The Left Once Again Proves Why It’s Worthless
Predictably, some of our left-libertarian friends have jumped on the anti-Colbert bandwagon. By Andrew O’Hehir Salon.Com Stephen Colbert (Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas)
Only Brutalism Can Save the Liberty Movement
By Christopher Cantwell Some time ago, I joked that the leftists could have the “liberty movement” and I would start my own. At the time, I called it the “Do whatever the fuck you want so long as you don’t hurt anyone movement” or something to that effect. […]
Left Libertarians Are Worse Than Racists
Ooooh…someone’s itching for a fight. By Christopher Cantwell As I’ve spent the last few months railing against so called left libertarians, it comes up from time to time that they claim to support only voluntary solutions to their imaginary problems of privilege. That this, by my own definition […]
Hippies, Yippies, Yuppies … How the 1% Diluted the Progressive Movement by Slandering Boomers to Foster Culture War Between Them and Gen Xers and to Distract from Their Own Looting
Interesting historical analysis. CultureWarClassWar
Left and Right, and the Differences between Democrats and Republicans
Some thoughts on mainstream politics in the contemporary USA: In virtually any other Western industrialized nation, Obama and Hillary Clinton would be considered center-right politicians, certainly on economics. I think that’s attributable to America’s unique heritage as having been founded as a more or less classically liberal nation, […]
Attacking Diversity of Thought
By Jonah Goldberg Real Clear Politics Cancel the philosophy courses, people. Oh, and we’re going to be shuttering the political science, religion, and pre-law departments too. We’ll keep some of the English and history folks on for a while longer, but they should probably keep their résumés handy. […]
In Defense of Libertarian Brutalism
By Kathy Shaidle Taki’s Magazine “[L]ibertarians can generally be divided into two camps: humanitarians and brutalists.” That’s Jeffrey A. Tucker’s provocative proposition in a widely discussed new article in The Freeman. Humanitarian libertarians value the principle of liberty, Tucker writes, because—among other things—it permits freedom of association and […]
The Stark Truth: Robert Stark Interviews Keith Preston
Listen to the interview at Counter-Currents.Com Robert Stark welcomes back Keith Preston of Attack the System. Topics include: Keith’s article “Who am I? Left, Right, or Center”: http://attackthesystem.com/2014/02/21/who-am-i-left-right-or-center/ How his anti imperialist views on foreign policy overlap with the far Left as well as Paleoconservative and New Right thinkers How […]
What Explains the Brutalism Uproar?
By Jeffrey Tucker The Libertarian Standard “Best article I’ve read in decades.” That’s the message I received from so many people when my article “Against Libertarian Brutalism” first appeared. A day later, I started to receive a different message. “This article is evil and you are evil for […]
Reflections on the Left/Right Libertarian Culture Wars
Recently, Jeffrey Tucker, formerly of the Mises Institute, published a piece in The Freeman, a publication of the Foundation for Economic Education, that has generated some controversy in libertarian circles. Here’s the original piece. Tucker is basically arguing there are two kinds of libertarians: the nice, friendly, touchy-feely, […]
Both Sides In The Culture War Are Serving The Interests Of Elites
The American Conservative is ironically now the most left-wing print publication out there with a relatively mainstream orientation. My own studies of the “culture wars” leads me to the conclusion that it mostly represents a class conflict between the traditional WASP elite and the rising upper middle class […]
Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Now this looks to be an interesting read. Amazon.Com Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations on our society. At this pivotal political moment, Americans are more disillusioned with their political leaders than ever. Large majorities […]
Fascist Ideology of the Self: Mailer, Rubin and Hoffman
This old Commie article attacking the anarchist wing of the New Left in 1970 reads almost like something the Antifa would write about ATS today. Armand Barotti Literature and Ideology The petty bourgeoisie is not a counter-revolutionary class per se, even though some sections of it do work […]
Attack the System is Attacked by Marxists for Advocating Anarchism
“Attack the System—which promotes an alliance of racial separatists, theocrats, and Leftists against what it sees as an increasingly globalized, centralized, liberal “system”—also courted Occupy. The organization produced a video—“Power to the Neighborhoods (A Message to ‘Occupy Wall Street’)”—that called for Left-Right unity, offering a left-wing critique of […]
Can a Left-Right Coalition Bring About Real Prison Reform?
This is a reasonable start, but a bigger question is can a Left-Right coalition bring about the overthrow of the state, the ruling class, and the empire? That’s what ARV-ATS is all about. By Carla Murphy Bill Moyers.Com There’s not much that Tea Party Republicans and liberal Democrats […]
The Surrender of America’s Liberals
In this interview and in a recent article in Harper’s magazine, leftist-socialist commentator Adolph Reed Jr. says about the center-left in the USA what I’ve been saying for years: That’s they’ve become increasingly fixated on pushing cultural politics and getting more folks from traditional outgroups into the ranks […]
The Faces of Libertarianism
I see no reason why traditionalists and leftist cannot peacefully co-exist within the context of decentralized political systems and autonomous enclaves. Those who object to such arrangements merely expose themselves for what they are: either aspiring totalitarians or just plain intolerant assholes. “As I see it, there are […]
The Two Americas Will Be the Defining Trend of 2014
Clearly, Americans very much need the message of pan-anarchism. It’s up to us to make it happen. Of course, a big question is the degree to which the left/right divide will be altered by rising class polarization. By Paul Waldman The American Prospect This morning, one of my […]
Exercises In Degeneration: The C4SS Experience
By Alexander McNabb TheRightStuff.Biz Occasionally I wander over to Center For a Stateless Society, which operates under the tag line “Left Anarchist Think Tank and Media Center.” Aside from the mostly harmless pontifications of the relatively boring and uninspiring writer Kevin Carson, C4SS has proven to be more […]
Whither Libertarianism?
These Right Stuff guys are harder on the left-libertarians than I am. Sheesh. By Michael Enoch TheRightStuff.Biz Many harsh criticisms have been made on this site, by myself and others, of the more autistic, neckbeardy and fedoraish strains of Libertarianism. Bulbasaur in particular has gained a reputation for […]
In a Mirror Darkly: Marxism and Libertarianism
By Michael Enoch TheRightStuff.Biz “If you want to see Libertarians go full retard, compare them to Marxists.” –Bulbasaur If you are like me and you have spent more time than is probably healthy in libertarian political and intellectual circles you have probably taken note of various irritating and […]
Ukraine’s upheaval: between fascists, neoliberals, and Kremlin tools
A very good piece on the Ukraine by my uber-critic Matthew Lyons. My take on the conflict in the Ukraine is that the United States should stay out of it. Beyond that, I have no position on what’s going on there. It’s none of my business. By Matthew […]
Rothbard’s Time on the Left
Murray Rothbard was arguably the leading anarchist theoretician of the second half of the twentieth century. The classical anarchist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries included a number of prominent and innovative thinkers: Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tucker, Tolstoy, Spooner, and others. Yet the revival of […]
Anarchism and Spirituality
Attack the System Anarchism and Spirituality: An Interview with Jay Cypher February 22, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Jay Cypher, anarchist anthropologist and scholar of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and social movements. Topics include: Topics include: Her recent lecture “Anarchy and Spiritual Practice.” Libertarian tendencies within various religious […]
Notes for Revolutionaries
A lot of these “far right” writers are pretty good at criticizing the excesses of the Left/PC, which is why I draw on a lot of their material. The book by Jim Kalb that’s being reviewed in this piece is actually quite good. I know both Jim and […]
Keith Preston: Commie-Fascist?
“Left-libertarian” Craig Bolton on Keith Preston; February 17, 2014 “In short, this is a very peculiar view you have. It would appear to be probigot White Guy Leftism. It certainly not plain vanilla antistatism, since that is my view, and while I recognize a couple of the slogans, […]
Who Am I? Left, Right, or Center?
As one who has been very critical of many aspects of the conventional left/right model of the political spectrum, I always find it interesting to observe how my own work is perceived by sympathizers and critics alike, and from both the Left and the Right. What I often […]
Is the left forgetting how evil communism was?
By W. James Antle Is communism making a comeback? On its face, the question seems more than a little absurd. The Berlin Wall came down over 24 years ago. We are more than 22 years removed from the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the […]
Vulgar Libertarian vs Uber-Marxist in a Steel Cage Match
A rather spirited debate between a socialist and a free-market libertarian on the McDonaldized economy. The problem I see with this discussion is that it’s a pissing contest between two polarized extremes, without any give and take, and without more moderate voices being heard. But it makes for […]
Are Religious Conservatives Welcome on the Libertarian Left?
By Kevin Vallier Bleeding Heart Libertarians A number of my co-bloggers strongly identify with the libertarian left. Typically being a member of the libertarian left in the libertarian movement means holding that standard libertarian political views are natural compliments to standard left-wing social views, such as concerns about […]
Fascism University: The Enemies of Freedom and Tolerance in Academia
By Thomas DiLorenzo Once again, a small group of feeble-minded academic Marxist ideologues hiding behind priest’s collars have maliciously libeled and smeared one of the most honest, hard-working, principled, and freedom-loving men I have ever met during my thirty-five year academic career, namely, Dr. Walter Block. (During that […]
The Left Fights Back: The Battle of the Moralizers?
The Left wages its own battle against sin in North Carolina. This article is actually a very good illustration of a point I’ve made before about pan-secessionism and anarcho-pluralism. Some perceive these concepts as creating situations where particular sets of cultural, economic, or political values are written in […]
Big Government, Will You Be My Valentine?
This is just too damn funny. With intellectual opponents like these, we’re almost certain to win. Bob Garfield Slate.Com Illustration by Mark Stamaty Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a […]
A Libertarian Litmus Test
The drug war. We often here about how this or that Republican politician is a “libertarian” or “libertarian-leaning” or a “friend of liberty.” In the vast majority of the cases (if not all of them) said Republican politician supports the war on drugs. Oh, some of them may […]
Noam vs Ann
I was in Barnes and Noble yesterday, and the two authors most represented in the “Current Affairs” section were Noam Chomsky and Ann Coulter. What does that mean?
Confessions of an Unreconstructed ‘Isolationist’
Says Raimondo: “The age of Obama presented us with new opportunities – and new and bigger problems. What had been the antiwar movement evaporated with such swiftness that it was almost possible to believe the huge demonstrations had all been but a dream. Yet the war danger was […]
Obama’s Liberal Imperialism
Anarchists and Libertarians in the Western countries need to understand that we are essentially in the same position as Russian anarchists in the 1920s, i.e. anarchists living under revolutionary leftist authoritarian regimes, rather than right-wing conservative or reactionary regimes. Those Anarchists and Libertarians who persist in denouncing the […]
The New Cold War: 21st Century Jacobin-Bolshevik America vs Russian Traditionalism
Actually, this interpretation of the relationship between the U.S.A. and Russia has a precedent in the work of Carl Schmitt. In “Nomos of the Earth,” Schmitt, a Hobbesian conservative, analyzed the Cold War as a conflict between two ideologically-driven forces, American liberal-democratic-capitalism and Soviet Marxism. Schmitt actually considered […]
Sean Gabb on the Totalitarian Humanist Revolution in England
It would be interesting to see how our “left-libertarian” rivals respond to this. The nature of the totalitarian humanist revolution as a form of censorious persecution is made clear in Dr. Gabb’s presentation, and it is also demonstrated that the totalitarian humanists are not necessarily the sexual libertines […]
Sean Gabb Reviews Keith Preston’s New Book
By Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance Review Article by Sean Gabb Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century Keith Preston Black House Publishing Ltd, London, 2013, 473pp, £16.50 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-9927365-0-7 I first came across Keith Preston in October 2008. In those […]
“Can’t we all just get along?” Apparently not…
One thing I continue to be impressed by is the diversity of opinion even among self-proclaimed libertarians and anarchists. There seems to be everything from “libertarian white supremacists” to “libertarian radical leftists” to “libertarian monarchists” to “libertarian Marxists” and everything in-between. It also seems there is no agreement […]
Women Against The State
Attack the System Women Against the State February 1, 2014 A panel discussion with M.K. Lords, Becky Belding, Trista Rundatz, and Keith Preston about gender issues in the libertarian milieu, and wider issues facing the libertarian and anarchist movements. Topics include: Topics include: Why anti-state movements attract more […]
On Libertarian Factionalism, Our Critics, Conservative Associations and State Power
By Anthony Gregory The generation of libertarians seen in such outfits as SFL excites and encourages me. I especially approve its efforts to cleanse the movement of the type of bigotry that emerged after years of the libertarian movement’s circumstantial alliance with conservatives to battle against New Deal […]
Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords
Attack the System Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords January 29, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Bitcoin and counter-economics activist M. K. Lords. Topics include: How Bitcoins can be used to bypass the warfare state and assist with social justice issues such as homelessness. The Ron […]
A review of Keith Preston’s “Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century” at Aristokratia
By Victor Kaine A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears to me, for now I will speak to you about the death of peoples. State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: […]
Nationalism for All: A review of Keith Preston’s “El Salvador: A War by Proxy”
By Gilbert Cavanaugh for Alternative Right El Salvador: A War By Proxy Keith Preston, Black House Publishing, 145 Pages Available for purchase from Amazon here Reviewed by Gilbert Cavanaugh A few weeks ago, I was reading Sam Francis’s Essential Writings on Race at work, and a co-worker I […]
The Snowden Effect and the Liberal Implosion
By Justin Raimondo We haven’t seen anything like this since the Vietnam war era: an administration caught red-handed illegally and systematically spying on Americans in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war. At that time, too, the political class was badly divided, with the hard-liners circling their wagons […]
Modernity vs. Tradition: The Next Cold War
Is Putin gearing up the lead the resistance of traditional societies to Western liberal imperialism? Article by Matt Parrott James Kirchick, writing for Foreign Policy, rather accurately describes how Russia is creeping deeper and deeper into fulfilling Alexander Dugin’s vision for her as the world’s savior from American cosmopolitanism . . . The […]
What the hell was historic fascism, anyway?
It’s time for anarchists to abandon hysterical critiques of classical fascism and develop a more nuanced, scholarly, and historical view. This discussion by Paul Gottfried and Richard Spencer exposes some of the myths and misconception. Listen here. ——————————————————————————————————————————— “Fascism” is everywhere and nowhere. It’s “everywhere” in the sense […]
Are We “On the Cusp of Getting Bipartisan Prison-Sentencing Reform”?
By Jesse Walker According to National Review‘s Betsy Woodruff, Hill aides are telling her that “we’re on the cusp of getting bipartisan prison-sentencing reform.” If they’re right, that’s a tribute, as Woodruff’s article shows, to carefully crafted left/right alliances. In this case, the team includes not just the civil […]
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