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Intro to Anarchy: Power & Violence
Anarchy is a fascinating philosophy: it’s not just anti-government; it touches on economics, art, sexuality – any field where power is found. Let’s learn about the relationship between power and violence, and why anarchists want to resist power!
The Role of Anarchy in Politics
By Nick Pugh When we are thinking of politics, anarchy is often not the first word that comes to mind in a positive way. For the most part, we think, the political system is put in place to avoid anarchy. But is there more to the idea of […]
Self-Determination, not Universalism, is the Goal
By Jeff Deist Mises Institute Conservatives and progressives alike spent the 20th century arguing for universal political principles. But the world is not so malleable; even in a hyper-connected digital age elites struggle to maintain support for globalism against a tide of nationalist, populist, and breakaway movements. Libertarians […]
De-Stereotyping Anarchism as a “White Ideology”
By Extaneous Thinker It’s a Social Construct It’s happened many times before. That awkward moment sitting in that one meeting for [insert organization here]. Then, as you question the direction/tactics because you don’t believe in the politics of demand, you not only become discovered as an anarchist, but also criticized […]
N-AM Conference in 18 Days
Baton Rouge Cop Killer Was a “Sovereign Citizen.” What the Heck Is That?
I have long been fascinated by an underground antigovernment movement known as the “sovereign citizens,” who are considered by law enforcement to be on the number one domestic security threat. By Brandon E. Patterson Mother Jones A still from one of Gavin Long’s YouTube video. YouTube On July […]
Praise of Folly Podcast #30: Oriental Despotism
Todd Lewis joined by Clement to discuss arguments against centralized power in the ideology of Neo-Reactionaries and the Alt-Right.
Libertarianism – The Annoying Teenager Phase, This Too Shall Pass
By Libertarian Heathen Libertarians are looking around these days thinking – WTF? You have a group of them running around yelling “Fascist” and “Nazi” like they have SJW-Tourett’s. The Vice-Chair is calling veterans murderers. The Chair is spending his time lying in the press, insulting Ron Paul, and […]
Anarchists Fill Services Void Left by Faltering Greek Governance
By Niki Kitsantonis New York Times A Greek anarcho-communist, right, with Syrian children in an abandoned school that was occupied by anarchist groups and is now a home for refugees in Athens. Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times ATHENS — It may seem paradoxical, but Greece’s anarchists […]
Chelsea Manning Released from Prison
By Paulina Firozi The Hill Former soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking thousands of classified documents. The BBC reported early Wednesday morning that Manning had left Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, citing a U.S. Army spokesman. Former President […]
Glen Greenwald: Siding With The “Deep State” Against Trump is “Extremely Dangerous”
By K J McElrath Ring of Fire As bad as the Trump Administration is, things could get much worse should agencies such as the CIA and the NSA seize power of the U.S. government. Yet, many Trump resisters, seeing the escalating war between the Administration and “Deep State” […]
A Quick and Dirty Summary of My Political Views
By The People’s Post Modernist The Absurd Man First and Foremost, I am an Egosit/Stirnerite. The metaphysical ideas of the Creative Nothing” spoke volumes to me upon reading about it for the first time. We all may exist in a void but it is our void and the […]
The Faces of Freedom
By The People’s Post Modernist The Absurd Man As a caveat, I feel it is necessary it address the the metaphysics of freedom and the subsequent embodiment of ideas. Anarchists are first and foremost concerned with the concrete (funny considering how many write off anarchist movements as “idealistic”). […]
Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Killed More?
A reminder of who is our true enemy, i.e. the State. As the late paleoconservative turned anarchist Joseph Sobran once said, “If human beings were rational, they would talk about the state the way Jews talk about Nazis.” It’s also a shame that these discussions of mass killings […]
Cleaning the Muddied Waters of Anarchy
By Will Schnack Evolution of Consent Ideologies and philosophies that go by the title “anarchism” are wide-ranging in their span. These include mutualists, individualists, collectivists, communists, capitalists, nationalists, primitivists, futurists, and more. It has become something of a common trend for people to come up with the next […]
Keith Preston: US using anti-Semitism excuse to cover up growing opposition to Israel
Press TV. Listen here. Forces within the US government are using anti-Semitism as an excuse to cover up growing opposition among university students to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands, says Virginia-based analyst Keith Preston. Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University said Sunday that anti-Semitic incidents on US college […]
Anarchists Should Embrace Mental Illness
By Vikky Storm Center for a Stateless Society For many people, mental illness is a terrifying Other to be shamed and attacked. The mentally ill are to blame for mass shootings. Authoritarian leaders are only authoritarian because they are mentally ill. Mental healthcare means locking people up or medicating them […]
Free Your Mind Conference 05 – Gabriel Brown (April 7th, 2017)
When Insurrections Die
Anarchist News New Content from Resonance: An Anarchist Audio Distro When Insurrections Die by Gilles Duve – Listen MP3 – YouTube or Read it – PDF – Text Are fascism and democracy two sides of the same statist coin? What can the history of fascism tell us about […]
The Brilliant: Episode 44 – How do we fight?
The Brilliant. Listen here. As a person who has been involved in the post-left anarchist space I’ve had a fight or two with other anarchists. How did we do that? What was off and on the table? Was there a winner/loser? Was it the right thing to do? […]
Anews podcast – episode 6 (April 9 2017)
Listen here. This is the sixth episode of the podcast for Anarchist News dot org. This is a topical news project based on the posts of Anarchist News, about what is happening in the anarchist space. It was recorded the 6th of April and covers the last […]
Max Stirner: The Dissolute Life of an Egoist
By Keith Preston German intellectual culture of the early nineteenth century produced an amazing variety of thinkers whose influence would continue to be felt two centuries later. Among the most interesting of these were those influenced in various ways by G.W.F. Hegel, but who utilized Hegel merely as […]
Anews podcast – episode 4 (March 26th 2017)
Listen here. Anarchist News
Intro to Anarchy: Power & Violence
The Importance of Mutuality in the Realm of Tradition
By Chris Shaw Tradition is the conception of a solid society of recognised rules and customs with distributed classes of people. Generally seen as the lower and higher orders, society actually has much more complex relations of heredity and hierarchy, which take on different realms and situations. While […]
Is Anarchism Worth It?
By Chris Shaw This question comes as a result of the lack of cohesiveness amongst the adherents of anarchism. Anarchists, while professing a common universality of values and beliefs, act as roving tribes when it comes to meetings between their different ideological sects. None seem to coalesce around […]
Anarchist News Podcast
Great new anarchist podcast. Listen here.
Keith Preston is Interviewed by Augustus Invictus
Praise of Folly Podcast #33 Libertarianism Past, Present and Future
Todd Lewis Keith Preston discuss the history of libertarianism, its current fissions and its future.
Chase Rachels & Derrick Broze Debate “Libertarian-Right” Alliance
On March 8, 2017, authors and activists Derrick Broze and Chase Rachels debated the proposition of a call for a “libertarian-right alliance.” —————————————————– This is a great discussion. Both of these guys are very knowledgeable and articulate.
Praise of Folly Podcast #32: State vs Anti- State
Todd Lewis and I discuss the case for anarchism against the state.
Who and What Counts as Anarchism?
From an anarcho-communist Facebook commentator. WHO AND WHAT COUNTS AS ANARCHISM? There’s a number of different views on who’s deemed to be a real anarchist and what’s deemed to be legitimate schools of anarchist politics. Let’s imagine a spectrum of these views, measured in terms of “strictness” of […]
Response to Fascist Provocation and Entryism at ISFLC
The libertarian antifa. It had to happen. My guess is that a libertarian, anti-state, anarchist mass movement would include multiple major factions, and even more minor factions. Many of these might refuse to associate with each other. There would likely be a centrist reformist wing like Students for […]
In a Polarized Climate, Libertarian Students Look for Common Ground
This is pretty wimpy, middle of the road stuff, but these kids seem to at least be on the right track. This is probably what the centrist, reformist wing of pan-anarchism would look like. By Julia Sanchez Chronicle of Higher Education Their fiscal sensibilities lean toward the Republican […]
Against the “Anti-Fascist” Creeps
A Review of Alexander Reid-Ross’ “Against the Fascist Creep” by Keith Preston Academic Gloss for the Antifa For decades, a minor cottage industry of professional “anti-racists” and “anti-fascists” has existed for the purpose of perpetually sounding the alarm about the imminent threat posed by supposed “far right extremists.” […]
Mutualism: The Philosophy of Anarchy
By Will Schnack Evolution of Consent This was composed for a speech given to the East Texas Freethinkers on February 18th, 2017 in Tyler, Texas. ____________________________________ Mutualism is an anarchist social philosophy first established in print by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. While often considered to be the father of mutualism […]
The Metaphysics of Anarch(ism)
By Alden Braddock “Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.” ― Albert Camus
The Greatest Failure…
…that the anarchist and libertarian movement(s) display at present is their inability to rise above these kinds of tribal antagonisms.
When Government Acts, “Unintended Consequences” Follow
By J P Cortez In 1850, French economist Frédéric Bastiat published an essay that is misunderstood, or more often, unread, titled, “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen.” Bastiat brilliantly introduced the idea of opportunity cost and, through the parable of the broken window, illustrated […]
The Maoist Infiltration into Anarchism
By Aragorn One of the reasons that anarchism has become a popular political perspective is because in many contexts (for instance mass mobilizations or broad direct action campaigns) we seem open, friendly, and nonsectarian. This is in great contrast to visible (and visibly) Marxist or Leftist organizations, which […]
President Donald Trump: Anarchist Propagandist
Why Anarchists and Libertarians are just a Microcosm of the System
Some interesting thoughts from an anarchist on Facebook. “My fear was that jokes about helicopter rides would be escalated into calls for outright genocide, which is actually starting to happen. Some “anarchists” or “alt-right” have begun the dehumanization process of a group of people by generalizing them all […]
Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Confederate Sympathizer; Mikhail Bakunin, Right-Wing Populist
So says a commie critic of anarchism. ANOTHER RADICAL doctrine developed during the period of the 1830s– anarchism. Anarchism is often considered to represent current of radical thought that is truly democratic and libertarian. It is hailed in some quarters as the only true political philosophy freedom. The […]
Is Anarcho-Communism Intellectually Defensible?
Todd Lewis vs. Brent Lengel. One of the best debates I have ever heard between a left-anarchists and a non-anarchist.
James Corbett on The Anarchist Ideologies
A refreshingly non-sectarian look at anarchism from James Corbett. Corbett also has an excellent overview of the thought of Proudhon.
A Free World Would Allow for Many Diverse and Dissimilar Communities
By Parrish Miller As a libertarian of the anarchist persuasion (one who advocates the complete and total abolition of the state), I often find myself in discussions of how a truly “free” world might look. The truth, though, is that a free world would allow for the development […]
The Civil Society/State Dichotomy
By Chris Shaw Gramsci rightly identifies that in the modern political environment, simply recognising actors as either public or private, in the realm of states or markets respectively, is problematic. Unfortunately the crux of international political economy has accepted this modernist doctrine, tacitly deifying the rationalist discourses of […]
“Anarcho-Fascism”: An Overview of Right-Wing Anarchist Thought
This is the text of a lecture delivered to the H.L. Mencken Club on November 5, 2016. The topic that I was given for this presentation is “Anarcho-Fascism” which I am sure on the surface sounds like a contradiction in terms. In popular language, the term “fascism” is […]
The Black Flag of Captain Nemo
Towards a Dark Anarchism of the Empyrean Jules Verne, the famous science fiction and fantasy writer, has been described as a ‘conservative anarchist’ in respect to his political leanings. His fictional character of Captain Nemo is seen at the end of the novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the […]
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