Category: Economics/Class Relations

The Day I Left the Left

Article by Jim Goad. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Late one Saturday morning in 1990 under the skeleton-bleaching California sun, I motored through a crumbled, hilly, ashen section of East LA looking to see if any of the Hicks Boys Stoners were around to sell me some weed. Named after East LA’s […]

Blacks and Politics

Article by Walter Williams. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- At one of last month’s Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored “job fairs,” Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: “This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. […]

Interview with Arundhati Roy

From the New Internationalist. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Arundhati Roy is probably the most ‘do something’ public intellectual of our time. In her interview with New Internationalist she offers her take on market-friendly democracy, people power and the wealth that is fed by people’s lives. Your writings have grappled with ruthless state […]

The Clockwork Orange Dilemma! Riots, Reflections and Ramifications…

Article by MRDA. The best analysis yet of the London riots. ————————————————————————————————————————————— When folk get angry, why do they always piss on their own doorstep? Westminster is only a bus ride away. – Tunnocks, Guardian Reader. But this I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the […]

Libertarian Homesteading Can Restore the Inner Cities

Article by Anthony Gregory. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— In Oakland, California, where I live, urban homesteading – growing food on private land for small-scale trade and consumption – has become so common the city government has backed off a bit. In a rare triumph for sanity and freedom, anachronistic zoning ordinances […]

Bitcoin: Comes out swinging off the ropes

Vince vince@thedailyattack.com The Daily Attack In spite of attention grabbing headlines, Bitcoin has proven its resiliency the past few days by maintaining a stable price in the $16-17 per BTC range. Many wrote off Bitcoin as doomed after it’s largest exchanger, MtGox was taken off line following a […]

Maintaining anonymity while using Bitcoins

Vince Rinehart The Daily Attack 6/16/11 – Move your cash into Bitcoin while protecting your identity The crypto-currency of the future is here: Bitcoin. As can be expected, the government has been making a huge stink about this decentralized, difficult to stop, nearly impossible to control, psuedonymous digital […]

Beware Human Rights Imperialism

It’s somewhat surprising to find an article like this in a relatively mainstream publication like the Guardian. Yet it does not require that much thought to realise that people in different countries may have different views about what policies would be most appropriate for achieving economic growth or […]

Organizing the Urban Lumpenproletariat

For some time now, I have argued for an alliance of left-wing anarchism and right-wing populism against the common enemies of imperialism and Big Brother statism. I have argued that the strategic application of such an alliance would be a pan-secessionist movement rooted in the traditions of the […]

You Musn’t Forget S-L-A-V-E-R-Y!!!!!!

In contemporary American political discourse, we often hear talk of “the legacy of slavery,” primarily in discussions of racial issues. To be sure, the “legacy of slavery” has had a damaging impact on American race relations (it wasn’t so wonderful for the actual slaves, either). Many of the […]

For a Revolutionary Right That Out-left’s the Left

What does it mean when the Right is becoming more revolutionary minded than the Left? Nowadays, there are “left-conservatives”, “left-libertarians”, “left-secessionists”, “conservative revolutionaries”, “left-nationalists”, “national-syndicalists”, “national-anarchists”, “national-bolsheviks”, “national-maoists”, “left-populists”, “left-decentralists”, “national-communists” and lots of other labels that defy the left/right stereotype. What does is mean that the official […]

On Being the Leader of Anarcho-Fascism in America

Saith the Lefto-Totalitarian aspiring Stasi at Libcom.org: I’m particularly bothered by these so-called “anarcho”-nationalists that are trying to take advantage of the increase in interest in anarchism. The leaders of this fake “anarchism” are Keith Preston (USA), Troy Southgate (UK), Richard Hunt (UK), Peter Topfer (Germany), Hans Cany […]

Why Pan-Secessionism?

Most Americans agree that the political system in the United States is incompetent, corrupt and not likely to be reformed in any meaningful way. More and more Americans are getting fed up with the Tweedle Dee vs. Tweedle Dum so-called “electoral process”. The problem is that while Americans […]

Paradoxically, Ron Paul’s Success Proving Irrelevance of (Establishment) Libertarianism

British emigre and paleoconservative John Derbyshire has an interesting discussion of Ron Paul, Libertarian and Classical Anarchism on today’s VDARE.com: http://www.vdare.com Some responses to Mr. Derbyshire’s critique: “The libertarian Establishment has disdain for Ron Paul‘s presidential campaign. The geeky idealists of Reason and the Cato Institute failed to […]

Must Anarchists Be Dogmatists?

The first time I ever heard the term “anarchist” was in 1983, when I was a senior in high school. My English Lit. textbook included a unit on the British poet Percy Byshe Shelley and the brief biographical synopsis of Shelley mentioned that he had been the son-in-law […]