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 […]
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 […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you El Niño Speaks 145: Trump 2.0 Keith Preston returns to discuss Donald Trump’s second presidential term Feb 05, 2025Substack See all of Jose Nino’s content
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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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