Politics and Anarchist Ideals

By Jessica Flanagan Center for a Stateless Society A fundamental difference between anarchism and statism is that anarchists do not assume that public officials are any more morally entitled to use force or to threaten people with violence than anyone else1. Anarchists therefore argue that officials are not entitled […]

Demolish the Demos

By Grayson English Center for a Stateless Society There has long been a certain kind of democratic spirit in anarchism. Of course when we bring forth the imagery of statist and authoritarian injustice, we feel the rhetorical pull to illustrate it as a collective issue: one that is […]

The Regime of Liberty

By Gabriel Amadej Center for a Stateless Society The relationship between democracy and anarchism is undoubtedly a contentious one. In his work The Principle of Federation1, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon makes it clear that democracy has an important legacy to respect. Because Proudhon declared that Universal Suffrage was above The […]

The Linguistics of Democracy

By Alexander Reid Ross Center for a Stateless Society This piece is the fourth essay in the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.” Democracy is a word that evokes an array of affective responses depending on time, place, and people involved. For the Patriot movement, democracy […]

Democracy Isn’t Working

By Rik Storey AltRight.Com Democracy is failing citizens across the West, society is polarising, and the achievement of your goals in the future is becoming increasingly uncertain. No, ‘the people’ cannot be trusted to make the right decisions. Since Trump gloriously restricted CNN and the BBC’s press access,  […]

Democracy is for the Dogs

By Ilana Mercer A succinct distinction between a republic and a democracy shows that the American republic rests in peace and that voting in the Unites States is undeniably democratic, not republican. In “Does Democracy Promote Peace,” legal scholar James Ostrowski does just that: Democracy is nothing more […]

Zbigniew Brzezinski As I Knew Him

By Paul Craig Roberts Strategic Culture Foundation Brzezinski’s death at 89 years of age has generated a load of propaganda and disinformation, all of which serves one interest group or another or the myths that people find satisfying. I am not an expert on Brzezinski, and this is […]

Democracy, Anarchism, & Freedom

By Wayne Price Center for a Stateless Society This piece is the second essay in the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.” “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, […]

Anarchy and Democracy

By Cory Massimino Center for a Stateless Society Mutual Exchange is the Center for a Stateless Society’s effort to achieve mutual understanding through dialogue. Following one of the most divisive Presidential elections in recent American history and a dangerous victor’s contested ascension to power, the political climate is […]

Beyond Nationalism and Territorialism

By Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1851) Note These passages are taken from Idée générale de la révolution au XIXème siècle. Proudhon seems anticipating some aspects proper of what is now called ‘globalization’ when he refers to an economic revolution that will be universal in getting rid of state-made borders […]

Reflections on Decentralism

By George Woodcock Note Originally published in Anarchy, October 1969     I was asked to write on decentralism in history, and I find myself looking into shadows where small lights shine as fireflies do, endure a little, vanish, and then reappear like Auden’s messages of the just. […]

Is America Racist?

Is America racist? Is it — as President Barack Obama said — “part of our DNA”? Author and talk-show host Larry Elder examines America’s legacy of racism, whether it’s one we can ever escape, and in the process offers a different way of looking at things like Ferguson, […]

Why I Am Not A White Nationalist

An interesting new piece from Jack Donovan. I generally think that WN is to race and immigration what the religious right was to the sexual revolution and secularization of US society in the postwar era. It’s a backlash against prevailing currents that amounts to swimming against the tides. […]

Government Will Not Save You From Corporations

Journalists and political partisans have expressed the mistaken presumption that government is a “balancing force” against the excess powers of corporations. This video explains that most excess power of corporations is provided and granted by government and that government seeks partnership with corporations and shares in the profits. […]