese are analogous to the […]
Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind
By Jason McQuinn Note A very powerful essay on the poverty of leftism thinking, with its dogmas and prejudices, and an exhortation to develop critical analyses of reality in order to “reformulate our anarchist theories and reinvent our anarchist practices in light of our most fundamental desires and […]
Pro-Government Extremism Must be Ridiculed and Ostracized
Rhetorical: How is being pro-big government variable depending on the form of government desired?
Breaking Anarchy Out of the Shell
A reader writes: Modern Anarchy is a shell of itself at this point. Every anarchist group I’ve had the misfortune to join was either a bunch of AnComs bitching and whining about everything and a bunch of AnCaps who think the free market is some fairy godmother or […]
P.J. O’Rourke, R.I.P.
“At the core of libertarianism is the idea that people are assets.” No one did more to mainstream libertarian ideas about peace, love, and understanding over the past half-century than P.J. O’Rourke, who has died at the age of 74. And like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Sid […]
Against the Liberal Creep: We Keep Us Dangerous
Anarchist News It is the responsibility of free men to trust and to celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak […]
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