Lyceum Round-Table #42: Anarchists, Libertarians and History
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the tortuous relationship libertarians and anarchists have with history.
Top 10 Experimental Towns and Communes
10. Arcosanti 9. Auroville 8. Findhorn Ecovillage 7. Pullman, Illinois 6. The Harmony Society Communities 5. The Federation of Damanhur 4. The Farm 3. Israeli Kibbutzim 2. Oneida Colony 1. Brook Farm
Afghanarchism: What American Radicals Can Learn From the Pashtuns
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a narrative commonly held by observers in the west that the Afghans are a people defined by perpetual warfare. Like many stereotypes, this one comes with a cornel of truth. After all, the people of Afghanistan […]
Biden’s Mandate and Getting to a Hoppean Framework w/ Stephan Kinsella
Pete and Stephan discuss the Constitutionality of Biden’s vaccine mandate and then get into discussions about Hoppe’s plan for local politics and how it can fight against overreach by the Feds.
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 […]
Definitions, Pluralism, Anarchy
The discussion that follows this article is interesting. Anarchist News from Libertarian Labyrinth Constructing Anarchisms: Definitions, Pluralism, Anarchy More Notes for a Preface The Difficulty of Defining Terms One of the ideas driving Constructing Anarchisms has been the notion that “anarchy” and “anarchism” mark problems that it is […]
What happened to Anarchism? (A critique of American Antifa)
Rhyd Wildermuth Gods and Radicals I. An Unfortunate Coincidence In August of last year, I received a terrifying email from a journalist: I’m reaching out to you because Mr. Michael Reinoehl, who is a person of interest in the shooting Saturday night, is registered to vote at XXXXXXX […]
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Bookchin’s classic is available online. By Murray Bookchin This book stands on its own ground and projects a coherent theory of social ecology that is independent of the conventional wisdom of our time. But we all stand on the shoulders of others if only in terms of the […]
Tradition, Family, Democracy and a Century of Democide w/ Pete and Tommy Salmons
Tommy Salmons is the host of the Year Zero podcast and a contributor at LibertarianInstitute.org Tommy and Pete have a discussion about things that are normally not discussed in libertarian circles like family, tradition, cultural preferences and the results of democracy.
A Trip Through Mexico’s Anarchist Town Of Cheran w/ Matt King
Matt King is a military vet and the creator of the short documentary Homage to Cheran (HTC) which is available on YouTube. Pete and Stateless Productions used a clip from HTC in their documentary The Monopoly On Violence. Pete wanted to talk to Matt about his experiences in […]
Councils and Revolution: Participatory Democracy in Anarchist Thought and the New Social Movements
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 […]
Was the historical Jesus an anarchist? Anachronism, anarchism and the historical Jesus
By Justin Meggitt, University of Cambridge, UK The claim that Jesus was an anarchist has been made by a variety of individuals and movements throughout history. Although there have been significant differences in what has been meant, it is possible to determine the validity of such a judgement. […]
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 […]
On Becoming Mainstream and Beyond
When I founded Attack the System over 20 years ago, my objective was to lay the blueprint for an insurgent anarchist movement in North America that could eventually take down the US regime and ruling class, in solidarity with those under attack by US imperialism in each of […]
Contesting Barcelona’s Soul between Two Flags : Conceptual Frontiers of the Turn-of-century Catalonia between Catalan Nationalism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
By Seonghek Kang In 1992 amidst the celebration of the upcoming Summer Olympics, a rectangular pavilion in the neighborhood of Horta was erected by the order of the Barcelona city government. Externally unimpressive with large, semi-transparent glass windows covering steel staircases, the edifice was in fact a reconstruction […]
What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?
Crummy government is the most cited category, and yet libertarians, anarchists, and fellow travelers don’t seem to be able to give their ideas away. Statista Research Department In June 2021, 22 percent of respondents stated that poor leadership and a general dissatisfaction with the government were the most […]
Libertarian Perspectives
By Manuel Armenteros This essay goes through the history of anarchist thought and action, taking as a basis the work of Peter Marshall. Besides going through many of the different types of libertarian schools of thought, from right wing free market anarcho-capitalists, to left wing voluntary socialism, arguments […]
Italian anarchism and popular culture: history of a close relationship
By Marco Manfredi Around the world, social movements have become legitimate, yet con-tested, actors in local, national and global politics and civil society, yet we still know relatively little about their longer histories and the trajectories of their development. This series seeks to promote innovative historical research on […]
Who’s the Criminal? Anarchist Assassinations and the Normative Conflict about Legitimate Violence
By Holger Marcks “Taking a critical approach, Holger Marcks deconstructs the threat of ‘international anarchist terrorism’ as a justification narrative that was used to generally blame anarchist ideology for politically motivated assassinations, to criminalise political dissent and to shape the norms and practices of the respective transnational criminal […]
The Spanish Anarchist Movement at the Outbreak of the First World War
By James Michael Yeoman At the outbreak of the First World War the Spanish anarchist movement was in disarray. Four years earlier, the movement had succeeded in creating a national organisation of syndicates, named the Confederación Nacional de Trabajo (CNT). The CNT was initially a source of pride […]
Reforming the State or Transforming Society? – The Spanish 15M Movement and Anarchism
By Pablo Rodero The present work studies those aspects of contemporary social movements that could produce long-term changes in society. To do so, it examines the extent to which contemporary social movements can be considered as a part of a global anarchist re-emergence since the late 1990s. The […]
Call for assistance from anarchists in Afghanistan
Anarchist News via The Federation of Anarchism Era Afghan anarchists need to leave Afghanistan urgently! The Taliban are now on the verge of establishing their own government in Afghanistan. The powerful countries of the world did not prevent or hinder this Taliban project. Unfortunately, the people of Afghanistan […]
Revolutionary Syndicalism and Reformism in Rio de Janeiro’s Labour Movement (1906–1920)
By Claudio H M Batalha Divided between revolutionary syndicalism and reformist unions, Rio de Janeiro’s labour movement represented one of the most complex local cases during the Brazilian First Republic. This article intends to show how relations between these two currents were far from clear cut, and that, […]
Examining Extremism: U.S. Militant Anarchists
Congratulations, my fellow anarchists of all tribes and sects of anarchy! We made the All-Star Team. By Grace Hwang, Center for Strategic and International Studies Anarchists in the United States promote an alternative societal structure—one opposed to the existence of the U.S. government. Although anarchy exists as a […]
Afghanistan and the Racism of Imperial Progress
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, the shit has kind of hit the fucking fan in Kabul. If you haven’t noticed, you must be Amish and I envy you because the banshees of cable news have been screaming about […]
Noam Chomsky Discusses a Plan for Anarchy
Noam Chomsky joins Michael Albert to discuss his book No Bosses. Albert advocates for the conception and then organization of a new economy. The vision offered is called participatory economics. It elevates self-management, equity, solidarity, diversity, and sustainability. It eliminates elitist, arrogant, dismissive, authoritarian, exploitation, competition, and homogenization.
The Untenability of Statism and Individualism in an Age of Lockdown
One thing I find particularly interesting is just how vast anti-statist thinking is. This piece is a very good discussion of intellectual and political history. The arguments are mostly a regurgitation of Russell Kirk, Robert Nisbet, and other similar thinkers in the Burkean conservative tradition. In his history […]
Special Issue on Non-Territorial Governance
Journal of Special Jurisdictions This special issue’s topic is non-territorial governance. We sought papers that explored the relationship between non-territorial forms of governance, such as blockchain, the internet and distributed communities, and special jurisdictions, including Special Economic Zones and other forms of Startup Societies. We decided to put these […]
Your Next Government?: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations
Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions – common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These trends suggest […]
The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse
Max Borders is the founder and Executive Director of Social Evolution—a non-profit organization dedicated to liberating humanity through innovation. Max is also co-founder of the Future Frontiers conference and festival. His books include The Social Singularity and After Collapse. READ MORE
The Political Thought of Errico Malatesta
By Felipe Corrêa To deal with the political thought of Errico Malatesta is not a simple task and is something that must be carried out with necessary caution. It is relevant to bear in mind three fundamental questions that run throughout any more careful analysis of his work: […]
Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917–1921
Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and a devil. These epithets had their origins in the Russian Civil War (1917–1921), where the military forces of the peasant-anarchist Nestor Makhno and Mennonite colonists in southern Ukraine […]
Anarchism and Catholicism: An Introduction
By Chase Padusniak “Anarchy,” a scary word to many, doesn’t get much use in Catholic circles. It seems downright frightening, either theologically or personally-it seems to threaten longstanding traditions of justice, not to mention the personal comfort and status of the West’s largely comfortable and assimilated Catholic population. […]
Jesus and anarchist spirituality
By Jim Palmer Did you ever hear in church that Jesus was an anarchist? Probably not. Many of my friends who are anarchists are Atheist. It makes sense. At its root, anarchy is the absence of a ruler – that would include a ruler on earth or in […]
And They Called Them ” Galleanisti “
By Andrew Hoyt This dissertation tells the story of how a small group of low-profile militants, located on the periphery of industrial America, set in motion a chain of events that led Luigi Galleani to become one of the most notorious Italian anarchist and resulted in the Cronaca […]
An Overview of Anarchist Economics with Kevin Carson
This article contains a lengthy interview with anarchist economist Kevin Carson from around 2017. Carson goes into a lot of detail regarding the theory and practice of anarchist economics. Symbol and Verse If there’s a political bias to Secret Transmissions, then it’s unabashedly an anti-authoritarian one. While not […]
New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: the Individual, the National and the Transnational
By Constance Bantman Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the history of European anarchist and syndicalist movements. The rise of alter-globalisation protest borrowing many of its direct-action tactics from pre-World War I anarchism and syndicalism has been important in bringing it on over the last […]
Keith Preston vs. the System (and Right and Left Libertarianisms)
Many people seem to have a problem placing me on the political/ideological spectrum. This is understandable because I do not take an ideological approach to political analysis but prefer an empirical approach instead. Ideologies are like camera lenses. You can put on a different lens if you want […]
Reflections on the Future of Anarchism
Much of the work that has been done here at Attack the System over the past 20 years has been oriented toward specifically attacking the American regime and the American-led unipolar order (the de facto world government we have had since at least 1991 and arguably since 1945). […]
Dave Smith on Big Tech Censorship, Lockdowns, and Running for President
The comedian and podcaster talks about running for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination and his beef with Reason. “When it comes to the issues that the liberals are best on, we’re better than them on those issues,” says comedian and podcaster Dave Smith. “And when it comes to […]
Why All Christians Should Be Anarchists w/ Craig Harguess
Craig Harguess is the head of the Bad Roman Project Craig asked Pete to come on share his opinion of modern Christianity. Pete uses the opportunity to also send a message to the Right about their heroes the police.
Longview Anarchism: Transcending the Existential Threat of Freedom
By Emmi Bevensee Center for a Stateless Society As asinine, cultish leaders fascistically toy with the notion of nuclear warfare, we are reminded yet again of the fragility of human life. That humans have advanced as far as we have is remarkable. It reminds me of the feeling […]
Anarchy Is A Scale-Independent Proposition
Anarchists against decentralization? Human Iterations There’s a particular narrative–surprisingly common in certain corners of the anarchist scene–that no one has really bothered to call out and so has grown rather fat and comfortable over the last few decades. It goes something like this: Thinking or acting from a […]
Michael Malice – Conservatives Turning to Anarchism
This is obviously something of an exaggeration. Hugo interviews author and political commentator Michael Malice. They discuss his most recent book, The Anarchist Handbook, and what the vision of anarchism offers today’s world.
Betrayal, Vengeance, and the Anarchist Ideal: Virgilia D’Andrea’s Radical Antifascism in (American) Exile, 1928–1933
By Lorenza Stradiotti A contribution to histories of women in the interwar transnational antifascist movement, particularly radical exiles, we focus on VirgiliaD’Andrea, a noted Italian anarchist exile from fascist Italy who spent her final exile in New York, 1928–33. An intellectual, writer-poet, and orator belonging to a small […]
Transnational Feminism’s Radical Past: Lessons from Italian Immigrant Women Anarchists in Industrializing America
By Jennifer Guglielmo This article examines the activism of working-class Italian immigrant women anarchists in the United States as a window into the world of early-twentieth-century transnational feminism. Emerging from a diasporic, multiethnic network of labor radicals, the women in this movement did not seek inclusion within the […]
Pan-Secessionism is Now a Mainstream Idea
The normal trajectory that takes place when radical ideas are introduced is that such ideas start off on the far fringes, and gradually move toward the mainstream, eventually became the majority opinion, and finally the established consensus. An idea starts to become mainstream when a substantial minority favors […]
Radicalism in the Tropics: Anarchism and the Labor Movement in Brazil, 1901-1921
By David Wiley Prior to the establishment of Brazil’s First Republic in 1889, Brazil built its economy on large-scale single-crop agriculture and the institution of slavery. The transition from empire to republic included the growth of industry in Brazil’s Southeast region, primarily in the states of São Paolo. Minas […]
Anarchism & Assassination: Dom Carlos to the Qing’s Zaifeng Regent
By Paul B Spooner International Terrorist movements were launched under Mikhail Bakunin & the First International led by Karl Marx, but extend well into the 20th Century. This article provides an overview of anarchism’s geopolitical relationships, its theoretical bases, operating organizations, methods and funding, with a focus on […]
Watching the Drift
Back during the Ron Paul era, there was a growth of interest in libertarianism/anarcho-capitalism, although many of the newer libertarians eventually veered off into the alt-right (and some going the other way toward SJWism). The Bernie Sanders thing seems to have inspired a renewed interest in socialism, including […]
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