How State-Capitalism Co-opts the Left

Some interesting observations from Troy Southgate on why the Left fails through co-optation, and why the Western world is drifting leftward culturally even as state-capitalism is tightening its grip. “The concluding paragraph in ‘Cultures of Post-War British Fascism’ (Routledge, 2015), by John E. Richardson of Loughborough University, in […]

Why Taxation Should be Voluntary

By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Republicans and Democrats disagree about the role that the government should play in providing social services. The former insists that it should be smaller and intervene less in the economy. In contradistinction, the latter maintains that the public interest would be better served […]

Goodbye the Left

From a leftist who learned the hard way. I would actually argue that all modern political philosophy is leftist, at least from John Locke onward. So if you’re not a throne and altar traditionalist, a religious theocrat, or a revolutionary rightist (fascist,  national socialist), then you’re a leftist. […]

Power and the Main Threat to Liberty

Jeffrey Tucker responds to Goofy Gillis. By Jeffrey Tucker American Institute for Economic Research William Gillis’s review of my book Right-Wing Collectivism is complimentary but critical on many points and mainly on one central point to which he continually returns. He believes that my focus on state power […]

Right-Wing Collectivism

Goofy Gillis reviews Jeffrey Tucker. By William Gillis Center for a Stateless Society There are few figures the alt-right hate more than Jeffrey Tucker — which may be something of a plot twist, given his alleged hand in the racist Ron Paul newsletters of the 80s. Yet Tucker […]

Donald Trump: Business as Usual But…

My assessment of the Trump presidency thus far. By Keith Preston When Donald Trump’s seemingly maverick presidential campaign began to accelerate in 2016, both the Left and Right in domestic U.S. politics began to formulate predictable reactions almost on cue. Virtually the entire spectrum of the American right-wing, […]

Is Tribalism Really on the Rise? Meh.

The rise of the Meh Tribe? By Heather Wilhelm National Review Fury and finger-pointing are all the rage on social media. Plenty of Americans just shrug. ‘By now we all understand that America is in the grip of political tribalism,” Yale professor Amy Chua wrote in the February […]

Congressman Criticizes U.S. Mint for “Disappointing and Concerning” Inaction on Counterfeit Precious Metals Coins

By J P Cortez U.S. Secret Service Also Frustrated with U.S. Mint’s “Lack of Supporting Action” Washington, DC (March 12, 2018) – Congressmen Alex Mooney (R-WV) criticized the United States Mint for its “disappointing and concerning” lack of awareness or action on the growing problem of high-quality counterfeits […]

No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here

An excellent analysis based on a serious understanding of how modern liberal-democratic corporate-public administration states actually work. By Tyler Cowen The Atlantic And the reason has nothing to do with Donald Trump. Could it ever happen here? Fascism, that is. That question is a standard refrain from American […]

Panarchies/Polyarchies

By John Zube Panarchy.Org All individual rights & liberties, clearly declared and widely appreciated and respected vs. governmental bills of rights, human rights declarations like that of the UN, including wrongful but legalized claims against others, in “Welfare States”, as if they were basic rights or liberties. All […]

Nihilist Hedonism; or Cyberpunk as Eutopia

An interesting application of Stirnerite principles. Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog I do not believe in objective standards, norms, ends, means or values; but I have a strong preference for the combination of hardass and self-indulgent traits one finds in the mercenary reaver cultures of places like medieval […]

An Omnidirectional Approach to Anti-Authoritarianism

Secret Transmissions “Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.” ― Robert Anton Wilson  I can think of no better term to describe my political philosophy than anti-authoritarian. That simple term encapsulates my most consistently held beliefs concerning the nature of relations between individual, society and state. That I […]