Attack the System

Democrats Adopt the Preston Strategy-And Win!

Peter Beinart explains: Now if only the Anarchists could become so enlightened.

Global Warming, Peak Oil, and HIV=AIDS Denialism

I recently came across this George Will column pointing out how in the 1970s, there was an emerging scientific consensus on the inevitability of “global cooling.” Of course, we all know that today it is “global warming” that it supposed to be the big ecological issue.  Many deniers […]

Updated News Digest November 15, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “Humanity only finds peace in death. Life is struggle.”                                                                            -Chris Donnellan “The prevailing idea of what it means to be modern is a post-Christian myth. Christians have always held that there is only […]

Camille Paglia: Last of the Open-Minded Liberals

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/camille_paglia_last_of_the_ope.html by Danny Huddleston [Keith: While I agree with much of the analysis in this, I disagree that the economic policies of the Obamaites can rightfully be classified as “socialist” or “communist.” Obamanomics is closer to corporatism, or “state-capitalism,” i.e. fascism. As an example see this critique of […]

Updated News Digest November 8, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week:      “The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and […]

New Statement of Purpose for AttacktheSystem.Com?

Here’s a new statement of purpose I am proposing for AttacktheSystem.Com: AttacktheSystem.Com is maintained by American Revolutionary Vanguard, a dissident tendency within North American anarchism.  It is our contention that the mainstream of the anarchist movement has become unduly focused on left-wing cultural politics, countercultural lifestyle matters, and […]

Updated News Digest November 1, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “”The present state of public affairs shows clearly enough that the State is the poorest instrument imaginable for improving human society, and that confidence in political institutions and political nostrums is ludicrously misplaced. Social […]

Updated News Digest October 25, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.” “Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.” “Politics is war without bloodshed, while war […]

Are You a True Revolutionary or a Couch Rebel?

by Peter Bjorn Perls What keeps a lot of people back is that they have too much to lose from an upheaval of the existing, mostly peaceful, order of things. The essence of the matter is that, to gain freedom, there must be some sacrifices, especially in the […]

The Conservative Challenge

http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc187.htm [Keith: The text of a magnificent speech given by Dr. Sean Gabb of England’s Libertarian Alliance. My question: How can we go about turning all of these conservative, libertarian and populist government-distrusters into full blown anarchist revolutionaries?]   The Conservative Challenge By Sean Gabb (Text of a […]

Saddam Hussein's Pre-War Prisoner Amnesty Program

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2343843.stm Iraq ’empties its jails’     Iraqi television has been showing pictures of joyful prisoners leaving jail, shortly after the authorities announced an unprecedented general amnesty.A nationally televised statement from the Revolution Command Council, read by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, said the “full and complete and […]

Basic Bakunin

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/bakunin/sp001862.html Republished from the (British) Anarchist Communist Federation’s original pamphlet in 1993 by P.A.C. (Paterson Anarchist Collective) Publications. This electronic version has the extra ACF text added to the PAC version, for more completeness.   “The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from […]

Updated News Digest October 18, 2008

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “For what is freedom? That one has the will to self-responsibility. That one maintains the distance which separates us. That one becomes more indifferent to difficulties, hardships, privation, even to life itself. That one […]

The World's First Terrorists

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/blood-rage–history-the-worlds-first-terrorists-1801195.html It was us!!! I have always been sickened by the fact that anarchists have this history of fierce martial struggle, but are today represented by the kind of riff-raff that constitutes the mainstream “anarchist movement.” A few years ago I did an academic paper tracing the history […]

Why We Are National-Anarchists

from Western Australian National-Anarchists (WANA) http://wanationalanarchist.wordpress.com/ To many people, on all sides of the political spectrum, the question would be asked when they hear of our new philosophy, “why?”.  Why would you choose to be a National-Anarchist, which is universally hated by the majority of the dogmatic left […]

Updated News Digest October 11, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “”The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents — men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless […]

The Coward's Way Out of a Losing Argument

Fascism with a Multicultural Face

Over at the website for the Center for a Stateless Society, Kevin Carson has a very good article taking down the center-left liberal retards who regard the state as nothing more than One Big Cub Scout Master. Carson demonstrates how stupid this perspective is even from the point […]

Updated News Digest October 4, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “Sir Norman Angell very accurately described human existence in a totalitarian state when he wrote: ‘From the day that a child is born in Nazi Germany or Russia, and to a lesser degree in […]

Marxism and the Frankfurt School

Lecture by Jonathan Bowden. Required viewing for those who want to know what really makes the PC Left tick. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven

Libertarianism-An Autopsy?

http://networkedblogs.com/p12876300 Libertarianism is hard to define because it means different things depending on where you’re at. In most of the world, especially in Europe, it’s a synonym for anarchism. But that’s the dead opposite of what it means in the USA where your sober libertarians know they need […]

Updated News Digest September 27, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “It is time that Americans reorganize themselves based on their geography and lifestyle choices according to the political outlook that most accurately reflects their views.  For example, if this means Hawaii leaves the Union […]

Updated News Digest September 20, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “Racist, sexist, homophobe, birth-certificate denier, 9-Eleven denier, moon-landing denier, lookist, logist, and all the rest of the epithets used by the enforcers of political correctness are despicable. As Murray Rothbard said, if someone advocates […]

Why Liberalism is a Sham

[Keith: This is the best critique of liberalism I have seen to date. This is the critique I would write.] by Camille Paglia http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/index.html Sept. 9, 2009 | What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, […]

Updated News Digest September 13, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “The high-pitched activist liberals I collided with in college are living out one prolonged shit test that has its own ontological area code. I recall the effect of their overall swagger and posture to […]

Banning Lucky Charms

You gotta see it to believe it!

Anarchist Direct Action in Action

The Sacramento National Anarchist Collective’s White Cross Patrol:

Anarchism in America

The full documentary: (hat tip to Ray Mangum) Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven, Part Eight  Anarchism and American Traditions by Voltairine De Cleyre

On Overcoming Race and Class Reductionism in the Anarchist Milieu

from Ed D’Angelo (Anytime Now Discussion Forum) I think racial politics in the anarchist movement derives from the broader American Left, for which race has been a key issue since the abolitionists of the pre-Civil War period. Class based analysis is not common in American politics, especially in […]

Updated News Digest September 6, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual trends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator…will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and… […]

A Dissection of Classical Marxism

by Keith Preston Three important works by Karl Marx, written early in his career as a revolutionary theorist, contain the core ideas that would provide the foundation of the vast intellectual system later to be identified with his name. Among these are his conceptions of historical materialism, class […]

Interview with Andrew Yeoman on Voice of Reason Radio

On Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at 9 PM Eastern US time, Dr. Tomislav Sunic will interview founder and spokesman of the Bay Area National Anarchists (BANA), Andrew Yeoman. It will air on the Voice of Reason Broadcast Network http://reasonradionetwork.com/ (use the minicaster at the upper right of the […]

Updated News Digest August 30, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quote of the Week: “Most of the official left has retreated into the loving arms of Whole Foods culture and the self loathing feel-goodism of identity politics.”                                                                                                               -Dylan Hales “It may be that the Old Right will […]

Why Conservatism is a Failure

by Keith Preston Review of Critchlow, Donald T. The Conservative Ascendency: How the GOP Right Made Political History. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2007.               Donald Critchlow traces the history of modern American conservatism from its inception in the 1950s as an intellectual synthesis of the American […]

Decentralizing the Decentralist Movement

For three years in a row, between 2006 and 2008, a North American secessionist convention was held where delegates from actual secessionist organizations and interested observers gathered to discuss the possibility of decentralizing the United States into smaller political units. Thus far, it does not appear there will […]

Updated News Digest August 23, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Paper When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com!! Quote of the Week: “A brilliant developer in Southern California did a market survey, and he found that in the area where he had the property, so he had to do the development, conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats […]

Gandhi: Politics, Economics and the Backlash

by Keith Preston I. Gandhi as Spiritual Godfather of the Indian Independence Movement II. Critics of Gandhi and the Conservative Hindu Backlash   Early Life and the Beginnings of Gandhi’s Radicalism                        Mohandas K. Gandhi originated from India’s business caste and grew up amidst Vaishnovite and […]

Updated News Digest August 16, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Paper When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! “You’re cultivating disrespect for government in your children!” protested a relative not long ago. “Every way I can think of doing so, with each opportunity that presents itself, every single day that God sends me!” I responded. Children […]

The Revolution Within Anarchism: Goodbye, Ultra-Leftism; Hello, Pan-Secessionism

For any movement or system of thought to remain relevant or dynamic, it must possess the internal capability of periodically reassessing its present course and shifting its focus and direction. Thus far, political anarchism has experienced two distinct stages. The first of these was the era of “classical” […]

Updated News Digest August 9, 2009

Why Read the Sunday Paper When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com! Quotes of the Week: “America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be […]

The Fruits of Anarchist "Anti-Racism"

“Certain attitudes derived from the New Left and the so-called counter-culture permeated neo-anarchism and had a deleterious effect upon it. Chief among these was elitism. It was the common belief among the New Left that the majority of the population were “coopted”, “sold-out”, “racist” and “sexist”. For the […]

Updated News Digest August 2, 2009

Quote of the Week: “My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England […]

Updated News Digest July 26, 2009

Quotes of the Week: “We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”                                                                                                                 -Errico Malatesta “We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they […]

Updated News Digest July 12, 2009

Quote of the Week: ““Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany is a horror; Adolf Hitler at a town meeting would be an asshole.”                                                                                               -Karl Hess It’s Not Just Fundamentalists Who Are Ignorant by TGGP Rot in Hell, Robert McNamara: The Life of  a Monster Considered by Ray Mangum […]

Updated News Digest July 5, 2009

 Quote of the Week: “I would love to be disassociated from anti-racists. I think their cultural leftism is a turnoff. And I say this as a non-white. I can’t speak for all people of diverse or non-caucasian racial makeup, but I for one am tired of some people […]

Updated News Digest June 28, 2009

Quote of the Week: “A century ago, anarchism was a major force within the European revolutionary movement, and the name of Michael Bakunin, its foremost champion and prophet, was as well-known among the workers and radical intellectuals of Europe as that of Karl Marx.”                                                                            -Paul Avrich, Anarchist […]