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Nexus X HumectressBy Paul Craig Roberts “Where is the leftwing when we need it” is a question I have asked at times. Some of my readers who confuse the left with Antifa and Identity politics have been confused by my question. Why, they ask, do I want more Antifa thugs […]
An amusing attack on ATS from an antifa writer named Shane Burley who, in keeping with antifa practice, fails get the point. The ATS position has more in common with the fictional United Federation of Planets from “Star Trek” than it would with 20th century totalitarian ideologies, including […]
This is an interesting critique of the perspective of myself and others who favor a broad interpretation of “anarchism without adjectives.” Basically, the argument comes to “anarchism should be exclusive to leftists only” combined with an “anarcho-Sam Harrisism” approach to moral philosophy. By Ekklesiagora Steemit I’m generally not […]
An ongoing dispute between myself and some in the anarcho-communist, syndicalist, and platformist camps has to do with the issue of “anarchism without adjectives.” I define anarchism as the historic human struggle against authority that goes back to ancient times, whereas their perspective defines anarchism as sectarian anarcho-communism […]
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog Positing for a moment the existence of a national state after the American revolutionary war, what should its attitude toward foreign lands be? I believe the answer is “none.” Jefferson had no business conducting operations against the British in the War of 1812, […]
This is both good and bad news. Bad in the sense that the US empire, the leading killer in the world today, certainly needs to be abolished. Good in the sense that it would probably be best if the US empire was abolished in a way similar to […]
By Ellie Silverman Washington Post William Fears, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi from Houston who is holding the flag, clashes with a counterprotester at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post) Charlottesville residents criticized the review of the […]
A summary of the findings of the investigation conducted by a private law firm commissioned by the city of Charlottesville. Assuming this summary is accurate, the findings are fairly consistent with my own observations about Charlottesville. By Gregory Hood American Renaissance Independent report makes an honest effort to […]
An interesting thought experiment: I wonder how many rightists would be willing to give up immigration restriction laws in exchange for total freedom to engage in private discrimination, and how many leftists would give up antidiscrimination laws in exchange for totally open borders. Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog […]
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog I do not want the police and courts to engage in activities normally approved of by minarchists and some anarchists – such as protecting private property or prosecuting murderers. This is for several reasons: Police are not legitimate representatives of the victims. As […]
Stefan Molyneux (Host, Freedomain Radio) joins Dave to address his controversial outspokenness related to IQ and race, why he is passionate about the topic, why he’s willing to dive into controversy, his book ‘Art of the Argument: Western Civilization’s Last Stand,’ and more.
Stefan Molyneux (Host, Freedomain Radio) joins Dave to discuss why he’s controversial, his views on cutting out abusive relationships and parents, the rise of sexual harassment allegations in Hollywood, his concerns surrounding atheism and religion, morality and ethics, and addresses criticism of being a ‘cult.
A critique of anarchism from a one-time anarchist who (I’m told) became a Maoist. LibCom.Org 1996 Position paper written by Chris Day that was a part of the final conflict in Love & Rage over orientation and direction. In this piece, he emphasizes what he see as the […]
An interesting discussion of anarchism from a Trotskyist perspective. By Eric Kerl International Socialist Review IN DECEMBER 2008, Time magazine ran the headline, “Could Greece’s Riots Spread to France?”1 The article was accompanied by fiery images of anarchists battling police on the streets of Athens. Four months later, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper fretted that […]
Available at Amazon. Reviewed by David Gordon here. Listen to an interview with Dr. Gottfried here. What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative […]
Given the tendency to call anything and everything “fascist” nowadays, it might be helpful to understand what historical fascism actually was. Available at Amazon. A History of Fascism is an invaluable sourcebook, offering a rare combination of detailed information and thoughtful analysis. It is a masterpiece of comparative […]
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog For an interwar government, the Fascist Italy under Mussolini wasn’t too bad – they were pretty mild and not too crazy or controlling. The worst move that Mussolini made was joining up with Hitler, and the second worst was invading Ethiopia – but […]
An Antifa apologist makes his case. Part 1 – Meet the Antifascists – 0:53 Part 2 – Fascism – 8:18 Part 3 – Violence – 20:47 Part 4 – Free Speech – 39:58 Part 5 – There Is No Peaceful White Nationalism – 53:30
Fragmentation undermines the state’s ability to maneuver. Michael Malice has written an important column for the Observer, on the fragmented politics of the West. In Europe, more and more political parties, favoring incompatible policies and ideologies, are struggling with each other. What does it all mean for liberty?
Are startup societies the way forward for anarchists? Co-founder and CEO of the Startup Societies Foundation, Joe McKinney, joins me to discuss new approaches to challenging (and escaping from) centralized authority.
Thibault Serlet’s talk at the Startup Societies Summit. July 1 2016.
Via The Daily Bell Startup societies are disrupting the industry called government. New methods of governance are being experimented with that promise to make the old dinosaurs of social control go extinct. When new governments are formed, people can vote with their feet for the best style of […]
Are the sovereign citizens the true anarchist vanguard? Anarcho-Dictator At least around the borders. Most of the examples of quasi-libertarian societies in history draw upon barbarian tribes and frontier societies. The individualist, nomad libertarians of Ricardo Duchesne, medieval Iceland and old Ireland are cases in point. But so […]
China once had a massive anarchist movement in the pre-Mao years. Anarcho-Dictator China has neoliberals and neocons all-a-tizzy about various dangers allegedly posed by a third world country on the other side of the planet. The border between China and the United States is Japan and the Pacific […]
I’ve never been a fan of this guy, but I thought the charges that were put on him sounded like overkill. Apparently, the judge agreed. A thought: We need an “Anarchist Civil Liberties Union,” similar to the American Civil Liberties Union, but which defends all enemies of the […]
Yet another consequence of US imperialism. The American Empire has a lengthy history of laying waste to entire societies, and allowing barbarian cockroaches to emerge in their midst (whether the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, ISIS in Iraq and Syria, or slave traders in Libya). By Casey Quackenbush Time […]
I challenge any politically correct type among our readers to explain how this situation differs from the kind of inquisition one might expect to take place under a communist, fascist, or theocratic regime. Lindsay Shepherd (Grad Student at Wilfrid Laurier University) joins Dave to discuss her free speech […]
Defending all of those who come under attack by the state must be one of the first principles of a serious anarchist movement. This includes Communists protesting Donald Trump, Alt-Rightists protesting in favor of Confederate monuments, marijuana farmers attacked by the DEA, gun nuts attacked by the BATF, […]
Brendan O’Neill (Editor of Spiked Online) joins Dave to discuss issues surrounding the threat to free speech, free speech in relation to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, how the left has abandoned liberalism and shifted towards identity politics, the lefts movement against working class people, the […]
Brendan O’Neill (Editor of Spiked Online) joins Dave to discuss why he defines himself as a ‘Marxist Libertarian,’ his views on the pursuit of happiness, self censorship in the U.S., the issue with Bill of Rights only existing in writing and not in the hearts of Americans, the […]
It seems that the idea of “start-up societies” is growing in popularity throughout a range of political tendencies. Is this the wave of the future?
Todd Lewis and I analyze the failure the anarchist, libertarian and altright movements in the USA to achieve anything other than fringe marginal status.
“History repeats … first as tragedy, then as farce” … -Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon By Keith Preston The present era of globalization in the early 21st century is very similar to the era of industrialization in the early 19th century, in the sense of […]
A great article from Sean Gabb. The debate over whether PC has its roots in Marxism or in Christian puritanism/pietism is an interesting one. Bill Lind is a staunch proponent of the former position, and Sean and Paul Gotffried take the latter position. I tend to think its […]
Another article by Kotkin that is consistent with my own analysis of domestic US politics as well. Domestic US politics at present can be divided into four basic factions: The Dominant Faction. Centrist neoliberals representing the rising techno-oligarchy, Wall Street and Kotkin’s “new clerisy” embedded in the managerial […]
A classic from Paul Gottfried and one of the definitive works criticizing totalitarian humanism. Available at Amazon. The important point for anarchists and libertarians is that totalitarian humanists are not amoral, libertine, hedonists as their critics often claim. Instead, they are fanatical moral puritants (“secular theocrats”). They oppose […]
Telos Press published this a few years ago. Joel Kotkin’s approach to class analysis is pretty much the same as my own. Kotkin’s approach to domestic American class analysis makes for an important complement to the international class analysis offered by Hardt and Negri. In ways not seen […]
“Plutocratic Communism” is a great term. Communism was one of the biggest scams in history. “Wealth and property are bad! Let’s give it all to the state!” Not even the priestly conjurers of god-emperors or the divine right of kings came up with something that good. Communism was […]
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog Proudhon was not a communist. Proudhon agreed with Bastiat on basically everything, except he was more extreme about it. He wanted to deprive the illegitimately-wealthy of their monopoly of credit. Look into the history of how ‘capitalism’ actually happened, as opposed to the […]
A great episode. Glad to see this happening. Rothbardian anarcho-capitalists, who make up a substantial proportion of my audience, are often confused by non-libertarian anarchists, who don’t seem like real anarchists to them. These anarchists, in turn, feel the same way about anarcho-capitalists. In this episode, Professor Gerard […]
There is an interview with me in this book. Available from Amazon.Com. Subversive is a book of interviews with fifty-two of the most radical people in the world. From all walks of life, some are famous, while others are almost completely unknown. These are people different to the […]
By Regan Keely The Conscious Resistance What is an Exitarian? Discussing exiting “anarchist politics”, opening up the free market of governance, and implementing it in the real world in an actual framework of free, decentralized communities. Friends, we are the pioneers of a post-political world. We seek to […]
Listening to a political opponent is almost as bad as getting a tooth pulled Frimer and his colleagues demonstrated this same effect with several different methodologies in their paper. In another test, they (essentially) asked participants to rate how interested they were in learning about alternative political viewpoints […]
Press TV. Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s use of the name “Pocahontas” during a White House ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans highlights his inclination to insult and abuse people, according to an American analyst. “Donald Trump has a very well-developed capacity for insulting people; […]
Far too many libertarians and anarchists, left and right, are losing sight of who the real enemy is. Steven Horwitz Bleeding Heart Libertarians You’d think the statement in my title should be obvious, but if you were wondering why it’s been so easy for so many supposed libertarians […]
This is the text of a lecture I gave to the H.L. Mencken Club on November 4, 2017. By Keith Preston Speaking about the intricacies of different ideological tendencies can often be a bit tedious, and certainly a topic like the Alt-Right can get very complicated because there […]
On 20.11.17 Brian Davis of TLB Radio interviewed Nikolas Schreck, author of The Manson File Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman and director of Charles Manson Superstar on the passage of his friend Charles Manson. The interview was broadcast live.
It makes sense that as anarchists movements grow on a worldwide basis anarchist tendencies in countries with a history of tyrannical leftist governments would assume a rightward orientation while anarchist movements in rightward leaning nations would assume a leftist orientation. By Denys Gorbach Open Democracy Anarchism may be […]
Apparently, anarchists have been trolling the Return of Kings website. Given the source, this piece has a predictable masculinist bias. —————————- Few weeks ago, I published an article calling for the political independence of America and I was pleased to see that many people were open to the […]
Press TV. Listen here. The US has been waging a war against drugs for half a century, viewing drug addiction as a criminal phenomenon instead of a health issue, therefore no headway has been made in curbing the US opioid crisis, an American analyst says. The so-called ‘War […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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