By John Wilkes Czolgosz Anarchy is a diverse and complex ideology with varying interpretations and principles. The principles of an anarchist movement can differ depending on specific schools of thought or individual perspectives. However, some fundamental principles commonly associated with anarchism include: Opposition to Hierarchical Authority: Anarchists generally […]
TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2023 Our defense is not in armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. – Albert Einstein HORNBERGER’S BLOG May 30, 2023 Why I’m Not a Libertarian Reformer There have long been two camps in the libertarian movement: […]
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I like this “Red” (socialist), “Brown” (nationalist), and “Yellow” (libertarian) alliance deal. Can I have an application, please? Seriously speaking, whenever I take one of those “political compass” tests, I always test out as “left-anarchist” or “post-left.” I never test out as right-wing or conventionally socialist. Theoretically, I […]
By Keith Preston May 13, 2023 See Part One here. Bellamy Fitzpatrick on the Trichotomy of “Decentralist Anarchy,” “World Domination Anarchism,” and “Worldwide Wokeness” In January 2020, Bellamy Fitzpatrick, a well-known figure in left-wing anarchist circles in North America, produced a brief blog post that summarizes very well […]
By Keith Preston May 13, 2023 Balaji Srinivasan’s book The Network State was published, ironically, on July 4, 2022, and is available for free online at https://thenetworkstate.com/ Srinivasan is an entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Counsyl, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coinbase, and former general partner […]
Digital Odyssey Apr 27, 2023 An important realization for any dissident ideology, is that the system we live in and under is not only not sympathetic to your goals, but actively hostile. This puts pressure on dissidents to form intentional communities in order to be in control of […]
Are political breakups really as American as apple pie? Angela McArdle and Zach Weissmueller | From the May 2023 issue (Illustration: enjoynz/iStock) A National Divorce Is an Opportunity for Peaceful Coexistence Affirmative: Angela McArdle Joanna Andreasson The largest, most obvious divorce-worthy incidents in this country were the COVID-19 […]
Peter R. Quiñones 16 min ago It appears the path of least resistance is to be avoided at all costs in this modern day. It’s not a stretch to believe people or groups purposely complicate issues they may be tasked with performing so as to highlight how crucial […]
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” Thucydides
Nullification – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report 5 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-nullification/ Joining us today to discuss the latest wins for the nullification movement is Michael Boldin (NOT Boldrin!) of TenthAmendmentCenter.com. In this jam-packed conversation, James and Michael examine the historical and philosophical roots of nullification […]
By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene says the U.S. needs a ‘national divorce’ between red and blue states A shocking new poll shows that one-third of Americans agree with this idea Two-thirds of independent voters disagree that there should be separation […]
Peter R. Quiñones 5 hr ago If you were to ask me why I do what I do—podcasting, writing, being a maniac on social media—it would be cliché to say that I feel a “calling.” Saying you feel called to do something, especially something as ridiculous as posting […]
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Ana Kasparian, sycophant of genocider Madeleine Albright, thinks pan-secessionism is “disgusting.” Aww, poor Princess Ana is offended. Marjorie Taylor Greene think Democrats should be banned from voting for 5 years after they move to a red state. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch […]
Katzenberg-funded TYT, named after an organization that carried out genocide, comes to the defense of the Empire.
Kyle is right that the class divide is just as wide as the political divide, but it’s not a question of either/or.
Robby Soave interviews journalist Zach Weissmueller about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) call for a “national divorce.”
Yes! First Ann Coulter, now MTG. We pan-secessionists now have a rep in Congress. Liz Cheney represents everything we are fighting against. “You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” Cheney tweeted. “Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.” Rep. Liz Cheney, […]
Berniesis Krystal and natcon Emily offer a weak defense of the Empire in the name of democratism. I always knew pan-secessionism would separate the true radicals from the do-gooders.
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, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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