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Nexus X HumectressTHE LUMPENPROLETARIAT- An anarchist asessment
Martin speculates upon the lumpen part of the working class and praises it’s dynamism
Lieutenant Jack Cole tells you what you need to know about drug prohibition
Straight from the front lines of the war on drugs, former undercover narc and current LEAP speaker Jack Cole tells an international conference why we need to legalize and regulate all drugs.
Judge James P. Gray Lays Out the War on Drugs
Hear directly from a retired judge who has done a full 180 on the War on Drugs.
Third World Maoism vs Social Justice Warriors
Keith Preston: Trump buying his way into electoral campaign
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/19/461447/US-election-Donald-Trump/ “It’s only because of the system that Donald Trump’s candidacy is as popular as it is,” Keith Preston says. US Republican front-runner Donald Trump is buying his way into the electoral campaign and the corrupt political system is the reason why his candidacy […]
Milo Yiannopoulos and Dave Rubin Talk Donald Trump, Censorship, and Free Speech
Two gay Jewish guys bashing totalitarian humanism. Excellent! Milo Yiannopoulos (journalist) joins Dave Rubin, discussing Milo’s support for Donald Trump, the terror attacks in Brussels, censorship on social media (including Milo’s blue check being taken away on Twitter), free speech, and more.
Michael Shermer and Dave Rubin: Skepticism, Conspiracy Theories, Libertarians
Michael Shermer (author, “Skeptic”) and Dave Rubin discuss skepticism, morality, conspiracy theories, political issues like gun control, abortion, libertarianism, and more
Robert Nisbet: Prophet of Community
I was first introduced to Nisbet when I was a college student in the Reagan era. A left-anarchist friend gave me a copy of Nisbet’s Question for Community and said, “Check this guy out! He’s supposed to be a conservative but he sounds almost like one of us.” […]
Keith Preston: US seeking to escalate war in Syria to pressure Assad
Iran Daily Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/13/460636/Syria-Assad-Daesh-US-PlanB-Preston/ The US is seeking to further escalate the years-long conflict in Syria through its so-called “Plan B,” in a bid to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power as his government does not bend to America and Israel’s will, says a Virginia-based author […]
Christina Hoff Sommers and Dave Rubin: Feminism, Free Speech, Gamergate
Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin: Conservatism vs Leftism and Free Speech
A good liberal/conservative discussion.
You Can’t Whitewash The Alt-Right’s Bigotry
Against the Alternative Right. By Cathy Young The Federalist Who’d have thought that in 2016, we would be discussing whether mainstream Republicans and conservatives should be nicer to white nationalists? Yet here we are. The debate is, of course, about the “alternative right,” suddenly propelled into visibility by […]
A Guide to the Alternative Right
In defense of the Alternative Right. By Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannoupolis Breitbart.Com A specter is haunting the dinner parties, fundraisers and think-tanks of the Establishment: the specter of the “alternative right.” Young, creative and eager to commit secular heresies, they have become public enemy number one to beltway conservatives […]
Distributism Is the Future
The Proudhonism of the Right. By Gene Callahan The American Conservative Distributism is the rather awkward name given to a program of political economy formulated chiefly by G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, two of the most prominent English writers of the early 20th century. Both Catholics, they sought […]
Trump “the Fascist”: Backdoor Backing of a Political Psychopath Named Hilary Clinton
A nuanced article on Trump from the Left. If all leftists were like James Petras, I might not criticize the Left so fervently. By James Petras Dissident Voice From left to right a raucous chorus has emerged to denounce Republican Presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump as a ‘fascist’. […]
The Many Monopolies
The time has come for free-market socialist-anarchism. Combine the critique of state-capitalism outlined in this article by Charles Johnson with the libertarian socialist paradigm, and you’ve got something. By Charles Johnson Center for a Stateless Society We libertarians defend economic freedom, not big business. We advocate free markets, […]
Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia
The best response to the Trump campaign from the Left that I’ve seen to date. This is a must read, and a reminder of why Counterpunch is one of the few leftist forums to take their anti-imperialist seriously. This article is an almost perfect critique of the Left […]
Prosecutors have too much power. Juries should rein them in.
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Washington Post Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He blogs at InstaPundit.com. If there’s strong evidence that you’ve committed a crime, there’s still hope. Despite the evidence, those responsible for convicting you may choose […]
Libertarians for Trump? A Debate
A debate between Walter Block and Robert Wenzel hosted by Tom Woods. I found myself generally agreeing with Wenzel in this. Listen here. When libertarian scholar Walter Block announced the creation of Libertarians for Trump, he generated a good deal of controversy. Now he explains his support for […]
Black Lives Matter protesters and Bill Clinton repeatedly clash in Philadelphia
The crack in the PC Coalition gets wider. This is awesome! Hopefully, the party conventions this summer will resemble Chicago 1968. Street fighting between Clintonistas and BLM, and between Trumpians and Neocons, would be beyond awesome.
The Libertarian Case Against Scandinavia
Most liberal, progressives, and social democrats hold up the Scandinavian countries as their models. But are these really the paradises their admirers make them out to be? Tom Woods and his various guests in these podcasts think not. In these systems, not only do ordinary folks pay income […]
Thomas Frank: Wealthy Liberals Don’t Seem to Care About Inequality
If anything, class divisions should be wider in the blue states because the upper classes in those regions are generally wealthier, and there’s also a larger upper middle class. In Vermont, for example, disparity between social classes is growing at as fast a rate as any other state. […]
$15 Minimum Wage Debate
This is a good discussion of the minimum wage. Apparently, the folks against C4SS have contending views on this issue. See Cory Massimo vs. Kevin Carson. AM 770 KTTH radio host Ben Shapiro and Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, along with others, engaged in a civil discussion about […]
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Rigged Corporate Elections
On this week’s episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 presidential race—from the “Brown Shirt” Trump movement to “corporate criminal” Hillary Clinton—and the reality of who has power in America. Known for his widely-popular presidential run in 2000, he […]
Once Again, Fuck the U.N.!
Over at the Inferno: my latest love letter to the kind of “peacekeepers” nobody needs. Excerpts: Ostensibly formed as a global peacekeeping organisation in the wake of World War II, the United Nations, or U.N., has, over time, made it clear that the peace it means to impose […]
Hillary: No Better Than a Neocon
Contra Chomsky, I’d argue Hillary is just as awful as a neocon which is why many neocons have moved in her direction. By Joseph Mulkerin Truth-Out Ever since the 2012 election results were certified, the conventional wisdom has been that Hillary Clinton is all but guaranteed a coronation […]
Al Jazeera: Noam Chomsky on Clinton vs Sanders
Chomsky makes his case against for Hillary as the lesser of the evils (mostly on anti-neocon and environmentalist grounds). Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi […]
No, it’s not your money: Why taxation isn’t theft
This has to be one of the stupidest left-wing articles I have ever read, but it illustrated very well what is wrong with democratist thinking. Anyone who believes the state is merely a value neutral social umpire probably believes in Santa Claus somewhere along the way. By Philip […]
Debate: Is There Too Much Inequality in America?
An interesting debate between free market libertarian Steve Horwitz and Rawlsian liberal Jeffery Reiman. Wealth inequality is real, but is it fair? The distribution of wealth in America is lopsided in the favor of the 1% – a point made by the video “Wealth Inequality in America.” This […]
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Abby Martin
This is some months old now, but this is a really good overview of Chomsky’s thinking, and this criticisms of U.S. imperialism, neoliberalism, and his case of libertarian socialism.
Climate Change: What Does Science Really Say?
Tom Woods interviews a climate change dissident. Listen here. To call any aspect of the climate change orthodoxy into question is to risk being condemned as “anti-science.” But are the arguments and computer models of the so-called mainstream really so rock solid? About the Guest Chip Knappenberger is […]
Noam Chomsky: If Trump Becomes President
This is interesting in that Chomsky goes into a great deal of detail explaining why he thinks Trump is extraordinarily awful, but then concludes that Ted Cruz is even more dangerous.
Noam Chomsky: What Was Leninism?, March 15th, 1989
Chomksy’s interpretation of Leninism was relatively similar to Rothbard’s. Too bad they didn’t get along.
The State and Open Borders: Pro or Con?
The Legalization Cure for the Heroin Epidemic
Tom Woods interviews Mark Thornton on the economics of the illegal drug market. Listen here.
A Trafficking Survivor Shares Why She’s Anti-Criminalization
By Kitty Stryker Harlot Media While the plight of the survivors of trafficking are brought up in modern discourse around whether or not sex work should be legal or good for women, little actual space is given for survivors to come forward and share their stories. Mercedes is […]
Is There a Libertarian Case for Bernie Sanders?
This article is two months old, so some of its discussion of the presidential contest is a bit dated. But I tend to agree with the author’s general argument, i.e. that Sanders is actually the least state-centric of the presidential candidates (a very low standard, to be sure). […]
Reality Check: Trump Says He’d Kill Terrorists’ Families, But Obama Already Has
By Ben Swann Truth in Media Donald Trump has been making headlines saying that, if elected, he wouldn’t just go after terrorists—he would kill their families. And while the media has been shocked by this, why weren’t they outraged when President Barack Obama actually did? This is a […]
With GOP, Democrats in Turmoil, Libertarian Party Makes Historic Gains
If the LP continues to grow in this manner, then it may be an excellent for pan-anarchist/pan-secessionist entryism. By Barry Donegan Truth in Media The unexpected, meteoric rise of celebrity presidential candidate Donald Trump has torn the Republican Party asunder, causing many leading GOP politicos that once represented the […]
Gary Johnson: Jewish Bakers Should Be Forced to Bake Nazi Cakes
Gary Johnson goes liberaltarian. The crap that’s been coming from the Libertarian Party in recent elections with characters like Johnson, Austin Petersen, Bob Barr, and Wayne Allan Root supposedly representing “libertarianism” is indicative of why we don’t need a Libertarian Party. Instead, we need a “Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party” or […]
Hillary Clinton’s Support Among Nonwhite Voters Has Collapsed
Not so fast, says the latest data. By Seth Abramson Huffington Post On February 27th, Hillary Clinton led Bernie Sanders among African-American voters by 52 points. By March 26th, she led Sanders among African-Americans by just nine points. And today, Public Policy Polling, a widely respected polling organization, […]
Black and Hispanic Democrats versus White, Liberal Democrats
Is a serious crack in the PC coalition emerging along racial and ethnic lines? By Sam Dickson Occidental Observer With all the attention on Donald Trump, there has been little discussion of the astonishing rift between Black and Hispanic Democrats on one hand and White liberal Democrats on the other. […]
Non-Voters: Future Constituents for Pan-Anarchism?
Non-voters are generally foreign policy non-interventionists, cultural centrists, and economic leftists. By Benjamin Wallace Webb The New Yorker merican elections are peculiar instruments of democracy, because they are so consistent in whom they leave out. In the past three Presidential elections, about forty-five per cent of those eligible […]
Moving Past the Socialism/Capitalism Dichotomy
In the two videos above, Connor Kilpatrick, a Marxist writer from The Jacobin, takes on well-known vulgar libertarians Austin Petersen and Wayne Allan Root. I disagree with Kilpatrick on a number of points. He’s painting libertarianism with a pretty broad brush. However, the objections he raises to “vulgar […]
The Republican Establishment’s Theft of the Word “Conservative”
Bill Lind on why the GOP is merely the right-wing of totalitarian humanism. By William S. Lind Traditional Right From Washington a panicked Republican Establishment is denouncing Donald Trump as “not a conservative”. The Establishment claims custody of the word “conservative” and with it the right to pronounce […]
Keith Preston: Trump’s criticism of Iran nuclear deal ‘outrageous’
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/04/458965/Keith-Preston-Trump-Iran/ “Donald Trump is in the process of running for president and part of his strategy from a rhetorical level is to simply say as many outrageous things as he can,” Keith Preston told Press TV on Sunday. The recent criticism of the Iran […]
It’s Hip! It’s Cool! It’s Libertarianism!
This is a few years old, but it’s an interesting critique of “vulgar libertarianism” from a de facto Marxist perspective. By Connon Kilpatrick Calling yourself a libertarian today is a lot like wearing a mullet back in the nineteen eighties. It sends a clear signal: business up front, […]
When Socialism Works: Sanders-Style Economics Will Undo Any Large Society
An interesting critique of Sanders (and social democracy generally) from an Austrian/libertarian perspective. By Steve Horwitz Foundation for Economic Education Because of Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency, many Americans are asking if “democratic socialism” is possible. Can there be a form of socialism that really includes the […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #3: Scientism Part 2
In this podcast we will discuss the notion of scientism or the belief in salvation through science. We will look at the historical manifestations of this cult and the historic consequences of it. We will also discuss the philosophical bankruptcy of scientism as well. Chapter 1 (0:00–42:34): Philosophical […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #2: Scientism Part 1
In this podcast we will discuss the notion of scientism or the belief in salvation through science. We will look at the historical manifestations of this cult and the historic consequences of it. We will also discuss the philosophical bankruptcy of scientism as well. Chapter 1 (00:00–15:26) What […]
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