By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 2025 has been a hard year to be Queer in this necrotic empire but it has been a downright horrific year to be a Queer kid and tragically, in many ways, it has never been harder to be […]
By Cake Boy So I checked the leftist anarchist party of this country, and I checked how they are doing. They now have around 6000 followers on social media. But they are still a worthless mess. They don’t achieve anything and have no political significance. Why is this […]
Troy Keith Preston Jun 16, 2025 Philosophical anarchism, grounded in a principled rejection of coercive authority and hierarchical institutions, holds a complex and often ambivalent stance on the issue of immigration controls. While many anarchists view borders as instruments of state violence and capitalist exclusion, others voice concerns […]
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By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you’ve read more than a few of my rants, then you are probably already painfully aware that I am a Queer person and that I take this identity pretty seriously, some of you may even be forgiven […]
By Cake Boy When I studied philosophy, I told my teacher I always read anarchist literature. This stuff fascinates me. Anarchism is about freedom, he said. Then he said, “OK, freedom, but what do you do with that freedom? Freedom to what?” I would say the (leftist/Proudhonist) anarchist […]
By Cake Boy When you critique rent, most libertarians will always say, “You choose to rent from the landlord.” Here you see how their views are limited, and here we see they are not deep thinkers. I’m not against markets, but when is something a market? In a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Genocide Convention defines genocide as an intentional effort to completely or partially destroy a group based on its nationality, ethnicity or religion. Merriam-Webster defines genocide as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural […]
A Review of Drink Your Future: Recursive Freedom in the Cybernetic Age by Keith Preston It is rare these days to encounter a work of political theory that feels not only urgent but uncanny—so prescient in diagnosing the drift of late capitalism, and yet so generous in its […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Everywhere you turn lately somebody seems to be talking about the importance of mental health; online adds, television commercials, celebrities, politicians and a lot of other shit that generally makes me want to shake cocktails with the stuff […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition https://www.youtube.com/@Alekseybashtavenko Michel Foucault, a towering figure in twentieth-century thought, is often cited—sometimes worshipped—by postmodernist and leftist academics who seek to dismantle traditional power structures. His writings on discourse, power, and social institutions underpin much of contemporary critical theory, from queer studies to postcolonialism. […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition https://www.youtube.com/@Alekseybashtavenko Santa Cruz del Islote is not just an island — it’s a living metaphor. Floating off Colombia’s Caribbean coast, it is often described as the most densely populated island on Earth, home to some 1,200 people packed into just one hectare of […]
By Cake Boy Here, Springtime of Nations says: all anarchists (left and right) agree on voluntary association (what he calls the non-aggression principle, the ‘NAP’), as a foundation for anarchism. This voluntary association would then result in panarchist constructs, consisting of liberal and socialist tendencies, I suppose (if […]
From Post-Napoleonic Restoration to Contemporary Electoral Authoritarianism Troy Keith Preston May 29, 2025 Since the early nineteenth century, experiments with liberal representative government have cyclically given way to concentrated executive rule under diverse historical circumstances. Far from being a relic of the distant past, autocratic governance has resurfaced […]
The Anarchy First Network: Meta-Strategic Vanguard Charter & Guidebook I. Mission Statement The Anarchy First Network (AFN) exists to cultivate, coordinate, and catalyze efforts that advance decentralization, anti-authoritarianism, and autonomy across ideological boundaries. AFN rejects the false binary of left vs. right and pursues the dissolution of hierarchical […]
How Trumpism, Financial Oligarchy, and Cultural Reaction Are Merging to Redefine American Power Troy Keith Preston May 25, 2025 Project 2025, developed by the Heritage Foundation and a coalition of right-wing institutions, has become a roadmap for a radical transformation of American governance. While marketed as a restoration […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, the world is a pretty fucked up place right now and America kind of has everything to do with it. From the rapid advance of climate carnage to the blatant mass starvation of […]
By Cake Boy The problem Liberland (the right-libertarian/ancap-free zone) always had was that the surrounding countries didn’t acknowledge it. They wanted to end the project. Rojava (the left libertarian free zone)does not have this problem, because they are stronger, bigger, and more people live within their domain. What […]
By Cake Boy Let’s look at libertarian unity again. Can you blend ancap with ancom (anarcho-capitalism with anarcho-communism)? Most leftists react very emotionally when you talk about ancap. They will start to scream that ancaps are not anarchists immediately. But let’s look at it in a logical way. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Ana Maria was a nine-year-old girl from a little town called Chiclayo, Peru in 2007 when the Catholic Church robbed her of her childhood. She didn’t even see it coming. A beloved friar known popularly as Father Lute […]
By Cake Boy Liberal, socialist, communist, or anarchist movements need mass support to achieve their political goals. You can only create mass support if you fight for common goals and forget about niche issues. For example. A socialist party could unite thousands of people around one common goal. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Another Pope has dropped dead, only this time it’s the left who seems to be all busted up over it. Don’t get me wrong, I guess I get it. On the surface, Francis did seem like a pretty […]
By Keith Preston May 1, 2025 The global history of imperialism and colonial domination is often framed through the lens of despotism and monarchy, with attention typically directed toward absolutist regimes and autocrats who engaged in conquest and territorial expansion. However, a closer examination reveals that bourgeois republican […]
By Cake Boy I know some of you see yourself as national anarchists, but I want to explain why I think national anarchism was a wrong turn. First, the national anarchist theory is more or less the same as anarchism. They want voluntary communities/interactions, the same as Malatesta, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve often mocked the hyperbole trafficked by the Trump alarmists in the mainstream media, but even I can’t deny that the first few months of Donald Trump’s second run in the White House have been terrifying and the […]
By Cake Boy I see a lot of authoritarian/totalitarian political influence in modern anarchism. We have leftist anarchists, who say that Maoists are ‘their comrades’. This is ridiculous. Maoist China was a totalitarian state, and you anarchists are supposedly against states? There has never been a more powerful, […]
_annoImage2505CharSch0413-2 Black & Green Wednesday webinar The Threat of Charter Schools 5:30 pm PT, 6:30 MT, 7:30 CT, 8:30 ET, Wed, May 7, 2025 Hear from: •Dave Cash, President, United Teachers of New Orleans •Karen Francisco, Advocates for Public Education Policy (Colorado) •Casandra Ulbrich, Ph.D., Network for Public […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very strange has happened to American colonialism. Somewhere between the shock-and-awe of Dubya’s New American Century and the explosive verbal dysentery of Orange-Sphincter-Bad, Uncle Sam’s mask of sanity got cracked. Naturally, the neocons and neolibs will blame […]
By Keith Preston, April 11, 2025 Substack In an era where mass conformity has numbed the human spirit into a grey paste of corporate obedience, therapeutic state control, and performative progressivism, Ryan St-Blaise’s Drink Your Milk detonates like a pipe bomb of lucidity. This is not merely a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s a debate that has been raging between left and right libertarians for Kali knows how long; that age old question of just how libertarian are borders? Naturally, being a Situationist-cum-Agorist, the answer seems pretty fucking obvious to […]
By Cake Boy Essential Libertarians So, anarchists listened to me. A leftist anarchist and a more libertarian anarchist talked to each other on the essential libertarian stream. Look at this video. I once had this idea of these people debating each other. This was my political goal: to […]
The Emerging Zionist Dictatorship is Weaponizing Anti-Immigration as an Instrument of Political Repression By Keith Preston April 3, 2025 In the present political era, we find ourselves at a crossroads—one defined not by the traditional left/right divide, but by an epochal shift in the architecture of ruling class […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The winds of March are roaring and everywhere you look peace is in the air, or at least that’s the impression you might get from eyeballing the latest headlines. Every other day it seems like another batch of […]
By William T. Hathaway “Fascism” is the current malediction of the left media to evoke fear and loathing of Trump, Alternatives for Germany (AfD), and other right-wing movements. It’s a strongly charged term, but false and harmful. What we are witnessing now is not the rise of fascism […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Speaking from the precarious perspective of an obnoxiously androgynous genderqueer person both online and in the very rural real world, I’m not exactly a stranger to bigotry. Aside from the fact that getting called a monster in the […]
Join Keith, Florian and I to discuss Keith’s analysis of the rising global power dynamic. NRx neo-feudalism and Zionism are in, and a rising coalition of the global north is rising to suppress the global south.
By Keith Preston, March 16, 2025 The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has generated heated debate worldwide, with perspectives ranging from staunch support for Ukraine to outright backing of Russia, as well as various nuanced positions in between. While many see the war as a struggle between […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley White supremacy remains a very potent weapon for the powerful in this country and I don’t think that the far left should stand alone in confronting it. Many of my more libertarian readers tend to cringe at such […]
By Keith Preston March 13, 2025 Cindy Lin’s work Libertarian Order: A Study in Anarchist Political Thought represents an extensive effort to consolidate anarchist philosophy’s fundamental beliefs and historical progression alongside its distinct traditions into one approachable book. The book initially looks like one more introductory text to […]
Center for Political Innovation Book Excerpt: “Why Demonize Gerry Healy in 2024?” Mar 10 Synthetic Left Smears Palestine Activist 35 Years After His Death Image credit: The Gerry Healy Archive By Caleb Maupin This is an abridged selection from Caleb Maupin’s upcoming short book Khruschevism: A Study in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It was the imperial bitch fest heard round the world. Two of Babylon’s finest Frankenstein monsters dueling it out on live tv over a mythic peace deal that neither creature seemed to prioritize over their respective egos. In […]
When morbid curiosity led me to ask the question “Who is Keith Preston?” Troy Keith Preston Mar 03, 2025 Interestingly, the response was mostly accurate, with only a few minor discrepancies, and the criticisms stated were reasonable. Here is the response: Keith Preston is a political theorist, writer, […]
By Alexander Morse So right now, the media is ablaze with commentary on the recent meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky. Countless left-leaning and neo-conservative commentators on mainstream, alternative, and social media are reacting in horror at Trump’s language. How could the leader of the free world, […]
What Is Happening Now Troy Keith Preston Mar 02, 2025 Here is my general take on what is going on now: Within domestic US politics, partisan cycles tend to run in 40-year intervals. The Republicans were the dominant party between 1969 and 2008, which represented the transition from […]
An end to guilt and shame By William T. Hathaway In Sunday’s election in Germany a new party, Alternatives for Germany, broke through the established power structure to become the second strongest force in parliament. A key factor in its success was a call to overcome the postwar […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a mad beast loose in the White House again; a lecherous, creamsicle colored, publicity whore, scantily clad in peeling bronzer and a shrill shock of combed over ginger squirrel pelt. A nasty, petulant brat trapped inside […]
Keith Preston will join Todd Lewis and Florian will discuss the rise and fall of the Woke and what the Woke represented.
By William T. Hathaway The German establishment is in crisis. Is has ruled for 80 years by charting a middle course between progressive and conservative policies. Labor and business have cooperated to achieve social and economic stability. But that consensus isn’t functioning anymore. The standard of living is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, and it sounded pretty fucking sweet on the radio. Even a bitter post-everything anarchist like me gets a little choked up listening to the good doctor’s Sermon on the Mount at […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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