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Nexus X HumectressNYC Anti-Sharia Rally – Daryle Lamont Jenkins, A Conversation (June 10th, 2017)
Anti-Sharia Rally at Foley Square New York City June 10th, 2017
Anarchapulco: Julia Tourianski on Cultural Marxism and Female Anarchism
We are at the Anarchapulco conference in Acapulco, Mexico and talked to Julia Tourianski from Brave the World. Topics are: Cultural Marxism, Equality, Sex and Gender, Trump, Feminism, Wage Gap, Converting Statists.
Peter Toepfer: On German National-Anarchism
Speech at the First International National-Anarchist Conference on June 17th, 2017 in Madrid
Zionism and Globalism: A Threat to all Communities-Sean Jobst(First International N-AM Conference
Sean Jobst’s Speech @ International N-AM Conference in Madrid 17th and 18th june 2017
Travelling The World As National Anarchist-Welf Herfurth(First N AM International Conference)
Welf Herfurth@ International N-AM Conference in Madrid 17th and 18th june 2017
Spengler’s “Der Mensch Und Die Technik-Troy Southgate (First N-AM International Conference,Madrid)
Troy Southgate’s speech about Oswald Spengler’s “Der Mensch Und Die Technik” @ International N-AM Conference in Madrid 17th and 18th june 2017
Anarchism and Democracy: Response to Shawn Wilbur and Gabriel Amadej
By William Gillis Center for a Stateless Society Shawn Wilbur argues that “anarchy” and “democracy” are completely distinct principles—philosophically. Philosophically, there is “no middle ground.” However, in actual living, there is “the likelihood that we might continue to have recourse to practices that we think of as ‘democratic.’ It […]
Anarchism and Democracy: Reply to Alexander Reid Ross
By William Gillis Center for a Stateless Society It marks a nice contrast from Wayne Price’s relatively “aw shucks” disinterest in philosophical critiques of democracy that Alexander Reid Ross brings history and philosophical language to the defense of democracy. Unfortunately, I have a violent allergic reaction to the […]
Social, but Still Not Democratic
By Shawn Wilbur Center for a Stateless Society As long as there has been something called “anarchism,” anarchists have been struggling to define it—and, as often as not, they have been in struggle against other self-identified anarchists. At this point in our history, this seems both hard to […]
Further Response on Democratic Anarchism
By Wayne Price Center for a Stateless Society Having already written three essays on the topic of anarchism’s relation to democracy, I will only present a few comments. These are generally in response to the interesting remarks of other writers in this series. I do not think that […]
Anarchism and Democracy: Response to Kevin Carson and William Gillis
By Derek Wittorff Center for a Stateless Society It seems to me as though there’s been two prevailing and conflicting ideas about democracy in this symposium. The first idea is that democracy is irreconcilable with anarchy in principle. The second idea is that democracy can — ironically because […]
Robert Stark talks to Giovanni Dannato about The Post Scarcity Economy & The Basic Income
The Stark Truth. Listen here. Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater talk to Giovanni Dannato. Giovanni blogs at Colony of Commodus and is the author of A Kingdom For the Introvert. Follow Giovanni on Twitter. Topics: On A Post Labor Scarcity Economy On A Basic Guaranteed Living Some Form of […]
Empathy for Laci Green and Why I Am Not a Social Justice Warrior
A must watch.
Anarchism and Democracy: Response to Carson
By William Gillis Center for a Stateless Society Kevin objects to my focus on the etymology of “democracy” and brings up the post-left distancing from “the left” as something he finds similarly arbitrary. This is not a symposium on the post-left and certainly that term of self-identification has […]
On the Democracy and Anarchism Debate
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society In “The Regime of Liberty,” Gabriel Amadej advocates the Proudhonian ideal – reflected in the dictum “property is liberty” – of some individual sphere of last resort where means of subsistence are secure from the will of the majority: “Democracy […]
Individualist Anarchism vs. Social Anarchism
By Wayne Price Center for a Stateless Society This C4SS discussion about anarchism and democracy has been intriguing—even though I am one of only two writers who have regarded them as compatible concepts. The brief essay by Grayson, “Demolish the Demos,” is especially useful. It clarifies what is at the root […]
Do Fascists and Marxists Actually Exist?
No, says Paul Gottfried. By Paul Gottfried The American Conservative Women’s March, March 2017. Photo by Mark Dixon/Flickr/Creative Commons During last year’s election season, we were treated to multiple comments about how Donald J. Trump was no Edmund Burke. As a historian and political observer I find such […]
Keith Preston: Chemical attack warning signals another US strike in Syria
Press TV. Listen here. An ominous warning to the Syrian government against staging a chemical weapons attack indicates that the United States could be on the verge of another military strike inside Syria, an analyst say. “It sounds as if the United States may be planning an attack […]
Anarchism and Democracy: Response to Wittorff
By William Gillis Center for a Stateless Society I should clarify for Derek Wittorff that I wasn’t embracing, for example, calling all collective decisionmaking “democracy.” Rather, I was entertaining the more extreme definitions out there. I was attempting to point out how some kernel of “the rule of […]
Formality, Collectivity and Anarchy
By Derek Wittorff Center for a Stateless Society I found William Gillis’ essay “The Abolition of Rulership Or The Rule Of All Over All” to be a very interesting read. It covered many of the same points as my essay without much disagreement, and in a much less […]
Embracing the Antinomies
By Shawn Wilbur Center for a Stateless Society It should be clear that one of the key conflicts in these debates about anarchy and democracy is a struggle over the nature of anarchism. And it is probably safe to say that nearly all anarchists wrestle with the difficulties […]
Anarchism and Democracy: A Response to Goodman
By William Gillis Center for a Stateless Society Nathan Goodman brings an interesting definition of “democracy” to the conversation — and one that I didn’t preemptively critique — openness. Seeking to bridge the oft-stated dichotomy of markets and democracy, Nathan cites Don Lavoie’s conception which essentially posits markets […]
Gay Pride Marchers with Jewish Flags Told to Leave Chicago Parade
By Harriet Sinclair Newsweek Jewish people celebrating LGBT Pride in Chicago were told not to display Star of David flags because other people found them ‘offensive.’ The Jewish Star of David flag was banned from the city’s annual Dyke March celebrations, and several people carrying the flag were removed […]
Ralph Nader: The Democrats are Unable to Defend the U.S. from the “Most Vicious” Republican Party in History
By Jon Schwarz The Democratic Party is at its lowest ebb in the memory of everyone now alive. It’s lost the White House and both houses of Congress. On the state level it’s weaker than at any time since 1920. And so far in 2017 Democrats have gone 0 for […]
They’re Wrong About Everything
By Matthew Continetti National Review More evidence the political class doesn’t know what it’s talking about Events are turning me into a radical skeptic. I no longer believe what I read, unless what I am reading is an empirically verifiable account of the past. I no longer have […]
D.C. cops used ‘rape as punishment’ after Inauguration Day mass arrests, lawsuit says
By Alan Pyke Think Progress When black-clad marchers began smashing windows in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day, the city’s police force — reputedly the best in the country at upholding protesters’ rights during disruptive demonstrations — went nuclear. Officers quickly deployed pepper spray, tear gas, and crowd-control grenades of various types. The […]
The US seems keener to strike at Syria’s Assad than it does to destroy Isis
By Robert Fisk Independent The extraordinary destruction of a Syrian fighter jet by a US aircraft on Sunday has precious little to do with the Syrian plane’s target in the desert near Rasafa – but much to do with the advance of the Syrian army close to the […]
Louisiana Ends Sales Tax on Gold & Silver Bullion
Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Sound money advocates rejoiced as Governor John Bel Edwards signed House Bill 396 into law in recent days. HB 396, which passed in the Louisiana state house and senate earlier this month by overwhelming majorities, removes state sales taxation of precious metals, specifically gold, […]
Round table Episode #4 Liberalism
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston (anarchist), Sean Gabb (classical liberal) and James Kalb (conservative) to discuss liberalism.
Keith Preston: ISIL a useful tool for US to destabilize Middle East
Press TV. Listen here. America’s strategy in Syria has been to utilize terrorist groups to undermine independent governments and wreck havoc in the Middle East, an American political analyst in Virginia says. “It seems to me that the long-term plan that the United States has is to essentially […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Interview #4: Michael Cushman
Todd Lewis interviews Michael Cushman on Southern Nationalism.
Your Freedom is My Freedom: The Premise of Anarchism
Human Iterations Sometimes words are just words — interchangeable and discardable — but sometimes a word belies a knot in our thought, tightly wound and tensely connected. “Anarchy” is one such word. Centuries ago the English peasantry rose up to overthrow the king and radically remake society. The […]
The Next Wave of Anarchist Movements
A reader on Facebook recently asked me for a definition of National-Anarchism, and my response is posted below. I think this is a pretty good summary of the ATS philosophy and the general pan-anarchist perspective as well. This definition is broad enough to include the many hyphenated forms […]
Why You Must Understand the System before It Can Be Dismantled
Rutgers Online: http://online.rutgers.edu/master-library-info/ Many people who think of themselves as dissenters opposed to government regulations have hopes and dreams, and lofty goals of one day being the ones who help to take it all apart. Besides being able to recite the names of a few prominent pan-anarchists, do […]
The Future of Radicalism
Great new graphic from Adam Ormes!
Great Degree Choices for People Who Enjoy History and Politics
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business. Find out more about this program at http://librarysciencedegree.usc.edu/resources/articles-and-blogs/six-innovative-library-programs-from-around-the-world/ When choosing that “perfect” career path it’s important to think about a variety of different factors and criteria with the goal of picking a career that is rewarding and enjoyable for you. […]
The Centralising Axiom
By Chris Shaw The multiple debates surrounding ideology constantly devolve into simplistic concepts like capitalism and socialism, referring to each other as opposing axiomatic systems that proffer significantly different visions of the world. However, both are fundamentally centralist systems. They understand society, economy and politics as universalisable wholes […]
Don’t Like Militarized Police and Mass Incarceration? Blame Progressivism.
By Thaddeus Russell Reason Our cities are saturated with militarized law enforcement officers. An extraordinarily high number of American civilians are killed by police each year. The U.S. prison population is the largest in the world. And we are only beginning to understand why. In recent years, scholars […]
This is Going to Ruffle Some Feathers…
The ever expanding political polarization in the United States appears to be splitting off into four basic factions. The two largest factions are the Red Tribe represented by the Republicans and the Blue Tribe represented by the Democrats, and this conflict between the mainstream tribes is now turning […]
We Are Inches From A New World War, And Clintonists Are To Blame
By Caitlin Johnstone Medium.Com This is your fault, Clinton Democrats. You created this, and if our species is plunged into a new world war or extinction via nuclear holocaust, it will be your fault. You knuckle-dragging, vagina hat-wearing McCarthyite morons made this happen. American military provocations against the […]
U.S. risks further battles as it steps deeper into Syrian quagmire
The US ruling class is the world’s largest collection of idiots. Treason to Washington is loyalty to humanity. By Louisa Loveluck and David Filipov Washington Post BEIRUT — The United States is becoming more perilously drawn into Syria’s fragmented war as it fights on increasingly congested battlefields surrounding […]
The Revolutionary Potential of Illegal Immigrants
Manifesto of the Free Humans by Derrick Broze and John Vibes Since the issue of borders and immigration continues to be a hot topic of debate among “libertarians” I figured I would share a quote from my recent book. Please feel free to respond regarding your thoughts on […]
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 […]
Anarchism as Radical Liberalism: Radicalizing Markets, Radicalizing Democracy
By Nathan Goodman Center for a Stateless Society Classical liberalism emerged as a radical ideology, challenging the status quo of monarchy, mercantilism, religious tyranny, and the ancien regime. The liberals promoted two ideals, markets and democracy, as alternatives to the old despotisms. Yet markets and democracy seemed to […]
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 […]
On Democracy as a Necessary Anarchist Value
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society As a working definition of democracy, I think about the best we can do is this description of anarchy in Pyotr Kropotkin’s 1911 Britannica article on anarchism — the attainment of harmony: “…not by submission to law, or by obedience […]
The Lumpenproletariat as Class Vanguard: Why Anarchists Must Attack the Left from the Left
The conflicts between myself and the mainstream leftist-anarchist movement are well-known. When I am asked about the source of this conflict by outsiders to the anarchist milieu, my usual response is that what they are observing is a continuation of the historic battle between the anarchists and the […]
Anarchy and Democracy: Examining the Divide
By Shawn Wilbur Center for a Stateless Society This piece is the fifth essay in the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.” Philosophical Considerations If we had the luxury of sticking to the philosophical terrain, the question of distinguishing anarchy and democracy would, it seems to […]
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 […]
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