By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley (TRIGGER WARNING: The following story includes detailed descriptions of childhood sexual abuse.) Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Nicholas, or at least that is what her parents named her. She wasn’t exactly sure just […]
By Cake Boy Is Cake Boy an anarchist? The problem is that the word anarchism can mean a lot of things. To most people, it means the kind of woke/leftist anarchist/idealist, or it means the libertarians who dream of a “really just and free market.” But my perception […]
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By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, according to the President of the United States I don’t fucking exist and neither does anyone else who falls outside of that country club rapist’s definition of male and female. I had my […]
By Cake Bay In recent years, we have seen the development of a new communist movement. The so-called “MAGA communism’ movement was created by Haz Al-Din (a philosopher) and his friends. I have followed this situation, and it fascinated me. I’m not a communist, of course, but I […]
By Cake Boy In the last ten years, we saw a return of the mutualist movement under the control of C4SS. The aim of the mutualists was to build a new society in the shell of the old. They propagated homesteading, squatting, and radical free markets, what they […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This may or may not be the literal Armageddon but just peeking through the shades I can tell you that it’s looking pretty goddamn apocalyptic to me. As I write this acidic screed, the only square mile of […]
By Cake Boy In this text, I want to take a look at political theory in a way that is as realistic as possible. Political theory fascinates me (don’t ask me why), and I want to try to impact it. Today, let’s look at anarchism again. When we […]
By Cake Boy I believe that if anarchism in the future wants to be something, it has to focus on libertarian unity. Anarchists should forget leftist unity or rightwing unity. The channel ‘Springtime of Nations’ (Rothbardian anarchists) agrees with me. This text is based on their video about […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Some sharp white dude with a nifty haircut once observed that those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. Then some other white dude with a nifty haircut blew his brains all over Dealey Plaza with […]
18 January, 2025 alanbickley I have just read the One Hundred Year Partnership agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine, published on the 16th January 2025. It will take me another day to recover from the shock of what this represents. Briefly […]
By Cake Boy In this period of time, in my country, the leftist/antifa anarchists are squatting again. Squatting is actually the political thing they do, which has some meaning. The state notices it and isn’t that happy with it. Although it isn’t a big threat You can see […]
By Cake Boy The current culture is neoliberal when it comes to economics. And mostly cultural/Frankfurt Marxist when it comes to cultural issues. When it comes to economics, we live in a plutocracy. Landlords, speculators and bankers rule this system. Connected to internationally so-called ‘free markets’ (which aren’t […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, dearest motherfuckers, my mental health is kind of a hot mess. OCD, ADHD, CPTSD, OSDID, all on top of LGBT and just a dash of BDSM for flavor. It seems like every year […]
By Chris Hedges Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war […]
I am pleased to have Caleb Maupin back on the show. The last time I had a PoF interview was with again Caleb a couple of years ago on his book “BreadTube Serves Imperialism: Examining The New Brand of Internet Pseudo-Socialism”, a must-read by the way to understand […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I have been writing this annual post celebrating a handful of people who have achieved the impossible and miraculously failed to suck over the last twelve months for almost a decade now and I have little intention of […]
By Cake Boy You know, people like Kevin Carson and Cake Boy always said that anarchism in the present time in the West could only develop slowly through the dual power strategy. The mutualist strategy, in which you set up your own institutions, and so ignore the state. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I haven’t exactly kept my fraught history with organized Christianity a secret. In fact, in keeping with my weird tradition of publishing my numerous neuroses, it’s kind of become a major part of my public persona, the jagged […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve been closely following the labyrinthine chaos in the Levant for most of my adult life now and I honestly didn’t see this latest twist coming, at least not this fast and certainly not this soon. After surviving […]
By Cake Boy I just read this little piece on Reddit in the anarchist discussion forum. I want to repeat it. https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAnarchism/comments/hozr9p/individualist_anarchism_is_kinda_dead/ It’s about social and individualist anarchism. The two significant anarchist theories are very different. What does individualist anarchism want? 1 Usufruct/homesteading of the earth 2 Radical […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I realize that I’ve said this before but there really is no more room left for interpretation. Israel is engaged in a concerted effort to annihilate the Palestinian people, an American financed and facilitated genocide playing out in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I have spent the better part of my life as a bomb-throwing, dyed in the wool, radical leftist and there was a time when I would have gladly laid down my own life for that cause, probably because […]
By Cake Boy Preston somewhere talked about the architecture of his thinking. I liked this idea and wrote this text to explain the architecture of Cake Boy’s political thought. The ontological framework of my thinking is European existentialist thought. Let’s put it this way: This tradition always inspired […]
By Cake Boy My perception of anarchism is Benjamin Tucker’s anarchism. Preston and I discussed pluralist anarchism here based on this core sentence. Anarchism is the idea that: All social relations should be voluntary. The Rothbardian/libertarian anarchists would agree with this statement, but their definition of voluntary is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Kamala lost for a lot of reasons. Having the vibrant personality of a power-hungry high school principal in a cheesy 80s movie and playing second banana to a poorly reanimated racist come to mind. Cackling like an animatronic […]
How Trump’s Return Signals Global Escalation, Economic Upheaval, and Ideological Transformation Troy Keith Preston Nov 30, 2024 As Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the Oval Office for his second term, the contours of what his administration might bring to U.S. domestic and foreign policy are becoming clearer. Based […]
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By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There are few things more heartbreaking in this world than watching someone you love in an abusive relationship. Sadly, I’ve seen it firsthand, up close and personal, and it’s harder to sit through than a train crash. To […]
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By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley How could this happen? Again? On what planet, in what parallel universe does it make any logical sense for Donald J. Trump, the ghastliest beast to ever stalk the West Wing, to return to power in a veritable […]
By Cake Boy So, this was another attack on the pluralist project and Preston’s third-wave anarchism ideas. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/matthew-n-lyons-rising-above-the-herd I want to analyze parts of this text and respond to them. Witness the rise of so-called National-Anarchism (NA), an offshoot of British neonazism that has recently gained a small […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed dearest motherfuckers, I’m pretty goddamn weird and I seem to be getting weirder by the hour. This isn’t a flex; every time I think I’ve got my proverbial shit figured out I seem […]
By Cake Boy The left is rightwing phobic, Preston said to me. The left is more concerned with fighting the right than with fighting actual imperialism, he said. Yes, so the thing is. As you know, I’m in favor of free speech. So, Preston should say everything he […]
By Cake Boy Keith Preston recently issued a response to a short letter we wrote a while back asking him to stop calling himself an anarchist because of his racism, misogyny, and support for libertarian variants. Yes, so the thing is, Preston is an intelligent person. But I […]
By Cake Boy A lot of leftist anarchists these days use the following sentence to describe anarchism. They say that anarchism is against all unjust hierarchies. We have seen that the pluralist anarchism/federalism (whatever you want) I talk about is a little bit different. The leftist anarchists base […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I write this screed during the waning hours of an election season that has made me thirst for the taste of a blue steel shotgun barrel like a newborn craves mother’s milk. I hate all of you people […]
By Cake Boy I don’t know why I write so much these days, but anyway. I hope you like my work. It’s meant to make anarchism serious again. I wonder if that is possible. I try to think with you. Not to ‘attack the system’ or anything (I’m […]
By Cake Boy As we have seen, anarchism can have two meanings: an ontological meaning and a constructive social meaning. There are two anarchisms: individualist anarchism, which Emile Armand followed/lived/wrote about, and constructive anarchism, which people like Bakunin and Rothbard worked on. The individualist tradition has always resonated […]
By Cake Boy A big reason why I can’t take authoritarian systems such as communism and fascism seriously has to do with art. I’m a big fan of absurd comedians like Tim and Eric, Eric Andrew, and Sam Hyde. The clowns of this time These artists can only […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley To say that my childhood was less than idyllic would probably be an understatement. Growing up stuck between genders in a dreary small-town Catholic school would have been harsh enough if the priests would only keep their fucking […]
By Cake Boy Cake Boy doesn’t per se propagate for pluralist anarchism. I just see it as the only reasonable anarchist system. If you’re an anarchist, then be a pluralist. As I already said, I’m a thinker, not an activist. My way to add to anarchism is to […]
By Cake Boy Yesterday, I read this Libcom article about the national anarchist movement. I take parts from it and respond to it. https://libcom.org/article/rebranding-fascism-national-anarchists-spencer-sunshine National-Anarchists appropriate leftist ideas and symbols, and use them to obscure their core fascist values. Anarchism is the idea that all social relationships should […]
By Cake Boy The (leftwing) anarchist party I was a member of is a cult. I didn’t know much about cults back then, so after I got out of it, I dug into it to understand. It seems that I was mentally too strong to get sucked into […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I am a lifelong antiwar activist and a diehard horror movie buff. A lot of people seem to find those two facts to be a contradiction, and I guess on the surface I can comprehend their confusion. Showing […]
By Corey Fisher The Impact of Social Media on the Decline of Marriage and Relationships: Direct and Indirect Consequences Over the last two decades, social media has significantly altered the landscape of human interaction, profoundly influencing relationships, including marriage. While social media platforms have connected people in unprecedented […]
By Cake Boy If anarchism as a mass movement wants to have meaning, it has to be clear in what its goals are. It has to formulate an understandable vision. People have to be able to imagine it right away. People have to be able to see themselves […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Victory comes quick to cowards with superior firepower, but that victory is almost always short lived. You would think that Israel, or any other proxy student of western colonialism, would have learned this lesson by now but here […]
By Cake Boy We have studied anarchism for a couple of weeks. I tried to formulate a new anarchism. An anarchism past the dimensions of woke leftism and neoliberal capitalist hegemony. This, then, would be a pluralist anarchism. We have seen that there would be positive sides to […]
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