Category: Anarchism/Anti-State

ALL AGAINST ALL

I think Morgan‘s main point is that “prescriptive anarchism” is a contradiction in terms. The dispersal/decentralization of power implies extreme diversity of thought and practice. For a lot of left-anarchists, the ideal is merely “Progressive Liberalism + Workers’ Coops” and for a lot of ancaps/libertarians, the ideal is […]

Kropotkin’s dead goose

An interesting critique of Kropotkin and anarcho-communism from the neocon magazine The New Criterion. Reading the list of names associated with this publication is a “Yikes!” moment. Of all the scams the neocons have pulled off, one of the most successful has been the way they present themselves […]

A libertarian tragedy in Indianapolis

“Tragedy” doesn’t even begin to describe the condition of libertarianism these days. And at a time when the popularity of virtually all institutions is at an all-time low. “Libertarianism is owning the libs by becoming right-wing authoritarians. Franco was a cool guy.” “No! Libertarianism is rioting for state […]

Against Bourgeois Anarchy

By AntiBoomerEquation For an Aristocracy of the Ego. Mencken and Christophe Cieters both advocate a Nietzschean approach to libertarianism. Renzo Novatore, Max Stirner, Zo d’Axa, Georges Palante and S. E. Parker are all examples of a profoundly anti-democratic rejection of statism and collectivism. John Beverly Robinson, John Badcock, […]

Anarchist Roots & Routes

By Vishwam Jamie Heckert Following Andy Fisher’s call for a radical ecopsychology – one which heals individuals and transforms social, philosophical and psychological systems of organisation and knowledge – this paper explores the anarchist pasts and possible futures of the field. While anarchists such as Kropotkin, Goodman, and […]

Anarchy and Archaeology

By Matthew Sanger and Lewis Borck The genesis of our special section, “Anarchy and Archaeology,” was a symposium chaired by Matthew Sanger and Lewis Borck at the 80th annual SAA meeting in San Francisco. At that time and as the issue took shape, few expected the outcome of […]

Anarchy, Panarchy, and Statism

By John Zube Note Anarchy and Panarchy are not two opposite forms of social organization. In fact Panarchy is mainly a method of solving problems of social organization and through that method anarchy (as well as statism, or communism, or any other conceivable social model) can be implemented […]

Agora #34: Kevin Carson

Kevin Carson is by far the best contemporary left-anarchist economist. His ideas on economics are more or less what I think the dominant mode of production would look like in a world where anarchist movements achieved political hegemony on a cultural and intellectual level. Although, like Noam Chomsky, […]

“Anarchism” Is Just a Name

Anarchist News From Freedom Press UK a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition Features, Jan 13th Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Pluto Press The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by […]

Sovereign Nation States are Leftist Tyrannies

By AntiBoomerEquation Borders are Not Property, Authority is Not Indivisible. The main reason I dislike nationalism: territorialism. The process of territorialization of political demesne has been a recipe for totalitarian sovereign states. Polities do not consist of rocks and streams, they consist of persons. There is no such […]

The Future of Freedom Daily

January 12, 2022 Leave Cuba, and Leave Cuba Alone On the 20-year anniversary of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture and prison center and their military-tribunal judicial system at their imperial base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some critics are asking the obvious question: Why doesn’t President Biden simply order […]

Partition & Entanglement

By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society Partition & Entanglement: Review of Home Rule by Nandita Sharma “The entire, eons-long practice of human  movement  into  new  places  was  pushed  out  of  our  imagination — or,  perhaps more accurately, was reimagined as a national security threat. In the […]

The State: Theory and Praxis

Apparently, Kevin Carson, who is definitely the best modern anarchist economist, has a publicly available manuscript for a new book examining different theories of the state.  As many readers know, I lean toward a type of hybrid theory of left/right power elite models, a kind of intersection of […]

Archaeology of Freedom

It is interesting to find a discussion of David Graeber in the Examiner of all places. By Geoff Shullenberger Washington Examiner In his 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber marshaled historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence in an effort to dismantle some of the […]

Shinmin Prefecture Summary

By Min, Anarchist Library A short historical summary of the forgotten Korean project known as Shinmin Prefecture and Korean People’s Association in Manchuria. This was a self-governing region of around two million people from 1929 to 1931. 1. Inception Many Koreans gathered in Manchuria to avoid oppression from […]

A Question for Anarchists to Consider

One question that I’m interested in is what the cultural framework of hegemonic anarchism would look like. I think it’s clear the political aspect would more or less be a world of free cities, micronations, federated bottom-up imperiums, millets, eco-villages, intentional communities,  communes, diffused networks,  etc. But I […]