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Nexus X HumectressLibCom.Org An open letter to anarchists in Chile and Venezuela, taking a nuanced look at the wave of protests against the Maduro government. Two weeks ago, Nosotros los Pobres had the good fortune to host a presentation by two members of the Federacion de Estudiantes Libertarias of Chile, […]
A note to my paleo-leaning friends: Immigration restriction is a failed movement, a political dead end. Americans are becoming more immigration-friendly, as they have with marijuana decriminalization and gay marriage. Still, there are alternatives to both compulsory multiculturalism and totalitarian humanism from the Left and old-fashioned nationalism (or […]
One thing many of my fans and critics alike often have difficulty understanding is that I really don’t care about any of the sectarian intramural in-fighting that goes on between the various tribes of anarchism, the left and right wings of the wider libertarian movement, or even in […]
A damn good idea. By Dave Lindorff Ukraine’s new rulers, in one of their first acts, have disbanded that country’s riot police. Now without getting into the complex politics of the ongoing struggles in that country, or into the question of the covert role of the US in […]
My take on the question of discrimination law: Genuinely private and voluntary associations (i.e. those with no connection to the state) should be allowed to discriminate against anyone they wish for any reason they wish. However, government agencies (funded by the taxpayers), private cartels allied with the state […]
In the last couple of years, I have noticed that just as the anti-drug hysteria of past decades has started to wane and the War on Drugs is becoming more unpopular, a corresponding and comparable hysteria over “sex trafficking” has emerged to take its place and repression of […]
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 […]
This article was written before the 2012 election, but it makes the same argument I’ve seen elsewhere from liberal commentators: The “inevitable Democratic majority due to demographics” is not a sure thing, because the major wild card is that more and more Hispanics may come to regard themselves […]
By Dave Hodges D.C. Clothesline We no longer have to ask foreign refugees what it is like living inside a police state. All we have to do is to read the daily accounts of innocent Americans being abused and murdered through the excessive use of force being used […]
What does it mean to live in a society where weed and gay marriage will soon be legalized nationwide, and discrimination against homosexuals and transexuals is increasingly prohibited, but where due process is increasingly non-existent and where the police rob, murder, and maim with impunity? By Damon Root […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Bulbasaur TheRightStuff.Biz I. Discrimination To discriminate, or not to discriminate? That is the question. …That is to say, this is the distortion of reality presented by a modern media. Support gay sex or face gay sex in prison. The argument is typically framed as one side discriminating […]
By Sheldon Richman Should the government coercively sanction business owners who, out of apparent religious conviction, refuse to serve particular customers? While such behavior is repugnant, the refusal to serve someone because of his or her race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is nevertheless an exercise of self-ownership and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hunter Schwarz Buzz Feed Abby Carney got a call from MTV to be in a docuseries about virgins in August. The 23-year-old Austin freelance writer caught the attention of producers for a still-untitled virgin-themed show after she wrote a piece about waiting to have sex for XOJane, but […]
“The anti-cannabis campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents” ~ William F. Buckley, 1983
By Meghan Lords With the media frenzy in full tilt after the closing of MtGox, there have been quite a few articles coming out declaring the death of bitcoin and an equal number reassuring us that it will be just fine. I won’t link to the former ones […]
I was giving an interview yesterday, and the subject of Bakunin came up at one point. The general remarks I made were along the lines of recognizing Bakunin as an inspiring rhetorician and militant activist, but largely agreeing with the common view of Bakunin scholars that he actually […]
This is an old piece by a left-anarchist from probably the early 2000s discussing the differences between left-anarchist economics and anarcho-capitalism. It’s a bit sectarian leftist, as might be predicted, but some of the discussion of economic concepts is interesting. The most obvious weakness of this piece is […]
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 […]
Murray Rothbard was one of the few modern libertarian or anarchist thinkers to give any serious thought to strategic questions. Not coincidentally, the growing libertarian movement of the present day is to a large degree the result of Rothbard’s visionary thinking in the area of strategy. In the […]
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 […]
By Murray Rothbard Karl Hess’s brilliant and challenging article in this issue raises a problem of specifics that ranges further than the libertarian movement. For example, there must be hundreds of thousands of “professional” anti-Communists in this country. Yet not one of these gentry, in the course of […]
I have found that the two other thinkers within the current anti-state milieu to whom I am most often compared are Hans Hermann Hoppe and Kevin Carson. These associations are made by both sympathizers and critics regarding my own work. So perhaps if might be of interest to […]
From the Inferno. Been getting quite the backlash from this one from (other) “pro-choicers” (who seem to miss the point entirely). ________________ Of all the court cases the press have pored over recently, none have fascinated me more than that of John Welden, who recently started a 14-year […]
Dreams Deferred November. Kiev’s main square has been occupied, there have been dramatic scenes of heavy fighting between militant protestors and police, and government buildings have been stormed and occupied too. But it was the fascist flags that first caught my eye when the protests escalated suddenly to […]
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 […]
“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, […]
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 […]
I have no position on the situation in the Ukraine, as it’s an internal matter for the Ukrainians to work out for themselves, but it’s worth observing from those who are interested in political movements and upheavals. Avtonomia/Anarchist Dot News Civil war began in Ukraine yesterday. A less […]
Those of us who weren’t alive in the 1960s have likely seen clips from television and movies showing Right-wingers chastising hippies and liberals over their long hair, casual demeanor and less-than-formal dress. Conservatives also often used rhetoric about how liberals were traitors and should leave the United States. Pro-Vietnam War veterans complaining about how Jane […]
By Robert Johnson Business Insider The FBI has released a new gang assessment announcing that there are 1.4 million gang members in the US, a 40 percent increase since 2009, and that many of these members are getting inside the military (via Stars and Stripes). The report says […]
Check out my interview with Radio3Fourteen He is the author of Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century. His website attackthesystem.com is full of well written, interesting and insightful essays. We’ll discuss what Keith calls Anarcho-Pluralism and Pan-Secessionism. He’ll talk about the core strategic […]
By Chris Hedges President Barack Obama announces James Clapper, left, as director of national intelligence during a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 5, 2010. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) On Thursday the former National Security Agency official and whistle-blower William E. Binney and I […]
By David Goodhart Church and State Members of the Bangladshi community photographed in Whitechapel Market, in east London, 7 September 2010. (Photo: Rebecca Reid) Among Left-leaning ‘Hampstead’ liberals like me, there has long been what you might call a ‘discrimination assumption’ when it comes to the highly charged […]
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 […]
By Paul Craig Roberts Economic theory teaches that free price and profit movements ensure that capitalism produces the greatest welfare for the greatest number. Losses indicate economic activities where costs exceed the value of production, thus investment in these activities is curtailed. Profits indicate economic activities where the […]
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 […]
Would it be possible to crowd fund this as a future anarchist homeland/enclave? We could even parcel it up for different factions of anarchist. It borders the Navajo Reservation as well, so we’d be right next door to natural comrades. The Great Western Ranch
Kudos to our pan-secessionist comrades from the League of the South.
Nowadays, it’s all about the effects of the plutocratic economy and the incompetent political class. No other issues even come close. Gallup.Com Most Important Problem
This is an excellent contemporary follow-up to Carson’s “A Political Program for Anarchists” from more than a decade ago. By Kevin Carson Millennials are disgruntled, and it’s no wonder. In 2008 they turned out in record numbers in support of a presidential candidate who used the most leftish-sounding […]
Four years ago, I introduced the concept of the “ten core demographics,” that is, ten very general sets of population groups, the majority of each we would have to win over to our camp if pan-anarchism, anarcho-pluralism, alternative-anarchism, anarchism without adjectives, national-anarchism, tribal -anarchism, synthesist anarchism, whatever we […]
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 […]
By Jason Brennan Yesterday, the Swiss did something evil: they voted to restrict immigration. Tyler Cowen comments: In my view immigration has gone well for Switzerland, both economically and culturally, and I am sorry to see this happen, even apart from the fact that it may cause a […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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