Spain’s Indignados: Decentralization and Neighborhood Association
snuproject By Marta Sánchez A silent revolution emerges from the underground. Far from losing strength, decentralization has allowed 15-M to become ever more dynamic. Is the 15-M movement going invisible? Or is it rather gaining strength in the ‘underground’? The mainstream media keep claiming that the indignados have lost support since […]
Picking off the empire one star at a time…
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The Secession Solution
By Chris Bassil Earlier this month, Amendment 1 — an amendment to the North Carolina state constitution that precludes the state from recognizing gay marriage, among various other kinds of domestic partnership — was passed by voters. Much has already been made of the bill’s discriminatory content, the […]
Here’s Why You Need To Be Watching Europe’s Secessionist Movements
From Business Insider Scotland’s bid for independence looks likely to change the way that the UK works (to some degree at least), but do secessionist movements have a wider impact? We’ve taken a look at Europe’s various secessionist movements to show you exactly why you need to watch […]
Secede From the Regime
On June 5, 2012, In Podcast, By egarris Standard Podcast Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download Ryan McMaken interviews Lew on the history and prospects for liberty.
VDARE, Lew Rockwell, and the Race-Obsessed Paleo Problem
An oldy-but-goody from Dylan Waco at the Left Conservative. _______________ Fresh off the heels of my post about the generational gap within the paleo movement on matters of race, comes the latest race obsessed nonsense from the folks at VDare. This time the issue is the alleged sellout […]
American Support For Secession Increases 10% in Just 2 Years..
Says a new Rasmussen poll. Twenty-four percent of Americans now agree with us. Sixteen percent are undecided. We’re getting there. Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:18:45 AM by CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – Nearly one-quarter of Americans believe that states have the right to secede, according to a recent […]
Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont’s Small Nation Dream
Tom Naylor is interviewed by Anthony Wile The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas H. Naylor (left). Introduction: Thomas H. Naylor, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, is a writer and a political activist who has taught at Middlebury College and the University of […]
A “21st Century Homemaker”’s Take on Pan-Secessionism
From Jennifer S. @ Harvest Liberty. A rather even-handed critique of the ideas and goals endorsed on this-here site. A question for her: what if the whole notion of a “culture war”, rather than secession, is the “diversionary tactic”?
Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War
From The Rising Seed Before reading the book “Red Republican’s and Lincoln’s Marxists” I have to admit I was a bit skeptical. Despite my predisposition to be wary of any fiber of genuine Christian morality flowing within the veins of Lincoln not to mention the founders of the […]
Karsten & Beckman Shatter the Democratist Delusion
A highly recommended read that distills everything that fails about democracy onto less than a hundred pages! Check out Aschwin De Wolf’s interview with Karsten at Against Politics; and, if you like that, grab yourself a copy. Democracy is widely considered to be the best political system imaginable. […]
The Death of France …and the Rise of the Provinces
By Colin Liddell Liberté, égalité, sharia! The trouble with European politics is that the so-called “extreme” parties are not really extreme enough. This is especially clear from the case of France, where the comparatively mild policies of the Front National have been described throughout the campaign as “extreme” […]
The Liberation of America From Itself
By Thomas Naylor It will not make one whit of difference who is elected president in November, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Either way, it will be business as usual. Both the silver-tongued, Nobel Peace Laureate, drone aficionado and the mean-spirited, Harvard MBA, venture capitalist shark are unwavering […]
Pulling off the American Emperor’s Clothes Thread by Thread
By Wayne Madsen The United States, which sought to capitalize politically, militarily, and financially from the break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Sudan, and Czechoslovakia and now seeks to reap the benefits from the similar potential fracturing of the Russian Federation, China, Libya, and Iraq, may receive a […]
Attack the System: Totalitarian Humanism and Strategies for Resistance
April 26, 2012 Listen to the interview Keith Preston discusses possible strategies for building resistance to the hegemony of the totalitarian Left. Topics include: The weaknesses of strategies that others have proposed, such as the Majority Strategy and third part efforts; How the shrinking size of working to […]
Keith Preston on Balkanization and the state of exception
Keith Preston writes the blog Attack the System, which attempts to tie together both left and right anarchism in a Pan-secessionism against the empire. While I come from a radically different perspective than Keith, I find his critique of the way many left anarchists are militant shock […]
Race and Reparations: A Question for Christopher Gunderson
Anarchist turned Commie Christopher Gunderson says: “ Preston’s fantasy that poor Blacks will “trade” civil rights protections and affirmative action for “reparations” resulting in mutual “sovereignty” (that is to say some David Duke-style scheme to partition the country on racial lines) should not require the dignity of refutation.” Let’s […]
What Americans Can Learn Today From The Politics Of Confederate Secession
Interesting article about the factions that emerged in the period leading up to the southern secession. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- [Peter Brimelow writes: Needless to say, by no means all VDARE.com readers are Confederate sympathizers, or think that partition of the U.S. along demographic lines is desirable or inevitable—although this dark expectation is more widespread among Americans […]
Rothbard on Power to the Neighborhoods
Another Rothbard classic. My long term goal is to have ATS and ATS-allied groups operating in cities, towns, counties, and regions all over the USA, and working in tandem to advance ideas like this in their own local areas. The rest of my work is simply about developing […]
A Reply to Matthew Lyons, Part Two: The Subjectivity of Authoritarianism and Special Pleading as Ideology
This is the second in a series of essays in response to Matthew Lyons’ critique “Rising Above the Herd: Keith Preston’s Authoritarian Anti-Statism.” And here is the transcript of a recent lecture by Lyons where yours truly gets a couple of mentions. Part One may be viewed here. […]
"A Cold Monster”: Nietzsche on the State
Article by Michael Kleen. I’ve posted this here before but it’s worth posting again. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Out of all modern philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the most unique critics of the modern State, yet his views on the subject have been largely overshadowed by his more famous […]
On Saving America from the Horrors of Liberty and Community
“Preston’s vision emphasizes individuals choosing the communities they want and not bothering other people…” A “watchdog” critic from the Left wants to save America from such a horrifying fate. Read the whole thing at the New Politics site. This critique by Lyons is actually quite good, and is […]
Paul Gottfried and Me: An Exchange on Left and Right and Anarchism
Recently, there was an interesting exchange between Paul Gottfried and myself at AlternativeRight.Com. It began when I posted a recommended reading list in response to similar lists posted by James Kalb and Richard Spencer. Paul Gottfried expressed puzzlement regarding the eclectic nature of the collection of readings I […]
The Dangers of Decentralization? Words from a Reader
Some comments from a reader named “Jared”: Totalitarian humanism is something that I agree is a serious threat and where I live in Canada, it has advanced into law where people can be incarcerated for expressing opinions that are deemed hateful. [Keith: At present, the First Amendment and […]
Anarcho-Pluralism and Pan-Secessionism: What They Are and What They Are Not
A close colleague recently put a question to me that I regard as important enough to be well worth discussing publicly. I was asked if whether or not my own assumption of controversial stances on a variety of issues might have the effect of weakening my wider advocacy […]
Ad Hominem Argument: A Classic Example
Carol Moore is someone who deserves credit for helping to publicize the secessionist cause. See her website here. Unfortunately, she has delivered a classic example of an ad hominem argument against Yours Truly in response to my suggestions that the radical Left should seriously consider the possibility of adopting a secessionist outlook. […]
Why the Radical Left Should Consider Secession
Kirkpatrick Sale of the Middlebury Institute recently observed that there is presently “more attention being paid to secession than any time since 1865” and predicts that “one of the American states will vote for its independence in the next 10 years.” Neo-secessionist sentiments are frequently stereotyped as a characteristic […]
Forty Years in the Wilderness?
For some years now, I have advocated for the anarchist movement in North America a change in direction from the course it has followed since the 1960s. Essentially, the general flavor of the anarchist milieu is one that expresses the same set of primary values as Marxists, social […]
Why I am an Anarcho-Pluralist, Part Two
Imagine, for one horribly unpleasant moment, that the anarchist movement (movements?) in North America, in their present form, were to carry out an actual revolution. What kind of social or political system would be the result? The Wikipedia entry on anarchism in the United States lists a number […]
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 […]
Why I Am an Anarcho-Pluralist
Over the last few days, there’s been an interesting discussion going on over at the blog of left-libertarian philosopher Charles Johnson (also known as “Rad Geek“). I’ve avoided posting there, due to the presence of an individual who has declared themself my mortal enemy (a role I’m happy […]
Why a Critique of the Totalitarian Humanist State is Essential to a Genuine Radicalism
If we were Soviet or East European citizens in the 1950s, 60s or 70s, and we were attempting to build a revolutionary underground, classical criticisms of the state would certainly be helpful. For instance, the Augustinian view of the state as a “robber band writ large”. However, we […]
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 […]
Pan-Secessionist Anti-Universalism Vs. Totalitarian Humanism
The primary ideological war of the future will not be between the left and right, or between socialism and capitalism, or even between nationalism and imperialism. The struggle will be between anti-universalism and decentralism on one end and totalitarian humanism on the other. I first became aware of […]
The Second Vermont Republic, the League of the South and the Southern Poverty Law Center
Recently, Thomas Naylor of the Second Vermont Republic issued something of a challenge to the League of the South: http://vermontrepublic.org/to_the_league_of_the_south_from_vermont_with_love Naylor begins: When the Second Vermont Republic, through its sister organization the Middlebury Institute, first began reaching out to other independence movements in November 2006, four such groups […]
In Defense of the Lost Cause
Recently, on another blog, a somewhat well-known figure in the “left-libertarian” milieu attacked the circle around the Ludwig von Mises Institute for their association with so-called “neo-Confederates”. I don’t like to attack other radicals/libertarians/anarchists publicly unless they attack me first (like ChuckO Munson and Daniel Owen), so I’m […]
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 […]
Most Likely to Secede
The on-line journal Good Magazine has a very well-done article on the growing secessionist movement in the US: http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/most_likely_to_secede Some highlights: “In an October, 2006, poll broadcast on CNN, 71 percent of Americans agree that “our system of government is broken and cannot be fixed.” A Daily Kos […]
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