01/05/2023Ryan McMaken In recent years, we’ve seen the issue of changing US state borders come up repeatedly. For example, activists in some Colorado counties in 2013 proposed breaking off to form a new state. Since 2021, a similar idea has persisted in having Weld County, Colorado join the […]
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, JAE HONG and AMY TAXINDecember 16, 2022 1 of 13 Rain clouds hover over Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Voters in one of Southern California’s largest counties have delivered a pointed if largely symbolic message about frustration in the nation’s most populous […]
By Lisa Gibbons • Updated: 15/11/2022 What do a strip of abandoned land, a former Czech politician, and virtual reality (VR) have in common? The answer is the self-declared Balkan micronation of Liberland. First founded in 2015, it’s poised to further its ambitions of statehood with the development of a brand new […]
Jonathan Hillis Mar 7, 2021 • 5 min read One of the favorite past times of tech twitter during the pandemic has been predicting the next Silicon Valley.Austin, with its natural beauty, weird-chill vibe, flagship university, killer BBQ, and long history of technology companies is an obvious choice. […]
By Vitalik Buterin 2022 Jul 13 On July 4, Balaji Srinivasan released the first version of his long-awaited new book describing his vision for “network states“: communities organized around a particular vision of how to run their own society that start off as online clubs, but then build up more […]
By Tom Woods Before we get into yesterday, here’s something odd. Yesterday’s email had one of the lowest open rates of the entire year. It was about what to do during inflationary times (and no, the answer wasn’t just to buy gold and sit there). We’re all suffering […]
By Tom Woods It’s difficult to know exactly when it happened, but not long ago many Americans suddenly looked around and discovered that they and their neighbors inhabited completely different moral universes. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, or teaching gender theory to children, or the usefulness or otherwise of […]
Ep. 2223 Smaller Is Better Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins me to make a worldwide case for smaller states, decentralization, and secession. Special Offer We love our monthly Happily date box — it’s full of games, recipes, and activities that bring us closer together. With a […]
The American Sun Posted by The Editors on October 25, 2022 By Epaminondas Whereas philosophers define religion as delusion, the Athenians defined religion as the prerequisite to action. The orator Isocrates in the “Panegyricus”, writing in the year 380 BC, argued for Athenian supremacy over the Hellenic city-states […]
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022. Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Small Polities by Ryan McMaken is available at https://Mises.org/BreakingAway
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English speaking families living in Rostov, Borisoglebsky, Yaroslavl, Pereslavl, Suzdal… Fr. Joseph Gleason Idyllic ancient ‘Mother Russia’ still exists, and it’s being settled by English speaking families who are coming from America, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Denmark, and all over the world. In this article we […]
Ep. 2195 Progressives Try to Suppress Secession Discussion Carla Gericke, former president of the Free State Project, joins us to discuss the recent discussion of secession in New Hampshire, and the response of critics who are appalled that anyone would dare discuss such a forbidden topic. Read the […]
Ep. 2188 Is National Divorce Anti-Liberty?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way […]
Ep. 2185 Jeff Deist on Trump, the FBI, and National Divorce
By Nusaiba Mizan Politifact The Texas Republican Convention on June 18 called for the state Legislature to approve a measure asking voters whether they favor “Texas Independence.” That is, a referendum on secession. The GOP platform committee wrote, “We urge the Texas Legislature to pass bill [sic] in its next session […]
by David Freddoso, Online Opinion Editor Washington Examiner Do you think your state would be better off or worse off if it left the United States and became an independent country?” That question, asked of 1,672 adults in the latest Yahoo!/YouGov poll, is certainly provocative. So are the […]
By JEFFREY FRENKIEWICH Concord Monitor Jeff Frenkiewich is a Milford Middle School social studies teacher and a UNH adjunct professor In recent years, the idea of secession as a solution for America’s political divide has gained increased popularity, particularly on the Right. After Donald Trump’s loss in the […]
By Beau Yarbrough The Press-Enterprise The man who first proposed San Bernardino County secede from California says voters are ready to do so — and he says he has the survey data to prove it. “I think it’s going to be a super-majority,” real estate developer Jeff Burum […]
By Andrew Bjelland | Salt Lake City Tribune Two national polls indicate current tensions have again triggered secessionist impulses. The poll results are perhaps less significant than the pollsters’ decisions to address this issue. According to a Bright Line Watch survey, within the Intermountain West 43% of […]
By Andrew Romano Yahoo News! West Coast Correspondent Red-state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say they’d be personally “better off” (33%) than “worse off” (29%) if their state seceded from the U.S. and “became an independent country,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. It’s […]
Balaji Srinivasan is an investor, founder, and Former CTO of Coinbase and GP at a16z and author of The Network State, which will be the main focus of the podcast today. The Network State explores ideas surrounding digital communities and the future of how we coordinate as a […]
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
By Charles R. Davis Business Insider At a 2018 rally in Sacramento, hundreds of Californians called for a national divorce, citing “irreparable and irreconcilable differences.” “Ultimately, the best people to govern California are us Californians,” Louis Marinelli, the founder of the secessionist group Yes California, told the newspaper […]
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The geographically non-contiguous fragmentations we see today might well be a prelude to something like Balaji Srinivasan’s concept of the “network state,” which itself is only a few steps removed from the “panarchic” concept of non-territorial governments of Paul Emile de Puydt, Gustave Molinari, Max Nettlau, and John […]
By Alexander Brotman Geopolitical Monitor As First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set the date for a second Scottish independence referendum in October 2023, many battles with Westminster are just beginning. The vote will only proceed if it is considered legal by the UK Supreme Court, an outcome which […]
By Peter R. Quinones Anyone who has been following me since my Rightward turn knows that one of the main strategies that I have been promoting is becoming politically active on the most local level specifically concentrating on Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “What Must Be Done” strategy. The speech is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Lysander Spooner was an abolitionist. He was also one of the great American anarchists whose legacy remains so toweringly influential that capitalists and socialists alike routinely bitch each other out on message boards over which tribe of wonks […]
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Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native “Network States” are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics reorienting around cryptocurrencies in the 2020s, compares and contrasts the prospects of the United States, China, […]
By Brian Doherty, Reason Raymond B. Craib’s new book recounts how Michael Oliver repeatedly tried to create a new country with a government-funded entirely by voluntary contributions. (PM Press) Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, by Raymond B. […]
By Joe Matthews, LA Progressive To encourage us to think about the unthinkable, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets a Doomsday Clock, showing how close humanity is (in metaphorical minutes and seconds) to the “midnight” of the apocalypse (nuclear or otherwise) and human extinction. California may now […]
“Secession is only good when our team does it,” said the special pleaders at C4SS. “As such, this is the distinction between defending the autonomy of territories like the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities, Freetown Christiania, and ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes from the states they exist within and supporting the […]
By Keith Preston The federal system collapses like the USSR/Warsaw Pact. Minorities of Reds/Blues are behind enemy lines. Migration like the India/Pakistan partition begins. Massive violence happens. Hundreds of warring factions emerge like Syria and Lebanon. Another possibility would be a situation like Northern Ireland during the time […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Texas Republican’s push for a referendum on the state’s secession from the US.
By Matthew Arostegui Mises Institute It’s been about six years since Michael Malice wrote his article “The Case for American Secession,” for the Observer. Since then, the talk of a disuniting of the American Empire has been discussed by people on the right, left, and the middle. There […]
Tom Woods Show Michael Malice joins us to talk about the surprising news regarding Roe v. Wade and what it means both for the 2022 midterms and for the prospects of national divorce. LISTEN HERE
By Tim Renaud ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD) – Some Isle of Palms residents are expected to “declare independence” from South Carolina as they look to form “The Palm Republic.” It stems from when a small group opposed Gov. Henry McMaster’s decision to close the beaches at the […]
By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute By now, it should be abundantly clear to all that the official US regime narrative on Ukraine is that one is supposed to be in favor of Ukrainian political independence. That is, we’re supposed to support the idea that Ukraine is a separate […]
By Keith Preston The Russian war in Ukraine has accelerated the rising trend toward multipolarity (or even a multi-order order) within international relations. The Western retaliatory sanctions against Russia have pushed the BRICS nations and their economic allies closer together. The conventional wisdom is that the 21st century […]
The video below raises many interesting points that are highly relevant to many of the things that have been discussed at ATS over the years. The speakers in the video are Marxist-Leninists (“tankies”) who understand that the various forms of what I call “totalitarian humanism” (“woke,” “political correctness” […]
Idris Robinson presents 10 theses on the strategic potentialities of riot, insurrection, and revolution unleashed through the George Floyd Rebellion.
This guy gets it. Some of his talks are available on YouTube. Idris Robinson, Ill Will August 16th, 2020 The following is a transcript of a talk delivered in Seattle on July 20, 2020, lightly-edited by the author for readability. A video recording produced by Red May is […]
Idris Robinson revisits and expands upon his seminal essay “How It Might Should Be Done.” In the aftermath of the CHAZ occupation in downtown Seattle, “How It Might Should” was a public talk surveying the horizon of revolutionary potential uncovered by the George Floyd Rebellion during the hot […]
By David Ng, Breitbart Left-wing Hollywood star Ron Perlman has given up on the United States, calling for secession in the form of a national divorce between red and blue states. Perlman laid out his proposal in a typically gruff tweet on Thursday. “It’s time that every state […]
By Alexander Taylor Clayton Seasteading Institute Our Chairman of the Board, Titus Gebel, has written a whitepaper called “Free Private cities — A New Operating System for Living Together.” The whitepaper makes the moral case for Free Private Cities and addresses some common objections, in a concise twelve […]
By Jessica Suriano, The Nation A conversation with Richard Kreitner about rethinking the history and the meaning of secession. The United States has never been an equal, peaceful, or functional nation, despite what the history textbooks say. It was built from genocide, slavery, and stolen land. This year, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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