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Nexus X HumectressRebellion, Revolution, Anarchy
“I’m an Anarchist, What Do I Do Now?”
Add to this respect for the associational, religious, economic, property, privacy, free inquiry, free speech, and due process rights of others, and they just might have something.
What ISIS Really Wants
A good article on ISIS, its ideology, and objectives. By Graeme Wood The Atlantic The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means […]
A Critique of the State of Libertarianism
Some thoughts I originally posted in an online discussion concerning the various libertarian by-ways” There’s a big rivalry right now between the paleolibertarians, left-libertarians and “mainstream” LP/Cato/Reason type libertarians. The paleos and the leftists view the latter tendencies as establishment brown-nosers, and the mainstreamers view the radicals as […]
Bow Ties and Slam Poetry: This Is Libertarianism in 2015
Somehow I can’t really picture these folks overthrowing any actual governments. By David Weigel “I’m on that f*** Jim Crow flow,” says Matthew La Corte. “I’m Thoreau meets Van Gogh after doing three lines of blow.” It’s Saturday night—Valentine’s Day, if you want to make an easy joke out […]
The End of Libertarians
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society One of the grievances of the so-called GamerGate movement last August was an article by Dan Golding titled “The End of Gamers” (August 28, 2014). The title referred, not to the literal extinction of gamers as individuals, but of the […]
Identity politics has created an army of vicious, narcissistic cowards
There is no one whose cultural leftist credentials are more impeccable than Peter Tatchell. One question the “social justice warriors” never seem to be able to answer is exactly how much “social justice” do we need? Already, in most Western countries, people who express even the most casually […]
Lessons in Liberty: Left-Libertarianism
The big question that divides socialists and free marketers concerns the nature of markets themselves. Are markets merely a means to peaceful cooperation and exchange between human beings? Or do markets merely involve predatory competition between self-interested individuals seeking to maximize profitability at all costs? My answer: Obviously […]
The Transformer: Sabotage for Peace
By William T. Hathaway A former student of mine works as a janitor. After graduating from college he worked as a market researcher and an advertising salesperson, but both jobs soured him on the corporate world. He hated being a junior suit, and the thought of becoming a […]
Greening Out Podcast #26 – Bad Capitalism Can Lead To Socialism
Join Caity and Dan as we start by complaining about their internet going down for a few days in the Greening Out household then get on to how bad customer service can be very frustrating and can lead to some people thinking that certain industries would work better if they […]
Taking the ATS Philosophy and Strategy to the Next Level: Building the Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party
By Keith Preston In the essay, “Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America,” written in 2006, I made the following observation: Ultimately, we may at some point be able to combine the Green, Libertarian, Populist, Constitution, Natural Law and other minor parties into a […]
Anti-representative democracy: How to understand the Five Star Movement
By Lorenzo Del Savio and Matteo Mamelli Open Democracy The ideas of the Five Star Movement are best understood through their commitment to anti-representive democracy – a radical stance against traditional structures and institutions of representative democracy. Five Star Movement leader, Beppe Grillo. Demotix/eidon photographers. Some rights reserved. […]
The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
By Alexander Kolokotronis New Politics In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan. Yet, this shift is not limited to the region of Rojava, or what many call […]
Greening Out Interview #21 – Brett Veinotte on History in Academia and Movies
Caity and Dan welcome Brett Veinotte from the School Sucks Project to the show or a very fun and interesting conversation about history in academia, public school and movie. We begin by talking about historical research and the great man theory and the problems with it, we also […]
The Prison-Industrial complex
Written by S. Wess Moss and published originally on High-right.com here. “The fairest part of childhood passes without the necessity of coming to blows with reason. We care nothing at all about it, do not meddle with it, admit no reason. We are not to be persuaded to […]
Syria’s Anarchist Revolution
Malcolm X – By Any Means Necessary
Mondragón and the System Problem
By Gar Alperovitz and Thomas M. Hanna Truthout As America moves more deeply into its growing systemic crisis, it is becoming increasingly important for activists and theorists to distinguish clearly between important projects and “institutional elements,” on the one hand, and systemic change and systemic design, on the […]
Mormonism and the American Mainstream
Donald Scott National Humanities Center When Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it came to be officially designated, first emerged on the religious scene in 1830, it was simply one of the many, often short-lived, new religious groups born amidst the spiritual ferment […]
Where Have All the Womyn Farmers Gone?
By Rhiann Sasseen “Farming women,” reads a page from a 1977 issue of Country Women Magazine. “Who are we? Young and old? What are the realities of our lives, our history, our farms?” The same questions could as easily be asked today, when more U.S. women are entering […]
A New Revolution in Australia
By Silvia Boarini Al Jazeera Native Australians demonstrate for their rights [Al Jazeera] Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders activists hope 2014 will be remembered as the year they said: “Enough is enough.” Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has no doubt about it. “We are under assault,” she tells Al Jazeera. […]
Inside South Africa’s whites-only town of Orania
By Pumza Fihlani BBC News In the sparsely populated Karoo desert in the heart of South Africa’s Northern Cape, the spirit of apartheid lives on. I spent a few days in Orania, a town established in 1991 where no black people live. I was part of a BBC […]
A City Where Everyone Works, There is no Police, and the Salary is 1200 Euros
By Jade Small The OpenMind.Com With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative. READ MORE
Why You Need To Visit Denmark’s Hippie Commune Before You Die
By Emmy Favilla Buzzfeed This is Christiania. Stig Nygaard / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: stignygaard Its 84 acres sit on an abandoned military base, and it was founded in 1971 by squatters and artists as a “social experiment.” READ MORE
Why the United States Always Loses Its Wars
Veterans Today We are the global village bully that’s hated by much of the world. …by Joachim Hagopian for Veterans Today America loses all its wars because it seems we’ve always been on the wrong side of history. Morally nor legally should any nation have the right to […]
The Democratic majority that emerged — and disappeared
Well, it looks like the PC coalition cracked a lot sooner than I thought it would. Both the radical left (e.g. the left-anarchists) and the center-left coalition that is the foundation of the Democratic Party’s electoral base seem to be falling apart due to the rivalries among their […]
Halal & Hypocrisy XII: Vive la Dissonance!
On the 7th of January, three Islamic gunmen stormed the offices of left-wing satirical mag Charlie Hebdo, killing eleven staff members in the ensuing bullet shower. The magazine had previously made an international name for itself by printing the Mohammed cartoons of 2006, and continuing to satirise Islam […]
Anarchists vs. ISIS: The Revolution in Syria Nobody’s Talking About
By Gareth Watkins CvltNation.Com The Middle East today is the last place anyone in mainstream western thought would think to look for progressive political thought, and even less to see those thoughts translated into action. Our image of the region is one of dictatorships, military juntas and theocracies […]
When Do You Break People Out of Prison?
The Essential Features of the ATS Message
Perhaps one of the most problematic issues I have encountered when attempting to communicate the ATS message is the fact that I frequently comment on a variety of topics that are only casually related or even unrelated to the essential features of the ATS message. For example, I […]
Morrissey, Government and A Craving For Power
By Dan Greene So Morrissey has cancelled a gig in Iceland because the venue refused to comply with his demand that all meat be removed from the building (he’s done this before also) and it seems that he demands this from all the venues where he performs. Now […]
The Latest Capitalist Monopoly: Opposition to the State
I have my well-known differences with Carson, but his stuff is well worth reading. Check out his archives. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society New corporate enclosures, looting and monopolies are springing up all over the place these days. Watching the news is a lot like […]
Anarchism Without Adjectives
I find value in the entire spectrum of not only anarchist but also libertarian or decentralist thought generally. On the far right end, the Koch brothers are great on civil liberties, but horrendous on economics. On the far left end, Chomsky is wonderful on foreign policy, and terrible […]
All Politics Is No Longer Local
Just as class divisions are the widest they have been in a century in the USA, so are ideological divisions and partisan divisions. By REP. TOM DAVIS and REP. MARTIN FROST The following is an excerpt from The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis, written by former Republican Rep. […]
Greening Out Podcast #25 – Caity and Dan Try To Solve The Mystery of Scotland’s Socialist Tendencies
Caity and Dan present their ideas as to why so many people in Scotland have socialist tendencies, we chat about Margaret Thatcher, the poll tax (why Murray Rothbard thought that Thatcher had missed the point of a flat tax) and how future Scottish socialist politicians got their start […]
Yes, Political Correctness Really Exists
By Samuel Goldman The American Conservative Social media gives new muscle to German Marxist Herbert Marcuse’s arguments against free discourse. (KP: See my article on Marcuse here.) Jonathan Chait burned up the Internet this week with his critique of so-called political correctness. Among many responses, Amanda Taub‘s stands […]
Sean Gabb – Homophobic Bigot!
Libertarian Alliance By Sean Gabb I did a quick discussion this morning on LBC Radio. The subject was whether smoking should be banned in open places. I pointed out that, bearing in mind how one of the open places in questions was beside a roundabout and car park, […]
Tom Woods on Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists
The Libertarian Principle of Secession
By Lew Rockwell LewRockwell.Com For a century and a half, the idea of secession has been systematically demonized among the American public. The government schools spin fairy tales about the “indivisible Union” and the wise statesmen who fought to preserve it. Decentralization is portrayed as unsophisticated and backward, […]
Anarchist and Christian, But Neither Left nor Right
Anarchy, Faith, and Tradition: A Review of Wayne John Sturgeon’s Albion Awake The book is presently available at Amazon.Com By Keith Preston Decades ago, I became interested in the classical anarchist tradition rooted as it is in the works of such thinkers as Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, […]
Greening Out Interviews #20 – Keith Preston on Emma Goldman
Caity and Dan welcome Keith Preston back to the show for a very interesting conversation about anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman. We begin by chatting about Emma’s life and ideas and why they are still relevant today, the Haymarket affair, Alexander Berkman, if anarchists are born and not […]
ISIS “Made in USA”: Iraq “Geopolitical Arsonists” Seek to Burn Region
This makes sense in light of recognition that the U.S. grand strategy in the Middle East is the elimination of nationalist regimes such as Syria and Iran that stand in the way of Western domination of the region’s oil production and trade, the creation of a Greater Israel, […]
Who are the Independent Greeks?
This is how you do it. Once again, the election results in Greece represent what I have been pushing for years, i.e. the creation of a radical left that eclipses the center-left and then builds a coalition with the populist right against the establishment center, the global elites […]
The rise of the Greek left is a call for pan-European change
Some observations about the recent election in Greece. First, I am hesitant base any general assessment of Western politics on domestic Greek politics, which is still very much in the mode of mid-twentieth century models of Left and Right. Greek’s communists are Old Leftists, not New Leftists. Their […]
Ideology Is Not a Thing
A discussion of the views of Michael Enoch, Greg Johnson, and myself on “Cultural Marxism.” By Duns Scotus Alternative Right by Duns Scotus Recently there has been some discussion about this thing called “Cultural Marxism,” and whether–or how–it exists or not. The discussion began with an article by […]
The Left, The State And (Opportunistically As Always) Big Business
Dr. Gottfried and I were part of the same panel on the Left and the State at the 2014 H.L. Mencken Club conference. Here is the text of Paul’s presentation. By Paul Gottfried VDare.Com Adapted from Paul Gottfried‘s address to the 2014 H.L. Mencken Club Conference, at a […]
How Marine Le Pen is winning France’s gay vote
The political realignment I have long predicted is beginning to materialize. On economics, secularism, and (apparently) homosexuality, the National Front is now arguably the most left-wing party in France. By Rachel Halliburton The Spectator The Front National now has the support of a quarter of Paris’s gay voters […]
The Coming Golden Age of Anarchism
It is not unreasonable to suggest that the decades ahead will witness the unfolding of a golden age of anarchism. What is the evidence for this? -The most powerful state in the world, the United States, the mother country of the empire, is slowly losing its internal legitimacy […]
Why Anarchists Must Confront Totalitarian Humanism
It can reasonably be said that the overwhelming majority of liberals, progressives, social democrats, and Marxists would affirm all or most of the following presumptions: -The state is an expression of popular democracy (see Jean Jacques Rousseau) -The ever increasing centralization of institutions is conducive to economic and […]
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