Small Businesses Are Overrated

The Jacobin commies attack the petite bourgeoisie. By Matt Kruenig The Jacobin As the anti-monopoly movement has picked up steam in important policy circles, some have begun thinking that small business promotion is a good idea. This seems to be partially driven by the technical view that small […]

Anarchism by Paul Eltzbacher

This is a classic work that was originally published in 1900. The author is a German judge, a non-anarchist who engaged in the scholarly exploration of the ideas of the “Big Seven” thinkers of classical anarchism: William Godwin, Max Stirner, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Benjamin […]

The Nonsense Politics of PragerU

PragerU more or less epitomizes what gets passed off as contemporary American “conservatism,” which is basically a defense of the hegemony of the remnants of the 19th-century industrial bourgeoisie, American exceptionalism, the traditional American civil religion,  and a defense of the American empire, plus paeons to the American […]

It’s Time to Abolish the FBI

A proposal for “defunding the police” from the Right though a bit moderate, just like most proposals for “defunding the police” from the Left. By Boyd Cathey Chronicles Now that a federal appellate court has ordered the dismissal of the case against Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, and outgoing intelligence […]

How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone

The availability of surveillance technology increases the urgency of the decentralist project. Death to the Empire. By Kim Zetter The Intercept Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in […]

The Case for Economic Nationalism

Economic nationalism, which is favored by guys like Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan, is just another term for mercantilism. It’s the system that societies in an early phase of industrial development tend to use in order to protect domestic industries. It’s more or less the system the US […]

The Case for Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Walter Block is much superior to most right-libertarians in that he recognizes that a stateless society would not necessarily be “capitalist” at all. By Walter Block Chronicles Under laissez-faire capitalism, government is limited to armies, which keep foreign bad guys from attacking us; police, to quell local criminals; […]

The Case for Christian Distributism

The economic vision of distributism, which is more or less the economic doctrine of the modern Catholic Church, is very similar to that of left-anarchism and libertarian-socialism, but socially conservative and minus anticlericalism. By Allan C. Carlson Chronicles Christian distributism celebrates the small and the human. It rests […]

Antifa: Nazis Without a Plan

I am briefly mentioned in this article. By Paul Gottfried Chronicles Although I have spent much of my scholarly life warning against inappropriate comparisons between Nazis or fascists and the pet peeves of academics and journalists, I myself am now using the F-word (as in fascist) or really […]

Proudhon To Marx: Lyon, 17 May 1846

The godfather of modern anarchism criticizes Marx as a doctrinaire authoritarian and secularized religious fundamentalist. Does this sound familiar? The historic anarchist critics of Marxism and other forms of authoritarian leftism is who our contemporary critics of PC, wokeness,  cancel culture, etc. should be paying attention to, and […]