By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Trump has seriously fucked up in the Middle East this time and even he knows it. In the first two weeks alone of Bibi and Donald’s latest savage bombardment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, neither regime has […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I think a lot of people take words like ‘home’ and ‘family’ for granted and I suppose I was one of them. I grew up in what I thought was a pretty stable home, a three-bedroom house with […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If it’s February, then some liberal white dude is probably telling you about Black history and he’s probably totally missing the point, going on about how far someone else’s people have come and how far the nation that […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I realized that there was something deeply terrifying about my body when I was two or three years old. I didn’t exactly know that I was a girl, I just knew that something was profoundly wrong. I didn’t […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley One might be forgiven for assuming that the man in the White House is a lunatic and Donald J. Trump certainly couldn’t be confused with the picture of mental health by anyone with half of a functioning brain […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “We will have everything we want; we’re getting everything we want, at no cost!” the President of Babylon barked triumphantly over his latest diplomatic conquest in Greenland. After weeks of mounting tensions between our dear leader and his […]
Cox, Stan. Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026 Seven Stories Press), Review by Don Fitz “Anthropause” is an amazing word and the latest book about it is an eye-opener. Stan Cox’s Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026, Seven Stories Press), does what far too few degrowth books do […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, America has become the world’s largest third world dictatorship. If the first two months of 2026 don’t prove this to you with flying colors than I’m terrified to ask what will. Since Christmas, […]
By Keith Preston January 30, 2026 Every civilization produces authority, and every civilization produces resistance to it. What distinguishes historical epochs is not whether power exists, but whether its legitimacy is taken for granted. The present era is marked by an unprecedented fusion of state power, corporate management, […]
“Disenfranchisement of People of Color” Green Party Webinar 5:30 pm PT, 6:30 MT, 7:30 CT, 8:30 ET, Wed, Feb 4, 2026 Register Now! Gerrymandering of congressional districts in Missouri and other right-wing states results in loss of minority legislative representation. Disenfranchisement of Latinx communities includes fear-driven disengagement from […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is in the grips of an epic gang war the likes of which it has never seen before. Masked and heavily armed thugs stock the streets of some of America’s biggest cities with total impunity, thousands of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It all went off without a hitch. Donald Trump’s huge, beautiful, helicopter coup of 2026. After two years of bungling pretty much everything from tariffs to the Epstein cover-up, our dayglow Caesar rolled the dice in Venezuela, and […]
By Alexander Morse Shepard For the last several weeks, news of Iranian protestors and the government’s violent crackdown has dominated the news cycle. Every day—every hour, every minute—there are updates about the ongoing situation. These protests have resulted in a wide array of reactions. Many voices are expressing […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Two events from my bleak rural Pennsylvania childhood have scarred my soul more than any others, fundamentally defining my entire outlook both psychologically and philosophically. The first event was very personal but became very political and the second […]
By Cake Boy Anarchism is destroyed by leftism, according to Bob Black. When I was in anarchist circles, there where a lot of ex communists within these circles. . The thing with Communism is that it’s an absolutist theory. They are right, and the rest of the world […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that […]
By Anonymous Poetry Person You want too much Your body is a stone A hungry ghost In a cold well You look at the lights You live in the future You think about the past Everything bores me I want to be a heroin addict I wrestle […]
In January of 2001, Attack the System went live. At the time, it was little more than a personal project—rough, marginal, largely invisible outside a small circle of anarchists, libertarians, and political misfits who were already alienated from the prevailing ideological order. The site had no institutional backing, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “No matter what God’s power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.” -Jacques […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve gone through this scenario a million fucking times before and it always seems to play out the same way. I meet some vanilla white progressive ally who feels my pain. You know the type; the non-profit industrial […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “What transforms this world is… Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world […]
THE AWAKENING by Paul Newman – A Philosophical Thriller About the End of Authority For decades, anarchist thinkers have asked a simple question that destroys the foundations of statism: Where does government’s authority actually come from? Not historically. Not legally. Morally. Philosophically. Statists respond with circular reasoning: “The […]
By Keith Preston December 7, 2025 A report circulating on social media includes the following observations. It’s like that scene from “A Clockwork Orange” where Malcolm McDowell’s “Alex” character returns from prison only to find that his former gangmates are now the police. It’s common for states that […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Way back in the 1700s there was this fucked up little place called Florida, or at least that’s what the Spaniards called it. The original natives of the region had multiple different names for this untamable swampland but […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Statistically speaking, you or someone you love has been preyed upon by a man with more power than he deserves. RAINN estimates that 17.7 million American women have been the victims of rape in the United States and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It stuck. Donald Trump nailed it. The impossible peace deal that will remake the Middle East in his own gawdy gilded image. After just over two years straight of total war, after billions of dollars of bombs and […]
By Cake Boy Property is fundamental, it’s the foundation for liberty, libertarians like Hoppe and Rothbard say. I agree with them. But it depends on what kind of property. People don’t think enough about these issues. And Rothbard and Hoppe had/have a twisted idea of what property is, […]
“Green Transportation Re-Imagining” Green Party Webinar 5 pm PT, 6 pm MT, 7 pm CT, 8 pm ET, Wed, Dec 3, ’25 REGISTER Now! This webinar will offer insights to the need to expand and fully fund public transit as a means to improve our environment as […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, Satan died last week, or at least so I’m told. Speaking personally, I won’t sleep easier until I see a body because that neocon fossil should have died centuries ago. I can’t help but to feel like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a goddamn commie, and I’m not talking Bernie Sanders here. I’m talking hardcore, blood-red, dyed-in-the-wool, revolutionary Marxism. I was a goddamn tankie and while I quoted Lenin and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of the summer harvest and the beginning of the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Oh, how lucky we are to live in an era of such huge and beautiful peace. An age in which the free and not-so-free world alike can join hands in brotherhood around that shining dumpster fire on the […]
Troy Keith Preston Oct 25, 2025 Philosophical Anarchism and Its Global Implications Philosophical anarchism, as articulated by thinkers such as William Godwin, Robert Paul Wolff, Roderick Long, and Carole Pateman, holds that no state or government possesses legitimate moral authority over the individual. Unlike revolutionary or insurrectionary anarchism, […]
By Cake Boy The Libertarian Party in this country campaigns on an anti-bureaucracy slogan. They want to get a saw through the government and cut costs. Some things to say about this. Often, libertarians say they are against the government, but in reality, they don’t really act like […]
By Cake Boy I watched this video, and I react to it. I noticed this Queer stuff coming into leftism during 2010s. That’s when everyone became ‘Queer’ although nobody could really define what ‘Queer’ meant. It meant ‘not cis’. But nobody knew what ‘cis’ is. People called me […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Christianity is back and it’s more violent than ever. I speak of course of the late capitalist tent house revival of Christian Nationalism amongst the decaying ruins of Washington DC. Using the demonic, Caligula-esque Emperador Trump like a […]
In honor and memory of Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley, April 27, 1951-October 16, 2025 Francisco Albanese Kiss is one of those bands whose audience knows exactly what to expect at their concerts: pyrotechnics, guitar smashing, light shows, blood, choreographed moves, and so on. But once upon a time, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley My people are freaking the fuck out right now. I deal with it every day. Just being transgender in a conservative rural community alone can feel like a fulltime job. Being actively trans, organizing Queer resistance in a […]
By Cake Boy So, I read this text, and reply to what Rothbard says: Now that the New Left has abandoned its earlier loose, flexible non-ideological stance, two ideologies have been adopted as guiding theoretical positions by New Leftists: Marxism-Stalinism and anarcho-communism. At this time, we are more […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This isn’t just Deja vu. We have quite literally been here before, in fact, we’ve been here so many times that you can practically set your watch to the proceeding order of events. We start with a tragedy, […]
By Cake Boy The other day, I saw a boy calling a leftist/socialist economist a ‘soy boy’. And only ‘soy boys’ believed him. On the right, they paint the picture that rightwing politics is about being straight, dominant, and going to the gym and all of that. I […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Believe it or not, I didn’t choose to be Queer, I’ve been raging against my prescribed gender identity since I was barely old enough to kick a priest in the shins, but I do choose to live in […]
By Cake Boy Kevin Carson wrote about the death of Kirk. Let’s read his stuff and respond to it. Dear American Right, I read Carson’s books and learned a lot from them. He is a very good academic. But I still often disagree with his statements. The […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition RIO DE JANEIRO — The international scientific community was thrown into disarray last night after Dr. Osvaldo Ramalho of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) unveiled what he calls the first perpetual selfie machine. According to Ramalho, the device is capable […]
Troy Keith Preston Sep 22, 2025 I. Introduction The purpose of Attack the System has always been clear, though often misunderstood. Its objective is not to add one more faction to the marketplace of ideologies, nor to win a temporary skirmish in the field of electoral politics, nor […]
By Nicky Reid Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, Israel seems to be at war with pretty much fucking everybody right now and they show little sign of slowing down anytime in the near future. In fact, if anything, the Netanyahu regime seems to be […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition From the colonial era onward, the Puritan spirit has shaped the American tendency to mark outsiders as deviant. Kai Erikson’s Wayward Puritans showed that in seventeenth-century Massachusetts Bay, trials of witches, heretics, and dissenters were not simply about eliminating wrongdoers but about drawing […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition From the earliest colonial settlements in New England, the Puritan spirit has cast a long shadow over American life. Rooted in the ideals of moral discipline, community surveillance, and religious posturing, this ethos has shaped not only the institutions of the United States […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition In the Republic of Ambaria, where train stations arrived hours before the trains themselves and the rivers sometimes flowed backward for sport, the people elected a man named Joseph Finnigan. Nobody remembered exactly when he first appeared in politics, though everyone swore they […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition When I first arrived in America in 1998, three images on television etched themselves into my memory: the chaos of The Jerry Springer Show, the impeachment of Bill Clinton with its infamous parsing of “the meaning of is,” and the bizarre arithmetic of […]
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