Says Wilbur: “More than anything, my beef with the pan-secessionists is that they want me to overthrow the government with them (although they’re likely to think I’m a commie, and maybe a queer), but they want me to accept “liberty” on a low bid. If I overthrow governments, […]
By Daniel Tovrov A hundred years ago, anarchists were the scourge of civil society. In the 20th century’s adolescence, the American brand of anarchism proselytized by immigrants from Europe like Emma Goldman took on a violent strain — President William McKinley was assassinated, Wall Street was bombed, Ferdinando […]
By Paul Gottfried New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the size of soft drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, and arenas. This seemed necessary because of an epidemic of obesity in his municipality, where over 50% of the residents are now judged to […]
Listen to the interview. C4SS Senior Fellow and current holder of the Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory, Kevin Carson, participates in a discussion regarding the alternative and challenge that C4SS’s left-wing market anarchism offers to the mainstream libertarian conversation.
A question for our readers and supporters? What is the best term for the kind of political philosophy we promote here? Terms I’ve used include anarcho-populism, anarcho-pluralism, anti-state radicalism, anarchism without adjectives, anarchism without hyphens, tribal-anarchism, radical decentralism, anarcho-sovereignism, open-ended national-anarchism, third way/third position anarchism, left-paleocon anarchism, and […]
From Russia Today. Not all bad news, then! _________________ by Vincent West Hold onto your holsters, folks: shooting a cop dead is now legal in the state of Indiana. Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republican, has authorized changes to a 2006 legislation that legalizes the use of deadly force […]
A nearly final list of solidarity events for Marie, Eric, and anarchist prisoners around the world. Now that we’ve finally reached June 11, there are at least 40 events and actions planned to express support for Marie and Eric. We’re also encouraged that alongside organizing for them, there […]
Listen to the interview at C4SS. C4SS Trustee and Senior Fellow, Gary Chartier, participates in a discussion regarding the alternative and challenge that C4SS’s left-wing market anarchism offers to the mainstream libertarian conversation.
By Murray Rothbard Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, volume 2, chapter 3: “James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System.” An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download. The theory of class conflict as a key to political history did […]
By Justin Raimondo On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, proffered a resolution declaring: “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all […]
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On June 5, 2012, In Podcast, By egarris Standard Podcast Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download Ryan McMaken interviews Lew on the history and prospects for liberty.
By Doug Casey There have been a fair number of references to the subject of “phyles” in this publication. But it occurs to me that I’ve never discussed the topic myself in any detail. Especially how phyles are likely to replace the nation-state, one of mankind’s worst inventions. […]
By Wayne John Sturgeon Richard Hunt, former editor of the UK based “Green Anarchist” and “Alternative Green” magazines, died may 2nd 2012. He was 79 years old. Green Anarchist, a publication he launched in the mid to late 80s, was a very beautifully illustrated magazine (Richard was an excellent […]
Laurence Vance explains why. In the Gary Johnson interview with Robert Wenzel, when asked about what a libertarian was, Johnson said that, speaking with a broad brush, most Americans are fiscally responsible and socially tolerant and that, with a broad brush, that is what libertarians are about. What planet is […]
This article by Sigmund Knag and published by the Independent Institute goes a long way towards helping us understand the internal dynamics of modern states. It can be read in full here. I have long argued that it is not sufficient for anarchists and other anti-statists to simply attack […]
By J. Neal Schulman Been watching the news? Greece? Spain? Ireland? Egypt? Iran? Mexico? Revolution is in the air all over the place. Agorism Poster by thorsmitersaw Back in the early 1970′s Samuel Edward Konkin III, a libertarian activist, editor, and writer — began looking for alternatives to traditional […]
By Roy Childs First published in 1969 in SIL’s Individualist newsletter, Mr. Childs (1949 – 1992) was a brilliant libertarian author who wrote with outstanding passion and eloquence on the ideas of liberty. Nineteen of his essays are collected in Liberty Against Power Dear Miss Rand: The purpose of this letter […]
by R.J. Jacob
This book could not have come at a better time. Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men is a spear through the side of the one world therapeutic tribe. Donovan incorporates his theory of masculinity into a Nietzschean critique of modernity that unveils human nature and screams WAR! in the face of feminists and professional utopians.
Donovan explores the origins of masculinity by looking at the human EEA. Different species must evolve different mechanisms in response to the imposed conditions. Donovan describes human males as a party gang species organized into male dominated gangs whose members compete and cooperate for status, women, and the greater good of the gang. The earliest male humans, comprising the genus…
By Rob Urie Renewed criticism of Black Bloc anarchists (link) ties in a tangential way to the arrest on terrorism charges of three youths in Chicago prior to recent anti-NATO protests. The anarchists raise the question of the legitimate use of violence to achieve political ends. The arrest […]
By Laura Flanders Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he’s given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. A new publication from theOccupied Media […]
By John Robb Hat tip to NATA-NY. There’s no question that the Occupy groups have done a great job with constructing the outlines ofresilient communities in the heart of many of our most dense urban areas. People pitch in to do work. They are considerate despite the difficulty of […]
By Kevin Carson A Twitter friend of mine recently recounted a conversation with another friend — not a self-described anarchist — who spontaneously concluded that voting was useless. “I think it’s insane to think that people who are in the kind of power that only government and capitalism […]
By Jake Olzen The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be NATO protesters arrested on Wednesday who are now charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. While the impression that appears in the media is […]
By Kevin Carson Many Occupy supporters on the Left express concern that it could be coopted by the mainstream institutional Left and harnessed to a political agenda of NPR liberalism. The recent prominence of Van Johnson’s Rebuild the Dream and MoveOn.org seems to provide at least superficial justification […]
By David D’Amato “President Barack Obama,” Fox News reports, “says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need for Congress to put more teeth into Wall Street reforms.” Touting the new rules, the President stated that the goal is to “discourage big banks and financial institutions from […]
By Kevin Carson A Twitter friend of mine recently recounted a conversation with another friend — not a self-described anarchist — who spontaneously concluded that voting was useless. “I think it’s insane to think that people who are in the kind of power that only government and capitalism […]
When the system fails it will be civilian insurgents and remnants of the military on one side, and mercenaries and the police state on the other.
By Justin Raimondo This is the question puzzling Paul’s friends, as well as his enemies. A recentannouncement by the campaign that the anti-interventionist Congressman andpresidential candidate is not spending money in the remaining primary states provoked a Drudge headline: “Paul Out.” That is the GOP Establishment’s fondest wish, but the reality is that Paul is far […]
Note: The Ron Paul movement provides a glimpse into what the demographics of the future resistance movement will look like and is consistent with the framework I have previously outlined in my “liberty and populism” and “ten core demographics” theories. By Allan Stevo In a party that tends […]
By Jason Brennan In Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, I examine the question of which country is the most libertarian. I argue briefly that while the United States has the highest percentage of self-identified libertarians and uses the most libertarian rhetoric, it is not the most libertarian country […]
theweek.co.uk Andrea Vogt Police probe six to ten Greek and Italian anarchists following kneecapping of Genoa nuclear engineer ROME – A week after an Italian nuclear engineer was kneecapped in a bold terrorist attack in Genoa, investigators are narrowing their focus to a small but violent axis of […]
Watch the video. Some of this analysis is a bit elementary in quality, but the core question asked is the correct one: How can the multitude of anti-state factions collectively become an effective movement?
From UhuruNews.Com On the night of Wednesday, May 9, 2012, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) isolated the block on which the Oakland Uhuru House is located and searched all vehicles leaving the area for over ten hours. While organizers of the Oakland Freedom Summer Project were in the middle […]
By Kevin Carson As a toddler Julia will begin a twenty-odd-year sentence in institutions designed to process her into a “human resource”: Someone encultured to view the existing institutional framework and power structure as natural and inevitable, who trusts and obeys the state and takes its self-justifications at face value. […]
From American Indian/Alaska Native Attack the System By Vincent Rinehart In the article The Quandary of American Indian Quasi Dual Citizenship at Last Real Indians, the argument is made for American Indian participation in the American political process. The reason given is that Indian policy and political policy […]
Attack the System Interview with R.J. Jacob May 3, 2012Keith Preston interviews R.J. Jacob. Topics include: R.J.’s early experiences as a left-anarchist activist and his disappointment with the Left; The importance of the thought of Max Stirner and the need to develop an anarchism without slave morality; The […]
A highly recommended read that distills everything that fails about democracy onto less than a hundred pages! Check out Aschwin De Wolf’s interview with Karsten at Against Politics; and, if you like that, grab yourself a copy. Democracy is widely considered to be the best political system imaginable. […]
euronews.com Police in Italy are probing the possibility that an anarchist group was behind Monday’s shooting of the head of a nuclear engineering company. Roberto Adinolfi, Chief Executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, was shot in the leg as he left his house in the northern port city of Genoa. […]
Interesting interview from the The Daily Bell. Introduction: Charles Johnson is a web developer, a prolific left-libertarian writer and book author, a student of philosophy, and sometime teacher of logic. He was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1981 and has lived most of his life in the […]
Article by John Glaser. I knew what Johnson was about years ago when as governor of New Mexico he said he opposed the drug war but refused to grant pardons to drug war prisoners because “they broke the law” or some such nonsense. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– In an interview with the […]
Why the struggle against the empire must be foremost on the agenda of any anarchist movement worthy of the name. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people […]
Watch the video. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Intro and Outro themes: http://www.youtube.com/user/Grindermetalhead Relevant books: “Marx, Proudhon and European Socialism” – by J.Hampden Jackson “Demanding the Impossible, A History of Anarchism” – by Peter Marshall “What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government” – by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Blog […]
Interesting. ———————- If you are someone who displays a Confederate flag out of overt racism, this text is not for you. In fact, we will fight you in the streets. If, however, you are someone who insists that he is not racist, but you have at some point […]
Keith Preston writes the blog Attack the System, which attempts to tie together both left and right anarchism in a Pan-secessionism against the empire. While I come from a radically different perspective than Keith, I find his critique of the way many left anarchists are militant shock […]
by P. R. Stephensen (The London Aphrodite, no. 6, July 1929, pp. 421–432.) (Stephenson regarded himself as a Nietzschean-Bakuninite. Hat tip to MP.) Only one man has lived dangerously—Michael Bakunin. While Nietzsche postulated the Fore-runner, here was a fore-runner in deed. “Everything about him was colossal,” says Richard Wagner […]
Article by Stephen D. Foster. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Republicans in Indiana are taking self-defense too far. In a move supported by the National Rifle Association, the Indiana House passed Senate Bill 1, which allows homeowners to shoot and kill police officers they believe are unlawfully on their property or in […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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