The Signal Alec Ash on the causes and consequences of an unprecedented show of popular anger at the communist state. Martin Sanchez After the biggest outbreak of political demonstrations since the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989, Beijing announced on December 7 that it would end its anti-Covid policies […]
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 […]
Can political states unmoor themselves from geographical borders and exist solely online? Balaji Srinivasan’s new book explores the political potential of emerging technologies. Aviezer Tucker 18 Nov 2022, 8:00 am The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan (self-published, 474 pp., $9.99) Once upon […]
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 […]
Mises Institute Congratulations to three Mises Caucus-endorsed candidates who won their local races Tuesday: Aron Lam—Mayor (Keenesburg, Colorado) David Tyler—City Council (East Ridge, Tennessee) Bill Schult—City Council (Crescent Springs, Kentucky) Aron, Bill, and David asked for our endorsement*—and we gave it—because they believe the best way to win practical gains for […]
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 […]
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Simple Sabotage – #Solutionswatch The Corbett Report SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-sabotage/ Most people think of sabotage as explosive and sometimes deadly acts of violence against property and machinery. But from lying flat and quiet quitting to water […]
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
One of the most controversial pieces I ever wrote was an essay from 2005 called “Why I Choose to Collaborate with Racialists and Theocrats.” You can imagine the reaction to that in some anarchist circles, particularly the hard-left ones. A reader recently offered a response to that essay, […]
By María Pilar García-Guadilla and Carlos G. Torrealba COMMUNES in Venezuela, once hopeful experiments in local direct democracy and popular power under the socialism of the XXI century have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping the country. . What can we learn from their demise? READ MORE
By Ernst van Zyl — 1 day ago What Westerners can learn from South Africa “Small nations. The concept is not quantitative; it points to a condition; a fate; small nations lack that felicitous sense of an eternal past and future; at a given moment in their history, […]
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 […]
… well, not really Peter R. Quiñones 3 hr ago The criticisms thrown my way from my old compatriots do not bother me like so many people believe. I have repeatedly said there are some tenets of libertarianism that I still consider my personal preferences. But as a […]
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 […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes the status quo. It’s a series of disheartening failures and crushing disappointments amid an endless deluge of information saying that everything is getting worse and […]
Conversation with Buck Johnson on the flaws of libertarianism and why localism is here to stay. Jose Alberto Nino Listen to José Niño sound off on contemporary political affairs. Is local political activism the only way out of America’s current political mess? José Niño and Buck Johnson, the […]
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 Peter R. Quinones I’m as guilty as anyone of being one of those people who made it their life mission to point and say, “I told you so!” Being able to diagnose a disease and say, “Yep, that’s cancer,” and being right all the time is what […]
Anarchist Federation Sectarianism is intolerance towards the positions, opinions, ideologies or practices that are different from one’s own or those of the movement, organization or group to which one belongs. It is usually accompanied by arrogance, vanity and opportunism and ends up superimposing itself on the fight for […]
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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 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 […]
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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. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Whether anyone likes it or not, pan-secessionism is indeed happening. Sanctuaries for everyone and everything. Axios Two layers of security fences have been added to the Supreme Court since the leak last month of a draft abortion opinion. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Some local officials in liberal […]
One of the best descriptions of the mechanics of domestic US politics I have seen to date from Michael Lind. By Michael Lind, Tablet If the Republicans retake Congress in the midterm elections of 2022, as many expect, a lament will be heard in 2023 and 2024 from […]
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 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 […]
This piece I wrote a few years ago has been republished at Nowhere News. By Keith Preston About 20 years ago, I began to formulate ideas for the development of what I now call a “third wave” anarchist movement, with the “first wave” being the era of classical […]
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” […]
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, details the outcome of the People’s Convoy in Washington, D.C.
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 […]
Krystal dives into the reasons why the Trucker Convoy appears to have won their fight for Canada to loosen covid restrictions and how it has contrasted with mass left wing movements
By Matt Taibbi Denouncing truckers for “unacceptable views,” Canada’s Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking? On the morning of the 21st of December, 1989, Romanian General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu was in a foul mood. The Berlin Wall had […]
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 Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter and Andrea Cavallier and Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com Rep. Elissa Slotkin, from Michigan, suggested the Canadian government say ‘uncle’ to the truckers in a bid to get trade going again Six auto factories across Michigan and Canada are closing or partially closing Toyota […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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