In honor of the September 9, 1971 Attica prisoner uprising, a nationally coordinated prisoner work stoppage has begun today. Reports say that a full work stoppage has occurred at Holman prison in Alabama. Chelsea Manning has also begun a hunger strike. Other strikes and actions have been reported […]
A must read for anyone that wants to understand present day political, cultural, and class conflict. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Michael Hogue Shock gave way to relief this summer as America’s political establishment—rattled by Donald Trump’s success in winning the Republican nomination—reassured itself of his inevitable […]
By Sheldon Richmond 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 J. P. Cortez Imagine if you asked a grocery clerk to break a $5 bill, and he charged you a 35 cent tax. Silly, right? After all, you were only exchanging one form of money for another. But try walking to a local precious metals dealer in […]
By J. P. Cortez A major national precious metals dealer announced today the creation of the first gold-backed scholarship fund to support outstanding students who understand that gold is money and can articulate the failures of the inflation-creating Federal Reserve System. Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals […]
This is a quick introduction to geo-mutualist panarchism. You can find more details about geo-mutualist panarchism from my website, evolutionofconsent.com, where you will find related articles, as well as my book, “The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays.”
By John W. Whitehead August 1, 2016 “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”—Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union No, America, you don’t have to vote. In fact, vote or don’t vote, the police state will continue to […]
By Jp Cortez and Stefan Gleason This article was originally published on Tenth Amendment Center Control the money and you control the people. The federal government has done just that in the United States. Over the last hundred years, the federal government and the Federal Reserve, a privately […]
Derrick Broze interviews writer, author, and activist Will Schnack. Will has been an organizer in North Texas for years, including co-founding the Black Cat Collective and the People’s Arcane School. Will runs the website Evolution of Consent which promotes his views on what he calls Geo-Mutualist Panarchism.
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance I was called this morning by the BBC. It wanted me to comment on the claims that Sports direct, a chain of sports clothing shops, mistreats its workers – keeping them on zero-hours contracts, sometimes not paying them even the minimum wage, scaring […]
By Thomas Frank The Guardian snapshot of America in the middle of June 2016. It is several days before the first great shock of the summer, the Brexit vote, and here in America, all is serene. The threat posed by Senator Bernie Sanders has been suppressed. The Republicans […]
By Guy Christopher, Originally Published on Money Metals Exchange The very first word anyone ever saw on a circulating United States coin was the word “LIBERTY.” From half-cents to silver dollars, each featured the likeness of an unnamed woman. The images varied, thanks to different engravers, but together […]
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing […]
By Stefan Gleason and Jp Cortez, Originally Published on Money Metals Exchange Under certain circumstances, seemingly decent human beings are capable of horrific things. So it is with Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who parlayed his sound money bona fides into the top post at America’s private […]
An interesting take on immigration, economics, and US-Mexican relations from a Mexican nationalist. The economic analysis he gave was quite good. I wish these identitarian folks would emphasize that more. Often they sound like ordinary Republicans grousing about “colored folks on welfare.” He didn’t say anything Ralph Nader […]
By Mohsen Abdelmoumen America Herald Tribune Mohsen Abdelmoumen: In your writings, you qualify the XXI century, the century of Fascism. How did we get there? Pr. Peter Phillips: 9/11 set the stage for a global war on terror and increased police state in the US and abroad. We […]
Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl […]
By Tom Slater Spiked Online “Brexit is a fake revolt’, writes Paul Mason in the Guardian this week: ‘Working-class culture is being hijacked to help the elite.’ A withering article in Vice agrees. ‘Brexit is the upper classes in revolt’, writes Sam Kriss. ‘They see an undemocratic and […]
If the Trump and Sanders movements become a permanent fixture of US politics, the real effect of this will be to repeal the Reagan Revolution and bring American politics back to what it was in the 1970s, and with relatively similar political, economic, and social circumstances (minus the […]
Peter Bolton says sabotage. By Peter Bolton Council on Hemispheric Relations Reports in the English-language press last week highlighted a series of small-scale street protests in Venezuela that bemoaned the scarcity of certain basic products, chronic shortages of medical supplies, and continued power and water outages throughout the […]
Thomas Sowell says socialism. By Thomas Sowell Investors.Com Opposition protesters shout out “Maduro” during a demonstration demanding the government pursue a referendum to recall President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. Americans enamored with the soft-focus socialism espoused by Bernie Sanders are deluded into thinking socialism works. It has […]
By Stefan Gleason One of the chief virtues of a gold standard is that it serves as a restraint on the growth of money and credit. It makes runaway government deficit spending and major monetary catastrophes such as hyperinflation practically impossible. Opponents of a gold standard can’t defend […]
A very good summation of the present world order. It looks like Chomsky heard my recent speech at the National Policy Institute. 🙂 By Noam Chomsky The Guardian When we ask “who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are […]
By Chris Shaw While my economic views put me on the trajectory of left-libertarianism, with my belief in wider, distributed ownership and the return of mutual aid associations and voluntary, even democratic, structures, I’ve always maintained a cultural conservatism in my outlook, coming from the ideas of Edmund […]
By Jp Cortez of Sound Money Defense League Competition is a good thing. It brings out the best in athletes. It brings out the best in students. It brings out the best in companies. Since monopolies remove the positive effects of competition, however, it makes sense to reexamine […]
By William Schnack Chris Shaw wrote an article called “Borders Between the Anarchists,” in which he suggests that it is possible for anarchist communists and capitalists to get along. To support his argument, he points to the anarcho-communist philosophy, demonstrating that even communists have some sense of property, […]
Will the Soros-owned Democrats and the Koch-owned Republicans come together in opposition to the insurgencies that are developing on both ends? The ruling class always forms a united front in the end. By Kristen East Politico Billionaire businessman Charles Koch said Sunday that “it’s possible” another Clinton in […]
A discussion of economic between anarchist Keith Preston, Christian distributist, anarcho-capitalist Kal Molinet, and anti-capitalist nationalist Eugene Montsalvat.
Martin speculates upon the lumpen part of the working class and praises it’s dynamism
The Proudhonism of the Right. By Gene Callahan The American Conservative Distributism is the rather awkward name given to a program of political economy formulated chiefly by G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, two of the most prominent English writers of the early 20th century. Both Catholics, they sought […]
The time has come for free-market socialist-anarchism. Combine the critique of state-capitalism outlined in this article by Charles Johnson with the libertarian socialist paradigm, and you’ve got something. By Charles Johnson Center for a Stateless Society We libertarians defend economic freedom, not big business. We advocate free markets, […]
Most liberal, progressives, and social democrats hold up the Scandinavian countries as their models. But are these really the paradises their admirers make them out to be? Tom Woods and his various guests in these podcasts think not. In these systems, not only do ordinary folks pay income […]
If anything, class divisions should be wider in the blue states because the upper classes in those regions are generally wealthier, and there’s also a larger upper middle class. In Vermont, for example, disparity between social classes is growing at as fast a rate as any other state. […]
This is a good discussion of the minimum wage. Apparently, the folks against C4SS have contending views on this issue. See Cory Massimo vs. Kevin Carson. AM 770 KTTH radio host Ben Shapiro and Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, along with others, engaged in a civil discussion about […]
This has to be one of the stupidest left-wing articles I have ever read, but it illustrated very well what is wrong with democratist thinking. Anyone who believes the state is merely a value neutral social umpire probably believes in Santa Claus somewhere along the way. By Philip […]
An interesting debate between free market libertarian Steve Horwitz and Rawlsian liberal Jeffery Reiman. Wealth inequality is real, but is it fair? The distribution of wealth in America is lopsided in the favor of the 1% – a point made by the video “Wealth Inequality in America.” This […]
This is some months old now, but this is a really good overview of Chomsky’s thinking, and this criticisms of U.S. imperialism, neoliberalism, and his case of libertarian socialism.
In the two videos above, Connor Kilpatrick, a Marxist writer from The Jacobin, takes on well-known vulgar libertarians Austin Petersen and Wayne Allan Root. I disagree with Kilpatrick on a number of points. He’s painting libertarianism with a pretty broad brush. However, the objections he raises to “vulgar […]
This is a few years old, but it’s an interesting critique of “vulgar libertarianism” from a de facto Marxist perspective. By Connon Kilpatrick Calling yourself a libertarian today is a lot like wearing a mullet back in the nineteen eighties. It sends a clear signal: business up front, […]
An interesting critique of Sanders (and social democracy generally) from an Austrian/libertarian perspective. By Steve Horwitz Foundation for Economic Education Because of Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency, many Americans are asking if “democratic socialism” is possible. Can there be a form of socialism that really includes the […]
By Chris Shaw There seem to be two prevailing views on the particular outcomes of a truly free market mechanism. In the case of right-libertarians, such as Hoppe, we see a belief in a natural tendency toward inequality, where outcomes vary and there will be discrepancies in wealth […]
According to this analysis, Hillary will beat Trump, and Sanders would have an even better chance against Trump. Read the article Eric Grenier’s of CBC News here. What seems to be happening now is something that I have been thinking for a while would happen. I always thought […]
The full transcript of my recent interview with the C-Realm podcast. KMO: You are listening to the CRealm podcast. I’m your host, KMO. And I’m speaking with Keith Preston of Attack the System. Keith, welcome to the CRealm podcast. Keith Preston: Thank you for having me. KMO: I […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent Zakiya Sankara-Jabar Many want to change the world, but few care to do the work of understanding it. If one wants to change the current paradigm, one first must come to an understanding of how it operates. One of the most crucial […]
Europeans and Africans, Jews and Arabs, Christians and Muslims, all united in the pursuit of profit via the slave trade. Apparently, the Left is correct when they say that multiculturalism works when people are united by common social ideals and economic values. Incidentally, I’ve been criticized recently for […]
This is an interesting piece from Scott McConnell. While Team Red and Team Blue are still at each others’ throats, both are increasingly divided internally along class lines, and the insurgents are gaining. By Scott McConnell The American Conservative goldenalcoff / Flickr It has been snowing since Monday morning, […]
I’ve always argue that the last thing libertarians who want to achieve political success should ever do is position themselves as just another branch of “free market conservatives” preaching bourgeois economics. The failure Rand Paul indicates that, for better or worse, I was probably right. Case in point: […]
Here’s the transcript. To the People of Europe, Fate lays upon me the task of writing you from distant shores. My name is Augustus Invictus, and I am a candidate for the United States Senate. Though I am an American, I am by blood a son of Europe. […]
Hopefully. Politico.Com Nothing like Donald Trump has ever hit a major American political party: A blow-dried celebrity gleefully smashing one modern Republican certainty after the other. As he defies his own party on tax orthodoxy, on healthcare and on bending a knee to Roger Ailes, he’s exposed the […]
Please enjoy the continuation of my recent debate with Todd Lewis. Herein we discuss individual responsibility, peaceful parenting, the belief in authority, legal plunder, Child Protective Services, lack of accountability, the State perverts Free Market incentives, private armies cannot compete with the evils of the military, the State […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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