By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “The ‘Enlightenment’, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.” -Michel Foucault I’ve been called some pretty heinous things in my life, and I’ll proudly own most of them with a smile, but every time I get called […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Libertarianism is a people’s movement and a liberation movement. it seeks the sort of open, non-coercive society in which the people, the living, free, distinct people may voluntarily associate, dis-associate and, as they see fit, participate in the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Modernity is one of the most delicate and vital issues confronting us, the people of non-European countries and Islamic Societies. A more important issue is the relationship between an imposed modernization and genuine civilization. We must discover if […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I grew up in the American far left and I’m really not exaggerating when I tell you that the movement saved my life. I discovered libertarian socialism and its various stateless sub species at an age when I […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrader Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant–the waves of time leave washed up behind themselves only dry memories of a closed & petrified past.” […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit “We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.” -Toussaint Louverture “The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.” -C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins Dilapidated tent cities packed like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” -Mikhail Bakunin It begins with an unstoppable flood of unbearable images. A child stripped naked beaten in a preschool bathroom. A visiting priest with a sinful smile. Two nude […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Force is the midwife of any old society pregnant with a new one.” -Karl Marx If you watch the news today, you’d think that Americans are living in one big stateless continental crimewave, stretching from sea to shining […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” -Carl Gustav Jung My life has become a profoundly surreal landscape over the last several months and the shit just seems to get weirder and weirder. What began as a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I quite frequently use this space to lament the untimely demise of the antiwar movement in this country and to wallow shamelessly in the miseries of what could have been. Those of my readers who have gone on […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nex Benedict was kind of a weird kid. I know because the moment that I first learned who Nex was I also knew that we would have been friends. Like Nex, at 16 I was a pissed off […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The state of Israel has no right to exist. I believe that statement to be a fact based purely on the concept of right and wrong, but just try saying it out loud in any corner of this […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.” -Fred Hampton ‘If you have trouble […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” -Thomas Szasz People have been telling me that I’m crazy for about […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Quick hypothetical: Let’s say that you are a member of a disenfranchised global minority, and some pompous foreign superpower is building bases all over your ancestral homeland, a homeland which they have spent decades bombing to smithereens. Then […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As I’m sure many of you already know, it’s not exactly unusual for me to have problems with the various censorious regimes that make up social media. I’ve written about it here before and I’ll probably write about […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something strange happened last October in the embattled holy lands that very few western observers managed to pick out of the bones from the various massacres. 17 Gentiles were among the victims slaughtered by Hamas on the 7th […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Being a self-unemployed, thirtysomething, literary visionary can be a depressingly thankless existence. The pay sucks, the publishers are clueless, the editors are dicks and the endless barrage of finger-wagging rhetorical questions from the sanctimonious adults in the boomer […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It didn’t end with a death march. It didn’t end with mass graves. It didn’t end with firing squads or gas chambers. The Second Armenian Genocide didn’t end a thing like the first one did but that didn’t […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “I am going to make it through this year if it kills me!” I find myself singing that desperate chorus from the Mountain Goats’ classic “This Year” repeatedly pretty much every year around this time but I’ve never […]
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By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This may come as a shock to you, but your average terrorist isn’t actually a three-armed monster from hell who eats human flesh and breaths fire. Your average terrorist, if there really is such a thing, is in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley They are marching in the streets, they are calling for Bibi’s head on a stake, and they aren’t Palestinians, they are Israeli Jews. This is the story that you are probably not being told about the current crisis […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.” -Abbie Hoffman “I know too much and not enough.” -Allen Ginsberg Revolution makes for some strange bedfellows and as a kinky agitator for free speech, I […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley When you are granted the awkward misfortune of being raised in the wrong gender in a conservative small town you get used to being the butt of every limp-dick breeder’s stupid fucking jokes. I’ve heard them all before […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Not to be rude but America really does love to get all hot and bothered about genocide. From the news to the Hill, there seems to be a constant hunt for the next big holocaust that only America […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, the news has been pretty fucked up lately and frankly so have I. This isn’t exactly a new development for me or the world. In fact, for as long as I can remember, […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Gaza Strip has gone from a prison to graveyard this fall, and the numbers are startling. Since Hamas pulled off a barbaric massacre that apparently everyone but Benjamin Netanyahu saw coming, Israel has stepped up its own […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I usually love this time of year, the fun size candy bars, the colorful leaves, and especially the gore. But in 2023, Halloween has simply gotten too goddamn scary to celebrate, even for a macabre chaos-binging lunatic like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I still remember it like it was last week. The images from that day in early September 2001 have been seared into the walls of my skull like antique photographs of garish gothic tableaus, a procession of haunted […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley She’s putting on her lipstick in the mirror while the music blares. There are knives by the blush and a loaded .357 Magnum next to the rouge. She’s applying eyeliner as her victim’s screams grow louder than the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a creature stalking the human race, a colossal ferocious beast with tentacles that lash every last corner of the globe, a pitiless monster the likes of which mankind has never encountered, and this thing is out […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There are some very powerful people who want you to hate me, and they will tell you some very terrible things to convince you that I am your enemy and most of these things have to do with […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Donald Trump has to be stopped. The man is a menace to democracy with an insatiable appetite for debauchery, a geriatric career gangster with a rap sheet longer than his Freudian phallic tie. The bastard has left a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “…You made me forget myself, I thought I was someone else, someone good…” -Lou Reed, American Hey, have I ever told you guys about my friend Revo, the pansexual recovering everything-addict with a thousand lives and at least […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley And just like that, they declared the Devil dead. After a meteoric career that found him playing the role of the bane of quite literally everyone’s existence, Yevgeny Prigozhin: Russian super mercenary was annihilated in a death straight […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Imran Khan should not be confused with a hero. He is really more of a dick, which I believe is the politically correct term for ‘politician’ now that most westerners have soured on ‘pig-raping cunt-devil.’ An international cricket […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Every victim of statism has internalized the state to some degree… Should the taxpayers completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire state would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the monster.” -Samuel […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Where there is official censorship, it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.” -Paul Goodman America is a nation that loves its folklore […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.” -Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization It has been said that these are dangerous […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is no use arguing that Donald Trump hasn’t existentially altered the conversation on war in this country and sweet Kali knows that I’ve tried. I’ve been crying bullshit in all caps on that swinging bologna salesman’s phony […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “From these unfolding vistas of human misery and from personal misery, man must forge convictions, call other men his brothers, and fight for freedom. Man is only free if he is prepared to kill every hangman and every […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit I love reading the French radicals from both the left and the right and they intrigue me for largely the same reasons. For better or worse, from Louis Althusser to Alain de Benoist, they all fucking “go there.” Damn the torpedoes! With […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I have a tendency to view most pharmaceuticals, be they therapeutic or recreational, as neither good nor bad, but fentanyl is one lethal concoction that has really sunken its fangs deep into the collective throat of this nation […]
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 […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As someone who proudly self-identifies as an aggressively open genderfuck anarchist, I get called a lot of ugly words and I’ve made something of a tradition of owning most of them. In fact, coming from the Eazy-E school […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley On June 10th, 2023, a madman died alone in his cell at the age of 81 in a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. This morbid list of details wouldn’t exactly be considered news if it […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This June has been a dark month for the long embattled Queer folks of Uganda and no pinkwashed corporate Pride parade is coming to save them from the jaws of state sanctioned violence. While the paler people of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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