By Keith Preston, Dean Phoenix, Eric Pierce, Joe Corbett, and Ryan England, with additional insights, ideas, debate, or counterarguments offered by Adil Sarker, Muhedin Hodzic, Nicky Reid, Aiden P. Gregg, Ze Zakre-Koeur, EG Smith, Kristoffer O’D Donnellan, Christopher Maxwell, Christopher Warren, and Summer Scott. January 12, 2023 The […]
Friends and comrades, This Wed Jan 11 at 7:30 pm CT there will be an emergency webinar on “The Long Road of US Repression.” You may have received an invitation to our Feb 1 webinar on Gun Violence, which was planned several months ago. We have never done […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I may be the queerest anarchist between Fire Island and the Salton Sea, but I’ve never had a great deal of patience for the current fad of political correctness that seems to be all the rage with the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 2022 sucked. That’s how I usually introduce this annual list of people who miraculously didn’t, and I wouldn’t be totally off base to do so again. 2022 was a year as chock full of horrors as any other […]
By Keith Preston December 29, 2022 While I agree that American/Atlanticist/unipolar/whatever hegemony is receding, I don’t think we will return to the bipolar world of the Cold War. Instead, we are moving toward a multipolar order like in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, where there were multiple great […]
By Don Fitz With new FBI and Department of “Justice” (DOJ) attacks expected in early January, a defense, mobilization and information session attracted hundreds of allies of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). On Friday, December 23 they zoomed into the “Emergency Mass Meeting: Hands Off Uhuru! Hands […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nicky, why can’t you just smile and join the pride parade? I must hear this refrain at least ten times a day from people both inside and out of my community. With all the progress, with all the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America has become a downright surreal place during the twilight hours of our imperial decline. We can’t seem to finish one potentially apocalyptic cold war before starting another and the lesser evilism of our sham elections has reduced […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Russia is the least statelike, the most anarchistic land in the world. And the Russian people is the most apolitical of peoples, never having managed to set its land right.” -Nikolai Berdyaev “Whoever fights monsters should see to […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I do my damnedest to put up a bad bitch front but I can’t lie to you dearest motherfuckers, sometimes it really hurts to be a Queer anarchist in Trump Country. The pay is shit, the hours are […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Where is the sun? Have we been marching through this darkness forever? It’s barely December but it already feels like the longest winter in recent memory. In fact, it feels like last winter never really ended. That was […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very stupid is happening in America. People have never been more disgusted with their bullshit form of government and yet they’ve never been more devoted to engaging in the partisan bullshit that defines it. It is a […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m a crazy person, or at least, so I’m told. I could dress it up with all kinds of politically correct labels and DSM approved diagnoses for you, but let’s just cut the bullshit right here and call […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you’re reading this now, chances are you’ve already saved democracy by voting for some asshole and chances are you were probably guilted into it on the fear of semi-fascism by a relentless campaign of 24/7 multimedia harassment. […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Very few students of history have ever heard of William Jennings Bryan, and that shows a lot about why the American identity is in crisis. Americans tend to put practicality over idealism, profits over people, and above all efficiency over values. Today, it […]
By Keith Preston Virtually all political factions will be offended by this post. Walter Russell Meade pointed out four major traditions in US foreign policy: 1. Hamiltonian realist imperialists (Rockefeller types) 2. Wilsonian global interventionists (most Democrats) 3. Jacksonian xenophobic nationalists (like Trump) 4. Jeffersonian non-interventionists (like Ron […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Those dusty old dominionist douche bags in the Supreme Court really kicked the Democrats a Midterm field goal when they shot down Roe this summer. After tanking the fucking economy with their nuclear proxy war in Ukraine and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve been compiling this twisted little list of frighteningly anti-authoritarian films for about four years now and a lot has changed during that short time for both cinema and authoritarianism. With the epoch shattering cataclysm of the pandemic […]
By Don Fitz The suffering of US women under the iron heel of abortion is intensifying, especially for women of color. This makes it imperative to closely examine possible paths forward. As a teenager during the 1960s I witnessed two political paths that remain imprinted on my mind. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “What about the children!” This has been the shrill clarion call of hysterical Karens on both sides of the aisle for generations. “What about the children!” A sure fire response to any politically incorrect question that would otherwise […]
Nor is the regime on the verge of collapse – Elite Theory, Threat Neutralization, and Turbo-America Niccolo Soldo Share (request: please read the entire piece before inevitably freaking out about my classification in the graphic above) (note: this is a work in progress) I first visited Switzerland back […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve always found conspiracy theories to be fascinating, not just individually, but as a concept in and of itself. I spent the darker portion of my teenage years happily lost down dark-web rabbit holes, searching for deeper meaning […]
One of the most controversial pieces I ever wrote was an essay from 2005 called “Why I Choose to Collaborate with Racialists and Theocrats.” You can imagine the reaction to that in some anarchist circles, particularly the hard-left ones. A reader recently offered a response to that essay, […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Republican Party wants to erase trans people. Over the last couple of years, they have made this sickeningly clear, not just with their colossal barrage of brazenly bigoted legislation overwhelmingly targeting children in one of the most […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The shit is getting real again in Ukraine and every neoliberal and his lobbyist seems super stoked about the carnage. After months of pulverizing battlefield gridlock and mounting global war fatigue, the Western warmongers finally have a tangible […]
Keith Preston of Attack the System Explains How Neocons became a dominant force in American politics. Listen now Jose Alberto Nino How did the neocons come to prominence? Keith Preston, of Attack the System, reveals how the neoconservatives took over key foreign policy positions in the United States […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ll tell you a secret, dearest motherfuckers, if you promise to tell everyone else. The two-party system is nothing but a great big fucking distraction. When it comes down to the big money issues like war and peace, […]
by Don Fitz Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years. Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE of 64.2 years, lower by 5.6 years […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe Biden is pissed off again and coming out swinging and it isn’t those pesky Russkies or dastardly Chinamen this time either. It’s those stupid assholes who voted for the other moron, you know, the orange fella. But […]
I generally like Albert Meltzer but he was a little too “workerist” for my tastes, or what would today be called “class reductionism.” Meltzer represents a viewpoint that I respect and yet disagree with at the same time. His view was that “workerist anarchism” of the late 19th/early […]
Since I’m often asked here goes. 1. He is consistent with a liberal Republican, Blue Dog Democrat, or Ed Koch Democrat. 2. He is similar to Nixon in the sense of being a Rockefeller New York liberal who pretends to be George Wallace. 3. He functions as a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, the foundation of a state does not increase the freedom of a people. The system of the United Nations that is […]
A reader writes, “It’s not cheap being Rome,” pointing out the cost of the US military-industrial complex and the overseas empire. The US didn’t have much of a federal welfare state back then as well. The growth of welfare states and warfare states tends to correlate. It is […]
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 you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way […]
My take on these questions is unconventional, but in today’s America I would say the Democrats are the “conservative” party, if we define conservatism as a defense of elite interests, the status quo, pragmatic reformism that avoids overstepping, not rocking the boat too heavily, etc. That’s the Burkean […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nancy Pelosi has broken a lot of glass ceilings, or at least that’s what her cheerleaders in the mainstream media are constantly shouting at me from my tv and I guess they’re technically correct. After all, she is […]
Murray Rothbard’s enormously important essay from 1965 pointed out the fallacies of the left/right model of the political spectrum. Read it here. Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism was essentially a restatement of the panarchist philosophy of Gustave Molinari and Paul Emile de Puydt, a position also embraced by the classical anarchist […]
A seriously anarchist approach to economics would eschew agitation for any new laws or begging the state for any new handouts, and instead, focus on chipping away government policies that central wealth, and creating alternative economic arrangments. Anarchist economics would include attacking laws pertaining to legal tender, currency […]
This article by self-described “national socialist” comparing the MAGA rioters to the san culottes of revolutionary France is quite interesting. The way I see class relationships at present is something like this: In the 19th century, we had the industrial revolution in the context of classical liberalism and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit We recognize that if there is to be any peace on earth, it is going to come as a consequence of our people uniting to defeat US imperialism once and for all… We are going to have to unite with the oppressed […]
I AM THE WINNER “We shall repeal the twentieth century.” -Murray Rothbard During the Clinton/Bush eras, I developed the idea of a left/right populist alliance to carry out pan-secessionism for the purpose of overthrowing the Atlanticist hegemony. In the Obama era, I did entryism into the Alt-Right in […]
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There are very few things on this boiling rock called earth that I hate more than war, but I’ve also been fascinated with war for as long as I can remember. There is just something about the cataclysmic […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Is it just me or does the JCPOA seem to be cursed? Everybody who isn’t Trump or Israel seems to agree that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action known colloquially as the Iran Nuclear Deal was working smashingly before it was unilaterally […]
Christopher Mott of the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy joins Max Blumenthal to discuss his provocative white paper on the Woke Imperium. According to Mott, “The rise of a ‘woke’ activist-driven, social justice-oriented politics—particularly among the members of academia, media, and the professional managerial class—has provided the latest […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Lysander Spooner was an abolitionist. He was also one of the great American anarchists whose legacy remains so toweringly influential that capitalists and socialists alike routinely bitch each other out on message boards over which tribe of wonks […]
By Ian Mayes Having elaborated upon the kind of anarchism that I believe in, the question that immediately then comes up for me is: “How does one move forward with all these big ideas? How does one actually practice all of this stuff?” Okay, maybe that is really […]
By Ian Mayes, Parenthesis Eye I’ve noticed a pattern that I have. Every few years I feel the need to publicly re-think and re-clarify what exactly it is that I personally believe regarding anarchism. This usually corresponds with me affixing a new anarchist label to my beliefs and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley White people beware, “they” are coming to America. They’re coming in record numbers, and we know just who they are. They are not like us. They will trample our pristine Western Civilization with their dirty unwashed feet, and […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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