An interesting discussion of anarchism from a Trotskyist perspective. By Eric Kerl International Socialist Review IN DECEMBER 2008, Time magazine ran the headline, “Could Greece’s Riots Spread to France?”1 The article was accompanied by fiery images of anarchists battling police on the streets of Athens. Four months later, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper fretted that […]
Are startup societies the way forward for anarchists? Co-founder and CEO of the Startup Societies Foundation, Joe McKinney, joins me to discuss new approaches to challenging (and escaping from) centralized authority.
Thibault Serlet’s talk at the Startup Societies Summit. July 1 2016.
Via The Daily Bell Startup societies are disrupting the industry called government. New methods of governance are being experimented with that promise to make the old dinosaurs of social control go extinct. When new governments are formed, people can vote with their feet for the best style of […]
Are the sovereign citizens the true anarchist vanguard? Anarcho-Dictator At least around the borders. Most of the examples of quasi-libertarian societies in history draw upon barbarian tribes and frontier societies. The individualist, nomad libertarians of Ricardo Duchesne, medieval Iceland and old Ireland are cases in point. But so […]
China once had a massive anarchist movement in the pre-Mao years. Anarcho-Dictator China has neoliberals and neocons all-a-tizzy about various dangers allegedly posed by a third world country on the other side of the planet. The border between China and the United States is Japan and the Pacific […]
It seems that the idea of “start-up societies” is growing in popularity throughout a range of political tendencies. Is this the wave of the future?
“History repeats … first as tragedy, then as farce” … -Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon By Keith Preston The present era of globalization in the early 21st century is very similar to the era of industrialization in the early 19th century, in the sense of […]
“Plutocratic Communism” is a great term. Communism was one of the biggest scams in history. “Wealth and property are bad! Let’s give it all to the state!” Not even the priestly conjurers of god-emperors or the divine right of kings came up with something that good. Communism was […]
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog Proudhon was not a communist. Proudhon agreed with Bastiat on basically everything, except he was more extreme about it. He wanted to deprive the illegitimately-wealthy of their monopoly of credit. Look into the history of how ‘capitalism’ actually happened, as opposed to the […]
A great episode. Glad to see this happening. Rothbardian anarcho-capitalists, who make up a substantial proportion of my audience, are often confused by non-libertarian anarchists, who don’t seem like real anarchists to them. These anarchists, in turn, feel the same way about anarcho-capitalists. In this episode, Professor Gerard […]
By Regan Keely The Conscious Resistance What is an Exitarian? Discussing exiting “anarchist politics”, opening up the free market of governance, and implementing it in the real world in an actual framework of free, decentralized communities. Friends, we are the pioneers of a post-political world. We seek to […]
On 20.11.17 Brian Davis of TLB Radio interviewed Nikolas Schreck, author of The Manson File Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman and director of Charles Manson Superstar on the passage of his friend Charles Manson. The interview was broadcast live.
It makes sense that as anarchists movements grow on a worldwide basis anarchist tendencies in countries with a history of tyrannical leftist governments would assume a rightward orientation while anarchist movements in rightward leaning nations would assume a leftist orientation. By Denys Gorbach Open Democracy Anarchism may be […]
Apparently, anarchists have been trolling the Return of Kings website. Given the source, this piece has a predictable masculinist bias. —————————- Few weeks ago, I published an article calling for the political independence of America and I was pleased to see that many people were open to the […]
A challenge to anarchists from what appears to be some kind of liberal or left perspective. The first problem I see with these arguments is that they do not address the actual costs of statism. By Jared C. Willis Steemit
A minarchist challenge to the anarchist position. Frankly, the anarchist vs. minarchist debate has never interested me much because both positions are so far from where we are now it’s hardly a pressing issue. Let’s just keeping chipping away at the state until the last one out turns […]
And the North Koreans are the truest defenders of “democracy,” no doubt, just like “work makes you free.” I am posting this here in order to provide an illustration of the delusional nonsense that regrettably dominates much of the “far left” anarchist milieu (although this guy is arguably […]
A recent interview. Listen here.
There’s a lot of commonalities, but there’s a lot of very specific factors that can lead people towards the ANTIFA and BAMN type communities. I’ve known countless people like this, so I figured I could shed some light on the subject.
Todd Lewis makes the case for libertarian socialism. Classical Theist says no.
By Ben Collyer New Scientist The 11,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe was an amazingly complex find Vincent J Musi/National Geographic Creative By Ben Collyer THE emergence of state authority was a logical consequence of the move to settled agriculture, or so we thought. Until recently, we also assumed that ancient […]
By Lexi Linnell Center for a Stateless Society Recently, Vishal Wilde advocated for a universal basic income (UBI) on the grounds that it promotes economic freedom and social justice. Indeed, UBI has long been attractive to libertarians of various stripes. However, this idea suffers from the problem that, […]
An interesting book review. By Vlad Tarko The Independent Review One of the most important and difficult problems in political economy is how to overcome the social and political costs of heterogeneity and enjoy the cultural and economic benefits of diversity. People’s preferences differ on numerous margins, and, […]
An excellent general introduction to class theory from an anti-statist perspective. By Sean Gabb In delivering this speech, I make no pretence to originality of thought. Everything I am saying today has been said already – usually better, and always in greater detail – by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, by […]
Wouldn’t it be awesome to see this guy participating in the presidential debates? A former British diplomat in the lead up to the Iraq war, Carne experienced first-hand the lies and self-serving discourse of political power. After a profound crisis, he began a quest for a more just […]
Incessant debate rages among self-proclaimed anarchists concerning who should be counted as a “true” anarchist, with proponents of each of the many kinds of anarchism claiming the right to special recognition of their particular sect. But this would seem to miss the point. The purpose of anarchism is […]
In recent years, there has been growing concern in some camps about matters involving police brutality, police militarization, mass incarceration, overcriminalization, electronic surveillance and related matters. The bulk of the concerns of these kinds have come from the left end of spectrum, and raised by those who are […]
Many of these regionalist movements in Europe seem similar to tendencies we have in the US, i.e. either more affluent regions that don’t want to pay taxes to the central government which they view as “too leftist” but have no interest in critiquing state-capitalism per se, or PC […]
Adam Kokesh’s plan to seek the Libertarian Party nomination in 2020 on a program of abolishing the federal government would seem to be a move in the correct direction. However, this idea may be incomplete in various ways. This leads to the need for a consideration of what […]
My take on Trump is unique because I find myself saying to my liberal friends, “No, he’s not a Nazi. Get over your paranoia.” And I find myself saying to my right-wing friends, “No, he’s not the savior of America/white people/whatever, just a two-bit carnival huckster. Get your […]
Liechtenstein comes pretty close to being an anarcho-monarchist system. By Andreas Kohl Martinez Jacobite A version of this speech was given at the Corax Conference, July 28-30, in Silema, Malta. Before we jump in, let’s have a show of hands. How many of you have ever been told […]
We need many, many more projects like this with each reflecting the ideals of their founders and participants. By Evan Faggart BitsOnline Roger Ver, a highly visible figure in the Bitcoin community, is teaming up with entrepreneur and cryptocurrency enthusiast Olivier Janssens to create a brand new country. […]
By Elias Isquith Salon.Com David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, is a man who wears many hats. He’s an academic, of course — and a respected one at that. But he’s also an author, an activist and political anarchist. But his most […]
By Alexander Kolokotronis ROAR Mag A municipalist revolution is impossible without the support and cooperation of labor unions. In some cases, labor unions might themselves take the lead in promulgating a municipalist shift. To effectively pursue this path, the left must grapple with the diverse composition and structure […]
Political battles of the future will be between the forces of global capital and city-states where non-state actors manage to gain hegemony. By Jamie Bartlett Aeon.Com If you’d been born 1,500 years ago in southern Europe, you’d have been convinced that the Roman empire would last forever. It […]
Veteran anarcho-communist writer Wayne Price has offered a critique of my summary of the 2017 conference of the National-Anarchist Movement in Madrid on the Anarkismo site. Read my original article here, and Price’s reply here. My response to price is below. By Keith Preston This is the response […]
This is a map of the present state of U.S. politics designed by a well-known antifa intellectual apologist. With the exception of the dubious claim that the Alt-Right and neo-Nazis are a genuine part of the Republican Party, I generally agree with this map. In reality, the leadership […]
Anarchism as we know it today sprang from the Age Of Enlightenment, the period of history where Europe first began to embrace the ideals that underpin its current liberal democracies. It gained traction during the French Revolution and remained a presence in Europe until the end of the […]
Here’s the money quote from this article: “There is something not normal about a person who can read a defense of the stateless society and decentralization, secession, and self-determination as means of achieving it and immediately think Nazi because of a reference to the obvious reality of blood […]
Pan-Anarchism is for everyone, even abused African women. Broadly Where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the desert, the people of Samburu have maintained a strict patriarchy for over 500 years in northern Kenya. That is, until 25 years ago, when Rebecca Lolosoli founded Umoja village as […]
Pan-Anarchism for weed heads. BBC A company which makes cannabis products has bought an entire town in California and plans to turn it into a “destination” for marijuana. American Green has agreed a deal to buy the town of Nipton for $5m (£3.8m). The company will own 120 […]
Whenever I’m asked to define what an anarchist is I usually just say that if you get a 100 self-proclaimed anarchists in a room, and ask them a question, you might get 200 answers. It’s the same way people who are self-proclaimed Christians have argued over Christology for […]
From The Washington Post. I’ve always thought that those were inept analogies for exactly the reasons outlined here. There are some well thought-out arguments coming from the restrictionist side, but those most certainly aren’t amongst them. ~MRDA~ By Ilya Somin August 6 at 4:18 PM If you follow […]
By Debbie Bookchin ROAR Magazine Only a global confederation of rebel cities can lead us out of the death-spiral of neoliberalism towards a new rational society that delivers on the promise of humankind. I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city […]
An interesting discussion of the church/state separation issue. I generally agree with the arguments made by this author. By Millennial Transmissions Libertarianism Without Adjectives I’m not a very “principled” person. I am in the sense that my actions are guided by a number of principles defined loosely and […]
A review of The Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner. Translated with a new introduction by Wolfi Landstreicher. Underworld Amusements. By Keith Preston An apparently controversial publisher has issued a new translation of a controversial book. The original work in question is Max Stirner’s egoist classic, originally […]
My recent lecture at the conference of the National-Anarchist Movement in Madrid.
By Carne Ross The Guardian wrote Independent Diplomat shortly after resigning from the Foreign Office. I had worked on Iraq and WMD for more than four years at the UN security council, but resigned in 2004 after giving secret testimony to the Butler review on the Iraq war. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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