Please enjoy my recent debate with Todd Lewis. Herein we discuss Mere Christianity definition, Distributism definition, Aristotle on magnanimity, Economy definition, the importance of family and close friend bonds, perverse incentives of the welfare State, ways to distribute land, calling what we have today as Crony Capitalism is […]
By Jason Adams Radical Archives The future of anarchism must be appraised within a global context; any attempt to localize it is bound to yield a distorted outcome. The obstacles to anarchism are, in the main, global; only their specifics are determined by local circumstances.” – Sam Mbah […]
Great interview with Augustus by Lana Lokteff. Listen here. Augustus Invictus is an attorney and community leader in Orlando, Florida who is a candidate in the 2016 US Senate election. Best known as a radical philosopher and infamous social critic, he is Managing Partner of Imperium, P.A., the […]
A collection of article arguing for orthodox anarcho-capitalism against left-libertarianism. We the Individuals Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist. -Murray Rothbard Sometime ago, this site published an article by the title of “Left-Libertarianism, A Love Story”. The article, in hindsight, was a disappointment. The […]
Interesting political autobiography from a somewhat leading theorist of left-anarchism. There’s really nothing in here that’s incompatible with the ATS program, except for the idea that his outlook does not need to be universalized. By Wayne Price The Anarchist Library I came to this set of ideas by […]
By Danilo Cuellar This was an impromptu recording. I started recording when I realized how valuable this conversation was going to be.
I’d definitely prefer a legal system run by libertarians. Listen to Tom Woods’ interview with Stephan Kinsella on the non-aggression principle here. The comments thread that follows the interview also contains an interesting discussion of the way that libertarianism has split off into alt right/neo-reactionary/paleoconservative and social justice […]
By Sheldon Richman Libertarian Alliance/Free Association Workers of the World Unite for a Free Market Protected firms can get away with abusing workers. By way of Roderick Long I’ve learned that Amazon.com has some pretty rough rules for its employees. (Long draws on the Huffington Post and the […]
Justin Raimondo puts the Oregon stand off in context. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com As our old republic fades into history, replaced by a voracious global Empire, the division between foreign policy and domestic policy is erased. A conquistador treats his helots on the home front with the same […]
Russia Today Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases. “We’re going to be freeing these […]
Opinion polls show these numbers pretty consistently. The question is how do we awaken this sleeping giant? Countercurrents News A startling new study reveals that more than 1 in 4 Americans now believes that the government is the enemy of its very citizens. The Pew Research Center concluded that […]
In recent years, I have noticed that the number of people accepting the label of “anarchist” for their political identity has grown considerably. Equally important is that I have also noticed that an increasing number of people who identify as anarchists are beginning to reject the leftist fanaticism […]
A critique of Bookchin from a classical anarcho-syndicalist/anarcho-communist perspective. By Wayne Price Anarchism Needs a Working Class Revolution Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. Recently his work has been in the news. While he made significant contributions, he made a major error […]
Reuploaded video since the original video titled “Athens: Anarchist Riot Greetings for 2015 [Jingle Bells]” combined the sound of the Streets and Jingle Bells by Frank Sinatra, but on 25/9/2015 UMG (Universal Music Group) muted the video on copyright claiming grounds, so the song was forced to be […]
By Joris Leverink ROAR Magazine In 2004, Kurdish leader Öcalan reached out to Murray Bookchin from his prison cell, where he had been studying the work of the American radical thinker. Their correspondence is now made public for the first time. The Bookchin-Öcalan correspondence has been published as […]
A lengthy symposium from the Center for a Stateless Society on anarchist economics. LOL, most of these guys hate my guts but I’m pleased to see this debate about anarchist economics going on. By Cory Massimino Center for a Stateless Society Introducing the November 2015 Mutual Exchange Symposium […]
This is an interesting critique of Kevin Carson’s individualist-anarchism/mutualism by former Trotskyist turned anarcho-communist Wayne Price. Carson’s reply to Price’s review can be found here. By Wayne Price Anarkismo.Net This is a review of Kevin Carson’s “Studies in Mutualist Political Economy”. Carson seeks to revive individualist anarchist economic […]
A talk from anarcho-communist Wayne Price. He’s half-way there. Add to Price’s statement this statement from a libertarian group: “Right/Left, small “L” and big “L” libertarians are welcome. Libertarian Socialists. Ancaps, Ancoms, and other anarchist types are welcome, as well. Objectivists, Agorists, Georgists… Constitutional and Conservative libertarians …As […]
Ian Mayes recently offered the following comments: I have a theory that in about 20 years, if not sooner, the word “anarchist” will primarily be associated with the anarcho-capitalists. This is because the anarcho-capitalists are very vocal and persistent in claiming to be anarchists, especially on the internet. […]
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Institute for Anarchist Studies Murray Bookchin was a pivotal, polarizing figure in the post-WWII history of anarchism. He put ecology and democracy on the anarchist agenda in a way that was as novel as it is enduring.
A reply to “Anti-Fascist News“: An uninformed lay person reading the pathetically ignorant and barely literate bromide against Attack the System recently issued by “Anti-Fascist News” would hardly know anarchism is a vast tradition in modern political philosophy with roots in the radical Enlightenment more than two centuries […]
Institute for Anarchist Studies “Freely Disassociating” appeared in June 2015. Although it was written a year prior, the half dozen Left and radical publications to which it was initially submitted would not print it. Since its publication by Perspectives on Anarchist Theory inquiries and positive responses (such as Scott Campbell’s, […]
Here we have the edifying spectacle of an anarchist equating Hollywood liberal and militant atheist Bill Maher with General Franco. My take? This insults the memory of the many anarchists (and many others) who died or suffered horribly for resisting the totalitarian regimes, left and right, of the […]
These are the currents that will need to emerge within the context of North American anarchism if the movement is to eventually become politically competitive. A general consensus will need to develop in favor an an ecumenical approach that recognizes the legitimacy of the many different forms of […]
Ironically, Wolff, Rothbard, and Friedman were all major influences in the development of my own thinking. By David Friedman I spent the past two days attending a conference at Duke University. One of the other participants was Robert Wolff, who published his In Defense of Anarchism a year […]
An great interview of Cody Wilson by Lana Lokteff. Radio 3Fourteen. Listen here. Cody Rutledge Wilson, a student of law, political philosophy, and social theory, is a USA crypto and free-market anarchist. He is best known as a founder/director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and […]
By David S. D’Amato Libertarianism.Org An emphasis on decentralization unites radicals on left and right in American politics, while moderates support central power. As I have attempted to show in the previous two installments, decentralism defies the popular conceptions of both the political right and left. The right […]
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”—Gore Vidal The countdown has begun. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election, and you can expect to be […]
From The LSD & Sorcery Party. We here in this room are like wild animals. We do what we do because we want to, or because it is the right thing to do. No other motivation. If you made slaves of us, you would for sure not […]
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance One of the main British news stories at the moment is an argument over changes to part of the welfare system. The Government claims it wants to make the child and working tax credits system more efficient. The Labour opposition claims it wants […]
In this episode of teleSUR’s The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary “extravaganza,” the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism […]
By Legionscatz It occurs to me, that part of the reason I lost faith in anarchism (ok, perhaps faith isn’t the right word, leave me alone atheists) in the first place is because, ultimately, to manifest an anarchist society, anarchism must become popular with the people which that […]
This is a very interesting rebuttal to the standard anarcho-capitalist view of property theory from a classical anarchist perspective. By Will Schnack Evolution of Consent Check out Will’s book here. This is a reply to Tom Woods Show Ep. 507, “Anarcho-Capitalism or Anarcho-Socialism: Why We Should Embrace Property […]
These are the folks that anarchists should be paying attention to, not “social justice warriors” or American libertarian kooks. By Carne Ross New York Times Across an empty and arid plain, south of a town in eastern Syria called Tell Brak, there is a long berm marking the […]
A discussion with Ian Mayes, Nexus X Humectress, and Keith Preston about how social justice activism has led anarchist movements astray and lots of other stuff. Topics include: Anarcho-pacifism Intentional communities Beyond Social Justice: how historical opposition to valid injustices has now evolved into something absurd. How totalitarian […]
From Liberty Chat. __________ By Robert P. Murphy — LibertyChat.com contributor Bryan Caplan has become perhaps the leading libertarian spokesman for “open borders,” the term that many people are using to mean that national governments do not place restrictions on the movement of people across the outer boundary […]
Ann Sterzinger‘s translation of a poll-dodging polemic by 19th century French anarchist and author Octave Mirbeau. Warms the cockles of my cold, anti-democratic heart…. Also, be sure to check out her translation of his novel In the Sky, available for the first time in English from Nine-Banded Books. […]
NA-M Conference in Quito (Ecuador) by Welf Herfurth.
The Agrarian Aquarian Interview questions asked by Wayne Sturgeon, February 3rd, 2015 Responses by Joe Kopsick, April 4th to 9th, and mid-September to September 21st, 2015 The Road to Panarchy: An Interview with Joe Kopsick Sovereignty Without Territory Government Without Monopoly Emigration Without Movement WS: Please could you […]
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, anarchism was the premiere revolutionary movement throughout both the Western world and in the pre-industrial world. For instance, even many contemporary anarchists do not realize that anarchism was about as large a movement in Latin America and China as it […]
Insurrection News Claim of responsibility for an incendiary attack against a branch of the ITAU Bank in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil on 13.09.15 by Movimente Insurgente Anarquista (MIA) received and translated by Insurrection News. ****** “We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests […]
Some humor for the day. The wacky world of anarchist comic books. SJWs Anarchist are a parody of self-parody.
By Joris Leverink Roar Mag Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy. The introduction to the new book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2015), explains how Murray Bookchin – born […]
William Schnack’s “The Evolution of Consent” is now available. Economic issues and ideologies are becoming just as divisive in mainstream society as cultural, racial, and social issues, a sign of widening class divisions and economic decline. Therefore, it is more important than ever that perspectives which reject and […]
A must read. Libertarian Alliance Wayne John Sturgeon talks to Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance 2013 Please could you introduce yourself and how you became Director of the Libertarian Alliance? I joined the Libertarian Alliance in December 1979. Just before the death of its founder, Chris Tame, […]
By Charles Johnson Center for a Stateless Society The following article was written by Charles Johnson and published on his Rad Geek People’s Daily, December 1, 2007. Well, kind of. Obviously Benjamin Tucker had no direct opinions about “anarcho-capitalism,” because the term was not even coined until many years after his death, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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