By Alexandre Christoyannopoulos Anarchy Archives Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 4-6 April 2006, Reading University, Session 1, Anarchism stream: panel 1 (Tuesday 4 April, 14:15-15:30), Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (ajmc2@kent.ac.uk), Department of Politics and International Relations, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX United Kingdom Abstract State brutality […]
For readers who are interested in learning more about the traditional anarchist philosophy and its history, I would recommend the following works: “Demanding the Impossible” by Peter Marshall gives a very comprehensive overview of the entire anarchist tradition. Noam Chomsky argues this is the best book on anarchism, […]
By Neil Lock Libertarian Alliance Sean Gabb has called for (in his words) a decent libertarian essay in favour of open borders. I hope this will fit the bill. My view is certainly libertarian; for I favour not so much open borders, as no borders – at least, […]
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance As I write, there are several thousand non-European refugees outside Calais, all trying to enter the United Kingdom. Because they are disrupting travel across the Channel in the main holiday season, the British media has no choice but to report on their presence, […]
By Anonymous Anarchist News From Reddit Can you relate? 1) “Call-out culture was developed to allow activist groups to confront leaders who abused their privilege, but now it is being used to settle petty scores on the level of interpersonal politics. I now have a hard time believing […]
Black Rose Anarchist Federation As revolutionaries in North America we would like to outline the foundations of our political perspective as well as how we as an organization have agreed to relate the recent events and the struggle underway in Rojava in the Middle East. Our Perspective The […]
This guy gets it. By David McElroy We do a very poor job of disagreeing in this country. You’d think we would be experts at it, because we do so much of it. But we’ve developed a culture in which most people are far more eager to tell […]
A good discussion of the variety of feminist thinking from an anti-state perspective. Is feminism all about hating men? MK Lords and Carlos Morales breakdown the history of feminism, MRA’s, MGTOW’s and a host of other issues in the libertarian atheist podcast. http://www.libertarian-atheist.com For some examples of MRA […]
I would hope that by now everyone realizes that within the pan-anarchist paradigm favored by ATS there is room for Chomskyites and Rothbardians alike. Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Michael Wilson. Alternet he following is the adapted text of an interview that first appeared in Modern Success magazine. […]
A poster in an online forum comments: “A case can be made for non-intervention where such practices occur in isolated, traditional tribes, though I think most of us instinctively recoil from the allowance of some practices, child sexual abuse perhaps nore than anything else. In any case, if […]
By Kevin Carson Schematic designs for a new society seem to be really popular among self-described anarchists of all stripes. On the Right, we have Rothbard’s model for an entire society modelled whole-cloth on a “libertarian law code” deduced from axioms like self-ownership and the non-aggression principle. Within […]
An interview with anarchist Dave Strano about anarchist tabling at gun shows. This guy is head and shoulders above most left-anarchists on these questions, but he still falls back on leftist moralizing to a great degree. The best approach is to forget moralism and merely focus on commonalities […]
During the first decade of the twentieth century, a German jurist name Paul Eltzbacher produced a book that offered an extensive overview of the ideas of the founding fathers of anarchism: Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tucker, Tolstoy. The book was originally translated into English by Steven T. […]
By all means, donate. By Jennifer Baker Revolution-News.Com After 134 days of intense fights against ISIS, the Kurdish city of Kobanê is under reconstruction. An international solidarity movement is now using crowdfunding as a tool to support of the so-called ’Rojava Revolution’. Initiatives to rebuild Kobanê, a secular […]
If we had a well-organized and functional anarchist mass movement in the Western countries (or anywhere else), we would be attacking Turkish embassies, consulates, and other outposts all over the world. Death to Erdogan. Death to ISIS. Victory to PKK/YPG/YPG. Associated Press In this Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent I propose a vision of society called “geo-mutualist panarchism.” This view is a combination of the mutualism of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the classical liberalism of Henry George, and the panarchism of Paul Emile de Puydt, supplemented with libertarian and classical liberal theories of […]
I recently came across a group calling itself Christian National Anarcho-Capitalists. While this group doesn’t reflect my personal views or preferences, as a pan-anarchist I am for the proliferation of many anarchist societies based on the principle of free association, thereby enhancing genuine diversity, and “Christian National Anarcho-Capitalism” […]
Alper Sapan: “I am a 19 year-old anarchist. I am against injustice, exploitation and tyranny of the state. I condemn people killing each others, violence and the state. I listen to the inner voice of my conscience for freedom and refuse to serve in the military for a […]
By Julia Tourianksi Brave New World There is place where sex, creed and ethnicity do not harbor division. A place where everyone is military trained so that having a police force becomes obsolete. A place where civilian females, instead of asking for permission, instead of waiting for outside help, have […]
By Alexei Borovoy The Anarchist Library The Problem of Law and the State Imposed and Spontaneous Codes 1. Godwin 2. Proudhon 3. Bakunin 4. Kropotkin 5. Tucker and the Individualists Conclusion Biographical Note: Alexei Borovoy. Brilliant Russian Anarchist theoretician, writer and orator. Professor of Political Economy at Moscow […]
By David Priestland The Guardian Ed Miliband’s late-night pilgrimage to Russell Brand’s loft apartment, days before the last election, was seen by supporters as a canny bid for the youth vote, and by critics as a cringe-worthy attempt to harness the Shoreditch Messiah’s charisma. Yet neither view captures […]
For a number of years now, I have attacked sectors of the anarchist milieu for either explicitly or implicitly failing to distinguish between anarchism (a stateless anti-authoritarian society) and what I call “totalitarian humanism” (an all pervasive state that ostensibly rules in the name of enforcing “progressive” values, […]
Caity and Dan welcome back Antony Sammeroff for a second time to the show. Antony begins by explaining the difference between ‘libertarianism’ and ‘voluntaryism’ and moral philosophies versus political philosophies. We talk about labels and how they are used in society. We get into terms like ‘anarchist’ and […]
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The recent murder of nine African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina by a deranged white supremacist has generated something of a backlash against the Confederate flag, long a symbolic target of the Left in America’s ongoing culture wars. Massacres carried out by a mentally disturbed lone gunman are hardly […]
By Vrijdag 20 National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands Anarcho-Syndicalism is not left wing The terms “left”, “right” and “centre” are, in the purest sense of the words, parliamentary concepts. These “directions” within the political spectrum are derived from the perspective of the representatives in parliament. On the […]
By William Schnack The Evolution of Consent In this essay, we will take a deeper look at the characteristics of the geo-mutual bank. More specifically, we will discuss the ability of the bank to mobilize populations, establish itself as sovereign, and to ensure people’s safety and well-being. In […]
By Jason McQuinn Anarchist Library Introduction Most anarchists — just like most other people on the planet — remain relatively naive concerning the many problems with theories and practices of compulsory morality and moralism. Positive, uncritical references to various forms of compulsory morality are nearly ubiquitous in both […]
By Uriel Alexis Films for Action Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the diverse anarchist strategies could combine against our current class society. How every variation on the theme of “assert your freedom now,” from the anarcho-syndicalist direct action to Sam Konkin’s agorism, could combine in order to […]
By Christopher Cantwell Make mention of anarcho-capitalism, and the lefties are never far behind to tell you you’re not a real anarchist. You know, because studying economics and improving one’s station in life, that’s for statists, maaaan. I suppose “left anarchist” might be a broad brush, including all […]
By Anna Morgenstern Center for a Stateless Society Many anarchists of various stripes have made the claim that anarcho-capitalists aren’t really anarchists because anarchism entails anti-capitalism. I happen to think this is actually backwards. If they genuinely wish to eliminate the state, they are anarchists, but they aren’t […]
By Daibhidh The Anarchist Library Humans for Hire: Selling Yourself for Fun and Profit More = Better?? Putting Profits Above People “Anarcho” capitalism: Bourgeois Bombast “Anarchy” with Bosses? “Freedom” to Starve Goons with Guns Owners Uber Alles “From each according to their gullibility, to each, according to his […]
ty Beyond Capitalism By James Herod FilmsforAction.Org It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely, a strategy for destroying capitalism. At its most basic, this strategy calls for pulling time, energy, and resources out of capitalist civilization and putting them into building a new […]
Caity and Dan are back chatting about a new approach to politics (caring even less), we thank the Labour Party for being such a disaster and entertaining us, having fun and not being a downer about politicians, what we found funny and bizarre about the recent UK general […]
By John Ellerby Transcribed by Luke Dodson Originally published in Anarchy 54 (Vol 5 No 8) August I965 (Freedom Press) Martin Buber, who died in Jerusalem on June 13 at the age of 87, belonged to a generation of central European Jews for whom it was a privilege […]
By Sheldon Richman Reason In 1970 country singer Lynn Anderson had a hit recording of a Joe South song that opened with the line: “I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.” I often think of that song in connection with the libertarian philosophy. You […]
By Dan Greene I don’t vote anymore. I did for many years with a sincere belief that democracy was the best way for human civilisations to organize themselves. I even looked down on – and argued with – non-voters with derivations of the old “People fought for your […]
Delivered by Professor Denis McManus (Head of Philosophy, Head of Research) Anarchism has taken many different forms over the centuries but this talk will look at one way in which modern anarchists can be seen as falling into two broad camps: individualistic and communal anarchists. While sharing some […]
In this edition of the BoilingFrogsPost.com Roundtable, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds and Peter B. Collins welcome Andrew Gavin Marshall for a discussion of his recent podcast on “Anarchy, Socialism and Free Markets.” We talk about anarchism as a philosophy and what it really entails, as well as how […]
An interesting new work by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 19 (Winter 2015) [PDF] The Cult of Mass, Lionization of Protest Culture & Other Industrial Age Holdovers Protest Culture. The so-called “cargo cults” of New Guinea, Micronesia and […]
Another “ally” that needs to go. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com While the Israel lobby is blanketing the US media with propaganda to the effect that Iran cannot be trusted to adhere to the terms of any agreement limiting its nuclear research and development, back in Tel Aviv Bibi […]
By Mark Lutter Foundation for Economic Education The 20th century was an era defined by the clash of ideologies. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. As adherents mobilized armies, the implicit assumption was that to be correct was to be universalized — by force if necessary. My ideology is the best, […]
Caity and Dan shift their gaze towards the Scottish National Party (SNP) and their scary authoritarian policies. We chat about the Named Person legislation and the dangers of the state getting involved in family life, the rise in armed police and stop-and-search powers in Scotland. We move on […]
In his recent interview of yours truly, Michael Enoch Isaac pointed out that the anarcho-Marxist social justice warriors have come to represent totalitarian humanism in its idealized Platonic form and, as I have said before, they play the same role to the totalitarian humanist establishment as the Red […]
By Sheldon Richman Reason Understanding history as best we can is important for obvious reasons. It’s particularly important for libertarians who want to persuade people to the freedom philosophy. In making their case for individual freedom, mutual aid, social cooperation, foreign nonintervention, and peace, libertarians commonly place great […]
Sean Gabb reviews Wayne John Sturgeon’s Albion Awake Mystical Anarchism and the National Quest for an Alternative Britain. “The current British State has just as much authority as it is able to compel. It is beyond reforming. All the other European states and the American system are entering […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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