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Nexus X HumectressFour 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 […]
No doubt about it. By Bill Frezza Once in a great while a writer at the opposite end of the political spectrum gets you to look at a familiar set of facts in a new way. Disconcerting as it is, you can feel your foundation shift as your […]
The overthrow of the government of the United States should be the primary objective of all those presently seeking to advance world peace. By Paul Craig Roberts In a number of my articles I have explained that the Soviet Union served as a constraint on US power. The […]
Say the totalitarian humanist bureaucrats and parasite of the EU. By Eric Margolis Democracy can be so inconvenient. Take Switzerland, the closest thing the world has to a perfect democracy. Switzerland’s eight million citizens vote by referendum on all major issues. The Swiss cantons have made key decisions […]
By Robert Wenzel LewRockwell.Com/Economic Policy Journal Justice Clarence Thomas recently told Palm Beach Atlantic University students that obsession over trivial identity-based sleights has reached an all-time high: My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. […]
By Thomas DiLorenzo Once again, a small group of feeble-minded academic Marxist ideologues hiding behind priest’s collars have maliciously libeled and smeared one of the most honest, hard-working, principled, and freedom-loving men I have ever met during my thirty-five year academic career, namely, Dr. Walter Block. (During that […]
By Danny Goldberg The Nation Demonstrators march down Broadway during a May Day rally. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) In The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement (Spiegel & Grau, 2013), David Graeber’s engaging new book on Occupy Wall Street, the author writes of the dismal culture in […]
By Kalefa Sanneh The New Yorker n the summer of 2011, when David Graeber heard rumors of a mobilization against Wall Street, he was hopeful but wary. Graeber is an anthropologist by trade, and a radical by inclination, which means that he spends a lot of time at […]
The Left wages its own battle against sin in North Carolina. This article is actually a very good illustration of a point I’ve made before about pan-secessionism and anarcho-pluralism. Some perceive these concepts as creating situations where particular sets of cultural, economic, or political values are written in […]
This is just too damn funny. With intellectual opponents like these, we’re almost certain to win. Bob Garfield Slate.Com Illustration by Mark Stamaty Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a […]
For those of us who came of age during the heyday of the War on Drugs during the 80s and 90s this is like members of the Nazi Party writing a letter to Hitler urging a relaxation of the Nuremberg Laws. Russia Today In a signed letter issued […]
A Facebook reader raises this question for anarchists and libertarians: “Imagine someone seizes the property of a thousand people in an area and forces them into a commune. The newly -crowned dictator then invites a thousand other people into the commune against the wishes of the original thousand, […]
So say the reactionary leftists at Slate.Com On Tuesday, the Kansas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a measure designed to bring anti-gay segregation—under the guise of “religious liberty”—to the already deep-red state. The bill, written out of fear that the state may soon face an Oklahoma-style gay marriage […]
A California judge strikes down a gun control law. A Virginia judge strikes down an anti-gay marriage law. A Utah judge strikes down an anti-polygamy law. Kansas upholds the right of freedom of association. More and more states are legalizing marijuana. Public opinion is turning against the War […]
By Kanwal Sibal The Daily Mail From our vantage point the vicious onslaught against President Vladimir Putin in western political circles, especially the media, is difficult to appreciate. The media is of course reflecting prevailing political attitudes towards the Russian president in US and European political circles. Unconstrained […]
Nebraska city goes for 120 years without government.
Counter-Currents Radio To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Robert Stark talks to commentator Charles Lincoln on slavery and the prison-industrial complex. Topics include: How imprisonment replaced slavery The 13th Amendment and the exception it […]
The drug war. We often here about how this or that Republican politician is a “libertarian” or “libertarian-leaning” or a “friend of liberty.” In the vast majority of the cases (if not all of them) said Republican politician supports the war on drugs. Oh, some of them may […]
I was in Barnes and Noble yesterday, and the two authors most represented in the “Current Affairs” section were Noam Chomsky and Ann Coulter. What does that mean?
Joshua Keating Slate.Com A recent paper by political scientists Guy Grossman of the University of Pennsylvania and Janet Lewis of the Naval Academy (via Chris Blattman) looks at a fascinating but little-noticed phenomenon. Countries all over the world seem to be dividing themselves into smaller and smaller political […]
By John Kersey Libertarian Alliance A functioning aristocracy is fundamental to a traditionally-based society, and its structures and concepts have greatly influenced the development of the British nation over the centuries. In this paper, I intend, while showing some of the difficulties that have come to occupy the […]
By Lydia Brown Black Girl Dangerous I have become used to being told that I do not have feelings, that I am innately incapable of relating to other people as human beings or having any empathy at all, that this is a core component of what it means […]
By Scott McConnell The American Conservative dbking / cc Eli Lake here does a micro-analysis of AIPAC’s failure on its Iran sanctions bill. The timeline is confusing: AIPAC supported (and probably drafted, that’s how it’s usually done) the Kirk-Menendez-Schumer legislation designed to scuttle Obama’s Iran negotiations; then it appeared to […]
Says Raimondo: “The age of Obama presented us with new opportunities – and new and bigger problems. What had been the antiwar movement evaporated with such swiftness that it was almost possible to believe the huge demonstrations had all been but a dream. Yet the war danger was […]
Anarchists and Libertarians in the Western countries need to understand that we are essentially in the same position as Russian anarchists in the 1920s, i.e. anarchists living under revolutionary leftist authoritarian regimes, rather than right-wing conservative or reactionary regimes. Those Anarchists and Libertarians who persist in denouncing the […]
Actually, this interpretation of the relationship between the U.S.A. and Russia has a precedent in the work of Carl Schmitt. In “Nomos of the Earth,” Schmitt, a Hobbesian conservative, analyzed the Cold War as a conflict between two ideologically-driven forces, American liberal-democratic-capitalism and Soviet Marxism. Schmitt actually considered […]
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “[E]verywhere, “time is winding up,” in the words of one of our spirituals, “corruption in the land, people take a stand, time is winding up.”—Martin Luther King Jr. We now live in a two-tiered system of governance. There are two sets of laws: […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb To understand the rubbish heap that England has become, it is useful to look at the circumstances that prompted the emergence of the modern State in Europe. Around the end of the thirteenth century, the world entered one of its cooling phases. In a […]
Advocates for Self-Government Last issue we brought news of an amazing survey by FreedomWorks that found libertarianism rising rapidly, especially among the young. Here’s more great news along those lines. First, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute — a nonpartisan group that studies religion, values, and public life […]
The Non-Anarchist James Joll, the foremost non-anarchist historian of anarchism, warned of underestimating “the extent to which men are moved by abstract ideas.” While anarchists point to the ills of capitalist government as their rationale, they are not the only opponents to capitalist power, just the most simplistic. […]
By Matt Parrott Traditionalist Youth Network Some guy named Todd Lewis strongly disliked my recent Counter-Currents article, Weird Science: Liberal Creationism vs. Christian Creationism. His response, hosted at the otherwise praiseworthy Attack the System anarchist website, Contra Parrott: The Emptiness of Third-Way Anthropology, was absolutely riddled with scathing insults. While […]
By Jacob Sullum This week a Texas grand jury declined to indict a marijuana grower for shooting and killing a sheriff’s deputy who burst into his home in the early morning to execute a search warrant. Henry Goedrich Magee, who was indicted on drug and weapon charges (the […]
“Like any ideology that has attracted a substantial following, libertarianism has splintered into a variety of sects. Thus, there are hard-core and soft-core libertarians; plumb-line and big-tent libertarians; Rothbard-loving and Rothbard-hating libertarians; pro-political and anti-political libertarians; academic and movement libertarians; thick and thin libertarians; socially conventional and libertine […]
This is actually more nuanced than what might be expected. Property and Freedom Society 2013 Conference
It would be interesting to see how our “left-libertarian” rivals respond to this. The nature of the totalitarian humanist revolution as a form of censorious persecution is made clear in Dr. Gabb’s presentation, and it is also demonstrated that the totalitarian humanists are not necessarily the sexual libertines […]
This will be a exercise in the reduction ad absurdum and a response to a couple of articles by Matt Parrott at Counter-Currents.com (CC).
By Matt Parrott I’m a bit old for Bill Nye. By the time his children’s science show came on in the early ’90′s, I had already graduated to reading Carl Sagan’s more advanced presentation of the vapid and vacuous “I Fucking Love Science!” worldview. My love of critical […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance Review Article by Sean Gabb Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century Keith Preston Black House Publishing Ltd, London, 2013, 473pp, £16.50 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-9927365-0-7 I first came across Keith Preston in October 2008. In those […]
One thing I continue to be impressed by is the diversity of opinion even among self-proclaimed libertarians and anarchists. There seems to be everything from “libertarian white supremacists” to “libertarian radical leftists” to “libertarian monarchists” to “libertarian Marxists” and everything in-between. It also seems there is no agreement […]
Attack the System Women Against the State February 1, 2014 A panel discussion with M.K. Lords, Becky Belding, Trista Rundatz, and Keith Preston about gender issues in the libertarian milieu, and wider issues facing the libertarian and anarchist movements. Topics include: Topics include: Why anti-state movements attract more […]
By Anthony Gregory The generation of libertarians seen in such outfits as SFL excites and encourages me. I especially approve its efforts to cleanse the movement of the type of bigotry that emerged after years of the libertarian movement’s circumstantial alliance with conservatives to battle against New Deal […]
By Max Borders Truth carries within itself an element of coercion. —Hannah Arendt Identity politics has come to the freedom movement. But does it fit? Many newly minted libertarians have come out of America’s indoctrination factories feeling a mix of guilt and sanctimony. They’re still libertarians, but they […]
Global Post Born in Mexico but raised in barrios of Southern California, these rifle-slinging fighters are holding down the front line in Michoacan’s battle against a ruthless meth gang. NUEVA ITALIA, Mexico — Moises Verduzco says he learned how to handle himself in a fight from his teen […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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