Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: Their Consequences for Democracy Civil Wars, Revolutions and Counterrevolutions in Finland, Spain, and Greece (1918-1949): A Comparative Analysis
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Emotions, MEmotions, Moral Batteries and High-Risk Activism: Understanding the Emotional Practices of the Spanish Anarchists under Franco’s Dictatorship
By Eduardo Romanos This article studies the reactivation of activist networks in high-risk settings through a longitudinal analysis of the emotional practices of Spanish anarchists under Franco’s dictatorship (1939–75). The anarchists mobilised a series of emotions in their discourse, seeking to change the degree and quality of emotions […]
Rothbard against the Christian Reconstructionists
An old piece by Murray Rothbard from 1961. By Murray Rothbard, introduction by Grant Babcock, Libertarianism.Org In 1961, Murray Rothbard was employed by the William Volker Fund as something of a libertarian strategist and talent scout. Rothbard would read books that showed promise for advancing the libertarian cause, and […]
Is Self ownership and the NAP Compatible with Christian Thinking?
Most libertarians defend their politics with a simple starting point: self-ownership and the non-aggression principle. Christians have often raised issues with the concept of self-ownership, since as the Creator of the universe, isn’t God really the owner of everything? Todd Lewis, a recent guest on the podcast, joins […]
Inclusion-exclusion dynamics related to medical professional within Spanish anarcho-syndicalism in the first third of the 20 th century
By Jorge Molero-Mesa and Isabel Jiménez Lucena The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamics within Spanish anarcho-syndicalism between manual workers and medical professionals who shared the anarchist ideology. The incorporation of technicians into the labour movement was a common feature in the Western world; however, […]
Yes, The Deep State Does Exist, And It’s LIBERALS Who Are Doing Its Bidding
Co-host of Useful Idiots podcast and author of TK News, Matt Taibbi, breaks down the resurrection of the intelligence apparatus’s public image.
The Spanish CNT-FAI Anarchist Defense Cadre Operating Concept
By Karl Dahl, THE PEOPLE’S SAMIZDAT Observers of many political stripes, but particularly the dissident right, have turned their eyes from the United States’s first Civil War to the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 as the analog to a potential North American disruption. This author would like to […]
The State As An Establishment Cult
Our Timeless Existence Imagine state-run churches with mandatory tithes and taxes. Imagine the state licensing clergy. Imagine the state allowing “alternatives” to their state run church system, but only if they are licensed, approved, and regulated to be a mirror of the state run church system. Imagine attendance […]
Do the Amish and Ancaps need Woodrow Wilson and B. Kristol to protect them?
The mindcrime liberty show discusses freeriding, pacifism and defense. Recently popular youtuber Peter Santenello interviewed a beachy Amish family and they stated that during times of war they were viewed as freeriders or scabs who didn’t do their fair share but enjoyed the freedoms and luxuries provided by […]
Salvaging the Revolution: Anarchist Historiography on the Spanish Civil War
By Morris Brodie Morris Brodie tracks 80 years of historiography on the Spanish Civil War, from caricatures of anarchists as idealistic and/or bloodthirsty (by fascist, liberal and orthodox communist historians) to an ‘anarchist renaissance’ in civil war historiography in the last twenty years. He includes a list of […]
From Misfit to Anarchist: The impact of the Spanish Civil War on Captain J.R. White
By David Convery Captain James Robert White (1879-1946), commonly referred to as Jack, appears in many publications as the man who conceived of, and then subsequently trained, the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) in I 9 I 3. Born into an upper-class family in Broughshane, County Antrim, White served […]
Anarchist economics an alternative for a world in crisis
By Hjoit Hansen Spain has a particular historic significance for the world anarchist movement. The extent and breadth of publications on the Spanish civil War and the Revolution of 1936-9 is ever-expanding. Nevertheless, little has been written on the economics of that revolution, in which hundreds of collectives […]
The Boogaloo Path to a New Rainbow Coalition
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Fred Hampton had a dream. It was a little more militant than Doctor King’s, but no less ambitious. The young chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party dreamed of a grand coalition of revolutionaries spanning […]
Lyceum Round-Table #44: How Radical would a Libertarian society really be?
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss how many times libertarians think their kind of society would look a lot like current order, but without the state. Is that true?
The Impossible Fordist Baggage of Latin American Anarcho-Syndicalism
By Guilherme Falleiros, Katiuscia M Galhera ‘The Fordist baggage of anarcho-syndicalism’, by Ben Debney (see Anarchist Studies Blog), argues that anarcho-syndicalism was unable to keep pace with mutations in the labor sphere due to an assumed Fordist paradigm. This article takes as a starting point the fact that […]
The Revolution of the Women Without Anything, Without a Name
By Coral Cuadrada Undoubtedly, the events of 18, 19 and 20 July 1936 constitute one of the most excessively interpreted historical facts in recent Catalan history. And, all the same, after eighty years we still know very little about them. The originality of the 1936 social revolution, which […]
Corporate Libertarianism vs Libertarian Libertarianism
By Ben Bartee, Being Libertarian Like a child with spaghetti, the US corporate state made a mess of libertarian ideology. Other Western political cultures do not recognize the exceedingly awkward and cowardly simplistic US version of corporate libertarianism, which goes something like: Public domain bad; private domain good […]
Secession: The Constitutional, Historical, and Moral Case
Now that pan-secessionism has entered the mainstream discourse, at least on a casual level, the next step for those of us with a more radical perspective is to keep pushing the envelope toward more radical viewpoints, away from Democratic Partyism and Republican Partyism toward the intellectual framework associated […]
The positive side of stereotypes: Jewish Anarchists in Buenos Aires
By Jose Moya Shows how Eastern European Jews in the international anarchist movement and how the stereotypes of Jews as radicals may have stirred antisemitism among the native-born upper and middle classes in Argentina but promoted sympathy from the leftist sectors of the immigrant working classes READ MORE
The Perils of State Power – The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk (James Scott)
I consider James Scott to be arguably the leading living anti-state scholar of the present era. He doesn’t say that much that radical scholars haven’t known for centuries, but he updates and modernizes the theoretical and analytical framework based on the most contemporary research. However, he’s a little […]
Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot
Have you ever noticed that anti-Vietnam War protestors are never commemorated in the same way as other cultural or political icons from the same era? And when they are mentioned in contemporary discourse or pop culture at all, it’s always in a very watered-down way. For instance, Aaron […]
Revolution and Social Revolution: A Contribution to the History of the Anarchosyndicalist Movement in Spain, 1930-1937
By PEDRO GARCIA GUIRAO Available for the first time in English: “The thesis that John Brademas wrote in Oxford in 1953 was entitled ‘Revolution and social revolution: a contribution to the history of the anarcho-syndicalist movement in Spain, 1930-1937’ and it was overseen by Gerald Brenan and Raymond […]
Anarchism: Giving form to autonomy
Anarchist News If revolution is permanent in the sense that its “final” form is already anticipated in its initial outlines, it also must be permanent in the sense that it is never completed, always relative, and that in it victory and failure are one. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Adventures of […]
Beyond Left and Right
Anarchist News Inspired by an anews thread that included a “you’re a leftist,” “no, you’re a leftist” back-and-forth, let’s talk about anarchists using terms like Left and Right, even as derogatory terms. These are boxes, part of a model, that has never helped us, and now is so […]
Ronn Neff RIP
This guy once wrote a (favorable) review of one of my books. By Jacob Hornberg, Future of Freedom Foundation After several months in the hospital battling complications from COVID-19, The Future of Freedom Foundation’s longtime copy editor and friend Ronn Neff passed away last evening. Ronn was 72. […]
REFORM AND REVOLUTION, Moderates and Revolutionaries in the CGT
By Larry Gambone Until the outbreak of the First World War, the Confederation General du Travail (CGT) was a revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist union federation. Thereafter, the CGT was taken over by reformists and became an ordinary conservative trade union. So goes the accepted viewpoint. Murray Bookchin makes a statement […]
Forbidden Thinkers and Their Forbidden Works
This is a good overview of right-libertarian-oriented thinkers. As everyone probably knows, I don’t endorse the right-libertarian or an-cap philosophies exclusively, but I consider them to be part of the wider anti-authoritarian paradigm. Tom Woods In one of my favorite interviews ever, I run through a lightning round […]
Revolutionary v reactionary decentralism: “What’s Left?
A left-anarchist called Lefty Hooligan offers the following assessment of yours truly: ” An equally ridiculous wet dream has been nurtured by Keith Preston who proposes that Left and Right unite in a common pan secessionist movement.” Here is my response: “Pan-secessionist” actions are already happening on the […]
Students, Anarchists and Categories of Persecution In Chile, 1920
By Raymond Craib José Astorquiza had no patience for insolence. The special minister appointed to oversee the prosecution of subversives looked at the young man in front of him. “Are you an anarchist?” he asked. José DomingoGómez Rojas answered: “I do not have, dear Minister, sufficient moral discipline […]
The Revolution Will Be Bureaucratized
Emily Jashinsky makes the case for reducing the massive federal bureaucracy.
Understanding Anti-Authoritarian Strategy in the Apocalyptic Era
Anarchist News Note: Was going to post the whole text here but it was too long, so I used 0bin instead, it’s an anoymous paste type site, hope the link works for everybody! from Indonesian anarchist blog Kontra-Media, original article here: https://kontramedia.noblogs.org/post/memahami-strategi-anti-otoritarian-… “Don’t ask us for that formula […]
Neo-Malthusianism and eugenics in the struggle over meaning in the Spanish anarchist press, 1900-1936
By Jorge Molero-Mesa This article analyzes the debate on neo-Malthusianism and eugenics in Spanish anarchist publications in the first third of the last century. Using theoretical frameworks that have been under-utilized thus far, it provides new interpretations of what the term ” eugenics ” meant in pro-anarchist neo-Malthusian […]
The Right, The Left and the State w/ Eric July
Eric July is the frontman for the band Backwordz, the host of the YoungRippa59 channel on YouTube and a contributor at Blaze TV. Eric joins Pete for a targeted discussion about the state of the Right, and the Left, currently in the US. They, of course, get into […]
Exercise: What Would an Anarchist Program Look Like?
This is a manifesto that was published a while back by Crimethinc. Whatever these folks’ intentions, my prediction is that if everything in this document were to be implemented, the end result would be something akin to a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship, and not one of the more functional ones […]
Press Release: Anarchist Think Tank Locked Out of PayPal
As chumpish as I often consider C4SS to be, I still support them against the real enemy. Center for a Stateless Society UPDATE – 9/25/2021 PayPal has gotten back to us. We’re unable to ever use PayPal again. The reason given by a customer service rep was that […]
NIETZSCHE ON TYRANNY
“Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, political parties, nations, epochs, it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Anarchy. Social Utopia or Intellectual Pipe Dream?
A critique of the anarchist position from the standard parchment-worship perspective. Because 1776 was Year Zero or something. By: Michael D. Jacobsen, Uncensored Truth An anarchic society is often called the original state of Man. At least, according to anarchists. From there, everything seems to have gone downhill. […]
Separated by an ‘ideological chasm’: The Spanish National Labour Confederation and Bolshevik internationalism (1917-1922)
By Jason Garner From its creation in 1910 until the end of the Civil War the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) represented the revolutionary wing of the Spanish labour movement. As such it warmly welcomed the October revolution of 1917 and the pages of its press were soon […]
Anarchism – Essay for The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
By Eduardo Romanos Anarchism refers to a tradition of social and political thought that in the 1860s emerged as an organized political force. Since then, anarchism has inspired protests, organizations and movements, mainly in Europe, Russia and the Americas, but also in other parts of the world. While […]
May Day in Spain: Socialist and Anarchist Traditions
By Eduardo Romanos and José Luis Ledesma ‘[May Day is celebrated] year after year, without interruption’, wrote the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1907), ‘and this celebration seems to assume a ritual, a liturgical character. The value of these rituals is enormous, as long as their spirit is […]
Is AOC the Best Libertarian in Congress? That’s What Left-Leaning Libertarians Say
There is no one in Congress that even comes close to being a libertarian, whether left, right, anarchist, minarchist, libertarian socialist, or libertarian capitalist. Thomas Massie and Rand Paul specifically deny that they are libertarians and claim to be “constitutional conservatives” (paleocons). Justin Amash may have come close […]
The Enragés: Libertarian Anticapitalism with Rad Geek
Center for a Stateless Society Rad Geek (Charles Johnson) is an individualist anarchist technologist and “sometimes writer”, living in the Deep South. He researches topics in the history and theory of radical individualism, left-libertarianism, and market anarchism, with an interest in intellectual and social history, and analytic philosophy. […]
The best books on Anarchism
By Ruth Kinna Sometimes vilified, often misunderstood, rarely taught in universities, anarchism is a political philosophy and social movement that’s far removed from today’s mainstream politics. But it was and remains a powerful motivator. Political theorist Ruth Kinna talks us through the best books to read to get […]
Louis-Ferdinand Céline: “I Have Always Been an Anarchist”
Marxists.Org Source: Choix de Lettres de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, edited by Henri Godard and Jean-Paul Louis. Paris, Bibliotheque de la Pléaide, 2009; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitchell Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2012. (After the fascist riots of February 6, 1934 the great novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline […]
The economics of anarchy
Mirko Draca of CAGE at the University of Warwick discusses the political polarisation that has emerged over the past few years over issues such as climate change and immigration. Survey data reveal the existence of left-wing and right-wing anarchist types from the late-1980s onwards, but both types appear […]
The Boogaloo movement has a new strategy
These guys appear to be an actual on-the-ground, pan-anarchist, pan-secessionist movement. And whether left-wing anarchists like these guys or not, left-wing anarchists who are developing mutual aid networks of their own or creating separatist movements like CHAZ are in the club as well. I suspect that as pan-secessionist […]
Why I am a Right-Wing Anarchist by Robert Anton Wilson
Excerpts from an essay by Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007), writing as Ronald Weston, that appeared in rogerSPARK magazine (Chicago, May 1969). Robert Anton Wilson served as co-editor of the magazine Balanced Living in 1962. Balanced Living was founded by Ralph Borsodi, author of This Ugly Civilization. Wilson was […]
Left vs Right is dead: Politics is about anarchists vs centrists, new CAGE study shows
The term “anarchist” seems to be used overly broadly in this article, even by my standards, and I suspect “populist” would be a better term than “anarchist.” But it’s an interesting article nevertheless. by University of Warwick Politics should no longer be divided between “left-wing” and “right-wing” because […]
The Anarchist Spirit
By Marina Sitrin, Dissent Many popular movements around the world today oppose hierarchy and embrace direct democracy. This is a spirit that we should applaud and help to flourish. There is not much of a global anarchist movement today. At the same time, since the 1990s, many popular […]
No Cheers For Anarchism
A debate on anarchism appeared in Dissent, which is a social democratic magazine, a few years ago. This is the anti-anarchist perspective. By Sheri Berman Anarchists are better dreamers than doers. A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and leadership to actually get things done. What are the uses […]
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