Free Private Cities
Titus Gebel from Free Privates Cities talks with us in the Startup Societies Podcast.
Working With Governments To Make Startup Societies
San Fransisco California Aug 11, 2017 Mark Lutter Lead Economist, Neway Capitol
The Importance of Special Economic Zones
What is a Startup Society?
Are startup societies a way of building the infrastructure for pan-secessionist action?
Libertarians Have a Class Theory, Too (and It’s Better Than Marx’s)
A great interview of Gary Chartier by Tom Woods. Listen here. I can’t recommend Gary’s book more highly. It’s available at Amazon. These classical liberal class theorists along with the early anarchists and “libertarian socialists” are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how modern state-capitalism developed […]
More U.S. States Are Knocking Down Gold & Silver Barriers
By J.P. Cortez Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click Here Here’s What Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Idaho, Etc. Are Doing… In 2017, Arizona, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina, and even Minnesota made progress on the sound money front. In 2018, other states could do so as […]
Keith Preston: Republicans advancing interests of upper classes
Press TV. Listen here. Republican administrations in the United States have often been serving the interests of the upper classes, says a political analyst. US President Donald Trump told a group of his billionaire friends Friday shortly after signing the historic US tax bill into law that they […]
Trump’s Tax Gambit: Hoping for a Reagan Repeat
When Trump was running for President, he said in an interview with Megyn Kelly that two of his main goals as Prez would be “rebuilding the military” and “tax cuts.” In other words, standard Republican talking points. By Robert E. Merry The American Conservative In March 1997, two […]
No Kings, No Feudal Lords
This a a great cartoon in the sense that is parodies the reflexive sentiments of “conservatives” in the vein of FOX News fans and “dittoheads,” who echo Ayn Rand’s claim that “big business is the most persecuted minority,” or Cool Hand Luke’s quip that, “Them poor ole bosses […]
Return of the city-state
By Jamie Bartlett If you’d been born 1,500 years ago in southern Europe, you’d have been convinced that the Roman empire would last forever. It had, after all, been around for 1,000 years. And yet, following a period of economic and military decline, it fell apart. By 476 […]
Growing the Numbers of Pan-Anarchists: Reflections on Propaganda Techniques
About 20 years ago, I began to formulate ideas for the development of what I now call a “third wave” anarchist movement, with the “first wave” being the era of classical anarchism from the 19th and early 20th century, and the “second wave” being the forms of anarchism […]
Drug-dealing welfare classes get your guns, form the army of the unemployed!
The “dictatorship of the lumpenproletariat.” Refreshing. No doubt many of today’s progressives are champions of gun control because they secretly fear arms in the hands of the lumpens. I once heard a leftoid say “gun control is an anti-racist issue,” presumably on the assumption that people of color […]
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: Welcome to America
By Ed Pilkington The Guardian Los Angeles, California, 5 December “You got a choice to make, man. You could go straight on to heaven. Or you could turn right, into that.” We are in Los Angeles, in the heart of one of America’s wealthiest cities, and General Dogon, […]
Cliches of Statism, and How to Answer Them
Tom Woods and Stefan Molyneux discuss many of the cliches libertarians find themselves having to answer, involving child labor, labor unions, monopolies, the environment, and more. Listen here. I generally agree with the content of this discussion, except, like most mainstream libertarians, they’re going far too easy on […]
Would Libertarianism Make People Fat?
In the spirit of Paul LaFargue and Bob Black. This is precisely the kind of libertarianism we need, not bourgeois priggishness or woke ninnyism. Critics: “But freedom will make people lazy and decadent!” Response: “Yeah? What of it?” Anarcho-Dictator Without all the taxes and regulations that force people […]
Why State Provision of Social Services is a Bad Idea, Even in the Context of Corporate Plutocracy
Some interesting comments from “Dick Moore” on Facebook. I wanted to write a little bit about the question of ‘social services’ provided by the State as alleged ‘alternatives’ to for-profit systems. To start with I will admit (as more sophisticated libertarians do) that really-existing capitalism and its major […]
The danger of race-based politics
Kotkin’s class analysis, his recognition that progressives are just as bad on class issues as conservatives, and his stating the obvious fact that racial demagoguery is a bad idea are all spot on. However, he seems to retreat into a naive civic nationalism that’s likely to prove increasingly […]
National Precious Metals Company Announces Sound Money Scholarship Winners
By J.P. Cortez December 13, 2017 (Eagle, Idaho) — A national precious metals dealer has selected four outstanding students to receive tuition assistance from America’s first gold-backed scholarship fund. Beginning last year, Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals dealer recently ranked “Best in the USA,” teamed up […]
Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition
This looks to be quite good. Available at Amazon.Com. This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysis―often associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. […]
The 21st Century is Becoming the 19th Century: Repeating Tragedy as a Farce
“History repeats … first as tragedy, then as farce” … -Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon By Keith Preston The present era of globalization in the early 21st century is very similar to the era of industrialization in the early 19th century, in the sense of […]
Against Plutocratic Communism
“Plutocratic Communism” is a great term. Communism was one of the biggest scams in history. “Wealth and property are bad! Let’s give it all to the state!” Not even the priestly conjurers of god-emperors or the divine right of kings came up with something that good. Communism was […]
Proudhon was Not a Communist
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog Proudhon was not a communist. Proudhon agreed with Bastiat on basically everything, except he was more extreme about it. He wanted to deprive the illegitimately-wealthy of their monopoly of credit. Look into the history of how ‘capitalism’ actually happened, as opposed to the […]
The USA is Becoming Latin America in Class Relations
It’s interesting how the US is developing a class system similar to Latin America. I don’t think the reasons for this can be traced to a singular cause. It probably has several dozen causes. It’s also interesting how all the different political factions have their proposed ideal solutions. […]
Arcane Semantics: Keith Preston – Tribalism, Anti-Statism & 4th Generation Warfare
A recent interview. Listen here.
President Trump’s Fateful Choice
The Trump administration is Republican business as usual, as virtually all serious observers predicted it would be. The great thing about the Trump presidency is not only is Trump generally unpopular outside of his dying right-wing of the WASP middle class “base,” but he is demonstrating that Presidents […]
Is Libertarian Socialism Compatible with Human Nature?
Todd Lewis makes the case for libertarian socialism. Classical Theist says no.
Congressmen Press the U.S Mint for Action on Counterfeit Gold and Silver Coins
By J P Cortez Washington, DC (October 27, 2017) — Congressmen Alex Mooney (R-WV) and Frank Lucas (R-OK) today delivered a formal letter to the United States Mint and Secret Service, urging aggressive action on the growing problem of high-quality counterfeits of U.S. precious metals coins entering the […]
Does Universal Basic Income Require a State?
By Lexi Linnell Center for a Stateless Society Recently, Vishal Wilde advocated for a universal basic income (UBI) on the grounds that it promotes economic freedom and social justice. Indeed, UBI has long been attractive to libertarians of various stripes. However, this idea suffers from the problem that, […]
What is the Ruling Class?
An excellent general introduction to class theory from an anti-statist perspective. By Sean Gabb In delivering this speech, I make no pretence to originality of thought. Everything I am saying today has been said already – usually better, and always in greater detail – by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, by […]
Was Karl Marx Right About Anything?
This is an interesting discussion by Tom Woods exploring the similarities and differences between Marxist and Austrian class theory. The basis of the discussion is an article by Hans Hermann Hoppe suggesting that Marx was essentially correct about everything but the labor theory of value. This analysis of […]
Bitcoin Icon Roger Ver Is Starting His Own Country With No Government
We need many, many more projects like this with each reflecting the ideals of their founders and participants. By Evan Faggart BitsOnline Roger Ver, a highly visible figure in the Bitcoin community, is teaming up with entrepreneur and cryptocurrency enthusiast Olivier Janssens to create a brand new country. […]
Reflections on Class Relations in State-Capitalist Liberal-Democracies
Modern liberal democratic states are oligarchies of state-capitalist power elites in practice (C. Wright Mills). But they have to afford a reasonable standard of living, level of protection, and quality of life to the middle class in order to maintain their legitimacy. States tend to collapse when they […]
Gold and Lord Rama- The Reason for the Diwali Season
By J P Cortez October 19, 2017 marks an important holiday in the Indian culture. Diwali begins. Diwali is one of the biggest festivals for Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains. It is a lavish celebration of the victory of light over darkness with its gleaming candles, luxurious works of […]
Keith Preston: Interview with C-Realm Radio
Listen here. KMO welcomes Keith Preston back to the program to discuss the difference between absolute and relative poverty. There are a lot of people who make less than the national average, but most of the so-called poverty in the US is relative poverty. Even so, social stratification […]
Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about Distributism
The Stark Truth Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston of Attack the System for a written interview. Topics include:
More signs point to Mark Zuckerberg possibly running for president in 2020
It could be that Trump has started a trend where the political class, corporate class, and celebrity class are increasingly blended into each other. Also, a Zuckerberg presidential candidacy would be significant in that he represents social and economic forces outside the traditional WASP plutocracy to a much […]
PRIMO NUTMEG #111: William Schnack
William Schnack is an author, philosopher, and community organizer. On the show we discuss Pierre-Joseph Proudon’s mutual credit bank (mutualism), Henry George’s land value tax (Georgism), and how these two schools can be married under the libertarian philosophy of geo-mutualism.
US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns
By Chloe Farand Independent Peter Temin says 80 per cent of the population is burdened with debt and anxious about job security. America is regressing to have the economic and political structure of a developing nation, an MIT economist has warned. Peter Temin says the world’s’ largest economy has roads […]
Millennials Are Way Poorer Than Boomers Ever Were
The Baby Boomers were the product of the largest and most prosperous middle class in world history which has subsequently been destroyed by the convergence of dozens of factors. By Lauren Messman VICE A depressing new analysis found that young Americans today are making 20 percent less than […]
Municipalist syndicalism: organizing the new working class
By Alexander Kolokotronis ROAR Mag A municipalist revolution is impossible without the support and cooperation of labor unions. In some cases, labor unions might themselves take the lead in promulgating a municipalist shift. To effectively pursue this path, the left must grapple with the diverse composition and structure […]
The Class System of the United States
This is one of the very best discussions of the system of social stratification in the United States that I have ever seen, both inside the academic world and outside. This is really great work. By Will Schnack Evolution of Consent Class refers to one’s political and economic […]
The Alt-Right Is At War With Corporate America
Once again, whatever one thinks of alt-right ideology, this article is consistent with something I have noticed for a while, i.e. the convergence of a capitalism with left-wing ideology. I think this has to do with changes in the capitalist class that have taken place over the past […]
Robert Stark talks to Joshua Zeidner about The Tech Industry, H-1B’s, Surveillance & The Google Memo
The Stark Truth. Listen here. Robert Stark and co-host Sam Kevorkian talk to Joshua Zeidner about the Tech Industry. Joshua has worked in Tech as a software developer and private consultant for Publishing and […]
Lyceum Debate 1: Is the Abolition of Private Property Feasible, If so how might it be done.
Tonight SnakeIsNinja (the pro-socialist side) will defend the proposition that abolition of Private Property is feasible and explain how it might be achieved, against Mathoma (who argues against socialism) who will contend that it is not feasible or achievable.
Robert Stark talks to Zoltan Istvan about his Proposal for a California State Basic Income
The Stark Truth. Listen here. Robert Stark and co-host Sam Kevorkian talk to Zoltan Istvan about his proposal for a California State Basic Income. Zoltan is a Trans-Humanist and futurist writer, philosopher, and journalist. He was the Transhumanist Party’s candidate […]
Gold-Backed Scholarship Helps Students Cope with Runaway Tuition Inflation
A major national precious metals dealer has just opened its gold-backed scholarship fund for 2017 applicants. Funds will be awarded to students who understand that gold is money and are able to clearly articulate the many failures of the inflation-creating Federal Reserve System. Money Metals Exchange, a national […]
Institutionalized Racism: Yes or No?
Jared Taylor of American Renaissance tries to understand the concept of “institutional racism.” Racism is said to be what holds back blacks and whites in American society, but there just don’t seem to be enough racist people or deliberately racist practices to explain large gaps in achievement. The […]
Left, Right And The Russian Connection: An Interview With Alexander Reid Ross And Eric Draitser
It’s interesting to compare this article with the Caleb Maupin piece. Maupin represents the authoritarian Stalinist Left, while Draister and Reid-Ross represent the authoritarian neo-Marxist/SJW/Antifa Left that is presently being coopted by hammer and sicklers (predominantly Maoists and Trotskyists). The principal different between the two camps seems to […]
National-Anarchist Movement Conference 2017: A Summary
By Keith Preston Special thanks to Peter Topfer, Adam Ormes, Thom Forester, and Sean Jobst for their assistance in the writing of this summary. On June 17 and 18, the first ever conference of the National-Anarchist Movement (N-AM) took place in Madrid. The process of arranging this conference […]
200 protesters, officers injured in violent anti-G20 rallies in Germany
The international ruling class gathers, and the reactionary Left strikes in retaliation. Classic heel vs. heel match. Press TV. Watch here. Protesters have continued their rallies in the German city of Hamburg against an ongoing G20 summit, setting up burning barricades and vandalizing public and private public properties. Friday night’s […]
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