Doreen Cleyre

The Anti-Political Nietzsche

by Doreen Cleyre | Jul 14, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Friedrich Nietzsche is a notable German philosopher, popular for his concept of "the will to power" as well as "overman" (sometimes translated as "superman"). Contrary to some people's beliefs, Nietzsche was not a nihilist and the overman was his answer to how we could still provide meaning in a godless world. And with regard to his books, his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra is especially popular. Nietzsche wrote much in his life and on many subjects, often reducing his opponents ideas to more concise and charitable (not to mention aesthetically pleasing) forms than the original...

The Death Party is the Only Party

by Doreen Cleyre | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

Content Warning: Brief discussion of suicide. According to The Hill, Hillary Clinton recently tweeted about how, if the GOP approves their recent healthcare bill, we can forget "death panels". Instead, we should refer to the GOP as "the death party" given how many people will become uninsured, if it passes. Besides The Death Party being the coolest name for a death metal album you've likely heard from a former Democratic presidential candidate, it's also blatantly hypocritical. There are many ways in which the Democrats have also sponsored death. This sponsorship includes (but is not limited...

No Justice, No Peace, Abolish The Police

by Doreen Cleyre | Jun 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

On July 6th, 2016 Philando Castile was stopped by a police officer. Allegedly he was stopped for a broken taillight but a recently released dashcam video from Jeronimo Yanez's vehicle puts this notion in dispute. Instead, it seems like Castile was mistaken for a suspect in a convenience robbery, something that Yanez did not tell Castile. After a brief exchange and Castile informing the officer, calmly, that he has a gun on him, Yanez tells him not to pull out the gun. When reaching for his ID as Yanez requested, Castile is shot 7 times by the officer when he tries to put his hands back in...

Doreen Cleyre is an individualist anarchist who lives in New Hampshire. She blogs at her sites Abolish Work and The Anarchist Township. Doreen is the editor of Abolish Work: An Exposition of Ergophobia and has been published on CounterPunch, Anti-War.com, The Center for a Stateless Society and many newspapers across the United States. When she's not writing, she's making terrible puns, playing bass guitar or video games.

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