Submit to Freedom: Bronze Age Mindset

Submit! to Geoffrey Miller & Justin Murphy talking about the book ‘Bronze Age Mindset’ by Bronze Age Pervert. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that sparked a lot of new ideas for us. Topics include freedom, power, sex, space, submission, domination, hierarchy, religion, glory, Mannerbund, Indo-Europeans, evolutionary psychology, social media, […]

Panarchy and Entrepreneurial Cities

By Pedro Dias Startup Societies Foundation In 1860, the Belgian economist and botanist Paul Emile de Puydt published the essay Panarchy, originally in French¹, in the periodical Revue Trimestrielle, in which he outlined a political system in which everyone would have the right to choose under which form […]

Autonomy and Federalism

By Sam Dolfgoff (1986) The revival of interest in anarchism has recently produced works on the ideology and history of the libertarian movement. By far, most modern writers confirm popular misconceptions about how the anarchists view the relationships of society to the state, of individual freedom and local […]

From megalopolis to communitas

By Murray Bookchin (1974) Panarchy.Org The city has completed its historic evolution. Its dialectic from the village, temple area, fortress or administrative center, each dominated by agrarian interests, to the polis and medieval commune during an era when town and country were in some kind of equilibrium, to […]

Operational Thinking for Survival

Lawrence Dennis’s much neglected and long-forgotten masterpiece from 1969. Available from Amazon. “Operational Thinking for Survival” is Lawrence Dennis’s 1969 follow up book to his 1940 book “The Dynamics of War and Revolution”. It would be worth the while of the modern reader of either book to read […]

Alexander Berkman said it in 1929

Given that the “Who CARES? Act” is the Burgfriendenspolitik of the modern US economy, Alexander Berkman’s characterization of social democrats from 1929 has relevance. The present ruling class action is a mere looting spree and mass theft, as opposed to outright mass murder as was the case in […]

Could an Anarchist Society Defend Itself?

In my view, the only valid argument against the anarchist position is the one David Friedman called “the hard problem,” i.e. the question of whether a stateless territory could potentially defend itself against external invasions by states. All the other arguments are merely special pleading on behalf of […]

The Life and Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche

A good documentary on Nietzsche. The primary weakness that is demonstrated by most anarchists and leftists is their failure to confront Nietzsche’s critique of modern liberal-humanism generally and leftism specifically as forms of secularized theocratic neo-Abrahamism, which is why we find so much zeal among leftists for rooting […]

Will Trump Use COVID-19 to Promote Peace?

By Pat Buchanan The American Conservative To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq. When NATO scaled back its war games in Europe because of the pandemic, Russia reciprocated. Moscow announced it would cancel its war games along NATO’s border. Nations seem […]

Anarchist Writings on Coronavirus

The Anarchist Library Against the Coronavirus and the Opportunism of the State — CrimethInc. Mar 27, 2020 18 pp. Against the Quarantine of Passions, the Social Epidemic — Anonymous Mar 28, 2020 7 pp. An Anarchist Perspective on the Coronavirus Pandemic — Anonymous Mar 29, 2020 4 pp. […]

April Fool!

Just send the landlord an envelope with a note saying, “I bet you thought this envelope was going to contain my rent check. April Fool!” What happens on the first of the month when residents, restaurants, and retail stores don’t pay rent? By Henry Grabar Slate In a […]

Plagues Over the Centuries Have Caused Radical Political Shifts – Examples From the Last 2500 Years

By Srdja Trifkovic Russia-Insider Serious epidemics can have far-reaching social, cultural, and geopolitical consequences. The plague which devastated Athens in 430 BC—in the second year of the Peloponnesian War, when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach—claimed a quarter of the population, some 75,000 people including Pericles. His […]