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 […]
By Cake Boy A critique of Preston was that he would be an anti-statist authoritarian. Some Antifa intellectual said this. To the Antifa/woke anarchists, anarchism is not just voluntary interaction but a program of social change. It’s a cultural Marxist project to them. There is a problem with […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I despised Donald Trump long before he became a lumpy soapbox for self-congratulating neoliberals to virtue signal on. In fact, I hated that miserable cunt back when he was still financing the campaigns of said self-congratulating neoliberals. Long before […]
Keith Preston and I will discuss the rising tensions around the world with deep geopolitical analysis. My Contact Info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862… Email: tertullian155@protonmail.com Keith Contact: @TKeithPreston1
By Keith Preston, October 2, 2024 Just War Theory, developed primarily by early Christian theologians such as Augustine of Hippo (4th-5th centuries) and later refined by Thomas Aquinas (13th century), outlines ethical guidelines for the use of force. It is based on two main principles: jus ad bellum […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time there was this place called Afghanistan, a mysterious, mountainous and magical land of endless poppy fields and warlords with beards thick enough to stop bullets. A place where white men feared to tread, and […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Nikita Khrushchev, born in the humble village of Kalinovka in Southern Russia, embodies a largely forgotten Slavic identity—a confluence of Russian and Ukrainian heritage that has long been overshadowed by more dominant historical narratives. His upbringing in the Donetsk Basin, an industrial heartland […]
By Cake Boy So, let’s dig a little bit deeper into this idea of pluralist anarchism. Isn’t it farfetched, isn’t it utopian? Anarchists say because centralized power is dangerous, decentralization is the way to go to reduce damage. There will be damage anyway, because humans are imperfect, but […]
By Cake Boy So this is a song that came out last year. It’s black metal, made by anarchist activists from the UK. It’s very new and what the anarchist scene communicates with the rest of the world. This is who we are, this what we are about. […]
By Cake Boy Anarchism is stuck. On the one hand, it’s stuck in a swamp of woke sectarianism, and on the other, it’s stuck in the swamp of neoliberal/libertarian/Javier Milei populism. There needs to be a new anarchist impulse, and anarchism needs to be dragged out of the […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is an imperial slaughterhouse and every four years that bloody kill room floor hosts a jingle-brained three-ring-circus that the men with hammers call a presidential election season. A ghastly, multibillion dollar display of buggery, cuckery, pomp and […]
By Cake Boy A question in the current anarchist milieu is whether anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism are compatible. Is bottom unity ( libertarian unity) possible? The main topic here is land. Both schools, anarcho-communism and anarcho-capitalism, have different perceptions of what land is and what it should be. To […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you were foolish enough to take sociopaths at their word, you could be forgiven for believing that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are the world’s most violent pacifists. Both of these repugnant candidates for Godfather of Babylon […]
By Cake Boy I discovered anarchism when I was twenty. I started to read the works of the major names in anarchism. I became interested in anarchism because I disliked both communism and fascism. And I had/have problems with the current neoliberal order. Anarchism said it was about […]
I will be joined by Keith Preston, Florian, and Logos to discuss on whether Technology is inevitable. This can be seen in two ways (1) Was technology destined to triumph in history and (2) is technology destined to triumph in the future? We will discuss both possible meanings […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is deeply engaged in two simultaneous and rapidly expanding proxy wars that could both very easily end in a nuclear third world war… I want you to sit down with that sentence for a couple of minutes […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I was born and raised in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, a small-town cowering in the shadow of a vast college metropolis known simply as State College and I fucking hate State College. I hate State College because nine months out […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley We came pretty damn close to losing the finest democracy that slaves can build this election cycle but all the woke folk seem to be enjoying a collective sigh of relief as the better angels of our nature […]
I will be joined by Keith Preston, Florian and Logos to discuss the thought of Theodore Kaczynski as part of a broader shift toward a focus on technology. My Contact Info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862… Email: tertullian155@protonmail.com
A quick announcement… Luke Dodson Aug 13, 2024 As many of you know, earlier this year I attended and spoke at the Commonwealth of Free Spirits 1st International Conference in Porto, Portugal. I’m very pleased to announce that the CoFS YouTube channel is now live. Three talks are […]
Keith Preston’s presentation, ‘Anarchist Political Economy and Power Elite Theory: How States, Ruling Classes, and Empires Intersect’, at the Commonwealth of Free Spirits 1st International Conference in Porto, Portugal, June 2024. Keith Preston is a self-identified “anarcho-pluralist” who has published six books, including Attack the System: A New […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I come from a part of the country where people have become accustomed to getting played by elitist outsiders with name brand suitcases packed full of empty promises. Somewhere between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, where the Rust Belt fades […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Ask half the country and they’ll tell you without reservation that former and quite possibly future president, Donald Trump, should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors. Ask the other half of the country and they’ll argue just as […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Dodcast Dodcast #57: Keith Preston 0:00 1:26:00 Dodcast #57: Keith Preston Luke Dodson Aug 2 READ IN APP Talking to Keith Preston of Attack the System about the recent US election shenanigans, the alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump, American […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more El Niño Speaks El Niño Speaks 125: The McDon… 0:00 1:10:46 El Niño Speaks 125: The McDonaldization of Education The Higher Education Roundtable returns to talk about how higher education has transformed into a mass-produced service. Aug 1 READ IN […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Some kid took a shot at an ex-president the other week and apparently, we’re all supposed to feel bad about it. The same news jackals who cobbled together half a career on pretending to be outraged every time […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Max Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” provides a foundational understanding of how the Protestant work ethic has shaped American society. This ethic has not only driven economic success but also fostered a culture of wild enthusiasm and extreme views. […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Max Weber’s seminal work, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” offers a profound lens through which we can understand the modern American business culture, the nature of non-profits, the woke cultural phenomenon, and various other aspects of American institutional life. Weber […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Fyodor Dostoyevsky, one of the most profound thinkers of the 19th century, consistently expressed skepticism towards the utopian visions prevalent among the socialists, anarchists, and progressive thinkers of his time. His writings often delve into the darker recesses of human nature, questioning the […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrader Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is supposed to be the greatest democracy on earth, right? I know this because we have at least fifty goddamn holidays a year shouting it at us from the night sky in burning lights. Still, I feel […]
By Keith Preston, July 14, 2024 What follows is a reprint of a 1977 review by Alan Faircloth of two books, both published in the mid-1970s, by Carl Oglesby and Kirkpatrick Sale, respectively, which outline the Yankee-Cowboy War thesis of the American ruling class. At the end of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It all began with a brazen and reckless pre-dawn raid in the desert wilds of Yemen. Seal Team 6 hit the ground shooting on the dusty streets of Yakla after lighting the village up with Reaper drones. The […]
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