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Nexus X HumectressA False Open Society: A Marxist-Anarchist Critique of Political Correctness
Political correctness is the ideological superstructure of the left-wing of capital, and the technology, ideas, and information industries are its substructure/materialist base. By Keith Preston The Myth of the Open Society One of the pervasive myths of our time is that we live in an open society where […]
How Not to Do Anarchism: An Editorial
One of the primary purposes of Attack the System is to reform the anarchist movement so that it will be more capable of further growth and expansion, and to prevent the seeds of future authoritarianism from continuing to spread within the movement. The most immediately problematic aspect of […]
Non-Americans Discuss “””Gun Control”””
A group of Europeans, including Sargon of Akkad debate the gun rights vs. gun control issue.
Why Aren’t You Further Left?
Kyle Kulinsky defends social democracy against the far left. Not really my perspective, but he articulates his point well.
Obama: A Legacy of Ashes
In case anyone is nostalgic for Obama, let’s not forget what a douche the guy was underneath the articulate, polished exterior.
Democrats Should Stop Pretending to Oppose Saudi Government Tyranny (Re: Khashoggi)
Saudi Arabia sucks. Period. “You said nothing as homosexuals were tossed off buildings, as women were stoned for being raped, or as dissidents were harassed or assaulted. Stop with the crocodile tears over the White House Khashoggi statement, stop being opportunists about the death of a journalist.”
Establishment GOP Runs Scared as Trump Says What it Has for a Decade about the Judiciary
I highly recommend the video commentaries of Styxhexenhammer666. He offers a refreshingly non-partisan, independent, relatively centrist, somewhat libertarian perspective.
Ocasio-Cortez’s Ignorance and Gaffes Are Weakening The Left
An interesting critique AOC from Tim Pool.
The Intersectionality of the Ruling Class and the Criminal Class
In spite of the low quality of many in “organized” anarchist movements, the anarchist critique of the state still stands. Interestingly, the latest Gallup poll shows that “dissatisfaction with government” and “poor leadership” is the issue most commonly as the “most important problem.” Where are the anarchists?
Where do Social Justice, the Secular Community and Identity Politics Meet?
An interesting discussion between left-wing atheist activist and Sargon of Akkad.
Maoist Rebel News Discussing Communism with Sargon of Akkad
It’s too bad there is not more intellectual discourse of this kind.
Zarif condemns US sanctions against Iran
Hunger, disease have killed 85,000 children under 5 during Yemen war, Save the Children says
It’s interesting how the MSM never said a word about the Saudi war in Yemen for years, until MBS bumped off a WaPo journalist, and the media realized they could use anti-Saudi sentiment as a weapon against Trump, which is actually quite helpful if it shifts the discourse […]
Mass Shootings, State Repression and Gun Laws: Don’t Look to Europe as a Model
A reader asked as part of a general discussion of whether the adoption of European (or Japanese) gun laws might reduce the frequency of mass shootings in the United States. A simple question…..What do you think the government of the USA would do, if the population was totally […]
American Civil Liberties Union, RIP
By David E. Berstein Reason In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals. In the early 1970s, the ACLU’s […]
Support the Houthis
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Growing up I was obsessed with the counterculture of the 60’s and 70’s, so much so that I now instinctively associate a lot of it with my own childhood even though I grew up in the 90’s and […]
Antony Sutton – Wall Street, USSR, FDR & Hitler (1975)
Professor Antony C. Sutton in 1975 on the involvement of Wall Street (Federal Reserve, Rockefeller, Averell Harriman, Morgan, Armand Hammer, General Electric, etc) in the Bolshevik Revolution, the non-murder of the Romanovs, the funding of the USSR, the decisions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the rise of Adolf […]
The Capitalist-Communist Connection
Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Professor Antony C. Sutton, highlighting the capitalist-communist connection.
Clueless About Marxism?
A one who is not a Marxist, I generally find Caleb Maupin to be one of the most articulate advocates for the Marxist position out there today. Notice what he says about the cultural questions Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He […]
Who Is Karl Marx?
A speaker from Prager University says no to Karl Marx. When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was providing a road to utopia, but everywhere his ideas were tried, they resulted in catastrophe and mass murder. In this video, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at […]
What was Karl Marx wrong about?
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
Lyceum Debate #8: Combating the left: NRx or Anglo-Dutch system?
Todd Lewis I will be defending the proposition that the Anglo-Dutch system of meritocracy, representative government, middle class society and capitalism is preferable to Reactionary modes of government/society in order to resist and defeat left-wing ideology. NRx (Pragmatic Culture); Anglo-Dutch System (Todd), mod Anarcho Reign.
Assessing Donald Trump and His Critics
One of the best assessments of Trump and his opponents I’ve seen to date, from our own Tron Bolome. “For all the hysteria and bluster, Trump has mostly only delivered on the traditionally leftist side of his platform – trade protectionism, ending the Korean war(!) and preventing us […]
Keith Preston: US begins to view Saudi Arabia as a liability
Press TV. Listen here. The United States is beginning to view Saudi Arabia as a “liability” that could complicate international relations, says a political analyst in Virginia. “The policymakers in the United States have apparently decided that the Saudis have become too much of a liability and are […]
Maybe It’s Time for America to Split Up
Whenever a Republican president is in office, I see articles like this coming from the liberal side, and when a Democrat is in office, I see similar articles coming from conservatives. But these ideas never seem to gain any traction. Too many on the right are attached to […]
Trump endorses bipartisan criminal-justice reform bill
This legislation is a very important step forward, though not nearly as bold as it needs to be. Although undoing the police state that has been built up over the past 50 years will certainly take time and require a great deal of comprehensive reform. Not exactly the […]
A Marxist View of the Capitalist Co-option of the Populist Left
A writer named Don Hamerquist, who appears to be a Marxist-Leninist with left-communist or autonomous Marxist leanings, has a new three part essay on the “antifascist” blog Three Way Fight that is considerably more insightful that what I usually find coming from that milieu. The essay is available […]
The Four Schools of Thought on American Foreign Policy
I am inclined toward the view that much of the Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy can be understood in terms of the traditional elite, with their Hamiltonian perspective, attempting to reassert themselves against the Wilsonian view of the liberal internationalists and neoconservatives that has been dominant in […]
Kick the Puppy Episode 11
11.11.18 Mass shooting in California, Thousand Oaks was ranked third safest city in America, “we don’t know how to stop mass shootings,” overnight celebrity, midterm elections, how great the U.S. economy is doing, the Antifa at Tucker Carlson’s home, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she can’t afford to move to […]
New York City Raids Condo Building in Crackdown on Airbnb Rentals
I invite any system-lovers who may be reading to explain exactly how it is that we don’t live in a police state. By Josh Barnabel Wall Street A team of New York City law-enforcement officers swarmed a Manhattan condominium last month, issuing 27 notices of violations for illegal […]
Anarchist News Podcast 89, 11.9.2018
This is a pretty good episode of A-News, which includes a discussion of the diversity of anarchist thought, populism, rural anarchist activism, and yours truly even gets a mention at one point. Listen here. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Welcome to the anews podcast. This is episode 88 for November 2, 2018. […]
From Brothels to Independence: The Neoliberalization of (Sex) Work
By Ava Caradonna and Yves Smith Naked Capitalism Yves here. Further confirmation that the gig economy is not what it is cracked up to be. Sex workers in the UK have less privacy, lower returns, and much less safety in the days of online platforms than they did […]
Has the Government Declared War on Trans People?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Has the government declared war on trans people? That’s the million dollar question and its one I still don’t have a clear answer to. As some of you may already know, several weeks ago a memo being circulated […]
We should chop America up into 7 different countries. Seriously.
Only 7? Sounds a bit moderate. It’s interesting how these ideas keep getting circulated but never really catch on beyond the margins. Are that many people really that unhappy with the system? Or are political partisans really just equivalents of sports fans (with “extremists” like the Antifa and […]
PayPal is canceling accounts used by the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, and antifa groups
The repression of dissenters continues. It’s also interesting how the System has zero regard for any of these “extremist” groups who constantly hate on each other. In the ruling class’ perfect world, every one of them would be dead. Yet, if you point this out to sectarians, partisans, […]
Ari: Dems. crushed Trump in biggest midterm blowout in 40 years
I agree with this analysis. The Democrats were the primary winners in this election by a significant margin. They flipped the House, multiple governorships, and multiple state legislatures. Votes on referendums like weed legalization and felon voting rights generally went liberal (although abortion related issues in some red […]
In Memory of the Great War: A Reminder of Why Imperialism Sucks
Amidst all the pious, hypocritical mourning of the end of World War One commemorations, Rosa Luxemburg’s words from 1916 are more relevant than ever:
Trump claims Republicans won midterms
Another discussion of the mid-terms featuring yours truly.
Democrats retake U.S. House, Republicans keep Senate
My discussion of the mid-term elections with Press TV.
The Brilliant, Episode 83 – Nationalism and bolo’bolo part III
The Brilliant continues its series on national-anarchism with an interview Gregor Eugen Elliott. Listen here. ———————————————————————————- The description of the interview from The Brilliant. This is an interview with Gregor of Tribes magazine. His story (and article in Tribes) is about the move from “left anarchism” to national […]
Sadly, Sound Money ISN’T on the Ballot
By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange Americans will be headed to the polls to cast ballots in the midterm elections. Polling suggests that Democrats will return to power in the House of Representatives. Republicans are favored to hold on to the Senate. However, political polls have proven less […]
Here’s who owns a record $21.21 trillion of U.S. debt
Far too many people on the center left and center right have bought into the idea that nations such as Russia or China are genuine enemies of the global system, and far too many people on the far left and far right have bought into the […]
Vote or Don’t (the Brick and the Ballot Box)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Like any twilight empire, America has some strange and perverse rituals that are generally excepted as normal by our unblinking masses. There’s the fascist war prayer of the National Anthem, which you can lose your livelihood for betraying […]
An Anarchist Defense Force?
Matthew VanDyke is the founder of Sons of Liberty International, a security firm that advises, trains, and supplies vulnerable populations to defend themselves against terrorists. He is preparing for an independent mission to Iraq during which he’ll train Iraqis to fight back against the Islamic State. History NOW […]
Kick the Puppy Episode 10
Keith & R.J. are back with the news of the week. Topics include: Domestic terrorism, mental illness in radical politics, mental illness in mainstream politics, blow back against Saudi Arabia, Soft Bank serves as a front for Saudi monarchs, beacon of bullshit against Iran, US-Middle East geopolitical alignment, […]
Make Halloween Dangerous Again!
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Halloween is quite easily my favorite holiday. A heathen celebration the Christians failed to conquer, it’s a time of joyful chaos and youth rebellion decorated by skeletons, scattered leaves, flickering jack-o-lanterns, and bonfire smoke. A holiday where serial […]
On Antisemitism, Critical Thinking, And Conspiracy Theories
A timely article from Caitlin. By Caitlin Johnstone Today a gunman attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while shouting the words “All Jews must die”. The suspect, Robert Bowers, reportedly had a history of making antisemitic posts on social media, and was taken into custody alive with multiple […]
The Myth Making of Antifa Intellectuals
By Paul Gottfried The American Conservative Mark Bray is in his early thirties and the recipient of a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers in 2016. He is also rapidly becoming antifa’s chief ideologue. Among his works describing or advocating for the often violent demonstrators are Antifa: The Anti-Fascist […]
Slavoj Žižek: Trump’s rise is a symptom of a dark and subtle force
A leading Marxist philosopher says what I have been saying for (at least) 20 years. Interesting. By Stephen Johnson Big Think Slavoj Žižek and British political writer Owen Jones recently spoke about American politics, the left and global capitalism. Žižek sees the success of President Donald Trump as […]
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