A great interview with Paul Gottfried explains what historic fascism actually was, why it’s largely anachronistic nowadays, and why today’s “antifascists” have nothing to do with historic socialism and communism. Tom Woods Show Paul Gottfried joins us to discuss the “antifascist” movement and what it’s really about (it’s […]
I generally criticize the Left more than the Right for a variety of reasons. First, the Left, at least the cultural left, is an ascendant force, while traditional conservatism is on the defensive. Second, what passes for the “left” in the Western world today largely represents the Brahmin […]
By Will Knight, Wired A study analyzing patterns in online comments found that liberals and conservatives use different words to express similar ideas. Liberals and conservatives often seem to speak different languages. A new study using artificial intelligence says that is now literally true. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon […]
Anarchist News Inspired by an anews thread that included a “you’re a leftist,” “no, you’re a leftist” back-and-forth, let’s talk about anarchists using terms like Left and Right, even as derogatory terms. These are boxes, part of a model, that has never helped us, and now is so […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by socialist mayoral candidate in Buffalo India Walton to understand how she won the Democratic primary and what lessons her campaign should teach the woke left
By Hanzi Freinacht Meta Moderna It’s difficult to be playful around fascism. It arose in shaky times, gathered absolute power in the hands of fanatic psychopaths who not only oppressed their own populations but also got us the Second World War and the Holocaust. To this day, we […]
My personal views are not so much “pro-democracy” as much as “pro-anti-authoritarianism.” However, “anti-authoritarianism” means different things to different people. Some people prioritize different kinds of anti-authoritarianism over others, which is why we also need pan-decentralism and free federation. Some people value the right to possess firearms over […]
Krystal dismantles the media’s new anti-vax smears of actor turned political commentator Russell Brand by actually looking at the evidence from Brand’s show
An article from 2018 advocating splitting the US into a Red Federation, Blue Federation, and Neutral Federation. By Sasha Issenberg, The Intelligencer The year is 2019. California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, recently elected on a platform that included support for the creation of a single-payer health-care system, now […]
Ryan Grim breaks down mainstream media’s coverage of the ongoing fight in Congress to pass the sweeping reconciliation package
Some years back, I rolled out the idea of a “pan-secessionist meta-party” as a means of implementing the wider ATS “anarcho-populist” strategy that I outlined some years before that. The most recent polling data, involving a poll taken by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, indicates that […]
By Andrei Znamenski The paper explores the political and ideological evolution of the mainstream left thought collective in the West. Heavily influenced by the classical Marxian paradigm prior to the 1950s, this collective gradually shifted to the matters of culture and identity between the 1950s and the 1980s. […]
A left-anarchist called Lefty Hooligan offers the following assessment of yours truly: ” An equally ridiculous wet dream has been nurtured by Keith Preston who proposes that Left and Right unite in a common pan secessionist movement.” Here is my response: “Pan-secessionist” actions are already happening on the […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss reporting that some Neo-Nazi groups are using cryptocurrency to circumvent traditional financial structures.
Zac & Gavin are joined by Afeni (@ReddIsAri) to break down some recent news!
Eric July is the frontman for the band Backwordz, the host of the YoungRippa59 channel on YouTube and a contributor at Blaze TV. Eric joins Pete for a targeted discussion about the state of the Right, and the Left, currently in the US. They, of course, get into […]
Now that she’s burned her bridges with the Democrats she seems to be going over to the Republicans.
A return of the abortion wars of the 80s and 90s would really heat up the already intense “culture war.” By David Cole, Taki’s Magazine Sometimes you wish that a certain group of people were never taught a certain phrase. In 1997, when O.J. Simpson ran afoul of […]
By Lomez Curtis Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. One of the sharpest and most articulate critics of contemporary (US) democracy, Yarvin has gathered a substantial online following over the years, first with his (now-defunct) blog Unqualified Reservations (2007 – 2013), […]
By Mark Granza Michael Anton is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter, and former senior national security official in the Trump administration. In 2016, under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus, he wrote The Flight 93 Election, an influential essay in support of Donald Trump’s campaign which was subsequently credited […]
By Sally Satel, The Atlantic Many psychologists wrongly assumed that coercive attitudes exist only among conservatives. Donald Trump’s rise to power generated a flood of media coverage and academic research on authoritarianism—or at least the kind of authoritarianism that exists on the political right. Over the past several […]
It sounds like these guys are getting educated on why reformism/electoralism does not work, although the way Ron Placone keeps referring to Biden as a “neo-fascist” is hilarious. Read some Stanley Payne.Payne’s definition of fascism is the one that I consider to be the most historically accurate. In […]
“I am not nor I have I ever been a Communist” or a social conservative, but I have rarely seen a better description of the Center for a Stateless Society and/or Alexander Reid-Ross type of “left.” Banned Hipster “I’ve been writing for a decade about how CIA funded […]
Historically, the original left was not socialism but the Enlightenment liberal philosophy that paralleled the rise of the bourgeoisie in opposition to the Ancient Regime. As an anti-bourgeoisie philosophy, it could be argued (and some have) that Marxism is not only anti-liberal but, a Counter-Enlightenment perspective rooted in […]
This is an interesting application of Marxist analysis to the contemporary left, which I think is accurate. In fact, I have a similar essay myself, based on a talk I gave a few years ago. By Benedict Cryptofash Over the past year, as @BCryptofash, I have developed a […]
There is no one in Congress that even comes close to being a libertarian, whether left, right, anarchist, minarchist, libertarian socialist, or libertarian capitalist. Thomas Massie and Rand Paul specifically deny that they are libertarians and claim to be “constitutional conservatives” (paleocons). Justin Amash may have come close […]
So Steve Bannon is a closet Stirnerite? The line that Alexander Reid Ross takes in the interview is what I call the “new popular front” position, which amounts to support for liberal-capitalist regimes against the threat of “fascism.” It’s something of an inversion of the alt-right “globalism vs. […]
This guy’s stuff was well worth reading. He had many of the same limitations as most conservative critics of the existing ruling class, but a lot of important insights as well. By Matthew Schmitz New York Post Donald Trump’s election in 2016 caught most intellectuals by surprise — […]
A Maoist/Third Worldist critique of the American “left.” By Jason Unruhe and SMG John Introduction The big topic the last few weeks has been this reactionary notion of “American socialist patriotism”. The White middle-class talking heads of social media have been attempting to repackage American exceptionalism for the […]
This essay by an an-com ideologue illustrates why the Western Left is so weak on the question of imperialism. Tankies are only anti-imperialist when it advances tankieism, and the rest of the left is only interested in anti-imperialism when it advances Western-style liberalism or “cultural progressivism” in the […]
The term “anarchist” seems to be used overly broadly in this article, even by my standards, and I suspect “populist” would be a better term than “anarchist.” But it’s an interesting article nevertheless. by University of Warwick Politics should no longer be divided between “left-wing” and “right-wing” because […]
By Eli Yokley Morning Consult Fewer than 1 in 5 Democrats and Republicans defined their parties in policy terms while roughly two-thirds referenced various values. Republicans were most likely to use some iteration of the word “freedom,” while the largest share of Democrats talked about “people.” Republican voters […]
View the report as a PDF By Eric Plutzer and Michael Berkman The McCourtney Institute for Democracy As it became clear that Democrats would win control of the U.S. House of Representatives, pundits immediately began explaining the “Blue Wave.” Some said it was rooted in concerns that President Trump was leading the […]
The content of this meme is a bit of an oversimplification. The New Left was a form of middle-class radicalism that could only have happened in a post-scarcity society of the kind that emerged in developed countries in the postwar period. People aren’t worried about “personal development” when […]
Does not this Wikipedia description of France’s National Rally not sound like a perfect description of the transformation of the Republicans from Reaganism to Trumpism? “At the end of the 1970s, Le Pen refurbished his party’s appeal by breaking away from the anti-capitalist heritage of Poujadism. He instead […]
Does not this Wikipedia description of Ted Kennedy sound like a perfect description of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party today? The only difference between the Ted Kennedy liberals and today’s progressives is that the identity politics/political correctness of today’s liberals have become more extreme and visceral. […]
Does not this Wikipedia description of the Rockefeller Republicans sound like a perfect description of the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party today? These were driving out of the Republicans by the Reaganites so they moved over to the Democrats, and that’s how we got the Clintons, Obama, […]
Glenn Greenwald discusses the left went from hating George W. Bush during his presidency to praising him this weekend on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’
Tommy Salmons is the host of the Year Zero podcast and a contributor at LibertarianInstitute.org Tommy and Pete have a discussion about things that are normally not discussed in libertarian circles like family, tradition, cultural preferences and the results of democracy.
It’s like ATS now has a de facto mass army of inadvertent troops, comprised almost entirely of folks who have never heard of us and wouldn’t like us if they had. As most readers know, I have long been an advocate of a political realignment along decentralist vs. […]
Kim Iversen explains why she feels disillusioned with progressives.
By Matt Taibbi GOP pols in the Bush years set the constitution afire and cheered America’s march toward authoritarianism, but now want you to know Joe Biden has them Petrified For Democracy. Are you laughing yet? Well, that didn’t take long. Within a day after Joe Biden announced […]
Williamson and Joseph discuss the economic and social systems prevailing in the world today and what is needed to heal society.
By Micah Uetricht In These Times In an interview, Reign of Terror author Spencer Ackerman explains how the brutal legacy of America’s post-9/11 wars has reshaped U.S. society and led to our era of authoritarian demagoguery. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, carried out 20 years […]
When I founded Attack the System over 20 years ago, my objective was to lay the blueprint for an insurgent anarchist movement in North America that could eventually take down the US regime and ruling class, in solidarity with those under attack by US imperialism in each of […]
By Mike Giglio, The Intercept I was driving home from a militia muster in the Virginia mountains last summer — after another day immersed in preelection talk of civil war — when I found myself reflecting, as I often have in the year since, on Norman Mailer’s “The […]
By Richard Kreitner, The New York Review Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return. fter what even Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell called, with surprising accuracy, a “failed insurrection” at the United […]
Krystal and Saagar talk with author and historian Thomas Frank about liberal smears of working class Americans and the idea of a populist movement in the age of covid
By Yves Smith A couple of years ago, when Lambert would talk about professional pundits and official Democratic spokescritters behaving as if they were trying to stoke civil war in the US, I thought he’d been spending too much time on Twitter and might benefit from a dose […]
Once again, issues I have been debating for years are now becoming mainstream. At this point, I would have to say that the majority of ideas (taken from a myriad of diverse and often seemingly contradictory sources) that I have been discussing, criticizing, debating, or advocating for here […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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