By Dave Hummels Do you ever get the feeling that progressives have run out of ideas? This thought crossed my mind when I read Thom Hartmann’s “The Draft: A War-Killer” on Truthout. Hartmann advocates reinstatement of conscription in a “new and improved form.” He proclaims that the military […]
Here’s a comment I made recently in a discussion where I was calling out some anarchists for their lack of boldness when it comes to embracing the implications of their ideas. Thoughts? “I’ve long believed that when Anarchistan finally arrives it will probably have a lot of internal […]
By Mary Theroux “Bread and circuses” anyone? The culmination of last night’s Oscars broadcast with a Live! feed from the White House with Mrs. Obama (hangin’ with her military BFs) marks the official recognition of the Presidency as theater: like the old Western sets, no substance required.
by Keith Preston
Perhaps the principal source of divsion between anarcho-capitalists and socialist-anarchists in the classical tradition relates to the question of who should control what the Marxists call the “means of production.” Anarcho-capitalists
This article unintentionally gets to the point. This is why I am pro-Second Amendment. I don’t give a damn about hunting or burglars. I hate the NRA as much as most liberals do. Most conservative gun rights advocates are also cop-loving, flag-waving jingoists. Fuck ’em. The purpose of […]
Good post from Anthony on a FB forum. “I think bourgeois Americans are not as conservative as Hoppe assumes that are in some of his writings. Even with today’s dominant social values, most Americans would not want to live by rules as strict and culturally rightwing as he […]
By Kevin Vallier Libertarians regularly argue about the relationship between their political commitments and their “moral views.” The disagreement seems to proceed by answers to two questions. 1. Do libertarian political commitments imply moral commitments? 2. If yes, which moral commitments?
A recent exchange between some leftists and myself on the FB page of libertarian exemplar Anthony Gregory. Check it out if you wish.
February 22, 1943 – Members of the White Rose Resistance movement, including Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl and their friend Christoph Probst, are executed in Nazi Germany.RIP Martyrs ♥http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
Signed copies of NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATION are now available to pre-order. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just £15 with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Paypal address is: blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk More details below.
By Joseph Hunter Shawn Wilbur has posted a piece on his blog that is probably the most complete summary of Proudhon’s theory of the state found in any of his work. In it, Proudhon defines the state as a “power of collectivity” supervening on the agglomerations of free […]
By Ron Holland This is the fourth of the “12 Axioms of Freedom Restoration” set forth in my introductory article on this topic, “How to Restore the West.” The restoration of America’s first and legitimate government will not be a quick or easy task but it is necessary […]
By Khadija Umayyad If you’ve been reading this blog [i], you’ve probably noticed that I am fairly critical of the left, especially the liberal and ‘rights’ oriented left. You might wonder if I’m some kind of right-winger. Well, some people might say so, but I don’t think so. […]
Conscience of a Misanthrope Everything on this blog is worth reading. Four years ago, I called for a revolution in the anarchist milieu whereby the hegemony of political correctness would be purged or at least overrun and eclipsed. Since then, remarkable progress has been made towards that goal. […]
Infowars.Com Manufacturing mass social unrest would be a foolish mistake Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com February 14, 2013 Despite the fact that the banking elite wants to generate riots and stir social disorder in order to collapse the U.S. economy so they can buy up real […]
By Roderick Long “Can We Escape the Ruling Class?“ was originally published in the Autumn 1994 issue of Formulations by the Free Nation Foundation, written by Roderick T. Long. Nature of a Ruling Class We tend to think of the “ruling class” as a Marxist concept; but the notion has a long history […]
FINALLY A TRANSLATION OF THIS IMPORTANT TEXT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
By Uri Gordon This thesis explores contemporary anarchism, in its re-emergence as a social movement and political theory over the past decade. The methodology used combines participatory research and philosophical argumentation. The first part, “Explaining Anarchism”, argues that it should be addressed primarily as a political culture, with […]
By Mike Gibson Only a failure of imagination, the same one that leads the man on the street to suppose that everything has already been invented, leads us to believe that all of the relevant institutions have been designed and that all of the policy levers have been […]
Garett Fisbeck for The New York Times A Ron Paul supporter at a rally in Oklahoma City last year. By Brian Doherty RON PAUL, Republican of Texas, has retired from the House, after winning more than two million presidential primary votes in 2012. He took the party’s libertarian […]
Watch the video LAS VEGAS (AP) — The tiny Nevada town that’s home to one of the most powerful men in Congress is up for sale. The main properties in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight went on the market this week for just under $5 […]
by Ryder Wes Hardin
Classical fascism and classical anarchism are philosophical brothers with a lengthy history of fighting each other. Both were composed of former Marxists equipped with militancy and syndicalism intertwined with
By Steven Greenhut Whenever I speak or write about California’s pension and public debt problems, I always hear from well-intentioned, conservative- and libertarian-minded people who want me to consider their solutions. Most of their ideas – caps on this kind of spending or that, changed pension formulas, public […]
By Joseph Hunter Usually this is a derogatory term for those anarchists who are not deemed “thick” enough in their prescriptions for a stateless society. It is becoming more and more accepted among anarchists that this is a bad thing and that mere opposition to the state is […]
From The Guardian. I wonder if it’ll catch on… ______ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jan/25/activists-destroy-cctv-cameras-germany-video As a youth in a ski mask marches down a Berlin U-Bahn train, dressed head-to-toe in black, commuters may feel their only protection is the ceiling-mounted CCTV camera nearby. But he is not interested in stealing wallets […]
Signed copies of NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATION are now available to pre-order. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just £15 with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Paypal address is: blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk More details below.
This essay is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Methodology and Application, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. by Jamie O’Hara and Craig FitzGerald
Codex Sarepticus on the life and death of a modern-day Prometheus. _______________ Several days ago, Lawrence Lessig, a friend and legal adviser for Aaron Swartz released this statement regarding Aaron’s death (source): (Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every […]
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By John Boyd This text was originally published in The New York Times Magazine, December 6, 1970. Many thanks to E. for sending me this text. — François-René Rideau James Boyd, a freelance writer, is executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Washington, D.C. On a […]
A new study of the psychology of political beliefs indicates that Pareto was correct when he said that an individual’s political views are as much an indication of their own innate personality type and psychological makeup as much as anything else. In other words, we may be “hard-wired” […]
This is the kind of scholarship that anarchists, libertarians, anti-statists, decentralists, and anti-authoritarians of every kind should be studying. The emerging global trends are on our side. It’s not like the 20th century when anarchists were swimming against the historical tides and ever greater centralization and statism were […]
This article is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Theory and Practice, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Wayne John Sturgeon Mutualism as Free Market Anti-Capitalism It was the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who first coined the term ‘anarchist’ and produced the economic […]
An interesting take on secession. • People can withdraw their consent to be ruled by corrupt government By Mark Anderson from: American Free Press Looking at recent headlines about citizens in the 50 states wanting to secede from the federal government, it’s tempting to conclude that they should […]
“What are kingdoms but great bands of robbers? What are bands of robbers themselves but little Kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is governed by the authority of a ruler; it is bound together by a pact of association; and the loot is divided […]
rt.com American MMA star Jeff Monson will be remembered by the Moscow crowd not only for his fight with Fedor Emelianenko, but also by his off-ring adventures in the Russian capital. On Monday, the Russian internet simmered with discussions of Fedor Emelianenko’s latest win over the American veteran […]
by Spencer Pearson
Nationalism as a modern ideology emerged alongside, and in alliance with, all the other great political ideological traditions of the Industrial Age around the time of the French Revolution. Since that time is has been
by R.J. Jacob
“The thought of you tribal thugs “bringing down the state” is fucking disturbing.”
-Anonymous
The above comment is only a taste of the recent wave of fear generated by
by Spencer Pearson
I am something of a Doomer myself. Back in ’04 I was introduced to the concept of peak oil. The idea was lent some considerable weight by the fact that at the time I was in what amounted to a fort in
This article is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Theory and Practice, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Craig FitzGerald and Jamie O’Hara The unification of National-Anarchist theory and practice will take as many shapes as there are tribes. The very nature of […]
This interview is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Ideas and Concepts, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. 1) Please could you introduce yourself, your background, and how you define national anarchism? I am a native New Yorker, agrarian separatist homesteader, and spokesman for […]
by R.J. Jacob
Conspiratorialism and traditional distrust in elites has shaped American history since its initial conception beginning with the Anglo-Republicanism of the 17th century and it’s conspiratorial views of Charles I and James II, to the Boston Tea Party British colonists who saw
by The Radical Reconstructor
In my last article I outlined some of the ways that statist ideology represents an obstacle to the agorist project- specifically in the realm of education. I argued that cultural obstacles obstruct heterodox action just as fully as the threat of state violence. Imprisonment, isolation from loved ones, solitary confinement, torture, gang rape, contraction of disease, etc.
by R.J. Jacob
Hurricane Sandy serves as yet another example of how federal, state and local government entities including the military are utterly dependent upon US infrastructure and a vibrant local economy to coordinate supply routes to major cities in times of catastrophic disaster.
Even with practiced and prepared FEMA centers, the Red Cross, the National Guard, and other emergency
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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