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Anarchism without Hyphens

by | May 5, 2017 | ,

There is only one kind of anarchist. Not two. Just one. An anarchist, the only kind, as defined by the long tradition and literature of the position itself, is a person in opposition to authority imposed through the hierarchical power of the state. The only expansion of this that seems to me reasonable is to say that an anarchist stands in opposition to any imposed authority. An anarchist is a voluntarist. Now, beyond that, anarchists also are people and, as such, contain the billion-faceted varieties of human reference. Some are anarchists who march, voluntarily, to the Cross of Christ....

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The Death of Politics

by | Mar 2, 2017 | ,

This is not a time of radical, revolutionary politics. Not yet. Unrest, riot, dissent, and chaos notwithstanding, today's politics is reactionary. Both Left and Right are reactionary and authoritarian. That is to say, both are political. They seek only to revise current methods of acquiring and wielding political power. Radical and revolutionary movements seek not to revise but to revoke. The target of revocation should be obvious. The target is politics itself. Radicals and revolutionaries have had their sights trained on politics for some time. As governments fail around the world, as more...

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Karl Hess

Karl Hess (1923–1994) was a noted author and speechwriter (for Barry Goldwater, among others). Hess was a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, atheist, and libertarian activist. His career took him from the Republican Right to the New Left in the 1960s. He joined Students for a Democratic Society, worked with the Black Panther Party, and protested the Vietnam War. The IRS charged him with tax resistance, confiscated most of his property, and put a 100% lien on his future earnings. The documentary film Karl Hess: Toward Liberty won the Academy Award for best short documentary in 1981. Later in his life, he became known as a market anarchist and a folk hero among tax resisters.


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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

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From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...

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