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Nexus X HumectressIn a previous post, I outlined my view that the radicals from the 60s have won on virtually every issue, and that the kinds of values associated with 60s radicals aren’ t all that radical anymore, but are actually rather mainstream and normal. Given the demise of Communism and […]
I’ve written rather critically of the cultural Left in the past. I do this for two primary reasons: 1) my view that left-wing concerns about matters like oppression of racial minorities, women, homosexuals, et al, while rooted in legitimate concerns and historical realities, have metamorphed into a new […]
Quote of the Week: “All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I […]
Forty years ago, in the summer of 1968, leftist radicals fought the police outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Four years later, these same New Left forces went into the Democratic Party, seized control of its nomination process, and put George McGovern on the presidential ticket. The […]
Quote of the Week: ” I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.” -John Henry MacKay Tribal Anarchism, Part One by Death Sipheroth Tribal […]
Robin McKie The Observer Men redundant? Now we don’t need women either Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside a woman’s body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless. Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from […]
Quote of the Week: “All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the […]
Quotes of the Week: “Something is happening to this country. It still has a lot going for it’s friendly people, great diners, good blues, country bands, widespread availability of illegal drugs. But the government is out of control. Everything is illegal and watched. It’s getting so you can’t […]
Quotes of the week: “”If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will […]
Quote of the Week: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”                                                                                                      -George Orwell War, Peace and the State by Murray N. Rothbard The MRSA Horror by Robert Klassen Lawrence Wilkerson: A Truth-Teller for Our Times by Tom […]
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Quote of the Week: “The fires of Hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American Government.”                                                          -Joe Vogler, founder, Alaskan Independence Party Inmate Escapes German Jail in a Box Dual Loyalties Will Doom Obama  by Rannie Amiri Obama: The First Hundred Days by Alexander Cockburn Americans Like […]
By Flavio Goncalves  Last November 7th, 8th and 9th several Socialist, Revolutionary and Patriotic dissidents from all over Europe (from the far West of the Azores islands to the far East of Russia) gathered in Madrid, Spain, for the III Quests of Dissidence. In these three days […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/11/updated-news-digest-november-9-2008/
I’m going to go out on a limb and make a few unorthodox statements and predictions concerning the Obama victory. The first question, of course, is why did Obama win in the first place? Most conventional analysis tends to argue that Obama’s victory is traceable to the poor […]
Quote of the Week: “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/10/updated-news-digest-october-26-2008/
By David Heleniak Jesse Ventura, when he’s not talking about 9-11, makes a lot of sense. Describing the two party system to Larry King, he said, [W]hat you have today is like walking into the grocery store and you go to the soft drink department, and there is […]
“When I told a right-wing acquaintance of mine about what the president had done, I already knew he would defend it. You see, you have to understand that because Bush is a conservative Republican, he could be caught sodomizing a goat on the front lawn of the White […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/10/updated-news-digest-october-19-2008/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_el_st_lo/prosecuting_bush Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins By JOHN CURRAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 19, 3:45 AM ET BURLINGTON, Vt. – Lots of political candidates make campaign promises. But not like Charlotte Dennett’s. Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party‘s candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday […]
“I want to see this guy on death row.” -Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson, on the possible prosecution of George W. Bush for mass murder Taking a Look at Constitution Party Candidate Chuck Baldwin by Laurence Vance Ain’t My Government by Manuel Lora How to Fix Our Depreciating Money by […]
This is in response to something posted about me on The Art of the Possible web site: Says “Anonymous” (geez, that’s creative): “This web site is dedicated to hosting a dialogue between libertarians and the left, with the goal of encouraging theoretical synthesis and practical cooperation between the […]
Quote of the Week: “As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, “That man is a Red, that man is a […]
reason.com Ronald Bailey Biotechnology holds the promise of some day allowing people to enhance themselves and their children using pharmaceuticals or genetic interventions. This prospect is welcomed by some, but causes a great deal of anxiety in many people: Are there enhancements whose benefits would come at the […]
Quote of the Week: “Ass usual, the election is a popularity contest run for dimwits. And to elect a dimwit, which is worse. We’ve got this woman Palin, an angry Betty Crocker, absolutely unqualified for the presidency in case McCain goes tits up. She’s ignorant of foreign affairs, […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/09/updated-news-digest-september-7-2008/
What does it mean that the Vice-Presidential candidate for the ostensibly “conservative” party is a female from a working class background who has the flag of a foreign state associated with a domestic ethnic minority hanging in her governor’s office? What does it mean that the Presidential candidate […]
Weekend Edition August 30 / 31, 2008 Part One What If the Israeli Lobby was the Islamic Lobby? By B. R. GOWANI What if: Abu Faisal was White House press secretary (instead of Ari Fleischer) Altaf Adham was deputy national security advisor (instead of Elliott Abrams) Sofian Bishr […]
Quote of the Week: “We can expect as little from society as from the state. Salvation lies with the individual.”                                                                                                             -Ernst Junger  Neocon Leader Bill Kristol Calls on McCain to pick Lieberman as his Running Mate (Dog?) Fed-Bank-Wall Street Fraud Biden for Vice-Dictator by Glenn Greenwald When […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/08/updated-news-digest-august-24-2008/
(Thanks, Sean!) [These are my musings from correspondence with a like-minded proprietor of a homepage, which I thought some here would find interesting. -SJ]:  Sufic Notes on Proudhon, Rothbard and Anarchism  I concur with your disavowal from the false dialectic of Left and Right: We have transcended beyond […]
Los Angeles Times  Letters to the Editor  letters@…  timothy.rutten@…  Re: The extreme-right way to make a buck,” by Tim Rutten, LA Times, Aug. 16, 2008  Dear Sirs,  The title of Mr. Rutten’s piece suggests that the surest way for a conservative scholar to become rich is […]
Quote of the Week: “In 2042, the Republican Party platform will include a plan for comprehensive reform of the US’s national health care program. Republican Congressmen will engage in furious debate in an attempt to limit the penalties for discrimination against homosexuals to fines rather than imprisonment. Anybody […]
changesurfer.com Version 2.0 (March 2002) James J. Hughes, Ph.D. Originally Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science Cambridge, MA November 1-4, 2001 For more information please contact: James Hughes Ph.D. Public Policy Studies, Trinity College, 71 Vernon St., Hartford […]
Quote of the week: SOMEWHERE there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren: here there are states. A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples. A […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/07/updated-news-digest-july-27-2008/
Of all the contemporary scholars and theorists of the state of which I am aware, the one whose work I find by far the most compelling is the Dutch-Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld. It is his position that the conventional nation-state system that emerged from the time of […]
Quote of the Week: “Soledad O’Brien, at the beginning of CNN’s “Black in America: Reclaiming the Dream,†cited as evidence of the at least partial fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream that “Some are CEOs. Some are Secretaries of State.†Well, I have a dream of my own: To […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/07/updated-news-digest-july-20-2008/
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If we were Soviet or East European citizens in the 1950s, 60s or 70s, and we were attempting to build a revolutionary underground, classical criticisms of the state would certainly be helpful. For instance, the Augustinian view of the state as a “robber band writ large”. However, we […]
Quote of the Week: “ Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine  Strip Search a Thirteen-Year-Old and Keep Your Job Proudhon Seminar: What is Property? Ch. 2 notes, Pt. 1 by Shawn Wilbur Gangsters […]
(Thanks, Jeremy) Text of a speech from Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War  http://kokesh.blogspot.com/2008/07/duty-to-resist.html Saturday, July 12, 2008 Duty to Resist Text of speech delivered 080712 at the west lawn of the capitol: When I joined the Marines at a little strip mall in Santa […]
Thanks to Josh Rhodes for digging this up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7420469.stm Meeting Spain’s last anarchist By Alfonso Daniels San Buenaventura, Bolivia Hours after flying on a rickety 19-seater propeller plane and landing on a dirt strip, you get to the village of San Buenaventura in the heart of the Bolivian […]
In response to my statement “Is the Left salvagable? In and of itself, it does not appear to be,”, Jeremy raises some helpful points concerning the defintions of “left” and “right”: That begs the question: what is this “Left”? If it is merely establishmentarianism with a cultural attachment […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/07/updated-news-digest-july-13-2008/
NA23 offers this suggestion: The key is the breaking down of the Left/Right dichotomy with a real social alternative. We have to disrupt the labels and stereotypes held by the left, right and the media. This can only be done succesfully through frequent street actions and public involvement, […]
Jeremy raises an interesting question in the Comments section: I don’t think the Left is so utterly irretrievable as you seem to, but a line must be drawn in the sand when it comes to revolutionary potential. Many on the Left (and Right, no doubt) will be found […]
What does it mean when the Right is becoming more revolutionary minded than the Left? Nowadays, there are “left-conservatives”, “left-libertarians”, “left-secessionists”, “conservative revolutionaries”, “left-nationalists”, “national-syndicalists”, “national-anarchists”, “national-bolsheviks”, “national-maoists”, “left-populists”, “left-decentralists”, “national-communists” and lots of other labels that defy the left/right stereotype. What does is mean that the official […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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