How Financialization Killed GE

This is a pretty good illustration of how industrial/managerial capitalism has undergone the transition to financial/digital capitalism. Benjamin Tucker demonstrated over century ago how to go about attacking all of this. Attack patent, copyright, and intellectual property law. Attack the currency monopoly and the centralization of control over […]

Smash the Oligarchy

For some time, I have thought that The American Conservative is the most “left-wing” of any mainstream US publication. TAC is a lot closer to Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin or even Dwight McDonald, Gore Vidal, and Normal Mailer than the FOX News creeps. Most formally “liberal” or […]

The Anarchist Case for Small Business

Remember that Commies have always denounced anarchists as “petite bourgeoisie.” By Will Collins The American Conservative It’s been a brutal year for locally owned shops and restaurants. The COVID-19 outbreak and the accompanying lockdowns shuttered storefronts and exiled customers. Pandemic relief efforts aimed at small businesses were ruthlessly […]

Greek City-States

When looking at alternative political models, the one that I keep coming back to is ancient Greece. Many anarchists will cite models like communes that only existed in isolated enclaves for brief periods, as opposed to systems like the Greek cities, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman millet […]

The Right Versus the Axis of Wokeness

By Bradley Betters Chronicles In response to the recent riots and protests, America’s biggest companies have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to so-called racial justice organizations such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and denounced political speech on the right as hate. The conservative establishment has greeted this rise in corporate “wokeness” with […]