I actually agree with all four statements in this meme, although if you take the top statement to extremes, you may get headhunters, and if you take the bottom statement to extremes, you may get 12-year-olds who want to have an all-night party without any adult supervision.
It can be reasonably argued that Lao-Tzu was the first anarchist.
Yes, there is such a thing as Islamic anarchism.
Julia Tourianski discusses her conversion from atheist/anarcho-capitalism to Tolstoyan/Anabaptist/Orthodox Christian anarchism. Christian anarchism is an important tradition within anarchism that is often overlooked.
I greatly respect both the atheist/anticlerical tradition within anarchism as well as the Christian anarchist tradition and other spiritually-based forms of anarchism. This video makes a compelling case for the anticlerical position, at least as it pertains to the Abrahamic traditions, although these people are not anarchists, just […]
Available at Amazon.Com In this brochure Öcalan’s political project, the Democratic Confederalism, is developed systematically. A fundamental criticism of the nation state is followed by a description of its possible alternative, a transnational grass-roots democracy. The texts that form this brochure have been compiled from several of Öcalan’s, […]
Available at Amazon.Com This collection of essays strives to answer libertarian questions using authoritarian answers. It critiques libertarian assumptions and offers unintuitive solutions that are fully compatible with non-aggression, private property, and free markets. This book is a much-needed world-view adjustment for any libertarian who has grown intellectually […]
How do you define anarchy? Is it about no government or no “unjust hierarchies” for you? First, let me say that I am only speaking for myself, and not for any organization, or any movement as a whole. I would define anarchism as a form of social […]
During the 1990s, I began to realize that the American left was increasingly being incorporated into the institutional mainstream, and was becoming entirely co-opted by the ruling class. This was evidenced by, for example, the widespread left-wing support for the US government’s massacre at Waco in 1993, acquiescence […]
As the US Empire recedes due to overextension and internal implosion, it seems the emerging multipolar world order will look something like this: In North America, the US will obviously be the hegemon with Canada and Mexico as its satellites. In South America, the richest country, Argentina, will […]
Max Nettlau’s classic is now available. Max Nettlau was the most proficient, and still is the most important, chronicler of anarchism. This one volume (at 400 pages) introduction to the history of anarchist ideas and early movements, summarizing the author’s monumental 9-volume history and several biographies, is the […]
Todd Lewis and Nexus discuss issues that pertain to dissident intellectuals with a decentralized bent.
By Whitney Webb The Last American Vagabond Last year, a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can “address the national security and defense needs of the United States” discussed in detail the “structural” changes that the American economy and society must undergo in order to […]
This is what our “anti-fascists” really need to be worried about, not Donald Trump, the Proudboys, or the Alt-Right.
It is almost certain that governments all over the world will attempt to maintain the powers they have seized during the course of the pandemic. The anarchist critique of the state is vitally important at this time. The anarchist view is that the state is nothing more than […]
By Leonid Bershidsky Bloomberg With authoritarian rulers ascendant in many parts of the world, one wonders what must happen for their countries to liberalize. The likes of Vladimir Putin in Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey or Xi Jinping in China are entrenched, experienced and not unpopular — […]
Keith Preston of attackthesystem.com joins Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird again on episode 150 of the Scottish Liberty Podcast to discuss Covid-19 Corona Virus, anarchism and the Therapeutic State as described by Thomas Szasz.
Features, Apr 21st Freedom spoke to Ruth Kinna, author of numerous books on anarchism about the origins and key concepts of anarchism. What do you find most attractive about anarchism? I like the starting point. Anarchists usually start with a critique of injustice and an assumption of social […]
By Peter Kakol Infoshop Anarchism is greatly misunderstood in the English speaking world where, due to a successful and long-standing propaganda campaign by the wealthy and their servants, anarchism is equated with irrational violence, terrorism, lawlessness, and the misdefinition of the word ‘anarchy’ to make it synonymous with […]
by Anarcho via Anarchist Writers I thought I would discuss the current coronavirus crisis and how an anarchist society would deal with it. This will be speculative but hopefully convincing as far as any discussion of a future society can be – although I do end with a […]
Krystal is coming along in her ideological evolution. Attack the System is a far-left revolutionary anarchist tendency that embraces all forms of anti-authoritarianism (pan-anarchism/anarcho-pluralism), crosses over to the radical center (class-based populism, the people vs. the elites), the populist-right (isolationism, anti-state/local control, free association, pro-gun, pro-free speech, anti-tax, […]
A must watch.
In some ways, Americans have more freedom than they did in Voltairine’s day, and in some ways, they don’t, but I can only imagine what Voltairine would think of the state we have today.
Always a silver lining. By Ryan McMaken Mises.Org Unlike the federal government, state and local governments in America can’t just create money out of thin air. So when tax revenues go down, that money is simply not available to the state legislatures and city councils anymore. These governments […]
By Lee Friday Mises.Org This article focuses on Canada, but the analysis applies in every country to varying degrees, and in most countries to a very significant degree. Even before COVID-19, Canada’s socialized healthcare system was characterized by a decades-long failure to make good on a government promise “to […]
Two libertarians discuss the case for skepticism about the states actions and motives as well as highlighting the massive social and economic costs associated with this mild to extreme lockdown. What would a libertarian society do for a pandemic? Is this virus worth worrying about considering all the […]
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One of the best things about Trump is that he presents the state as it ought to be presented. When he speaks, he sounds like a mafia boss ordering a hit, which is exactly how the state ought to be portrayed. The chattering class/wine and cheese crowd crapola […]
1981 Academy Award Winner for Best Short Documentary. Profile of Karl Hess – writer, community activist, technologist and all around genius.
Hopefully. By Mark Perry The American Conservative When historians look back at “the coronavirus crisis of 2020,” they’re likely to focus on the spread of the disease, the economic dislocation it caused and how the federal government responded to it. Predictably, and depending on the depth and duration […]
Voltairine de Cleyre’s concept of “anarchism without adjectives” (which actually originated from Cuban anarchists a few decades earlier) was about reconciling or at least accommodating the various radical tendencies of her time (mutualists, individualists, collectivists, communists, syndicalists, Tolstoyans, Georgist, Bellamyites, etc.). Given the proliferation of a much greater […]
“In capitalism you live like in a cage. People accepted the myth that man can only make progress out his own strength and that it is only up to him, if he doesn´t manage to live within a centralist state bureaucracy and the capitalist market. They want to […]
I’m been observing the Libertarian Party since 1980 when Ed Clark ran against Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (and John Anderson), although I only belonged to the party for a brief period in the early 90s. I even voted for the Libertarian candidate in 1992, the year of […]
A reader summarize very well what I think are some of the problems with orthodox or mainstream libertarianism: As I see it, the two major failures are: 1. Despite nominal recognition that state and corporate power are intertwined, too often libertarians will go to bat to defend the […]
Paul Gottfried provides a pretty good overview of US political history at the beginning of this. I don’t entirely agree with Halsey English’s paleonconnish/paleolibertarianish interpretation of US political history, but he’s correct with his observation that the traditional US republic is largely moving toward integration as province into […]
Soap distribution continued among the poor workers in Bangladesh by anarcho-syndicalists.
Virtually all of the mainstream debate over “healthcare reform” amounts to one question: Should the state bureaucracy or corporate feudatories be the ones to run the healthcare system? It’s on the level of medieval peasants arguing about whether healthcare should be provided by the kings’ ministries or lords’ […]
Tim Patton offers some thoughtful insights in the comments section (see here) with my response reposted below: I agree with just about everything you said. The “stimulus” is functioning pretty much the way the welfare state generally functions with loads of corporate welfare, a little something for those […]
How do you define anarchy? Is it about no government or no “unjust hierarchies” for you? First, let me say that I am only speaking for myself, and not for any organization, or any movement as a whole. I would define anarchism as a […]
Flat earther Nathan Thompson blasted out of the gates and took us on a tour around the firmament. Then anarchist Keith Preston burned everything down and spoke to us like students in his classroom. Finally, Kevin Strange came on to laugh at all that was left.
The always interesting Doug Casey. Listen here. ——————————————————— Doug Casey, whose book Crisis Investing spent 29 weeks at the #1 position on the New York Times bestseller list, joins me to assess the fallout from the various governmental responses to the coronavirus, as well as his own approach […]
A couple of quotes from the godfather of modern anarchism, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, on why populism, while sometimes necessary, is never enough. “…because of this ignorance of the primitiveness of their instincts, of the urgency of their needs, of the impatience of their desires, the people show a […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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