tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26425198516035860752024-02-19T13:55:09.708-08:00National Anarchist Tribal AllianceNATA-NY is an organizational matrix in which individuals and communities can activate to manifest their intrinsic autonomy. We are a decentralized and leaderless network that aspires to increase the empowerment and independence of all people living in the New York area. Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-23382044854556780442016-05-24T13:14:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.489-07:00Yo Hillary! Come And Take It!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jkt_b5vc1tk/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jkt_b5vc1tk?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><br />Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-91826398285177542016-05-17T15:33:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.511-07:00New Book from Keith Preston <br /><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img class="fotorama__img" height="320" src="https://www.blackhousepublishing.com/image/cache/catalog/9781910881163-875x1000.jpg" width="280" /></div><br /> Listen to Keith discuss this topic on<a href="http://radiowehrwolf.podbean.com/e/radio-wehrwolf-keith-preston/?token=cf00ef92617966ab9d0ca950bf156cb2" target="_blank"> Radio Wehrwolf </a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blackhousepublishing.com/keith-preston/the-tyranny-of-the-politically-correct">Black House Publishing</a>.<br /><div class="tb_product_description tb_widget_text tb_text_wrap"><br /><b><i>The Tyranny of the Politically Correct – Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age</i></b><br />It is rare for anybody on the political “Left” to be critical of Political Correctness – it is after all a doctrine of their making – but in this book the anarchist Keith Preston is not only highly critical of the “PC” mindset, but he equates political correctness with the totalitarian regimes of Communist Russia and Nazi Germany. The banning of books, the intolerance of dissenters, and even show-trial by the media have all become part of the totalitarian regime that now dominates Western society.<br />Our Political representatives can sleep soundly for endorsing financially motivated wars, the creation of mass unemployment, the cutting of welfare payments, and even opposing tax increases on the rich – but they fear being attacked in the media for the “non-pc” aspects of their private lives. Publishing houses who established their reputation publishing the works of libertarians such as Thomas Paine, Murray Rothbard and Gustav Landauer, now warn their contemporary authors to omit all references in their work that can be seen to suggest any endorsement of cultural or social inequality for fear of offending the ever vigilant “pc” storm-troopers.<br />In <i>“The Tyranny of the Politically Correct – Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age”</i> Keith Preston provides an analysis of how Political Correctness began, and how it has been embraced by not only the political left, but by global corporations in the furtherance of their mutual “One World – One People” agenda.</div>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-50396567318630258982015-11-29T08:27:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.532-07:00The Enduring Relevance of Georges Sorel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />By a member of NATA <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBjVdDpzhHLLIBejfQM2vwSs8GDR7Flzj8d_2svSMHWF341l3CEkNgChXKcQbFhxu0A3ykfq7XiT_6XVVzzIl5eQYtG8YvC8CZLh0PakRfsrVmM2rVEbzPNbhRDvYWvGOUVwCKXecqJHU/s1600/Sorel-book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBjVdDpzhHLLIBejfQM2vwSs8GDR7Flzj8d_2svSMHWF341l3CEkNgChXKcQbFhxu0A3ykfq7XiT_6XVVzzIl5eQYtG8YvC8CZLh0PakRfsrVmM2rVEbzPNbhRDvYWvGOUVwCKXecqJHU/s400/Sorel-book.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>Georges Sorel is one of the founding fathers of revolutionary syndicalism. His seminal work “Reflections on Violence” is as relevant today as when it was published in 1908. It addresses the hijacking of the working class struggle by the parliamentary left, the failure of democracy to bring about better conditions for the working class, the insufficiency of economics, and the importance of myth to the revolutionary cause. Sorel was one of the first to redefine class struggle outside the confines of Marxist economism, paving the way for non-Marxist forms of socialism, from national-syndicalism to anarcho-syndicalism. The fight between Falangists and the CNT during the Spanish Civil War was a conflict between two interpretations of Sorel. Yet, his influence extends until the present day; the problems Sorel addressed are still very relevant. Where Sorel had his “parliamentary socialists,” we have our limousine liberals, those leftists who claim to represent the interests of the working man while openly colluding with the forces of high finance. Even the petty social concerns of the modern left were not entirely alien to Sorel’s time, as he notes the Parisian reformer Henri Turot was advocating not for the working class, but “the proletariat of love” referring to the lowest class of prostitutes. In the face of such inanity and avarice, the fate of the common man rests in his own hands. His liberation will only be achieved by violently breaking with the institutions of the upper classes, uncompromisingly, responding “by blows to the advances of the propagators of social peace” coming from the ruling elite to disingenuously extend an olive branch. This revolt will not be inspired by the cold calculations of the economists or the hazy utopias of social planners but a myth, as what lead the early Christians to martyrdom, or the ancient Greek to battlefield glory. <br /><br />The radical conclusions of Sorel were drawn from a distinct pessimism, in direct contrast to the spirit of the age. The industrial revolution had created a bloom of optimism that technical progress would render everyone happy in the near future, quite similar to how the techno-utopians of our own day and age, promise us a grand singularity where artificial intelligence will take care of everything and humanity will lead lives of leisure. This optimism flowed into the reformist spirit of the parliamentary socialists who believed that progressive legislation would eventually cure the social ills of France. In the face of this overwhelming confidence, Sorel casts a cold eye, as these exuberant legislators never came from the working class. They were spoiled by their wealth, decadent and degenerate, prone to spouting humanitarian platitudes. These socialists were beholden to newspaper intellectuals and Dreyfusard financiers, referring to the Dreyfus Affair that rallied upper class liberals against anti-Semitism. These socialists no longer wished to overthrow capitalism but to temper it, correct its abuses, all the while keeping the power in their own hands. In contrast to the optimistic sterility of the upper classes, the working class was thrown by the industrial revolution into revolutionary circumstances, the increasing deprivation they suffer breeds fervor, they start to dream of violence and the soothing words of the politicians can no longer quell them. Indeed, those who claimed to speak for them deserved a good beating, as Sorel states: <br /><br />“I believe also that it may be useful to thrash the orators of democracy and the representatives of the Government, for in this way you insure that none shall retain any illusions about the character of acts of violence. But these acts can have historical value only if they are the clear and brutal expression of the class war: the middle classes must not be allowed to imagine that, aided by cleverness, social science, or high-flown sentiments, they might find a better welcome at the hands of the proletariat.” <br /><br />The political classes must learn to mind their own business, as they must be told, through violent action, that they do not represent the people. In Sorel’s time, this would have suppressed the “parliamentary socialists” and thus granting the working class self-ownership. In our own time those who seek economic autonomy are once again manipulated by the same political forces. One can look at how the Occupy Wall Street movement, originally an expression of popular outrage, was hijacked by the collegiate intellectuals, who injected their abstruse theories of privilege into the discourse, drowning the concerns of the 99% under the sexual and racial politics of the academic bourgeoisie, a class that lives on the debt slavery of thousands of students, who power is guaranteed and defended by the arms of the American government. These “orators of democracy” deserved quite the trashing for their pretenses of speaking for the working man, they should have been sent packing to their nearest faculty lounge to console themselves with six figured tenured positions. The fact that they were given such an allowance to speak for a class they had never shared the slightest affinity with, moreover on the dime of that infamous Dreyfusard financier of our own time, George Soros, is more than ample proof of the necessity of Sorel's thought today. <br /><br />The form of this necessary thrashing of these “orators of democracy” is addressed by Sorel in “Reflections on Violence” in the form of the general strike. Sorel states, “The revolution appears as a revolt, pure and simple, and no place is reserved for sociologists, for fashionable people who are in favour of social reforms, and for the intellectuals who have embraced the profession of thinking for the proletariat.” This strike must not compromise or settle for reforms, it is to be taken as the dawning of a new era, “the general strike must be taken as a whole and undivided, and the passage from capitalism to Socialism conceived as a catastrophe, the development of which baffles description.” It cannot be rationalized or defined by science, it is pure faith and willpower. In the Syndicalist general strike, the people organize on a bellicose basis, “the proletariat organizes itself for battle, separating itself distinctly from the other parts of the nation, and regarding itself as the great motive power of history, all other social considerations being subordinated to that of combat ; it is very clearly conscious of the glory which will be attached to its historical role and of the heroism of its militant attitude; it longs for the final contest in which it will give proof of the whole measure of its valor. Pursuing no conquest, it has no need to make plans for utilizing its victories : it counts on expelling the capitalists from the productive domain, and on taking their place in the workshop created by capitalism.” The goal of the Syndicalist strike is to seize the means of production, and keep them in the hands of the workers. It is not to get better wages, more welfare, or shorter hours. It cannot be a tool of politicians who point to the strikers to justify the need for their pet programs, as if to say, “if only you had passed my bill, this could be avoided.” It is not an opportunity for young careerists to foist their vision of the future upon the people as Sorel warned, “There are plenty of young barristers, briefless and likely to remain so, who have filled enormous note-books with their detailed projects for the social organization of the future.” Let us beware what Sorel called the socialist financiers, who take the side of the worker on occasion to maintain their gains, who wish to use the workers' revolt to strengthen their own position and that of their political cronies. In our own day and age, we occasionally see men of very great wealth and power, like the aforementioned Soros, speak of the need for extended social safety nets and more equal distribution of wealth. They do not do this out of sympathy or any revolutionary instinct, they are doing it to prevent their utter and total destruction. Sorel remarks that this class will be swept away, “The general strike of the Syndicalists drives away from Socialism all financiers in quest of adventures.” The revolution has no need for such men, “the revolution will be absolute and irrevocable, because it will place the forces of production in the hands of free men, i.e. of men who will be capable of running the workshop created by capitalism without any need of masters. This conception would not at all suit the financiers and the politicians whom they support, for both are only fit to exercise the noble profession of masters.” Those who come offering to lead the working man to a utopia of their own creation should be met with fists. <br /><br />The Syndicalist strike is not asking for new masters. It will not result in the formation of a new democracy, with new parliaments for the next generation of careerist politicians to grandstand in. The Syndicalist is not asking to “replace a malevolent hierarchy by a benevolent one.” It is not an attempt to hijack the government to bother the rich for the benefit of the poor. Throughout history we have seen seen states past harsh laws against the rich, only to benefit the state. The revolution will not be a cabal of mercenaries blackmailing the wealthy for their own enrichment. That has been the nature of demagogic politicians since time immemorial. The Syndicalist general strike “brings to the fore the pride of free men, and thus protects the worker from the quackery of ambitious leaders.” The resulting society from the Syndicalist is open ended, anarchic, mutable. Sorel states that instead of seeking to emulate the old middle class institutions embodied in parliamentary democracy, “it would be better for it to remain content for a time with weak and chaotic organizations rather than that it should fall beneath the sway of syndicates which would copy the political forms of the middle class.” In the wider social context, the organization can vary widely across regional, cultural, religious, and ethnic forms. To attempt to reconstitute the unitary state would be a betrayal. Instead the power should remain directly in the hands of the workers on the lowest levels, making their own decisions. Sorel states, “The free producer in a progressive and inventive workshop must never evaluate his own efforts by any external standing.” If by some grand strike, the power were to be seized across the United States by the people, there would be a multiplicity of visions. In the South the workers may raise the Rebel flag, while in Harlem, Pan-African colors will fly over the people's new conquests. Putting power in the hands of the people means that they will be free to pursue their own visions, not a singular one imposed by the will of the state. <br /><br />The driving fire for this great uprising of the masses is a myth. It burns in the soul of all free men, it inspires him to risk sacrifice, even to the point of surrendering his own life, to attain the vision of glory he holds in his heart. The scientific prejudices that suggest it is unrealistic, it is not the right time, it is dangerous, hold no sway over the revolutionary. Revolution is not a creation of what Sorel derisively called the “little science.” Rationalism, of the Enlightenment era, is very much a part of the liberal capitalist worldview. For the Enlightenment liberal, scientific progress will solve all problems, the clockwork mechanism of the market will spur the growth of new tools to ameliorate the deficiencies of the current social system. Among the class of parliamentary socialists and their modern equivalents this so-called scientific thinking inevitably results in the construction of utopias, where by the implementation of their program, all the ills of the world will be cured. They think if only we tweaked some wages or interests rate that everything would just be perfect. The revolutionary does not think like that. His forebears are not economists but warriors and martyrs. The general strike must be taken as a myth for the proletarian warrior to march into battle with. He is like the early Christians who willingly accepted martyrdom. The revolutionary Syndicalist is more a Homeric figure living out a great drama, a quest for glory, rather than a mere automaton performing the calculated actions of some economist. He must not expect any material reward, no hero in war has ever expected such a recompense, only the glory of victory shall satisfy him. The general strike is a new moral paradigm that inspires the same ardor as the moralities that men in the past died for you. Revolution conceived as a salvation. <br /><br />In this mythic conception of revolution Sorel did something very important. It represents a new turning point in the history of Western thought. It is a revolutionary form of the Counter-Enlightenment, it does not look to resurrect the moralities displaced by the Enlightenment, however it is in direct conflict with the prevailing scientific and rationalist viewpoint of the Enlightenment. Sorel overthrows the liberal worldview as the liberal worldview overthrew the Feudal world. In breaking from an economic view of revolution, he has superseded Marx, who subscribed to the clockwork universe offered by the capitalists of the Enlightenment. This makes Sorel the founding father of all modern non-Marxist forms of socialism. <br /><br />For the American today, much has been made of socialism, generally in a negative sense. It is either the iron totalitarianism of the USSR or the tepid welfare state liberalism of Sweden. The idea of socialism as a means of people power is never heard in the United States. With Sorel we see a thoroughly anti-liberal, populist socialism. The socialism of worker's self-ownership. In the past, we saw some flares of this in American history. The IWW is the prime example of this current in the United States. The radical American labor activism of the early 20th century sought to seize mines and oil fields from the hold of their corporate masters. However, as the century progressed the labor movement fell into the hands of the American equivalents of Sorel's parliamentary socialists, the politicians and bankers, who sought to stave off the rage of the working man by throwing them crumbs from the Congressional table. Today we must recover that heritage. Sorel offers us a way to take control of our lives. Neither corporations nor states will free us, only the direct action of the people themselves will lead to the great American revolution that will liberate us from both. Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-59654351872824363962015-10-25T10:42:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.570-07:00NATA Interviews Augustus Invictus, Florida Libertarian Candidate for U.S. Senate<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_J-411q-HnGb33vx14Q3lKoDquPrtCQfdv-FV8MmASodItzuvmFFsj9gVIxFd0-5oYYWXI01K_u4szXX2Et82RD4tQlaoGCivLaKshJVTJbOpd0W0osMtDAwqRlIQNApxEuR9L3n9vQ/s1600/sol+invictus+flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_J-411q-HnGb33vx14Q3lKoDquPrtCQfdv-FV8MmASodItzuvmFFsj9gVIxFd0-5oYYWXI01K_u4szXX2Et82RD4tQlaoGCivLaKshJVTJbOpd0W0osMtDAwqRlIQNApxEuR9L3n9vQ/s1600/sol+invictus+flag.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://invictusforsenate.com/" target="_blank">invictusforsenate.com</a> </b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Please introduce yourself.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">My name is Augustus Invictus, and I am a Libertarian candidate for United States Senate in Florida. I am a father, a writer, an occultist, a philosopher, and an attorney.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How did you initially become interested in libertarian philosophy? How did you become involved with the Libertarian Party?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I was actually raised as a libertarian by my father. From the time of my birth he instilled in me a </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkKuPXCBiBIy1YBZs-2GDi1k7nMoHVNtuMm8_wLVj-W44MTqzAwPTAWmefdIryLcc7OJQJ7cMwZFttLhdpLKjyK4s-ysObcPem8CuzifLz3anspGWVBkcYoOn05BrfMYJ-7_fgRC9CBc/s1600/ASI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHkKuPXCBiBIy1YBZs-2GDi1k7nMoHVNtuMm8_wLVj-W44MTqzAwPTAWmefdIryLcc7OJQJ7cMwZFttLhdpLKjyK4s-ysObcPem8CuzifLz3anspGWVBkcYoOn05BrfMYJ-7_fgRC9CBc/s320/ASI.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>distrust of government and a respect for liberty. My father was and is a conservative tending toward anarchism, and while I do not consider myself an anarchist, this should go a long way in explaining my political bent. <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As has been pointed out by many of my detractors, I was not always a libertarian. I left home and made my own way, and it was not for years that I would return to my libertarian roots. I have written papers on eugenics and studied Fascist legal theory, I have voted for Republicans and Democrats both, and I have spoken kindly of both Napoleon and Che Guevara. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I have never seen the ability to learn from enemies as a weakness. And I have never understood this anti-intellectual strain of thought here in America that insists we all remain what we were born into, this mob mentality that insists we never change an opinion. I have searched as far and as deep into the human experience as I possibly could before entering into politics. If my refusal to apologize for my willingness to learn from everyone and not just those who think like my father is somehow offensive, then so be it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">How I came to become involved with the Libertarian Party is a different matter entirely. As you may be able to tell from the course of my campaign, I do not much care for party politics. In fact, I openly despise them. The backstabbing, the underhanded backroom deals, the viciousness of factions, the smiling hypocrisy, the overvaluation of bureaucrats, all of it, absolutely disgusts me. People ask why someone preaching rejection of the System would run for federal office; but the real question is why I would join a political party on the way there.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">JFK once remarked that every mother wants to see her son become President, but no mother wants to see him become a politician along the way. There is a lot to unpack from that remark, but the sentiment is unmistakable: To attain the power to do good in the System, you must do dirty things to get there, and that includes running for political office, fundraising, playing nice with people you despise, and, not least of all, working with a party.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Some may call this a Machiavellian perspective; I call it realism. Democracy is a numbers game, and parties have the numbers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am quite aware of the purist perspective that voting is evil, working within the System is evil, all government is evil, et cetera – but my perspective has always been that we must wage total war against the System. That includes artistic work, journalism, education, and, not least of all, human sacrifices who will enter into the System to destroy it from the inside. You may disagree with my methods, and you may disagree with my belief that we must have some sort of government after the fall of the present System; but I think it is far more constructive to focus on our common enemy than to insist on furthering our divisions.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In your opinion, what are the most important aspects of your platform for the U.S. Senate race?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">About a decade ago, I was a pharmacy technician. I had dropped out of college after receiving my associate’s degree so that I would never become a lawyer like my father. I started my own family and lived my own life, and everything was great. Then, one day, the DEA came into the pharmacy and shut it down. My family became destitute, and I vowed to enter into politics and shut down the DEA. </div><div class="MsoNormal">So, when I first drafted the platform, ending the War on Drugs was my primary issue. Not only was the War on Drugs the thing that set me on this path, but it is also the focus of my criminal defense practice. I have seen lives and families and entire communities ruined by the drug war, not just my own, but those of my clients, too. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But as I began to campaign, I learned pretty quickly that no one really gives a damn about the drug war. Your average American cares far more about his bills and his home and his family than he does about some political policy that doesn’t affect him and his. The police aren’t kicking in his doors or dragging him off in the middle of the night. They aren’t putting his son in prison for twenty years or turning his daughter into an asset on the street. It doesn’t affect him of his family, so he doesn’t much care about it. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I have, therefore, had to broaden my approach to this issue in order to explain that the police state itself is the result of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, our two longest-running wars. I have had to point out at length that these are not mere metaphorical wars but literal wars being waged by the Federal Government against its own citizens. And in broadening that message, I think I have finally started to gain some headway.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But this is not the only issue of my platform. My academic background is in international law, and I am promoting a non-interventionist foreign policy. I am also pushing the abolishment of all superfluous government agencies and the repeal of laws like the Controlled Substances Act, Obamacare, and the federal income tax. Otherwise, with the exception of immigration (I favor restrictions on immigration), abortion (I am against abortion-on-demand), and the environment (I favor environmental protection), I am pretty much in line with the official Libertarian Party platform. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The drug war has had a devastating impact on your professional and personal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does the drug war manifest in Florida specifically?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did your experience with the DEA change your views on the legality of drugs, or merely strengthen your opinions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are your thoughts on the social and economic implications of drug legalization?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Federal Government has been supplying military-grade arsenal and vehicles to State and local police departments for years. I remember going to a parade in the small town of Kissimmee a few years ago to help a friend get petitions signed for his judicial campaign. The local police department had an amphibious assault vehicle in the parade. I had to ask myself what the hell they needed that for. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We have armored personnel carriers for the local police here in Orlando. All across Florida we see military helicopters, assault rifles, and all else. At my residence in the quiet neighborhood of Thornton Park, I looked out my window to see that the cop who lived across the street from me was holding SWAT exercises at his house. Like anywhere else in America, the police are training in urban guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency, and I am firmly convinced that the past fourteen years in Afghanistan and Iraq have been training and preparation for the coming war in America. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As for my personal experience with the DEA all those years ago, it merely strengthened my opinion that government regulation of drugs is a total sham. My father is a criminal defense attorney, and he preached to me and my little brother from an early age the dangers of government overreach. Taking an extreme example, he used to say that heroin addicts should have the right to kill themselves with drugs if they want to. To him, it was simply none of the government’s business – and that is one view that has always stuck with me. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">On the other hand, I have to say that adulthood has mellowed me out a bit. I have seen – both in my personal life and in my work – some terrible things surrounding the drug culture. I have seen girls hooked on heroin who are prostituted by the scumbags who own them as slaves. I have seen senseless murders and brutal attacks. I have seen bright minds ruined. There are certainly dangers to drugs to which I was simply blind in my youth. And this idea that the drug dealer or drug user is some sort of noble savage whose rights are trammeled by a vicious government is more than a bit naïve. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Still, the government is vicious. And the drug war is devastating. Though my outlook has become more nuanced, it is still beyond dispute that the cure here is worse than the disease. We need a different sort of cure, one that begins with drug legalization, on the federal level, at the very least.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You mention that you disagree with the Libertarian Party on three issues—immigration, abortion, and the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you care to explain in detail why your viewpoint differs from that of your party, and why you think these differences are important?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I tend to be on the conservative end of the spectrum with immigration and abortion. And while I would not at all consider myself a liberal as concerns the environment, I do think that government has a role in its protection.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As concerns immigration, I reject the notion that people should be able to enter and leave America as they please. The idea that we can simultaneously allow uncountable foreigners into our country while maintaining our culture is demonstrative of a lack of historical understanding. Now, it may be that we have no common race or aesthetic or religion anymore; but we as Americans certainly hope we share a common belief in the freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom from unwarranted search and seizure, and so on and so forth. I will not bore you with the usual arguments of assimilation being impossible with mass immigration. I would rather point out that the rise and fall of nations is due not to the change of religion or the decline of morals or the depletion of resources alone: behind this ebb and flow history is always mass immigration or mass emigration. If we are to retain any semblance of an American identity, we must have reasonable restrictions on immigration. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In regards to abortion, I am in favor of its proscription, at least as it pertains to what I call abortion-on-demand. The notion that this is a women’s rights issue deliberately overlooks the issue of the rights of the child. Liberals bend over backward and try to jump through these fiery hoops of illogic to “prove” that a child is not a child until the moment it pops out of the womb, as though a fetus at seven months is something less than human, as though life beginning at conception is not biology but a religious superstition. Libertarians get up in arms (pun intended) about the NAP, but they argue with a straight face for the crushing, dismembering, and trashing of a human being in the name of Roe v. Wade, as though the activist Supreme Court were now our friend rather than our foe. I do of course recognize the need for abortion in cases of medical emergencies, but that is not what is being debated in this country. What liberals are arguing for is abortion-on-demand, a monstrous procedure of pure convenience, not a legitimate medical procedure. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">When it comes to the environment, I do not believe that clean water and soil is a liberal or conservative issue. I have never understood the conservative mindset that believes unrestricted business to be more valuable than the earth, and I have never understood the liberal mindset that believes international government to be the answer to corporate pollution. I am basically in line with the thinking of so-called eco-terrorists on this issue. To my mind, it is incumbent upon every man to protect the world around him. If someone is pouring poison into your river, asking the government (who probably allowed him to pollute it to begin with) is not going to stop him anytime soon. I do not think a man should have to defend the protection of his homeland any more than he should have to defend the protection of his family. This does not mean, however, that the government should do nothing to protect the environment, for the role of the government is to protect the country. And I do not see the virtue in allowing corporations to destroy everything around us because we distrust the government: corporations aren’t always so trustworthy, either.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The chairman of the Florida Libertarian party recently resigned because of your campaign. He claims that you are a fascist who is recruiting white supremacists into the party. How do you respond to this? Why do you think white nationalists support your campaign?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I have been forced to respond to many criticisms by Adrian Wyllie, who has deliberately misrepresented more things about me and my campaign than I could even count. He knows that by launching these accusations he puts me on the defensive, which makes it difficult to discuss the platform, because everyone is so focused on Satanic sacrifices and neo-Nazi plots to overthrow the Government. (So thank you, by the way, for asking about the platform first.)</div><div class="MsoNormal">In point of fact, I am a Libertarian. Wyllie has been attempting to discredit me for six months now, and in failing to do so he has turned to outright falsehoods. That being said, I can certainly understand why people hearing these accusations might find them believable: the campaign logo features an eagle and fasces; I wrote a paper promoting eugenics in law school; and I have done many poetry recitations with the works of Ezra Pound. But that logo was taken from the banner of the ancient Roman Senate and was a recognition of our heritage; I have publicly and repeatedly disavowed the eugenics paper (which will be discussed below); and my love of Ezra Pound does not make me a fascist any more than my love of Marilyn Manson makes me a member of the Church of Satan. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As concerns the white nationalists, they support my campaign for the same reason many other subcultures do: We have a common enemy. I am not going to condemn them for their beliefs any more than they would condemn me for having Hispanic children. Neither would I condemn black nationalists for resenting white people or leftist Libertarians for promoting open borders, though I certainly do disagree with them. This System is oppressive to us all, and to refuse to work with each other because one person is a skinhead and another likes Bernie Sanders is self-destructive. The System holds power for as long as it keeps us splintered, and I aim to upset that status quo.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You wrote a paper advocating a state sponsored eugenics program, but recently you shared that your position on this issue has changed. Can you elaborate on your thought process?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Because I have had to answer for this paper so much, I thought the most efficient thing to do would be to write a disclaimer to that paper. I will post it here in full: </div><div class="MsoNormal">My political opponents in the Libertarian Party, having no legitimate grounds to attack me, have made the following paper the centerpiece of their misguided crusade. Despite the fact that I have already addressed this paper in one of my first Fireside Chats ( https://youtu.be/x-gMxyGlbw0 ), despite the fact that I have repudiated the policy aspect of this paper repeatedly & publicly (vide https://www.facebook.com/notes/augustus-invictus/official-response-to-the-criticisms-of-chairman-wyllie/172864523046651), and despite the fact that eugenics has nothing whatsoever to do with any part of my campaign platform, these disingenuous gossipmongers continue to raise this paper as their foremost evidence that I am not a “real” Libertarian. And so I must address it here, as a disclaimer to the paper itself.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The first objection of my critics is, of course, the very existence of the paper. To this I reply that while I still believe the legal argument to be valid, I disavow the public policy argument that States should implement eugenics programs. This change in perspective has come from my experience in law and politics. When working with theory – which is to say, when working in a vacuum – one can build the most glorious castles, draft the most ingenious battle plans, and divine the very essence of objective reality. But when one attempts to bring this theory into practice, one finds that the castle was made of air, that even the best battle plan can be ruined by what Clausewitz calls “friction,” and that reality is the Nietzschean world, not the world of Plato’s Forms. There comes a time when the scholar must realize the absurdity of believing that distilling life in books does not alter the truth of life; and if that time does not come for the scholar, then he shall forever remain blinded by his conceit.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In the world of theory, I do not find the underlying values of this paper to be objectionable. If two parents know that their child will be born with Huntington’s Disease, and that the child will die a horribly painful death by six years of age, it is the most reprehensible act imaginable to bear that child anyway, simply to satisfy some selfish desire of the parents. Neither should it be controversial that we might prefer intelligent people to stupid people; healthy people to ill people; able-bodied people to crippled people; four-limbed people to dismembered people; beautiful people to ugly people; strong people to weak people. This obsession with egalitarianism – this notion that we must all be treated as equal no matter how irresponsible or reckless that notion is, no matter how divorced from reality or counter to all common sense – this obsession has wrecked every last shred of dignity our once great country did possess.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">That being said, the problem is in the means. Again, in theory, were a State run by a beneficent philosopher-king, and were his edicts carried out by magnanimous servants of the people, then perhaps eugenic measures could work. But the fact is that the people in government are no better than the people governed. The fact is that the people heading a eugenics program would not be the selfless promoters of a revived humanity, but rather petty, short-sighted bureaucrats interested in their paychecks, their promotions, and the enforcement of their dogmas. Should the unreflective, petty-souled flies who call themselves my critics ever come to head a eugenics program (as they have come to head the Libertarian Party of Florida), they would wipe out my entire bloodline with the same zeal they have shown in trying to have me expelled from my own political party. And, like the early Christians and the Puritan witch hunters, they would do it all in the name of justice.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The second objection of my critics is that the paper should never have existed at all. I have heard it said that certainly we have free speech, but this is a little extreme. In other words, my critics believe in free speech and in the marketplace of ideas only so long as the topics under discussion do not make them uncomfortable. My critics know not that freedom requires strength. To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable. Francis Galton would blush at the gall of the modern soccer mom.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Yet another objection of my critics is that a eugenics program violates the Non-Aggression Principle. Let us leave aside the fact that the “Libertarians” who engage in witch hunts are hopelessly uninformed about what the Non-Aggression Principle actually is. And let us, for the sake of argument, say that we agree on every point as to its meaning. All points being agreed upon, I DO NOT ADVOCATE STATE-SPONSORED EUGENICS PROGRAMS. Their objection, then, is a red herring.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Another objection of my critics is that this piece was posted on LinkedIn just last year, and is, therefore, too recent a publication for me to have genuinely disavowed. As I have explained ad nauseam, I wrote this paper as a staff writer for one of the journals at my law school. It was posted to LinkedIn as being representative of my legal writing.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The next objection of my critics is that I have not pulled the article from LinkedIn. To this I reply that its disappearance would be even worse than its original publication, for then these same critics would accuse me of hiding something or sweeping the paper under the rug for political purposes. I have made my name on refusing to apologize for my past, and I will not start trying to bury it now.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is a shame that one must write disclaimers on an academic paper in a country claiming to be the Land of the Free. It is a shame that our freedom of speech is circumscribed by the weak stomachs and low intelligence of others. It is a shame that what could be might never be for the simple fact that men of genius are required to waste so much of their time explaining themselves to the common man. We have traded our torches & pitchforks for keyboards & blogs – and we think ourselves enlightened therefore.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But if you truly wish to consider yourself enlightened, then steel yourself to encounter things that make you uncomfortable. If you wish to believe that you are a cut above the rest, then you must not squawk and babble like all the rest. Listen & learn. Examine & analyze. Think & discern. Consider & ponder. Then, only then, should you craft your objection. Otherwise, you are nothing more than the fat fool on the couch yelling at the TV, hoping someone can hear your impotent rage in some distant production studio.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is your position on intervention in the Middle East and foreign aid to Israel?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I want to end all aid to Israel immediately. I have repeatedly made the campaign promise that if I am elected to the Senate, the Israel lobby will no longer control our foreign policy. I take a hard line on that one.</div><div class="MsoNormal">As concerns intervention in the Middle East, I honestly believe that our cutting off support to Israel will solve many of those problems. The fact that everyone in the Middle East hates us when we support Israel and defend all its crimes should not seem like a supernatural occurrence to anyone. We reap what we sow, and as long as we continue to support Israel, we will sow all the ill-will and resentment that goes along with it. And as soon as we discontinue our support of Israel, there will no longer be any reason to fight their wars and send our military to do the bidding of the Israel lobby.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> You have been forced to deal with a large amount of criticism. Has any of this criticism been helpful to you in any way, or had some unexpected positive effect?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">When I was thirteen years old, I decided that the Bible was wrong. Surrounded by Christians at home, at school, and of course at church, I came to be very familiar at an early age what it felt like to be told I was wrong about everything. That outsider’s position carried through my adolescence into my adulthood, straight through to the practice of law, where now I am told daily by government attorneys why I am wrong about everything. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Vicious criticism has, therefore, been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. It comes far too often from those who simply cannot understand who I am or what I am doing. Whether you are an atheist or an agnostic, a Pagan or a Muslim, you know what it is like to be not just disagreed with but looked down on by a Christian who has never left his hometown or questioned what he was raised to believe. The same is true of the anarchist who is looked down on because of the college-educated Republican who knows the anarchist must be stupid or insane. Not just religious thought but all thought is dogma. Reason is a lie that gives us comfort in our intellectual laziness.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">All of that is a long way of saying that I do not take criticism personally, but rather as a matter of course for one who challenges the herd mentality. Neither do I take criticism uncritically. (The redundancy is deliberate.) I am able to sift through the emotion-driven, knee-jerk reactions to those comments that actually help me to improve. I am able to determine who is attacking me because they cannot think for themselves, and I am able to listen to those who have offered constructive counterpoint to my arguments.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">To answer your question, the answer is Yes, some of the criticism I have received in the past few weeks has been constructive. The people who call me an animal abuser because I sacrificed a goat or who accuse me of using a fake accent or who make fun of my name can go fly a kite – but there have been people who have offered some very sound critiques. For instance, it has been found suspicious that I speak of the problems of the System without providing clear solutions to those problems. There are those who believe that this is the pattern of all rising tyrants. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I find this to be a valid concern, and I will admit that it is one of the many shortcomings of my campaign. I do not want to be the typical politician who makes promises on the campaign trail he cannot keep, but I do understand the concern that I am asking my fellow citizens to give me power without giving solutions beyond the dismantling of the Federal Government. Having heard this reasonable criticism, I have been making an effort to write out more solutions. It is a work in progress, and I am still far short of anything that might allay the fears of my detractors, but I do believe that this is the sort of criticism that can help my campaign and, I hope, the country.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Describe your spiritual beliefs.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I am a Pagan of the ancient sort. I worship the God and Goddess, as well as the gods and spirits and all the rest. Of course I do not believe that Zeus and Hera are sitting atop Mount Olympus assisting and ruining the lives of men – but neither did the ancient mystics. Paganism has been given a bad rap in our Judaeo-Christian society: it is seen as outmoded, outdated, mythological, and downright silly. And by those anti-Pagans who actually recognize its validity, it is pure Devil worship.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">What it actually is, aside from these misconceptions, is the worship of Nature and the quest for harmony with the world around us. It is the resurrection of ancient virtue and the adoration of strength, courage, and honor. It is the recognition that there is no division of the spiritual and the material – at least not as understood by Christians – and that, as Nietzsche wrote, the apparent world is the real world. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">That being said, there is still a strong belief in the afterlife. I do not speak for all Pagans, of course, but I subscribe personally to the doctrine of reincarnation. Also, the ancient ideal of an honorable death is a Pagan notion that has fortunately survived the advent of Judaeo-Christianity.</div><div class="MsoNormal">But I could go on for hours about this. Hopefully that is a sufficient introduction. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you consider yourself a Thelemite? How do you respond to an article claiming you were kicked out of the Ordo Templi Orientis </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">﴾</span>OTO</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">﴿</span>?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I am indeed a Thelemite, and I have been a Thelemite since I was sixteen years old. I approached the OTO at eighteen years of age, and I was a member thereof for eleven years. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">It is true that I was expelled from the Order. But what the article failed to mention is that Wasserman was the one who had me expelled. It failed to mention that Wasserman was the one who gave the story of the goat sacrifice to Adrian Wyllie in the hopes of ending my political campaign. It failed to mention that Wasserman has had a personal grudge against me for three years because I questioned his authority in the OTO. It reported his libelous statements about me, but it did not report any of this background.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I might also point out that I was not expelled for animal sacrifice, which is not against any policy of the Order, and which was practiced by Aleister Crowley, the founder of our religion. I was expelled for differences with the leadership, Wasserman chief among them. In 2013 I wrote an open letter that caused several persons and organizations to call the FBI on me. The leadership of the OTO came to believe that I had opened them and the Order to persecution by the FBI, and this was the beginning of a conflict that led ultimately to my expulsion. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your campaign has attracted controversy because of a ritual goat sacrifice you performed. Would you be comfortable sharing the tradition behind, and meaning of, this ceremony?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Once upon a time, people did not eat meat three meals a day. Our ancestors ate what they could forage, what they could hunt, and what they could grow in their fields. Meat was generally reserved for feasts, whether for the initiation of war or the marriage of a man and woman or some other great undertaking. When the animal was slaughtered, it was dedicated to the deity being revered. There was an understanding that one was taking the life of a living being, and it was necessary to sanctify that act. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Of course this is a generalization, possibly an overly romanticized one. And of course you may disagree with whether there are gods at all or whether it is silly to think that taking a life can be made a sacred act. Leaving all that aside, this is the tradition, and this is the notion behind sacrifice of any sort, whether of grain or of animals or of humans. Life is dedicated to a greater purpose or energy or deity, and that life becomes greater by virtue of that dedication. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In my case, specifically, the goat was sacrificed as a rite of thanksgiving. In the Spring of 2013, I undertook a Pilgrimage and walked from Orlando to the Mojave Desert, where I prayed and fasted for a week. I did not expect to survive the journey or the desert, as I am a city boy with no wilderness survival training. When I made it back to the East, very much alive, I credited the gods with my survival. The goat was sacrificed to the God of the Wilderness, who had brought me through the ordeal. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You have mentioned a "prophecy" about being born for a "great war." Can you explain this to our readers?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Many people, familiar enemies and total strangers alike, have tried their hand at determining which label from the DSM applies to me. I’ve seen the commentary run the gamut from schizophrenia to delusions of grandeur to narcissism to the less scientific labels of “batshit crazy” and “loony.” None of these things are actually true, but I don’t see it as being constructive to defend myself against that nonsense. The one thing, though, that I could understand being interpreted as insane, is my unrepentant assertion that I was born for a Great War. And perhaps more insane would be my reasons for believing this. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I have always lived my life by my paying close attention to my dreams. The role of the priest or magician or shaman or whatever you want to call him is to unite the waking world and the dream world, and I have always acted along these lines. Throughout my entire boyhood and adolescence, I had apocalyptic dreams of war and destruction. This was striking, because I was a rather sheltered child, and these dreams were certainly not coming from the television.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As I grew older, the dreams became more and more intense; so much so that I began to question which was my real life: the waking world, in which I led a relatively tame, suburban life, or the dream world, in which I was a nameless soldier fighting in horrifically violent battles. Like the story of Chuang Tzu, who dreamt he was a butterfly and awoke to be a man, I could no longer determine with certainty which was the dream. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">My depth of understanding increased over the years, but I have always maintained that my purpose on this earth was to play a role in the coming Great War. As I grew up, I was no longer the only one having these sorts of dreams. My ex-mother-in-law, for instance, had dreams in which I was giving a speech in front of a large crowd when an assassin’s bullet blew my brains all over my daughter, who was in her late teens or early twenties in the dreams. I have been thinking about that a lot lately, now that I am making frequent speeches and my daughter is thirteen. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As for what the Great War will entail, which may have been the original point of your question, my guess is as good as the next person’s. I do not think I am alone in sensing that a catastrophe is coming. Whether it is an economic or a governmental collapse or both; whether it is the imposition of martial law or some sort of manufactured crisis; I think many Americans are on edge with this feeling that something will happen within our lifetime, like animals feeling unsettled before a storm.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Looking at this not as a mystic but as a student of history and an observer of humanity, it seems to me that this will not be a war of loyalists against revolutionaries or of North against South. Neither will it be Republicans against Democrats or liberals against conservatives. Again, this is simply a rational observation, not a mystic prophecy, but I think America has become so Balkanized that a national crisis would take the form of a war of all-against-all. Whether Muslim or Christian or white or black or liberal or conservative, lines will be drawn, and we will all have to decide what matters to us most and which banner we will follow. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In your opinion, what is the relationship between culture and politics?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is a huge question, one deserving of a treatise, one I cannot possibly do justice here. I can only attempt to answer in a manner that gives an idea of my thoughts on the matter.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I am fond of quoting de Maistre’s maxim that every nation gets the government it deserves. To my mind, culture and politics are inseparable. The political system of a nation is simply a reflection of its culture. It is probably most instructive to look to historical examples: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The democracy of ancient Athens during the Peloponnesian War was strategically short-sighted, emotional, driven by greed and corruption, and ultimately self-destructive. This was reflective of the society of Athens, which was cosmopolitan, intellectual, and focused on empire. But more than this, it was reflective of the individuals in Athenian politics, who were more concerned with money and status than with the welfare of their people. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The government of Sparta during the War was focused on military strategy rather than a strategy of empire-building, and driven by the lust for power. This was reflective of the culture of Sparta, which was militaristic, ascetic, and focused more on duty and honor than intellectual or artistic pursuits. And the politicians of Sparta were militaristic themselves, and therefore concerned with the group as a whole. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This may not be the best example, both because Thucydides watched the War from the Athenian side and because his exile from Athens likely embittered him to his own city and those who led its government. But it is at least illustrative of my opinion on the relationship between culture and politics. Politics is an expression of the culture which is itself an expression of the individuals who compose it. Politics and culture are what they are because the individuals are who they are, for good or for ill. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How do you view anarchism as opposed to libertarianism?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Christopher Cantwell recently wrote an article in which he rightly critiqued me for being inexperienced in the libertarian movement and largely ignorant of writers like Murray Rothbard. He also pointed out that my approach to political philosophy is more akin to classical liberalism than what we might understand as modern libertarianism. And I can’t say I disagree with any of that. </div><div class="MsoNormal">So, it may be that my understanding of the division between anarchism and libertarianism is less scholarly and nuanced than that of you and your readership. But my view, simply stated, is that anarchism rejects government entirely, whilst libertarianism sees government as a necessary evil. It is this fundamental distinction that causes me to call myself a libertarian.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have been criticized for my failure to understand that minimal government will always devolve into tyrannical government. This is a criticism I do not find justified. I am fully aware that government devolves and that power corrupts. I have studied history to a great extent, and I am not fool enough to think that instituting a minimal government is somehow going to keep the government in line in perpetuum. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Neither did the Founding Fathers, though. When the Framers created the Constitution, they did not have any illusions as to the fact that ambitious men would seek to take control of the Government and use it toward nefarious ends. That is the story of government all across time and space. And that is why it was a not unfamiliar sentiment that the Constitution was an impermanent document, and that each generation would be required to take up the mantle and recreate the government for the benefit of the people. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The long history of the Constitution is a testament both to its usefulness and to the apathy of Americans. On the one hand, the Constitution (in conjunction with a low population and vast expanses of wilderness for expansion of the growing population, among other factors) has prevented the full-scale violent revolutions so well-known in European history. On the other hand, our refusal as a nation to reexamine the Constitution and to question the purpose and the bounds of government with each generation has turned the Constitution into Holy Scripture, which is great for conservation of a corrupt system, but horrible for the human spirit. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As I said, I have been criticized for my failure to understand history, and I find that criticism unjustified. I would say, conversely, that a lasting anarchy is without historical precedent. I do not mean to be unfair in presenting a caricature of anarchism as utopian, but I do mean to make the point that, historically, anarchy leads directly to despotism. It creates chaos, and a strong man rises to bring order out of that chaos. I think of Napoleon, who found France in the gutter and picked it up. I think of Hitler, who rose to power only because of the absolute disorder in Germany.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But there are less extreme examples, our own Federal Government, for one. And it is true that we might rightly blame government itself for being the progenitor of the very pandemonium that caused the more severe government to arise. But I would posit that all human society is necessarily marked by conflict because the necessity of conflict is part of the human animal. Lasting anarchy is impossible because humanity is neither rational nor peaceful by nature; and that is why government is simultaneously both necessary and evil. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Earlier this year, Keith Preston of Attack the System wrote an article advocating the creation of a political party designed specifically to unite disparate groups with one commonality: a dislike, distrust, or complete rejection of the federal government. Preston’s argument is that such a “pan-secessionist meta-party” has the potential to undermine the system because it appeals to a growing sentiment in the country and could attract a wide range of members. By “allowing” vast differences in social and economic theory (as well as foreign policy, etc.) to coexist within one party, the focus can be dismantling the federal government. Being that you are a member of a political party, what are your thoughts on Preston’s idea for a “pan-secessionist meta-party”? Do you think this idea is compatible with your libertarian perspective?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Yes, I do believe that this idea of Mr. Preston’s is compatible with my perspective, whether as a “small-l” libertarian or as a member of the Libertarian Party. In fact, I have been running my campaign for United States Senate with exactly this sentiment in mind. I want to activate the apolitical, radicalize the political, and unite disparate groups.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As I am running for federal office, my stated aim in this campaign is to enter into the Federal Government and to fix it from the inside. Mr. Preston’s stated aim in the aforementioned article, secession, is obviously attacking from a different angle. But as I have said in this interview and elsewhere, I believe that the best plan of action calls for a strategy of total war. With this strategy in mind, I think that mine and Mr. Preston’s views are perfectly in agreement.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">On the other hand, uniting libertarians, anarchists, and the like is akin to herding cats. As has been already discussed, I am forced to renounce daily any affinity for fascism. But I will say this for the fascists, they knew that they had to work together in order to achieve anything. The fasces itself is a symbol of this: as separate rods, we can each be broken, but tied together, we are unbreakable. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I seem to split groups right down the middle, which is unfortunate, because I am trying my damndest to bring them all together. The problem, though, is that many people are more invested in their particular groups and limited worldviews than in the greater picture. I find that many Libertarians would prefer to scratch their friends’ backs and try to get along in a System with which they are comfortable than to follow through to the logical conclusions of their ideals. I have met a great deal of opposition from fellow Libertarians, but none so vicious as those from the Libertarian Party of Florida. But it is not just Libertarians. It is human nature to resist coming under a larger banner and putting aside differences for a common goal, whether that goal is long-term, mid-term, or short-term.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">There will always be that guy who wants secession but who is so hung up on his singular pet issue that it blinds him. There will always be that woman who hates the government but who is so obsessed with protecting Israel that she will continue to vote in Republicans. There will always be that well-meaning college kid who knows the faults of the Federal Government but thinks Bernie Sanders will change everything by digging us a deeper hole. It is difficult to look past our prejudices, especially for those of us who are so distrustful of politicians and political movements to begin with.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is also worth noting (and I try to point this out at every opportunity) that those of us who have rejected the two major parties tend to consider ourselves a cut above the rest. We each think that we are obviously the smartest person in the room because we were able to see through the lies of the System. That is all fine and well until you have a room full of people who think they are the smartest person in the room. It is no wonder that those with anti-Government views have been so ineffective in fighting the government when all they do is tear each other down to prove how smart they are.</div><div class="MsoNormal">All that being said, I have never been one for cynicism. It is better to die trying than to lie down and quit. The greatest things in this world have always been achieved by those who strove for the impossible – or at least what everyone thought to be impossible at the time.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is there anything you would like to add?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I would like to say that I understand the criticisms many anarchists have of me and my campaign. But I would encourage everyone to look to the truth behind the headlines and the oft-repeated libel. I have indeed studied fascism, and I even have an appreciation for it, but that does not make me a fascist. I certainly do have supporters who are white nationalists, but I also have supporters who are anarchists, and I think I have demonstrated to those who will listen that I am neither. I did in fact write a paper on eugenics in law school, but I do not support state-sponsored eugenics programs, and it is certainly not a part of my campaign or my legislative agenda.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">It is fair to disagree with me and to criticize me where we do have genuine disagreements, especially fundamental ones like the proper role of government. But I think it does a disservice to us all, as well as the movement, to refuse to listen to an opponent’s argument (if indeed I am considered an opponent to anarchists at all) and choose instead to believe what is in the press, which I think we all know is more than a bit slanted. So I would encourage everyone to look past the sensational nonsense and at least disagree with me on the actual disagreements. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">That being said, what I would like ideally is for all of us to work together. After the dismantlement of the present System, you may turn your guns on me to keep me from recreating the government. But at this juncture, we all have the same enemy, and that is the Federal Government of the United States of America. 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<blockquote><em>Ultimately, we may at some point be able to combine the Green, Libertarian, Populist, Constitution, Natural Law and other minor parties into a single party,… I would suggest calling such a party the “Federalist Party” for several reasons. First, there is precedent for this from American history. Second, it accurately describes what the internal structure of the party should be. Third, it provides a model for the general types of institutional arrangements we should seek to develop. Perhaps our party flag could be an anarchist black flag with the snake from the “don’t tread on me” Gadsen battle flag embroidered on it.</em></blockquote>It is now time to begin the application of the core strategic ideas outlined in such ARV-ATS documents and “Liberty and Populism” and “<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/philosophical-anarchism-and-the-death-of-empire/">Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire</a>.” <span id="more-35665"></span><br /> <img alt="" height="319" id="irc_mi" src="http://dailyanarchist.com/img/market-anarchist-gadsden-flag.JPG" width="425" /><br /> Since the above was written, at least two proposals have been put forward concerning how the type of meta-party described above might be organized and what it’s orientation might be. The most elaborate plan of this kind has been advanced by Ryan Faulk’s <a href="http://neweuropeanp.tumblr.com/post/46714812901/to-dissolve-the-union">All Nations Party</a>. The ANP is a proposed pan-secessionist party that would have ethnic separatism as its primary, though not necessarily exclusive, orientation. Another such proposal is Joe Kopsick’s <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/24/panarchist-party-u-s-a/">Pananarchist Party USA</a>, which seeks to advance the concept of non-territorial governments within a general individualist anarchist framework. While both proposals are a commendable efforts to open dialogue and engage in strategic formulation on this question, in both instances there might also be a bit of overreach.<br /> <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/17/awakening-the-sleeping-giant/">Twenty-five percent of the US population currently expresses at least casual sympathy for the idea of a secessionist movement</a> in their own region or locality. The principle objective for those of us who have embraced the pan-secessionist strategy should at this point be the awakening of this sleeping giant. The question is how to we turn this mass of 80 million passive sympathizers into a mass of active sympathizers? The first thing that should be recognized is that most of these 80 million potential constituents are not adherents of extremist or exotic ideologies. Instead, the bulk of the opinions held by these people are likely to be rather close to the mainstream on most issues.<br /> There is no evidence that there is a sizable constituency for ethnic separatism within any ethnic group. To be sure, there is a tiny but outspoken minority of people within all ethnic groups who advocate for ethnic separatism, but the sum total of all ethnic separatists within all ethnic groups would still be a tiny fraction of the 320 million people who make up the US population. It is also true that there are many people who practice <em>de facto </em>ethnic separatism, but this largely reflects the economic and lifestyle choices of individuals, and is a far cry from advocating <em>de jour </em>ethnic separatism as a matter of ideology or moral conviction. While it is certainly true that ethnic separatists can also be pan-secessionists, it is unlikely that a pan-secessionist meta-party (PSMP) that advances ethnic separatism as a primary value will win a great deal of sympathy.<br /> Likewise, it is unlikely that a PSMP that is primarily oriented towards the promotion of an esoteric or exotic ideology will gain much of an audience. While there are certainly plenty of historical precedents for such concepts as non-territorial governments, such ideas are also culturally alien to the overwhelming majority of persons in North America. Therefore, it would be unwise to adopt an ideological stance of this kind as principal strategic objective.<br /> <br />However, the concept of secession maintains very powerful roots within mainstream American history, culture, and politics for reasons that are too obvious to require discussion. Further, secession is a tactical concept that can be embraced by movements of any ideological, cultural, ethnic, religious, or economic orientation. How then should a PSMP organize itself?<br /> The All Nations Party idea of a PSMP that functions as a umbrella for a set of constituent parties and regional or local secessionist movements that have their own interests is generally a solid one. However, I would suggest that at the meta-party level the PSMP should have only two stated objectives:<br /> <br />1. Promoting, advocating, legitimizing, and legalizing the right of secession by regions and localities from larger governmental units.<br /> 2. Promoting, advocating, legitimizing, and legalizing the right of minor parties to participate in public elections against the present two-party duopoly.<br /> <br />From this basic starting point, the constituent parties and secessionist movements associated with the PSMP would have every right to advocate for whatever philosophies or issues they wished. For example, the PSMP would have no position on foreign policy. If a collection of red state secessionists wished for the red states to go to war with ISIS, then so be it. The PSMP would have no position on economics. Presumably, for example, there would be both advocates of socialism and capitalism within the PSMP. The PSMP would exist only for the purpose of defending the rights of constituent groups to form their own parties or secessionist movements advocating for any ideas that they wished, and to strip away political and legal barriers to both competition in public elections by minor parties and secession by regionalist movements. This is does not in any way mean that any constituent party, organization, or movement of the PSMP would abandon or even downplay any of its other issues. It simply means that the PSMP would provide an organizational umbrella for the advancement of the interests of all minor parties and secessionist movements at the collective level. Within the framework of the PSMP, socialists would still advocate for single-payer healthcare, libertarians for tax cuts, social conservatives for the pro-life cause, and social leftists for LGBT issues. The PSMP would no doubt include many constituencies who were otherwise antithetical to each other, such as the Prohibition Party and the U.S. Marijuana Party.<br /> <br />In this sense, it must be understood that the PSMP would maintain both macro-level constituencies and micro-level constituencies. At the macro-level, the PSMP would have only two constituencies: the 25% and growing number of Americans who sympathize with the idea of secession, and those who prefer alternatives to the two-party duopoly. At the macro-level, the PSMP would exist only to promote the two issues of third party rights and secessionist rights, and these issues would be promoted in the same way that proponents of marijuana legalization, gay marriage, gun rights, gun control, the right-to-life or abortion rights have promoted their own issues. At the micro-level, the PSMP would have many constituencies, i.e. the constituencies of its component parties, organizations, movements, and the issues raised by each of these. Obviously, the opportunity would arise within such a scenario for a infinite variety of conflicts between the various constituents of the PSMP, and such conflicts are to be expected. Therefore, mutual agreements among the PSMP constituents would have to be formulated in order to maintain the common peace to the greatest degree reasonably possible. The most practical approach would be for the various constituent forces to simply agree to stay out of each other’s backyards. For example, the constituents forces that trended rightward would agree to focus their organizing and recruiting activities on the “red” demographic sectors of the US, and the forces that trended leftward would agree orient themselves towards organizing among the “blue” sectors.<br /> <br />At the national level, the presidential candidates of the PSMP would run solely on the two core principles of the PSMP: advocating for the rights of third parties, and the rights of secessionists. Preferably, the presidential ticket would be split between the Left and Right. For example, the presidential candidate might be from the Socialist Party or the Green Party, while the vice-presidential candidate would be from the Libertarian or Constitution Parties. Further, the Left/Right split ticket should be reversed every four years. For example, in the 2016 election the presidential candidate might be from the Left with the vice-presidential candidate might be from the Right. In 2020, the presidential candidate would then be from the Right while the vice-presidential candidate would be from the Left.<br /> <br />All other candidates of the PSMP would run on joint tickets of both the PSMP and their respective constituent parties. For example, the candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts might run on the tickets both the PSMP and the Socialist Action Party, and a comparable candidate in Texas might run on the tickets of both the PSMP and the Objectivist Party. Once again, in order to avoid overlap, rival constituent parties and organizations would mutually agree to stay out of each others backyards. Additionally, the candidates from minor parties and secessionist movements might also be combined at times. For example, a candidate in Georgia might stand simultaneously for the PSMP, Constitution Party and the League of the South, while a candidate in Oregon might stand for the PSMP, Green Party and Cascadia.<br /> <img alt="" height="481" id="irc_mi" src="http://www.davidwalbert.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/political_parties_poster.jpg" width="734" /><br /> An approach of the kind that has been outlined above would serve multiple purposes. One would be to simply awaken the sleeping giant of potential secessionist sympathies among one-quarter of the U.S. population, and to challenge the Democratic-Republican two-party duopoly. Yet another would be to create a forum where many different kinds of people with otherwise opposed philosophies would be able to work with one another against the common enemy. A third would be to create a prototype for the kind of system that might exist following the inevitable demise of the present system, a decentralized system based on the principal of self-determination for all.<br /> Of course, the emergence of a PSMP of the kind described above would also receive a great deal of criticism from a variety of sources. The critics would include ideologues and sectarians of both the left and right, the professional anti-rightist cottage industry, anti-leftists of a comparable nature, avowed statists and totalitarians, neoconservatives, jingoists, the party hacks of the system’s parties, their kept media, and, of course, the overlords of the system themselves. So be it. Revolutionaries without enemies are not revolutionaries at all.<br /> Of course, some from the general anarchist milieus will object that party politics is antithetical to the wider anarchist values of rejection of the state. I previously address this question in “Liberty and Populism,”:<br /> <blockquote><em>Some anarchists will no doubt object that my approach reeks far too much of a reformist/electoralist outlook. While I certainly respect this point of view, I believe it is unnecessarily sectarian and archaic. The classical anarchists often advocated boycotting elections and for good reason. In most of the countries where the classical anarchist movement existed on a scale of any significance, the “right to vote” was either non-existent or the franchise was very limited. Even in nominal democracies like Switzerland and America, women and other large population groups were denied the vote. Even at that, many Spanish villages elected anarchist mayors and village councils in the years leading up to the civil war. I believe modern anarchists need to develop an approach to this question that is relevant to the nature of modern states and modern societies. The approach I favor is one of cold realism and pragmatism. It is indeed possible for ordinary people with conventional levels of resources to be elected to local and state offices in many parts of the US. Persons who achieve some level of success in this area are then in a position to influence appointments to other positions of influence. This can be very important as a means of keeping the worst elements away from seats of power.</em></blockquote>It should also be pointed out that the PSMP would be merely a means to an end, and not an end unto itself. It would merely be a vehicle for promoting and popularizing a wider subversive agenda. Further, it would create a framework that would allow anarchists to reach out to and connect with people from all over the cultural and political spectrum, and experience the opportunity to work with a vast array of dissidents as equal partners towards common goals. Anarchists would would have the opportunity to embed themselves in the PSMP for the purpose of pursuing a more radical line and the advancement of more extraneous issues that are among the unique concerns of anarchists. Just as the myriad of constituent parties and movements of the PSMP would maintain their own objectives, and pursue those objectives within other contexts, so would anarchists do the same. Specifically, anarchists might concentrate their own efforts on local politics, and strive for the achievement of political preeminence in an increasingly greater number of cities, towns, and counties. Two, three, many Christianias, Marinaledas, Mondragons, and Kobanis could begin to proliferate. Meanwhile, the prototypes of South Africa’s conservative Orania community and Liechtenstein’s libertarian monarchical micro-nation provide models of how Anarchists and the Left might peacefully co-exist with the Right. Further, there might be a parallel pan-anarchist federation that co-exists with the PSMP, and functions as a base of activists and organizers for the PSMP. The relationship between the pan-anarchist federation and the PSMP would be comparable to the relationship between the FAI, the CNT, and the Anti-Fascist militias during the period of Revolutionary Spain.<br /> The general demographic and electoral base of the PSMP would be that which has previously been outlined in “Liberty and Populism,” though periodically modified in order to adapt to changing trends. The PSMP would then emerge as a populist alternative political force perhaps comparable to <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/02/13/anti-representative-democracy-how-to-understand-the-five-star-movement/">Italy’s Five Star Movement</a>, or the <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/30/who-are-the-independent-greeks/">recently formed coalition in Greece between Syriza and the Independent Greeks</a>. There is also the further possibility of the PSMP embedding itself in the major parties on the ground level. For example, Norman Mailer’s secessionist “left-conservative” Democratic candidacy for mayor of New York in 1969 is one example, and Larry Kilgore’s secessionist conservative Christian Republican candidacy for Senator from Texas in 2008 is another example.<br /> <strong>The PSMP and the Pan-Anarchist Movement</strong><br /> Within the context of the PSMP, the pan-anarchist movement would then work to advance its wider body of strategic and political ideas such as core demographic theory, fourth generation warfare, libertarian populism, inside/outside strategy, left/right/center tripartite strategy, alternative infrastructure, <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2014/01/05/3263beyond-partisanship-the-fundamentals-of-pan-secessionist-activism/">cultural organizations that would replace the state’s social infrastructure</a>, <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/american-revolutionary-vanguard-twenty-five-point-program/">the 25 point platform</a>, building coalitions of anti-state interest groups, a peoples’ economic front, legal defense organizations, civilian defense organizations,expanded cop watch and neighborhood watch programs, tax protests, civil disobedience campaigns, Kevin Carson’s “<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/a-political-program-for-anarchists/">political program for anarchists,</a>” Larry Gambone’s “<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2013/09/05/the-neocons-in-a-nutshell/">populist groundswell</a>” and <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/the-myth-of-socialism-as-statism/">decentralist economics</a>, a <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2014/10/17/the-case-for-a-coalition-against-consensual-crimes/">coalition against consensual crimes</a>, a <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/13/an-amnesty-for-prisoners-of-the-war-on-drugs/">prisoner amnesty movement</a>, a libertarian common law system, a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-so-successful-2014-12">Norwegian approach to criminology</a>, a Swedish or Swiss approach to foreign policy, the<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2014/10/22/the-case-for-the-city-state-system/"> city-state system</a>, and much else.<br /> <img alt="" height="325" id="irc_mi" src="https://www.wordans.com/wvc-1337632737/wordansfiles/product_previews/2012/5/21/7917/7917_650.jpg" width="650" /><br /> Once again, none of this meta-political or meta-strategic program implies that any of the myriad of anarchist, libertarian, anti-statist, anti-authoritarian, or decentralist factions would abandon their preferred issues. As I wrote in “Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire” concerning the concept of “anarcho-populism”:<br /> <blockquote><em> Hence, what I am proposing is a new strategic paradigm and, to a certain extent, a new school of anarchist thought that I call “anarcho-populism”. This new brand of anarchism would draw on the other schools in various ways. The classical anarchism originally developed by Proudhon would be its foundation. Like anarcho-socialism, anarcho-populism would be anti-capitalist and pro-class struggle. Like anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-populism would endorse property, markets and the independent sector as an antidote to statism, corporatism and welfarism. Along with leftist-anarchists, this new anarchist tendency would support political freedom and cultural self-determination for racial minorities, women, gays and the like but would not seek to mindlessly glorify or privilege these groups or demonize white males. Along with primitivists and eco-anarchists, anarcho-populism would seek to preserve the natural environment, but without the misanthropy and anti-tech hysteria of much modern environmentalism. Like national-anarchists, anarcho-populism would endorse the right of traditional racial, ethnic, religious or cultural groups to self-preservation and political sovereignty and cross-cultural, cross-ideological alliances against the NWO, but would seek to branch out into “mainstream” society rather than seek out reclusive isolation from the modern world.</em></blockquote>Presumably, every libertarian faction would continue to focus on its primary areas of concern, from sovereign citizens to anarcha-feminists, and every faction could maintain its own sub-organizational identities within the context of the pan-anarchist federation as well. However, organizing and advancing the PSMP might serve as a common project and rallying point for all libertarian factions.<br /> <img alt="" height="617" id="irc_mi" src="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/anarchy-flags-set-24397502.jpg" width="647" /><br /> The main thing that is needed as this point is action. It is necessary for activists to step forward and being applying the ideas that have been outined above. How did other movements that have achieved a great deal of success, or at least size and recognition, begin? How did the marijuana legalization movement being? The gay marriage movement? The Tea Parties? The anti-Vietnam War movement? The civil rights movement? The religious right? The modern American conservative movement? Surely, there are things that can be learned from each of these.Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-45595622843286303272015-07-28T05:30:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.623-07:00Christian National Anarcho-Capitalists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTa3iEO8LEcVOu3eiCP3K_GQf-aXz6g843JbEAQHruRn4q8SB3JXNW-5VK36x6LmLaISy8H8H4RqcIZfyHccKj9929DpWOqhZ8jfbg-gbGcamp7ateKrqN7RuDFsshl2m4prAyCCuTng/s1600/jesus_mosa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTa3iEO8LEcVOu3eiCP3K_GQf-aXz6g843JbEAQHruRn4q8SB3JXNW-5VK36x6LmLaISy8H8H4RqcIZfyHccKj9929DpWOqhZ8jfbg-gbGcamp7ateKrqN7RuDFsshl2m4prAyCCuTng/s400/jesus_mosa.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><br /><span class="by-author"><span class="sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://attackthesystem.com/author/keith2p1/" rel="author" title="View all posts by Keith Preston">Keith Preston</a></span> </span><br /><br />I recently came across a group calling itself Christian National Anarcho-Capitalists. While this group doesn’t reflect my personal views or preferences, as a pan-anarchist I am for the proliferation of many anarchist societies based on the principle of free association, thereby enhancing genuine diversity, and “Christian National Anarcho-Capitalism” may well be one of these.<br /><div class="_5pbx userContent">Christian National Ancaps was founded on these principles:<br /><br />1. Christianity and anarcho-capitalism are compatible with one another.<br /><br />2. Nationalism, which is different from nation-statism, is perfectly compatible with Christian anarcho-capitalism. It is not incompatible with the philosophy of freedom; in fact, a libertarian nationalism will be rich and varied, and it will be superior to the nation-statism that has plagued civilization for so many years.<br /><br />3. All cultures are unique and diverse, and while many cultures are not “Christian” or “libertarian,” they do share aspects of God and the philosophy of liberty in their edifice. Therefore, we seek to promote the best and brightest of every culture, including the cultures of Western and Eastern civilization. Our advice is for each person to respect and intermarry within his “nationality,” as that is the recommended course and the best.<br /><br />4. “Racial realism,” anti-feminism, and libertarian “patriarchalism” will be a big part of this group, and while these views are politically incorrect and not approved by the Establishment and the political elite, these views are compatible with libertarianism and, as a nationalist group, will be part of the whole<br /><br />5. Nation-statism, the ideology that mixes nationalism with statism, originated not in true nationalism but in conquest and aggression. As the earlier liberal tradition recognized, and as modern libertarians do, the nation does not equal the state. True nationalism, however, is based from civilization rather than the state, from culture rather than coercion and from community rather than collectivization, from the people rather than the rulers.<br /><br />6. Secession, the right to break away and become independent (or self-determination) is a central tenet of libertarian nationalism, and in many ways it is an essential tenet of libertarianism, period. Thus, the right of some persons to secede and form their own nation is respected and promoted; it not only is in line with libertarian principles, but it allows for each “nation” and “culture” to preserve their heritage without outside interference. Not only that, but individual self-determination is respected, and one can become a “nation” unto himself.<br /><br />7. Nationalism is not social egalitarianism. In fact, one of its main opponents is cultural Marxism, which stresses opposition to the family, to capitalism, to traditional values and most importantly to the Bible and the Christian faith.<br /><br />8. Most importantly, the purpose of Christian Ancap Nationalists is not to promote hatred or division among peoples but rather to foster the great values of faith in God, liberty, cultural conservatism, freedom of association, secession, anarcho-patriarchalism, peace, prosperity, cooperation, love, national pride and the multi-cultural association of different cultures.<br /><br />The new name is: Christian National Ancaps. “Nationalism” often refers to collectivist statism, and it can get in the way of what we are trying to promote. So I believe the new title gets to the crux of what we want to promote.<br /><br />[A]. note that we are not (or no longer) condemning the idea of intermarriage between people of two different races. We are not opposed to, say, a white man marrying a black woman or a black man marrying a white woman, if he so desires.</div>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-64638078741738689412015-07-28T05:23:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.643-07:00 Is “Conspiracy Populism” the Way Beyond Left and Right? <h1 class="entry-title"><img alt="a-ridiculous-number-of-americans-believe-in-crazy-conspiracy-theories" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="237" src="https://attackthesystem.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/a-ridiculous-number-of-americans-believe-in-crazy-conspiracy-theories.jpg?w=474" width="474" /><sup class="entry-comment-popup-link"> </sup></h1>Some reflection is needed on what the proper relationship should be between the pan-anarchist movement and the movement(s) commonly labeled as “conspiracy theorists,” “truthers,” and the like. Technically, the “anti-conspiracy” milieu is not a movement as much as it is a collection of ideas pertaining to a wide <a href="http://www.conspiracyculture.com/">variety of themes regarding alleged nefarious plots by shadowy, secretive elites</a>. These theories are highly varied and diverse in nature and include concerns related to such topics as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, UFO sightings, the alleged influence of Satanic cults in elite circles, alternative medicine, fluoride, the alleged death of Paul McCartney, Elvis sightings, the alleged murder of Princess Diana, FDR’s alleged foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, chemtrails, an endless array of supposed “false flags,” AIDS, climate change, peak oil, Zionist bankers, subliminal advertising, the alleged moon landing hoax, Area 51, and, of course, the alleged 9-11 cover up. There are many, many other such theories.<span id="more-36542"></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJKPSZ1kEpadXulnBP85CoGDIvUkiMKPHWYk2Ia6v1vXXretYQvNZ5bDs5z5oLln6_134NXfvmrp2HKEbmCNHfOLXAYadcbAK4OuUzYE3cK744Bmsq20vp6d3y3nPrPLv_qGnhF9qdt7M/s1600/natany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div>However, by far the most important and relevant “conspiracy theory” involves alleged efforts by global elites to create a one-world oligarchical dictatorship under the guise of a “New World Order.” The resemblance of this theory to the claims of the left-wing anti-globalization movement are striking. The principle difference is that adherents of the New World Order theory insist that secret societies and shadowy cabals are the primary players among the global power elite, while leftists tend to hold to a more Marxist-like analysis involving multinational corporations, international trade organizations, and the world banking system. However, on the ground level these would seem to be purely abstract, theoretical differences. It is clear enough that both sets of analysis are virulently opposed to the global super class of plutocratic elites whose existence is beyond dispute. Among the ideological factions, leftists prefer to criticize transnational capitalism, libertarians and conservative populists express concern about one-world government, and “conspiracists” are more concerned about secret societies. However, these various interests converge on many issues of practical concern, i.e. the ongoing concentration of power on an international level.<br /> <img alt="" height="413" id="irc_mi" src="http://static2.wallpedes.com/wallpaper/illuminati/illuminati-new-world-order-american-flag-wallpaper-wide-illuminati-wallpaper-hd-tumblr-iphone-android-5-wallpapers-download-mobile-for-ipod-ipad.jpg" width="734" /><br /> It also undoubtedly true that adherents of various “conspiracy theories” transcend a good many conventional boundaries, including “normal” political ideologies, the boundaries of left and right, ordinary economic philosophies, race, religion, nationality, and positions on controversial issues such as abortion or gay rights. Adherents of conspiracy analysis also demonstrate a much greater sense of urgency and a greater radical zeal than many ordinary rightists and leftists alike, and tend to be disproportionately concentrated among the poor and working class as opposed to the affluent and wealthy. Additionally, the <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/david-cameron-says-non-violent-conspiracy-theorists-are-just-as-dangerous-as-isis/5404412">establishment seems to genuinely fear conspiracy theorists</a> in a way they do not when it comes to ordinary leftists and rightists.<br /> The pan-anarchist movement is about uniting anarchists, libertarians, decentralists, anti-authoritarians, anti-statists, oppositional subcultures, adherents of alternative economics, and anti-imperialists against the global power elite in favor of a general paradigm of self-determination for all. To be sure, there are important cultural obstacles to the creation of a such an alliance, which is why I have endeavored to introduce anarchists to the thought of intellectuals such as Alain De Benoist and Alexander Dugin, and their advocacy of a genuine cultural pluralism that accepts the legitimacy of a multiplicity of cultures with a wide divergence concerning their core values.<br /> This is a perspective that seems highly relevant and complementary to the principles of anarchist decentralism even if one rejects some of the other ideas of these thinkers. At present, much of the anarchist milieu holds to a standard brand therapeutic leftism with regards to cultural questions, and those who don’t often fall back on a conventional rightist perspective. The incorporation of ideas similar to those of Dugin or Benoist would clearly be an advancement in anarchist theory and thought.<br /> <img alt="" height="477" id="irc_mi" src="https://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Anarchist-symbol-with-red-fists-1024x665.jpg" width="734" /><br /> However, the question also remains of how to go about generating propaganda, recruiting, and organizing on the ground level. At present, substantial sectors of the anarchist milieu continue to focus principally on various youth cultures, the far Left, and the sexual minority subcultures. Yet an embrace of the conspiracy milieu would seem to be a way to dramatically increase not only the numbers but the diversity of the anarchist camp. Certain stands within anarchism have already begun such an effort.<br /> On an organizational level, it would appear that the best route for anarchists would be to strive for the creation of international federations similar to the old Anarchist and Communist internationals that existed in the early twentieth century and which are inclusive of the many different kinds of anarchism and overlapping ideologies. The different kinds of anarchists would continue organizing and recruiting among their respective cultural milieus, but towards the wider aim of building populist movements on a nation-by-nation, region-by-region, community-by-community basis for the purpose of attacking the global power elite, and decentralizing political and economic power to the level of the natural community. The incorporation of conspiracy analysis into the anarchist strategic paradigm would seem to be a powerful weapon for the cultivation of “grass roots” populist movements that would in turn be among the most significant constituencies for anarchist-led popular organizations, economic enterprises, front-parties, and civic militias.Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-74899405845762500212015-07-10T03:29:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.670-07:00The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o8hPo6mYnks/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8hPo6mYnks?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><br />Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-36956806639264460522015-06-13T06:08:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.694-07:00Armed standoff after shots fired at Dallas police HQ <i>Real Revolutionary activity, ISIS or another drill? You be the judge-NATA</i><br /><br /><br />Via<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html" target="_blank"> Daily Mail </a><br /><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"> 06:58 EST, 13 June 2015 </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Officers are in a standoff with one or more shooters after Dallas police headquarters came under fire early Saturday.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Explosives were later found around the building, the police department said.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Just after midnight, a van, described by witnesses as an armored vehicle, rammed into police squad cars at the headquarters then opened fire, Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> A chase ensued to a nearby suburb south of the city where officers have surrounded the vehicle which contains at least one suspect, Brown said, adding that up to four individuals may have been involved in the headquarters attack.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said pipe bombs had been found in one of four duffel bags that were "dispersed throughout the front and side of police headquarters."</span><br /><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">On Twitter, the police department said that one of the bags "exploded on its own" as a bomb disposal robot attempted to move it, and that another device had been found under a police vehicle and detonated.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">No police personnel have been injured so far in the standoff, Brown added.</span>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-21844134211958088192015-06-13T06:05:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.708-07:00Race of Rachel Dolezal, head of Spokane NAACP, comes under question<br /><div class="media__video--thumbnail" id="large-media_0--thumbnail" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhXsHdKAzzYgzjJ9qbG9aHsmJV75i8n9-I1WMRAoQisa2XAlkG88bKd63b-0hZh1TiZbT9uiTKyQTTUTjq35XHS8pvcU9Qf2M9RQP5Ogh8jLtXjWTafuIJamhLSHb0RJxn0S5Sc3fS7_LAGi_HLshXnRtKdk65ikvvS3dhmWBQIsVjHCMdYhCy1QhiEOLkLw955PwGb_tr8i4fD_wPD=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="NAACP official Rachel Dolezal&#39;s race being questioned" border="0" class="media__image media__image--responsive" data-demand-load="loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781" data-eq-state="medium" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-exlarge-169.jpg" data-src-full16x9="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-full-169.jpg" data-src-large="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-super-169.jpg" data-src-medium="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-exlarge-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-small-11.jpg" data-src-mini="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-small-169.jpg" data-src-small="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-large-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-medium-plus-169.jpg" height="177" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSSbT0ag2TA3tPsjT4hZhuDi5iUGZcss5JnEKN9HwBxO1LEJSWB74GOAJpXQDU8gbt_kHQaziJvCaEZY0WDHJDb5_C20cI8LRyy9SRiQNApcLn-UPOKf1wLz45xWEgga-4ikiYRfyRUOs/s1600/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-exlarge-169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSSbT0ag2TA3tPsjT4hZhuDi5iUGZcss5JnEKN9HwBxO1LEJSWB74GOAJpXQDU8gbt_kHQaziJvCaEZY0WDHJDb5_C20cI8LRyy9SRiQNApcLn-UPOKf1wLz45xWEgga-4ikiYRfyRUOs/s320/150612092018-rachel-dolezal-split-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="metadata "><div class="metadata__byline"><br /></div><div class="metadata__byline"><i><span class="metadata__byline__author"> The NAACP was not founded by black Americans but by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People#History" target="_blank">white elites and European Jews</a>.The united nations universal declaration of human rights states an individual may not be denied the right to change his nationality. </span></i></div><br /> "Article 15.<br /><ul><li> (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.</li><li> (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality."-<i>NATA</i></li></ul>See whole story <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/12/us/washington-spokane-naacp-rachel-dolezal-identity/" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><div class="m-share m-share__rail-top js-share-rail-top m-share__floating"><div class="js-gigya-sharebar" data-description="The racial identity of Rachel Dolezal, a prominent face in Spokane's black community, is under question; 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href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-defense-state-department-documents-reveal-obama-administration-knew-that-al-qaeda-terrorists-had-planned-benghazi-attack-10-days-in-advance/">More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents</a> implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS.</em><br /> The documents were obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch.<br /><br /> They confirm WND reporting over the past three years of evidence that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was involved in shipping weapons from Benghazi to support the al-Qaida-affiliated militias fighting the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, effectively arming the Sunni jihadists who morphed into ISIS.<br /><br /> The documents further confirm WND reporting that the goal of the terrorists behind the Benghazi attack that killed Stevens was to force the release of Omar Abdul Rahman, the “blind sheik” in U.S. prison serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and to avenge death of a prominent Libyan al-Qaida leader killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.<br /> “These documents are jaw-dropping,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “No wonder we had to file more FOIA lawsuits and wait over two years for them.”<br /><br /> Fitton referenced in particular <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pgs.-394-398-396-from-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version2.pdf">a Defense Department document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, dated Sept. 12, 2012.</a> It documents that the attack on the Benghazi compound had been carefully planned by the al-Qaida and Muslim Brotherhood-linked Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman, BOCAR, which aimed “to kill as many Americans as possible.”<br /> The document, dated the day after the Benghazi attack, was sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Obama White House National Security Council.<br /> <blockquote>“If the American people had known the truth – that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaida terrorist attack from the get-go – and yet lied and covered this fact up – Mitt Romney might very well be president,” Fitton observed.<br /> “These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war – and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists,” Fitton stated.</blockquote>He said the documents “show that the Benghazi cover-up has continued for years and is only unraveling through our independent lawsuits.”<br /> “The Benghazi scandal just got a whole lot worse for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton,” Fitton said.<br /><br /> <strong>Plan to release the blind sheik</strong><br /> <br />The heavily redacted Defense Department “information report” provides additional evidence for a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/benghazi-part-of-obama-plot-to-free-blind-sheik/">WND article Jan. 27</a> reporting that James “Ace” Lyons – a former four-star admiral who served as the commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and a founding member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi – proposed that the attack was an Obama administration-orchestrated kidnapping attempt that went “terribly wrong.”<br /><br /> Lyons speculated that the Obama administration wanted to give the al-Qaida-affiliated rebels operating in conjunction with the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood an opportunity to kidnap Stevens and exchange him for the blind Sheik. The purpose of the plan, Lyons says, may have been to furnish the Obama administration with a pretext to justify to the American public the release of the blind sheik to then-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, complying with a request Morsi made in his 2012 acceptance speech on becoming president of Egypt.<br /><br /> The Department of Defense documents released by Judicial Watch further reveals that a-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri sent BCOAR leader Abdul Baset, AZUZ, into Libya to seek revenge “for the U.S. killing of Aboyahiye (ALALIBY) in Pakistan.”<br /><br /> The documents provide additional evidence for a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/stevens-killed-to-avenge-u-s-drone-strike/">2013 WND story</a> reporting the Benghazi attack was in response to Zawahiri’s request to avenge the U.S. drone killing of Libyan al-Qaida leader Abu Yahya al-Libi in Pakistan’s Waziristan tribal area June 4, 2012.<br /><br /> <strong>CIA ‘not well organized’ narrative disputed</strong><br /><br /> The newly released DOD and State Department documents also differ from the account of the Benghazi attack Michael Morell, the recently retired CIA deputy director, gives in his current book, “The Great War of Our Time.” On Page 206, he argues that viewing a CIA video of the Benghazi attack made in “real time” caused him to conclude that “with little or no advance planning, extremists in Benghazi made some phone calls, gathered a group of like-minded individuals to go to the TMF.”<br /> In Morell’s narrative, the 9/11 Benghazi attack “was not well organized” but “seemed to be more of a mob that had come to the TMF with the intent of breaching the compound and seeing what damage they could do.”<br /> “When you assess the information from the video, there are few signs of a well-thought-out plan, few signs of command and control, few signs of organization, few signs of even the most basic military tactics in the attack on the TMF,” Morrell said.<br /> “Some of the attackers were armed with small arms; many were not armed at all. No heavy weapons were seen on the videotape,” Morell continued. “Many of the attackers, after entering through the front gate, ran past buildings to the other end of the compound, behaving as if they were thrilled just to have overrun the compound. They did not appear to be looking for Americans to harm. They appeared intent on looting and conducting vandalism.”<br /> Morell stressed that the Obama administration, despite his objections to the contrary, has refused to make available for public viewing the yet classified CIA “real time” video of the Benghazi attack.<br /><br /> <strong>Weapons shipped to Syria</strong><br /> <br />Judicial Watch also noted the DOD documents released this week contain the <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/pgs-1-3-2-3-from-jw-v-dod-and-state-14-812/">first official documentation that the Obama administration knew that weapons were being shipped from the Port of Benghazi to rebel troops in Syria</a>.<br /> An October 2012 DOD report confirmed:<br /> <blockquote>Weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the Port of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria. The weapons shipped during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles, RPGs, and 125 mm and 155mm howitzers missiles.<br /> During the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty caused by, the downfall of the (Qaddafi) regime in October 2011 and up until early September of 2012, weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria. The Syrian ports were chosen due to the small amount of cargo traffic transiting these two ports. The ships used to transport the weapons were medium-sized and able to hold 10 or less shipping containers of cargo.</blockquote>A DIA document further detailed:<br /> <blockquote>The weapons shipped from Syria during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles, RPG’s and 125mm and 155mm howitzers missiles. The numbers for each weapon were estimated to be: 500 Sniper rifles, 100 RPG launchers with 300 total rounds, and approximately 400 howitzers missiles [200ea – 125mm and 200ea – 155 mm.]</blockquote>The heavily redacted document does not disclose who was shipping the weapons.<br /> Another Defense Intelligence Agency report, written in August 2012, the same time period the U.S. was monitoring weapons flows from Libya to Syria, said that the opposition in Syria was driven by al-Qaida and other extremist Muslim groups: “the Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”<br /> Judicial Watch noted the sectarian direction of the war in Syria was predicted to have dire consequences for Iraq, which included the “grave danger” of the rise of ISIS.<br /> The DIA document noted the following:<br /> <blockquote>This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [al Qaeda Iraq] to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers one enemy, the dissenters. ISI could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory.</blockquote>Judicial Watch commented that some of the “dire consequences” are blacked out but the DIA presciently warned one such consequence would be the “renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi Arena.”<br /> On Feb. 26, Judicial Watch has reported on State Department <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/documents-obtained-judicial-watch-reveal-top-hillary-clinton-advisers-knew-immediately-assault-benghazi-armed-attack/">documents obtained by the Washington-based watchdog organization</a> in a separate FOIA lawsuit that revealed aides for then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including her then-chief of staff Cheryl Mills, knew from the outset that the Benghazi mission compound was under attack by armed assailants tied to a terrorist group.</div></div>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-80269565989031082662015-03-25T06:33:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.757-07:00The Republic is Dead:Long Live the Republic! <span class="by-author"><span class="sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://attackthesystem.com/author/keith2p1/" rel="author" title="View all posts by Keith Preston">Keith Preston</a></span> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilu-B11QRnkK8tFulrFsgfoaUTSxI9ZSnImfhFJX2KK57tz-Y5m9kL5EmSEskFBaoOOUO4OjDssa463jj9DatAGoHwNkl8Iestwk7s5IqZT32R2mn_CNc-NIo-YuNKtiRfUS5fd7nGEJ8/s1600/9988_10201086723998418_1829520897_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilu-B11QRnkK8tFulrFsgfoaUTSxI9ZSnImfhFJX2KK57tz-Y5m9kL5EmSEskFBaoOOUO4OjDssa463jj9DatAGoHwNkl8Iestwk7s5IqZT32R2mn_CNc-NIo-YuNKtiRfUS5fd7nGEJ8/s1600/9988_10201086723998418_1829520897_n.jpg" height="267" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />This is a very interesting notification I recently received from a reader that illustrates something I have been noticing for a while. It appears there is a broad “axis of dissent” that is developing in the United States that transcends the normal political and cultural boundaries, and whose common thread is a kind of left/right hybrid libertarian-progressive-populism. This axis is represented in the mainstream or relatively mainstream by such individuals as Ron Paul, Jesse Ventura, Ralph Nader, Alex Jones, Cindy McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Abby Martin, and other comparable figures. It overlaps with the Democratic/Republican duopoly on a peripheral level but is clearly outside the two-party duopoly for the most part.<br /><br />It also overlaps with particular movements like the 9-11 Truth movement, the libertarian/anarcho-capitalist/voluntaryist liberty movement, newer tendencies like Zeitgeist and the Venus Project, strands within the Occupy movements, and the wider conspiracy milieu. It runs through the entire spectrum of dissident ideologies such as patriots, religious fundamentalists, and white nationalists on the far right through libertarians, radical centrists, ethnic minority dissidents, leftists, progressives, anarchists, various counter-cultural tendencies, and certain dissenting religious perspectives. However, this axis cannot be identified as representing any one ideological tendency. The axis is largely independent of the Democratic/Republican duopoly, but it is also independent of the “normal” far right (fascists, neo-Nazis, theocrats) and the “normal” far left (Communists, PC/SJW totalitarian humanists).<br /><br />Such an axis is precisely what I have always envisioned the left/right libertarian/populist conservative/progressive black/white radical center/radical fringe demographic base of pan-anarchism and pan-secessionism as actually being. Cultivating the various components of this axis as allies and constituents should be one of our primary strategy objectives as this point.<br />———————————————————————————————<br />The Democratic Republic of the United States was overthrown on November 22, 1963; on that day our last Constitutional President<b>, John F. Kennedy</b>, was murdered in Dallas, and nothing has been the same since.<br /><br />Kennedy was the last Constitutional President of our last Constitutional Republic.<span id="more-35829"></span><br />On that day in November, the Anglo/Zionist Military Financial Oligarchs occupied our country. On that day we ceased to be a free people and our nation lost its independence.<br />We need to regain our independence and our liberty. We must accomplish this through the political process of Restoring our Republic.<br /><br /><b>Begin to Restore the Republic by organizing Alternate Elections for 2016.</b><br />This free electoral process will elect Independent Representatives, who serve only the people.<br />We suggest a slate of Revolutionary leaders to head our New Republic. Feel free to nominate your own favorites. Edward Snowden, Joan Baez, Cindy McKinney, whomever.<br />President: Ron Paul<br />Vice President: Dennis Kucinich<br />Secretary of State: Ralph Nader<br />Coordinator of the Militia: Jesse Ventura<br />Our candidates will be faithful to the existing <i>Constitution of the United States</i>: until the Next Generation can set up <i>Committees of Correspondence</i> where they will decide to continue this one, or to write a new Constitution.<br /><br /><br /><b>Rules of Political Conduct in a Democratic Republic</b><br /><ol><li>All candidates will have equal access to the media.</li><li>No money may be spent on election campaigns.</li><li>Candidates must be legal residents of ONLY this country.</li><li>They must register their candidacy, and present a small number of petitions.</li><li>All candidates may participate in public debates with the other aspirants.</li><li>The People’s elections will be held in locals controlled by <i>We The People.</i></li><li>The voters will have to tell our election officials their name, which will be recorded.</li><li>Then they will cast a paper ballot.</li></ol><br />The results will be announced, and the new people’s government will begin a political confrontation of <b>Dual Power</b>. At first, the people’s new Republican Government will be smaller and weaker than that of the Totalitarian Oligarchs. With time and struggle, the new government will increase in power. Our government will take increasing responsibility for the well-being of its citizens, until, it can replace the usurping government of the Oligarchs and completely restore our Republic and our Honor.<br /><br /><b><i>For the New Democratic Republic!</i></b><br /><br /><b>Sons and Daughters of Liberty</b><br /><br /><b>IMAGINE</b>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-27370617789116151192015-03-25T06:20:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.772-07:00Towards an anti-colonial anarchism: Eurocentrism, re-colonization, and settler colonialism<div class="authorship"><span class="author">by <a class="url fn" href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/author/vsmorgan/" rel="author" title="Posts by Vanessa Sloan Morgan">Vanessa Sloan Morgan</a></span></div><div class="authorship"><span class="author"> </span><span class="date">February 25, 2015</span><br /><span class="date">via:<a href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/" target="_blank">Intercontinentalcry </a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="date"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHPyhPayvt7LdpWI39P4f4SUsxCIqSk3sM2saEuFpxUDnSakevhNms_IuwLXIu1KFETn1ZoMOtivR66H5TNQT-bWG1sOjud0EJYNu1MDjyeJHMJ4eetOun8fBlk1fQUDmCsTfKu5Ljhng/s1600/aiewc3a1htha-wampum-belt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHPyhPayvt7LdpWI39P4f4SUsxCIqSk3sM2saEuFpxUDnSakevhNms_IuwLXIu1KFETn1ZoMOtivR66H5TNQT-bWG1sOjud0EJYNu1MDjyeJHMJ4eetOun8fBlk1fQUDmCsTfKu5Ljhng/s1600/aiewc3a1htha-wampum-belt.jpg" height="217" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="date"></span></div><div class="authorship"><span class="date"> </span><span class="date"></span><i><b> </b></i><br /><i><b>Unnamed anarchist from Europe [interviewer]:</b> "</i>Particularly in Canada, the term "First Nations" is frequently used to describe Indigenous societies. This tends to confuse radical Europeans who consider all references to "nations" as necessarily conservative. Can you shed some light on the Indigenous usage of the term?" <span class="date"></span><br /><div class="hero-unit"><br /><i><b>Taiaike Alfred from the Mohawk Nation of </b></i><b><i>Kahnawá:ke [interviewee]</i></b>: " Europeans should not transpose their experience with nationhood on others. I myself do not think the term accurately describes our people - only our own languages and words can do that - but it is useful in a sense; it conveys an equality of status in theory between our societies and that of the colonizer. And it reiterates the fact of our prior occupancy of this continent" (Alfred, 2010).<br /><br /><br /> The languages that we speak build walls. The English language, for instance, is noun-based, territorial and possessive by nature. Behind this language, however, is a distinct way of relating – one that is exemplified by the interview excerpt above. Sharing a language does not imply consensus or commonality. In this case, although Taiake Alfred does not agree in full with the term ‘First Nations’, he does differentiate First Nation and Indigenous Nationhood from European, Westphalia conceptions of nation-state. He dually describes why, from his perspective as a member of the Mohawk Nation from Kahnawá:ke, this terminology resists Eurocentric impositions of governance but also responds to colonial power-imbalances. Social movements, especially in North America, often fall carelessly into colonial traps of Eurocentric thought and colonial universalism, as exampled above<a href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/towards-an-anti-colonial-anarchism/#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a>. On the surface, though, it is clear why anarchist movements and anarchic theory may be attracted to anti-colonial struggles.<br /><br />Opposition to the state and to capitalism, to domination and to oppression, are at the core of anarchist and autonomous movements; they are also at the core of anti-colonial struggles that see the state, and by mutual extension the capitalist system, as de-legitimate institutions of authority that ‘Other’ and colonize by way of white supremacist notions of cultural hegemony (see Fanon, 1967; Smith, 2006). Anarchist movements, however, often fail to account for the multiple layers of power that are at play, both contemporarily and historically. As Barker (2012) critically contends, many of the Occupy sites, for example, recolonized by uncritically occupying already occupied lands. The settler privilege of autonomous organizers within these movements upheld hegemonic/colonial territoriality.<br /><br />Romanticized for stewardship and place-based relations to land, Indigenous peoples have even been idolized as the ‘original’ anarchist societies (Barker & Pickerill, 2012). Indigenous Nationhood Movements actively seek to rebuild nation-to-nation relations with settlers by re-empowering Indigenous self-determination and traditional governments (Indigenous Nationhood Movement, 2015). Nation-to-nation, though, cannot be taken in its settler colonial form; indeed, this assumption concerning a homogenous form of government was, and is, at the core of colonialism: “modern government…the European believed, was based upon principles true in every country. Its strengths lay in its universalism” (Mitchell, 2002: 54). Respecting Indigenous Nationhood as a culturally, politically, and spiritually distinct movement propelled by and for Indigenous peoples is integral. Reasons for and tactics in support of these movements may vary, however they inevitably overlap in many offensives with anarchist anti-authoritarian agendas.<br /><br />With Eurocentric understandings of an anti-colonial anarchism at the core of many activist oriented renditions of such thinking, activists and scholars alike have heeded words of advice to those amidst struggles against colonial forces in settler colonial contexts. As stated by Harsha Walia in discussing autonomy and cross-cultural, colonial-based struggle:<br />“Non-natives must recognize our own role in perpetuating colonialism within our solidarity efforts. We can actively counter this by… discussing the nuanced issues of solidarity, leadership, strategy and analysis - not in abstraction, but within our real and informed and sustained relationships with Indigenous peoples.” (2012)<br /><br />By respecting difference, even spatializing autonomy, settler peoples would do well to not transplant - to settle - their perceptions of autonomy, of solidarity, of leadership, and of strategy onto Indigenous movements. Alternatively in settler colonial contexts, anarchist struggles against colonial authority, and thus capitalistic systems, invariably require respectful engagement with Indigenous movements. This is integral if re-colonizing tendencies of anarchist movements--oftentimes primarily driven by European settlers--are to be prevented. Anarchist actors, especially when operating in settler colonial spaces, must understand the nuances of place specific histories and colonial processes. As Lasky suggests, there is “potential for directly relating to each other and changing our relationships with each other in ways that withdraw consent from ‘the system’ and re-creates alternatives that empower our collective personhoods now” (2011: np). As Alfred mentions however, Eurocentric tendencies have oftentimes perpetuated colonial relations of power. As a result, the very structures of oppression that anarchic thought starkly opposes, but also stemmed from, creep into relational geographies.<br /><br /><b>References</b><br /><br />Alfred, T. (2010). Interview with Gerald Taiaiake Alfred about Anarchism and Indigenism in North<br /><br />America. Retrieved from http://www.alpineanarchist.org/r_i_indigenism_english.html<br /><br />Barker, A. (2012). Already Occupied: Indigenous Peoples, Settler Colonialism and the Occupy<br /><br />Movements in North America. <i>Social Movement Studies</i>, <i>11</i>(3-4), 327–334. doi:10.1080/14742837.2012.708922<br /><br />Barker, A. J., & Pickerill, J. (2012). Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies: Why Anarchists Need to Understand Indigenous Connections to Land and Place. <i>Antipode</i>, <i>44</i>(5), 1705–1725. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01031.x<br /><br />Fanon, F. (1967). <i>Black skin, white masks</i>. New York, NY: Grove Press.<br />Indigenous Nationhood Movement. (2015). About. Retrieved from http://nationsrising.org/about/<br /><br />Lewis, A. (2012). <i>Decolonizing anarchism: Expanding Anarcha-Indigenism in theory and practice</i> (Masters thesis). Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. Retrieved from http://qspace.library.queensu.ca<br /> /bitstream/1974/7563/1/Lewis_Adam_G_201209_MA.pdf<br /><br />Mitchell, T. (2002). <i>Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernity</i>. Berkley, CA: University of California Press.<br /><br />Smith, A. (2006). Heteropatriarchy and the three pillars of white supremacy. In Incite! (Ed.), <i>The colour of violence: The INCITE! anthology</i> (pp. 66–73). Cambridge, UK: South End Press.<br /><br />Walia, H. (2012). Decolonizing together: Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization. <i>Briar Patch</i>, <i>January/February</i>. Retrieved from http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-together<br /><br /><a href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/towards-an-anti-colonial-anarchism/#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Adam (Lewis, 2012) explores this topic in depth.</div></div>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-15093064160086427052015-03-17T08:28:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.786-07:00The Rothbardian Reconstruction of the Political Spectrum Via:<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/" target="_blank"> ATS</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiprNJzlOUsTXqRP4vDH_gSdWWBRfFAMkeYDyvv5FvuMlfqHZ7w2oWLuVq4Dlf1fNGj_jcNqMBfBkLt179Hrn0BnsBkCRvrpJ9A0GO_nNLOFvKVpOQrrmvNm1ZKD11YNCRL_EHN3PRh1nU/s1600/bardy-bard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiprNJzlOUsTXqRP4vDH_gSdWWBRfFAMkeYDyvv5FvuMlfqHZ7w2oWLuVq4Dlf1fNGj_jcNqMBfBkLt179Hrn0BnsBkCRvrpJ9A0GO_nNLOFvKVpOQrrmvNm1ZKD11YNCRL_EHN3PRh1nU/s1600/bardy-bard.jpg" /></a></div><br />Rothbard’s classic 1965 essay, “Left and Right: Prospects for Liberty,” is a must read for anarchists, libertarians, anti-statists, and decentralists of any species. This essay as much as any other really defines the historical context and trajectory of our common fight, irrespective of our other differences.<br /><br />By Murray Rothbard<br />Mises Institute<br /><div class="body-content"><br /><br />[Originally appeared in <i>Left and Right</i>, Spring 1965, pp. 4-22.]<br /><br />The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence the inevitable trend runs toward left-wing statism at home and Communism abroad. It is this long-run despair that accounts for the Conservative’s rather bizarre short-run optimism; for since the long run is given up as hopeless, the Conservative feels that his only hope of success rests in the current moment. In foreign affairs, this point of view leads the Conservative to call for desperate showdowns with Communism, for he feels that the longer he waits the worse things will ineluctably become; at home, it leads him to total concentration on the very next election, where he is always hoping for victory and never achieving it. The quintessence of the Practical Man, and beset by long-run despair, the Conservative refuses to think or plan beyond the election of the day.</div><span id="more-35808"></span><br /><br />Pessimism, however, both short-run and long-run, is precisely what the prognosis of Conservatism deserves; for Conservatism is a dying remnant of the <i>ancien régime</i> of the preindustrial era, and, as such, it has no future. In its contemporary American form, the recent Conservative Revival embodied the death throes of an ineluctably moribund, Fundamentalist, rural, small-town, white Anglo-Saxon America. What, however, of the prospects for liberty? For too many libertarians mistakenly link the prognosis for liberty with that of the seemingly stronger and supposedly allied Conservative movement; this linkage makes the characteristic long-run pessimism of the modern libertarian easy to understand. But this paper contends that, while the short-run prospects for liberty at home and abroad may seem dim, the proper attitude for the libertarian to take is that of unquenchable long-run optimism.<br /><br />The case for this assertion rests on a certain view of history: which holds, first, that before the 18th century in Western Europe there existed (and still continues to exist outside the West) an identifiable Old Order. Whether the Old Order took the form of feudalism or Oriental despotism, it was marked by tyranny, exploitation, stagnation, fixed caste, and hopelessness and starvation for the bulk of the population. In sum, life was “nasty, brutish, and short”; here was Maine’s “society of status” and Spencer’s “military society.” The ruling classes, or castes, governed by conquest and by getting the masses to believe in the alleged divine imprimatur to their rule.<br />The Old Order was, and still remains, the great and mighty enemy of liberty; and it was particularly mighty in the past because there was then no inevitability about its overthrow. When we consider that basically the Old Order had existed since the dawn of history, in all civilizations, we can appreciate even more the glory and the magnitude of the triumph of the liberal revolution of and around the 18th century.<br /><br />Part of the dimensions of this struggle has been obscured by a great myth of the history of Western Europe implanted by antiliberal German historians of the late 19th century. The myth held that the growth of absolute monarchies and of mercantilism in the early modern era was necessary for the development of capitalism, since these served to liberate the merchants and the people from local feudal restrictions. In actuality, this was not at all the case; the King and his nation-State served rather as a superfeudal overlord re-imposing and reinforcing feudalism just as it was being dissolved by the peaceful growth of the market economy. The King superimposed his own restrictions and monopoly privileges onto those of the feudal regime. The absolute monarchs were the Old Order writ large and made even more despotic than before. Capitalism, indeed, flourished earliest and most actively precisely in those areas where the central State was weak or non-existent: the Italian cities, the Hanseatic League, the confederation of 17th century Holland. Finally, the old order was overthrown or severely shaken in its grip in two ways. One was by industry and the market expanding through the interstices of the feudal order (e.g., industry in England developing in the countryside beyond the grip of feudal, State, and guild restrictions.) More important was a series of cataclysmic revolutions that blasted loose the Old Order and the old ruling classes: the English Revolutions of the 17th century, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution, all of which were necessary to the ushering in of the Industrial Revolution and of at least partial victories for individual liberty, laissez-faire separation of church-and-state, and international peace. The society of status gave way, at least partially, to the “society of contract”; the military society gave way partially to the “industrial society.” The mass of the population now achieved a mobility of labor and place, and accelerating expansion of their living standards, for which they had scarcely dared to hope. Liberalism had indeed brought to the Western world not only liberty, the prospect of peace, and the rising living standards of an industrial society, but above all perhaps, it brought hope, a hope in ever-greater progress that lifted the mass of mankind out of its age-old sink of stagnation and despair.<br /><br />Soon there developed in Western Europe two great political ideologies, centered around this new revolutionary phenomenon: the one was Liberalism, the party of hope, of radicalism, of liberty, of the Industrial Revolution, of progress, of humanity; the other was Conservatism, the party of reaction, the party that longed to restore the hierarchy, statism, theocracy, serfdom, and class exploitation of the old order. Since liberalism admittedly had reason on its side, the Conservatives darkened the ideological atmosphere with obscurantist calls for romanticism, tradition, theocracy, and irrationalism. Political ideologies were polarized, with Liberalism on the extreme “Left,” and Conservatism on the extreme “Right,” of the ideological spectrum. That genuine Liberalism was essentially radical and revolutionary was brilliantly perceived, in the twilight of its impact, by the great Lord Acton (one of the few figures in the history of thought who, charmingly, grew more radical as he grew older). Acton wrote that “Liberalism wishes for what ought to be, irrespective of what is.” In working out this view, incidentally, it was Acton, not Trotsky, who first arrived at the concept of the “permanent revolution.” As Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote, in her excellent study of Acton:<br /><blockquote>his philosophy develop(ed) to the point where the future was seen as the avowed enemy of the past, and where the past was allowed no authority except as it happened to conform to morality. To take seriously this Liberal theory of history, to give precedence to “what ought to be” over “what is,” was, he admitted, virtually to install a “revolution in permanence.”<br />The “revolution in permanence,” as Acton hinted in the inaugural lecture and admitted frankly in his notes, was the culmination of his philosophy of history and theory of politics… This idea of conscience, that men carry about with them the knowledge of good and evil, is the very root of revolution, for it destroys the sanctity of the past… “Liberalism is essentially revolutionary,” Acton observed. “Facts must yield to ideas. Peaceably and patiently if possible. Violently if not.” <a href="http://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty#1">[1]</a></blockquote>The Liberal, wrote Acton, far surpassed the Whig:<br /><blockquote>The Whig governed by compromise. The Liberal begins the reign of ideas… One is practical, gradual, ready for compromise. The other works out a principle philosophically. One is a policy aiming at a philosophy. The other is a philosophy seeking a policy. <a href="http://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty#2">[2]</a></blockquote>What happened to Liberalism? Why then did it decline during the nineteenth century? This question has been pondered many times, but perhaps the basic reason was an inner rot within the vitals of Liberalism itself. For, with the partial success of the Liberal Revolution in the West, the Liberals increasingly abandoned their radical fervor, and therefore their liberal goals, to rest content with a mere defense of the uninspiring and defective status quo. Two philosophical roots of this decay may be discerned: First, the abandonment of natural rights and “higher law” theory for utilitarianism. For only forms of natural or higher law theory can provide a radical base outside the existing system from which to challenge the status quo; and only such theory furnishes a sense of necessary immediacy to the libertarian struggle, by focussing on the necessity of bringing existing criminal rulers to the bar of justice. Utilitarians, on the other hand, in abandoning justice for expediency, also abandon immediacy for quiet stagnation and inevitably end up as objective apologists for the existing order.<br />The second great philosophical influence on the decline of Liberalism was evolutionism, or Social Darwinism, which put the finishing touches to Liberalism as a radical force in society. For the Social Darwinist erroneously saw history and society through the peaceful, rose-colored glasses of infinitely slow, infinitely gradual social evolution. Ignoring the prime fact that no ruling caste in history has ever voluntarily surrendered its power, and that therefore Liberalism had to break through by means of a series of revolutions, the Social Darwinists looked forward peacefully and cheerfully to thousands of years of infinitely gradual evolution to the next supposedly inevitable stage of individualism.<br /><br />An interesting illustration of a thinker who embodies within himself the decline of Liberalism in the nineteenth century is Herbert Spencer. Spencer began as a magnificently radical liberal, indeed virtually a pure libertarian. But, as the virus of sociology and Social Darwinism took over in his soul, Spencer abandoned libertarianism as a dynamic historical movement, although at first without abandoning it in pure theory. In short, while looking forward to an eventual ideal of pure liberty, Spencer began to see its victory as inevitable, but only after millennia of gradual evolution, and thus, in actual fact, Spencer abandoned Liberalism as a fighting, radical creed; and confined his Liberalism in practice to a weary, rear-guard action against the growing collectivism of the late nineteenth-century. Interestingly enough, Spencer’s tired shift “rightward” in strategy soon became a shift rightward in theory as well; so that Spencer abandoned pure liberty even in theory e.g., in repudiating his famous chapter in <i>Social Statics</i>, “The Right to Ignore the State.”<br /><br />In England, the classical liberals began their shift from radicalism to quasi-conservatism in the early nineteenth century; a touchstone of this shift was the general British liberal attitude toward the national liberation struggle in Ireland. This struggle was twofold: against British political imperialism, and against feudal landlordism which had been imposed by that imperialism. By their Tory blindness toward the Irish drive for national independence, and especially for peasant property against feudal oppression, the British liberals (including Spencer) symbolized their effective abandonment of genuine Liberalism, which had been virtually born in a struggle against the feudal land system. Only in the United States, the great home of radical liberalism (where feudalism had never been able to take root outside the South), did natural rights and higher law theory, and consequent radical liberal movements, continue in prominence until the mid-nineteenth century. In their different ways, the Jacksonian and Abolitionist movements were the last powerful radical libertarian movements in American life. <a href="http://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty#3">[3]</a><br /><br />Thus, with Liberalism abandoned from within, there was no longer a party of Hope in the Western world, no longer a “Left” movement to lead a struggle against the State and against the unbreached remainder of the Old Order. Into this gap, into this void created by the drying up of radical liberalism, there stepped a new movement: Socialism. Libertarians of the present day are accustomed to think of socialism as the polar opposite of the libertarian creed. But this is a grave mistake, responsible for a severe ideological disorientation of libertarians in the present world. As we have seen, Conservatism was the polar opposite of liberty; and socialism, while to the “left” of conservatism, was essentially a confused, middle-of-the road movement. It was, and still is, middle-of-the road because it tries to achieve Liberal ends by the use of Conservative means.<br /><br />In short, Russell Kirk, who claims that Socialism was the heir of classical liberalism, and Ronald Hamowy, who sees Socialism as the heir of Conservatism, are both right; for the question is on what aspect of this confused centrist movement we happen to be focussing. Socialism, like Liberalism and against Conservatism, accepted the industrial system and the liberal goals of freedom, reason, mobility, progress, higher living standards the masses, and an end to theocracy and war; but it tried to achieve these ends by the use of incompatible, Conservative means: statism, central planning, communitarianism, etc. Or rather, to be more precise, there were from the beginning two different strands within Socialism: one was the Right-wing, authoritarian strand, from Saint-Simon down, which glorified statism, hierarchy, and collectivism and which was thus a projection of Conservatism trying to accept and dominate the new industrial civilization. The other was the Left-wing, relatively libertarian strand, exemplified in their different ways by Marx and Bakunin, revolutionary and far more interested in achieving the libertarian goals of liberalism and socialism: but especially the smashing of the State apparatus to achieve the “withering away of the State” and the “end of the exploitation of man by man.” Interestingly enough, the very Marxian phrase, the “replacement of the government of men by the administration of things,” can be traced, by a circuitous route, from the great French radical laissez-faire liberals of the early nineteenth century, Charles Comte (no relation to Auguste Comte) and Charles Dunoyer. And so, too, may the concept of the “class struggle”; except that for Dunoyer and Comte the inherently antithetical classes were not businessmen vs. workers, but the producers in society (including free businessmen, workers, peasants, etc.) versus the exploiting classes constituting, and privileged by, the State apparatus. <a href="http://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty#4">[4]</a> Saint-Simon, at one time in his confused and chaotic life, was close to Comte and Dunoyer and picked up his class analysis from them, in the process characteristically getting the whole thing balled up and converting businessmen on the market, as well as feudal landlords and others of the State privileged, into “exploiters.” Marx and Bakunin picked this up from the Saint-Simonians, and the result gravely misled the whole Left Socialist movement; for, then, in addition to smashing the repressive State, it became supposedly necessary to smash private capitalist ownership of the means of production. Rejecting private property, especially of capital, the Left Socialists were then trapped in a crucial inner contradiction: if the State is to disappear after the Revolution (immediately for Bakunin, gradually “withering” for Marx), then how is the “collective” to run its property without becoming an enormous State itself in fact even if not in name? This was a contradiction which neither the Marxists nor the Bakuninists were ever able to resolve.<br /><br /><a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/03/11/the-rothbardian-reconstruction-of-the-political-spectrum/" target="_blank">READ MORE HERE </a>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-75130514831490512502015-03-09T16:06:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.809-07:00NATA-NY Interviews Stomp Out Child Abuse (S.O.C.A.) Founder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LVLuNgK9Y9EEMlSHaW9cnKeU4O-kJoPdoyAKp3xcyZOhhcqpVs7UiX0uveKH_mFst-TPLR7BkiqqlEG43Sn0TX4ie_Qbv9xqQCHVWwiFHjpRtorSLFaYoext_TgTEdnXszufUW2k9L8/s1600/soca.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LVLuNgK9Y9EEMlSHaW9cnKeU4O-kJoPdoyAKp3xcyZOhhcqpVs7UiX0uveKH_mFst-TPLR7BkiqqlEG43Sn0TX4ie_Qbv9xqQCHVWwiFHjpRtorSLFaYoext_TgTEdnXszufUW2k9L8/s1600/soca.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Please introduce yourself and describe your organization, <a href="http://www.soca-org.com/home.html">Stomp Out Child Abuse(SOCA).</a></b><br /><br /><br />I’m Dennis, co-founder of S.O.C.A. (Stomp Out Child Abuse). We are a direct action organization whose purpose is to raise awareness against child abuse & molestation. <br /><br /><br /><b>How did the organization get started? Who are the founders, and when did this project begin?</b><br /><br /><br />We started in September of 2014 out of the need to bring a loud voice for children. It seems like abuse and molestation are society's dirty little secret that no one really wants to talk about or address. Me & Kel, the 2 founders of this group, decided that it was time for a serious change...not only from society but from the failure to prosecute to the light sentencing / protective custody / early release of these offenders.<br /><br /><br /><b>Describe of the methods and approaches of SOCA. How exactly does the organization help victims of child abuse?</b><br /><br /><br />Our methods vary. We post fliers near schools advising of how many registered sex offenders are in the area, we do clothing drives for local abuse shelters and we are just done ordering free fingerprinting kits that we will be handing out to families. We are also building up to doing fundraisers for abuse shelters and for other groups that help with sexual trauma counseling. As far as helping victims goes, we offer to help the victims in whatever way they need. We do everything from helping them locate proper counseling services to accompanying them to court to teaching self defense to helping rebuild self confidence to showing them that there are people in this world who aren't afraid of predators of children and women.<br /><br /><br /><b>What are some of SOCA’s biggest successes, in your opinion?</b><br /><br /><br />For me, I consider any help with victims we do a success. The one that means the most to me is victims actually reaching out for help. It’s been proven that a victim opening up about abuse can be just as traumatic as the actual crime itself. For someone to finally open up and come forward takes an amazing amount of courage and allows them the ability to finally reach out and get the help they need before they let it destroy them from the inside out . <br /><br /><br /><b>What is your perception of government agencies like Child Protective Services (CPS)? Do these state organizations ever cause more harm than good?</b><br /><br /><br />CPS has proven to be a more of a business and less of an agency that protects children. All anyone has to do is do a simple search to find horror story after horror story after horror story. They seem to be doing a lot more damage these days than good .<br /><br /><br /><b>What do you think the role of volunteer, community-based efforts against child abuse should be? Do you believe that grassroots efforts can be more effective than bureaucratic state-run programs?</b><br /><br /><br />I wholeheartedly believe grassroots activism accomplishes much more than any program that is involved with bureaucracy. With any kind of government involvement, you have red tape, politics, favoritism, nepotism and have to get approval from 50 people and a legal department just to say hi to someone...let alone actually offer to help them.<br /><br /><br /><b>Based on your knowledge and experience, what role do global elites (e.g. political, corporate, religious, etc.) play in child exploitation, trafficking rings, and other systemic abuse operations?</b><br /><br /><br />Based on what has been coming to light, I’d say sexual abuse and torture is more prevalent then people would ever believe. For anyone reading this who has a doubt, go to <a href="http://youtube.com/">youtube.com </a>and look up the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?q=franklin+scandal">Franklin / Boys Town</a> pedophile sex ring documentary and they will be disgusted, if not surprised. If no one has heard, members of England's royal family have been INDICTED by a world court for child rape / child torture / ritual child murder. Prince Andrew is being exposed now for soliciting a 15 year old sex slave who is now providing times/dates/places, and her pimp has already been convicted. Hollywood is finally catching karma as childhood victims of sex abuse by the famous & wealthy are now stepping out of the shadows and confronting their abusers....AND THERE ARE CONVICTIONS. The only difference between these elites and “regular” pedophiles is the amount of money and attorneys they have to protect them, keep them out of courts and threaten the victims. Lord willing, all who prey on children will be exposed and justice will be served.<br /><br /><br /><b>How has the general public responded to SOCA’s mission and work?</b><br /><br /><br />SOCA has been met with an unbelievable amount of positive responses to our presence. From bikers to punks to skins to blue collar families to moms/dads to grandparents, people have approached us to find out who we are and what we are about. Once we explain, the responses have varied from shaking hands/hugs to requesting cards that they could hand out to people they know. We do get quite a lot of people who try donating money to us, be we refuse every time. Our purpose isn't to make money, it’s to raise awareness and get people motivated to help make a change. There are a million other groups who would benefit from donations more than we could and offer therapeutic & counseling services.<br /><br /><br /><b>We’ve heard that the organization RASH (Red Anarchist Skinheads) has presented SOCA with opposition. Could you describe their criticism and explain the effects of this controversy?</b><br /><br /><br />The situation with RASH is both disgusting & ridiculous. Several weeks ago, several of our members started being approached by people who knew these mentally deficient wannabes. My understanding is that RASH has been defending pedophilia & pedophiles and claim that we are simply picking on them and that we are "in their realm". The very same day, we were warned that anytime RASH sees anyone wearing a SOCA patch, they will assault them and remove their patch. SOCA has NO POLITICAL or RELIGIOUS VIEWS AS AN ORGANIZATION. We have members from ALL political viewpoints/affiliations and religions ranging from Christians/Satanist/Asatru/Buddhist/atheist. I knew that once religion & politics were set aside, we could accomplish anything we set our minds to...and we have. RASH, on the other hand, is what is commonly referred to these days as Left Wingnuts or Duh Leftwaffe. They believe in a diseased and corrupted ideology that has killed 50 million people worldwide since its inception. They would like to see anyone who doesn't agree with them dead and have become prone to attacking people who they don't agree with. I once saw a RASH member assault an elderly truck driver after ordering him to take off his "nazi hat"...the "nazi hat" was a POW/MIA hat with the driver's military tabs/buttons on his hat . Anyone can think or believe in whatever they like, that's what makes America great...but when you start talking about attacking people whose sole purpose is to raise awareness against child abuse and help victims of it , it makes you really start to wonder what their true purpose is. I digress as I’ve already given these clowns about 25 more sentences then they are truly worth . <br /><br /><br /><b>How can interested parties get involved with your organization, or help with the cause as individuals?</b><br /><br /><br />For anyone who is interested in joining or helping out, they can reach out to us several ways. The two easiest methods are these: Locate SOCA Family group on Facebook and leave a message OR they can go to our website, where they can locate their closest chapter on our chapter link page.<br /><br /><br /><b>What else would you like to add?</b><br /><br /><br />We would like to thank you for taking the time to interview us and help us get the word out. We'd like to thank anyone/everyone across the world who fights to help & protect children and would like to see sexual assaults be a thing of the past. We would like to applaud everyone who can look the ugly truth in the face and take up the challenge of changing it. I’d personally like to thank every member of SOCA & <a href="http://odinschildren.com/about-us/">Odin's Children </a>who have just been the most amazing people I've ever known and am proud/honored to call my family every day. We'd like to thank the bands on our family webpage who have had the courage to stand with us side-by-side and represented us. But, we'd especially like to thank the following businesses who have had our back since the beginning and are DIRECTLY responsible for us still being here and as large & growing as we are:<br /><br /><br />Hubie & <a href="http://www.hooliganstreetmerch.com/">Hooligan Street Merch</a><br /> -&-<br />Dave & <a href="http://neversurrenderrecords.com/">Never Surrender Records </a><br /><br /><br />One last thing, in the next 90 days, we will be releasing a Double CD compilation from bands all over the world who have joined us in our mission. From punk to oi to hardcore, we have those bases covered. After recouping the manufacturing costs, EVERY PENNY will be going to an a group called Safe Horizon who does truly amazing work. Please stop by and check them out at <a href="http://safehorizon.org/">SafeHorizon.Org</a></span><br /><!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-i_qsEsqgXjE%2FVP33BEn8djI%2FAAAAAAAAAUk%2Fgtw9KuD23Bc%2Fs1600%2Fsoca.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LVLuNgK9Y9EEMlSHaW9cnKeU4O-kJoPdoyAKp3xcyZOhhcqpVs7UiX0uveKH_mFst-TPLR7BkiqqlEG43Sn0TX4ie_Qbv9xqQCHVWwiFHjpRtorSLFaYoext_TgTEdnXszufUW2k9L8/s1600/soca.jpg" -->Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-80342759911673307082015-03-08T18:53:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.824-07:00Nationalism & Class Struggle<br />By <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.counter-currents.com/author/emontsalvat/" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" title="View all posts by Eugène Montsalvat">Eugène Montsalvat</a></span><br /><span class="author vcard">via: <a href="http://counter-currents.com/">counter-currents.com</a> </span><br /><span class="author vcard"> </span><br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_49397" style="width: 270px;"><a href="http://www.counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Coughlin2.jpg"><img alt="Father Charles E. Coughlin: Social Justice Warrior" class="size-medium wp-image-49397" src="http://www.counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Coughlin2-260x199.jpg" height="199" width="260" /></a><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">Father Charles E. Coughlin: Social Justice Warrior</div></div><br />Today, the Right finds itself in a revolutionary situation. All of the mechanisms of power have been seized by a hostile elite. The economy, government, and academia are solely in the hands of corporate internationalists or full scale multiculturalists.<br />In its economic dimension, capital is aligned against the interests of nationalists, the traditionally religious, and the workers. <span id="more-49396"></span>Capital is international, the common people are patriotic. The capitalist has no country. He can move to whatever location suits him and take his wealth with him. He has no need to develop any loyalty to a nation. As Alain Soral notes in the essay “<a href="http://openrevolt.info/2012/03/23/alain-soral-class-stuggle-within-socialism-1830-1914/" target="_blank">Class Struggle Within Socialism</a>,” “internationalism which is, on the contrary, the main characteristic of the traveling elites and the nomadic manipulators, doing their businesses above the people’s head, who, due to their Praxis, are fairly immobile and rooted.”<br /><br />Thus the war of classes is also a war of cultures. Cultural globalization and economic globalization go hand in hand. The sole beneficiary of both is capital. The battle lines are forming: liberal, capitalist internationalists versus conservative, populist nationalists. Of course, at the moment the latter has yet to organize to the extent that the former has.<br />Much has been written about the failure of the Right to transcend the capitalists versus communists dialectic of the Cold War. It will suffice to say that this failure has hampered the development of a truly nationalist Right since the fall of the Soviet Union. The Left has adapted well to the global realignment, internationalist Trotskyites simply became neo-conservatives or found fruitful employment in the advertising departments of global fashion corporations.<br />One ray of hope on the Right has been the recalibration of the Front National’s economic policies from neoliberalism in the late 1970s and 1980s to protectionism. In doing so, they have developed a new appeal to the patriotic workers of France. Today a significant group of major Left-wing union members support the Front National. French Leftist journal <i>L’Humanité</i> <a href="http://www.latribune.fr/actualites/economie/france/20140529trib000832458/vote-pour-le-front-national-les-syndicalistes-aussi-.html" target="_blank">published a poll</a> showing that one third of Force Ouvrière supported Front National, closely followed by the l’Union Syndicale Solidaires at 27%, and the Confédération Générale du Travail at 22%.<br /><br />While this move can be attributed to the reconciliation between labor and the Front National, the Left’s betrayal of the class struggle cannot be downplayed. The French Communist Party under Georges Marchais opposed mass immigration, and Marchais himself had little time for New Leftists like Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Today the French Communist party supports immigration, gay marriage, and other concerns of the chattering classes, it is mostly indistinguishable from the other socially liberal parties in the country. In this rare instance, the French Right has acclimated to the new political realities better than the French Left. They have reached out to abandoned French workers with a nationalist economic theory, one the fights the global plutocracy.<br />There is still much to be done. The alliance between patriots and labor is still fairly embryonic at this time. Moreover, much of the fault still lies with the Right. The Left has done everything in their power to show that they no longer care about the common man. They spit on his faith, his country, his family, and everything he held sacred. They have become embroiled in concerns about race or sexuality that have zero bearing on the average life of a transit worker.<br /><br />In a eulogy to the union leader Bob Crow, <i>Spectator</i> columnist <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/03/bob-crow-dont-you-just-love-him/" target="_blank">Ed West said</a>, “it’s funny that most people who consider themselves vaguely leftie or at least holding the ‘correct’ views have zero sympathy for the Tube strikers . . . That’s the curious thing; judging by the world of commentary, most Left-wing people are basically more interested in debating intersectionality or microaggressions or their own genitals, irrelevant and meaningless twaddle that future generations will laugh at.”<br />In truth, today’s Leftist elites are just as alienated from the working class as their putative enemies the plutocrats, and just as willing to replace them with more grateful peasants from the Third World.<br />In the face of this immense betrayal, the Right has thus far failed to seize an opportunity, out of what appears to be little more than mere snobbery. Even in “alternative” Right-wing circles, the intellectuals imagine themselves as aristocrats of the pen who refuse to consort with plebeians.<br />But history provides many examples of genuine aristocrats fighting alongside workers and peasants. In French Revolution, workers and peasants were underrepresented among the bloodthirsty Jacobins and bankers and lawyers overrepresented. The aristocrat Henri de la Rochejaquelein rallied an army of peasants in the Vendée to resist the bourgeois revolutionaries who fattened themselves off the seizure of church property, much of which had been devoted to helping the poor.<br />The past has seen many movements that fought greed with patriotism. While these ended in defeat, there is much to be learned from their struggles. The National Revolutionaries in Weimar Germany are a fruitful case study. Like the nationalists of today, they found their country dominated by a hostile, foreign elite. The old conservatism of the Kaiserreich was insufficient for their purposes. Seeing that the Communists were stepping into the power vacuum, they sought to offer a new nationalism to the workers, one that would turn the revolution of 1918 towards a higher ideal. Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck reached out to the workers in his 1923 book <i>Germany’s Third Empire</i>:<br /><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />In its need the proletariat is seeking new leaders. It is beginning to realize that these can only be found amongst men who have no mind to be proletarians. We cannot ask that the proletariat accept the leadership of that generation which lost the war and against whom the radicals carried out the revolution; but a new generation is coming on. The men of the new generation will not endorse the revolution, but they will accept the mental revolution that has taken place. They owe no loyalty to the age of William II, whose greatest crime was that it allowed conservative forms to fall into decay. No barrier severs the new generation from the proletariat.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">The German working man must recognize that he, who was said to possess no fatherland, today possesses nothing else.[1]</div><br />Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck sought to seize the opportunity presented by the defeat of Germany and fall of the monarchy to realize a national revolution. He stated, “Even the world revolution can only be realized nationally. Each nation has its own particular mission. We believe that it is the mission of the German nation to translate the world revolution into the salvation of Europe.” Rather than accepting the class politics of the Marxists and the failed monarchy, he realized that the workers were a part of the nation, and therefore part of the national mission. He correctly identified liberalism, synonymous for all practical purposes with capitalism, as the death of nations. Van Den Bruck’s basic criticisms of capitalism and conservatism, infused with a nationalist spirit, laid the foundations for a rich body of Conservative Revolutionary thought.<br /><br />Within this milieu the worker was given a transformed, indeed a transcendent meaning in Ernst Jünger’s treatises, <i>Der Arbeiter </i>[The Worker] and <i>Total Mobilization</i>. While <i>Der Arbeiter</i> has not been translated into English, there is commentary available which allows us to grasp the essence of the piece. The worker is a heroic figure, a new titan. His actions are as much metaphysical as they are material. The worker is essential to the process overcoming the industrial bourgeois society to reach a state of total mobilization. He is the builder of the new civilization with a higher ideal, a warrior of industry. His worker stands in direct contrast with the bürger type, who seeks tranquility and security above all. He stated, “Our belief is that the rise of the worker is synonymous with a new ascent of Germany.”[2]<br /><br />This fusion of labor and nationalism was developed further by Ernst Jünger’s friend and colleague Ernst Niekisch, founder of the journal <i>Widerstand</i> [Resistance], to which Jünger contributed. Niekisch is considered the founding father of National Bolshevism, merging nationalism with radical anti-capitalism and socialism. He saw the German bourgeoisie and their political mainstream as treasonous, working with the victors of World War I for their own financial gain. He viewed the resistance of German nationalists as a resistance against international capitalism, and favored withdrawal from the international Western economy and turning towards an alliance with the Soviet Union.<br /><br />The alliance of pro-labor politics and nationalism had an influence on the National Socialists as well, most prominently with Strasserism and Ernst Röhm’s calls for a “Second Revolution” to sweep the pre-war financial elite from power. However, the ossification of National Socialism after Hitler’s centralization of power resulted in the end of Conservative Revolutionary Movement. The Strasser brothers and Röhm were purged from the Nazi party. Niekisch was imprisoned. Germany went on to defeat in World War II, and the literature of the Conservative Revolutionary Movement was viewed with much suspicion in the postwar era.<br /><br />It is not unreasonable to say that proletarian nationalism was a major faction of the interwar Right. Even in America anti-capitalist nationalism found expression in the mass audience of Father Coughlin’s radio broadcasts and his periodical <i>Social Justice</i>.<br />With the end of the Cold War, there is really no more reason for nationalists to pay tribute to capitalism. The capitalists have no interest in faith, family, tradition, or anything that speaks to the soul of common man. It is time for the nationalist Right to develop ties with labor unions and syndicates, to join hands with fighters against globalization, privatization, and plundering of the environment. To fight the forces of evil.<br />As Ezra Pound said, “No! it is not money that is the root of the evil. The root is greed, the lust for monopoly. ‘CAPTANS ANNONAM, MALEDICTUS IN PLEBE SIT!’ thundered St. Ambrose—’Hoggers of harvest, cursed among the people!’” It is time for the people to break the curse of finance.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Notes</b></div>1. Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck, <i>Germany’s Third Empire</i> (London: Arktos, 2012), pp. 148–49.<br />2. From p. 122 of <i>Der Arbeiter</i>, cited in Jeffrey Herf, <i>Reactionary Modernism</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 103.Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-822791506846456932015-03-08T18:03:00.000-07:002016-10-04T17:12:35.853-07:00Procés Embat: The desire for anarchist organisation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvT_H0UWw1v3q7JyJD3VDwrbWQXsL7Tf1FPVRjakl82Ts6t8HzrTiESt-mZobO56fUys9g-z_UxkkvZ5e6JCtrE4cSTQ-q9GEvhWChG3fw0X523rjuJDj7iQoC9t2X6xQdSzyg5EFJlU/s1600/arton2096.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvT_H0UWw1v3q7JyJD3VDwrbWQXsL7Tf1FPVRjakl82Ts6t8HzrTiESt-mZobO56fUys9g-z_UxkkvZ5e6JCtrE4cSTQ-q9GEvhWChG3fw0X523rjuJDj7iQoC9t2X6xQdSzyg5EFJlU/s1600/arton2096.jpg" height="283" width="400" /></a></div>Via<a href="http://www.anarkismo.net/" target="_blank">:anarkismo.net</a><br /><br /><br />Carlos Taibo recently defended the need for a nation or iberian wide anarchist organisation to unite, consolidate and give greater resonance to anarchist activism (click here). This latter is weakened by dispersion, above all in the face of more organised movements or political parties that endeavour to absorb and assimilate grass roots social movements grounded in direct action. If the context for Taibo’s intervention is spain, similar appear to have surfaced in greece. And Syriza and spain’s Podemos, are perhaps on the “left” the immediate menace to a politics of generalised autonomy, for they present themselves as the representative voices of social movements.<br /><br />In spain, this idea gains concrete expression in something that has came to be called Procés Embat, originating among catalan libertarian in 2013, and today engendering similar initiatives elsewhere.<br /><br />Procés Embat is a network of social militants of the libertarian tradition, who have started with the objective to articulate a social trend, organised and willing to contribute to, from a libertarian perspective, the development of the popular movement and the empowerment of the people to achieve a sovereign Catalonia through the development of popular power for greater economic and political democracy.<br /><br />Procés Embat is not the desired organisation finalised, but a process towards such an organisation, a process that will require extensive debate and reflection. The ambition is not to create a vanguard, but a more incisive network of activists who can “push for the necessary organs for our daily revolutionary practice and accompany the popular sectors and workers in their struggles, while maintaining strategies and resources for the short, medium and long term.”<br /><br />If we raised questions regarding Taibo’s proposal, it was not to dismiss it (click here). And our attitude remains the same in this instance. Below, we publish in translation an interview accorded to the CNT newspaper by militants of the initiative, to further clarify views and positions.<br /><br />For the activists of Procés Embat, anarchism today lacks organisation. It tends to it, but it is not yet so. Those who consider themselves libertarians are disorganised, or organised according to personal affinities and not on the basis of defined political positions. This considerably weakens the potential of anarchist ideas and practices, tactics and strategies, and socio-political goals. The aim then is to seek a greater organisational coherence, rooted in practice and not ideology, so as to be able to influence, even shape, broader social movements. “Power should be in the streets, this is our role. To help organise society.”<br /><br />But is the movement in fact disorganised? Or is its dispersion not a sign of its intrinsic plurality, rather than a symptom of disorder? And what is an anarchist organisation beyond relations of affinity? (For a discussion of anarchism and friendship, click here). Is there not a danger here of institutionalisation, bureaucratisation, in sum, vanguardism? If an anarchist group or movement engages in a politics of creating autonomy in the here and now, that autonomy is inevitably plural. And what organisation is necessary will presumably come from within the plurality according to felt needs and desires. Is not then the effort at organisation on a national scale the effort to give a unity where not only is there none, but where it is not seen to be possible or necessary?<br /><br />Again, these questions are not intended to be read as a rejection of the initiative. There are more than enough reasons to be interested in it, and thus our concern. But the hesitations, the doubts, are born of ideas expressed not only today, but by older controversies. We may conclude by citing Gustav Landauer.<br /><br />… this is yet another crucial fallacy: that one can – or must – bring anarchism to the world; that anarchy is an affair of all of humanity; that there will indeed be a day of judgment followed by a millennial era. Those who want “to bring freedom to the world” – which will always be their idea of freedom – are tyrants, not anarchists. Anarchy will never be a matter of the masses, it will never be established by means of military attack or armed revolt, just as the ideal of federalist socialism will never be reached by waiting until the already accumulated capital and the title of the land will fall into the people’s hands. Anarchy is not a matter of the future; it is a matter of the present. It is not a matter of making demands; it is a matter of how one lives. Anarchy is not about the nationalization of the achievements of the past but about a new people arising from humble beginnings in small communities that form in the midst of the old: an inward colonization. Anarchy is not about a struggle between classes – the dispossessed against the possessors – but about free, strong, and sovereign individuals breaking free from mass culture and uniting in new forms. The old opposition between destruction and construction begins to lose its meaning: what is at stake are new forms that have never been.<br /><br />The interview follows …<br /><br />Procés Embat presented itself recently in society with the intention of articulating an organised anarchism. In the following interview, they tell us of their vision of the current libertarian movement and their intentions with this new project.<br /><br />Question. – How does the Procés Embat arise? Why this name?<br /><br />Response. – Those of us who initiated this Procés Embat felt the necessity of articulating an organized response to the problems of our society in our time. That is to say, to escape from the typical finalisms of revolutionary ideologies and apply our values here and now in an organisational process centred in the social sphere.<br /><br />We met many who had abandoned the movement, or were in the process of doing so, dispersed in numerous social platforms, movements and organisations, sometimes unrelated to the libertarian. It was a matter of re-establishing contact with these people and to continue contributing to their own struggles, but working from a libertarian perspective, for in spite of the distance we noticed that they continued to work within our own desires.<br /><br />Embat means blow, or shock, in English, like the shock of a wave against a rocky shore. We believe that the name graphically captures what we wanted to mean, as much for the current libertarian movement as for the social movements.<br /><br />Q. – We speak of the need for an organised anarchism. But does it not already exist?<br /><br />R. – Anarchism is not organised. It tends towards organisation, but it is not. Relative to the social sphere, it is organised uniquely in anarcho-syndicalism. But beyond that, the movement is profoundly atomised, with each one acting very much in her/his own space, without their being the possibility of responding as a movement. We believe that we are still in a stage of collectives and not of organisations. That is to say, that those who consider themselves libertarians became disorganised or organised by personal affinities (and not on the basis of political positions), active in small collectives of a local ambit. Some dedicate themselves to cultural activites, others to managing a space (cultural associations and social centres), others to their neighbourhood and others to social questions. There are however more general ambits of work, such as for example, how to give a libertarian response to the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), how to intervene in the issue of housing, what response do we have as a movement to health, retirement pensions, education, unemployment, etc. These are matters that concern us all and the responses that we offer are fragmentary and even at times contradictory. What work is pursued in this direction is not the outcome of efforts on the part of the libertarian movement, but of the organisations of social movements, with the exception of anarcho-syndicalism. We therefore believe that it is necessary to generate this space which presently does not exist.<br /><br />At present, there exist ever more coordinating bodies of collectives and groups. We think that it is a step forward in the direction of constructing organisations. Nevertheless, we do not believe that it is a solution. We have in fact participated in various efforts at coordination. All failed for the same reason: the absence of shared political positions. Each group thought differently, and even within each group there were divergent positions and this made it practically impossible to arrive at agreements of any importance. Whatever positive that emerged would remain at the level of creating newspapers, making posters, organising campaigns, calling for demonstrations and little more. Of course, this coordinating activity served to meet new comrades, to see with whom you can work and to initiate lines of activity. But having reached this point, we believe that we have arrived at the moment of organisations, in the plural, depending on different tactical and strategic positions or the way of functioning.<br /><br />Q. – Is there any experience at the national or global level that has motivated you to set out on this process?<br /><br />R. – Nationally, there are very few. The greatest influence upon comes comes from the social anarchism of Latin America, represented by the FAU (Federación Anarquista Uruguaya) of Uruguay and the FAG (Federação Anarquista Gaúcha), of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and the long list of organisation that they have generated in the last decade. But despite that, we do not follow them to the letter. We want as our point of departure a close territorial reality. Consequently importing models from the past or from other territories makes little sense.<br /><br />In fact, we find greater inspiration in the social and popular struggles of Chiapas, of Oaxaca, of the peasants of Columbia, of Kurdistan, in the student movement of Chile, etc., than in the local or international libertarian movement of the last years. Our movement must be adapted to the times, to the organisational traditions and to the struggle of the territory.<br /><br />Q. – Why until today are anarchist ideas far from, no longer of acquiring relevance, but of winning sympathy in society?<br /><br />R. – We don’t think that we give rise to excessive antipathies; on the contrary, many people approach us who find in a utopian movement. And this is what is sad, that we don’t give the feeling that one day we could realise our end goals and sometimes we also give the sensation that we don’t believe that we can either. During approximately three decades, the libertarian movement lived closed in upon itself. First in anarcho-syndicalism and its internal conflict, after in the counter-culture and the okupation movement. In each domain, anarchism was too weak to provide a response to the problems of society.<br /><br />But we believe that we have traveled far. The atmosphere is not as strained as in other times and there are many libertarian people who became active in the last years, with a profound change that is noticeable in the movement. It is then from optimism, humility, militant work, openness, direct contact with social struggles, that we can again gain the sympathies of society.<br /><br />Q. – However, it can be said of many initiatives of a social character that they drink from libertarian principles. Look at 15M …<br /><br />R. – 15M is the confirmation that an important part of society has affinities with libertarian ideas. But to have an affinity is not to be a libertarian; it does not have to want the final goals of anarchism. That was the task of the libertarian movement. Anarchist ideas impregnate the fabric of struggles, but there is always someone who tries to appropriate them as if they belonged to their own tradition. It is like the old revolutionary syndicalism that was created at the margins of Marxism and anarchism, and that thanks to the work of very many libertarian activists it ended up being a movement associated with anarchism. In this case, we have to think that movements are not neutral; that in all of them are activists from all of the political parties and that each has their own agenda. Ours is to have social movements be autonomous, independent of parties. And having attained that, we are succeeding, in that in the future this movement will be an ally of the libertarian movement.<br /><br />Q. – Do you believe that the libertarian movement has in recent times sinned due to an excessive dogmatism? What are the principal weaknesses and strengths that you see in it?<br /><br />R. – The dogmatism of the libertarian movement we see confirmed in its excess of ideology. In the face of any problem, a collation of principles is reached for. And the principles often impede action in conformity with what reality demands. Accordingly, we want to centre ourselves in practice. A practice based on principles, of course, but also a strategy to attain some objectives. That is why our organisation will be comprised of activists, of persons who militate in movements and who share in the daily struggles of society. That is, we speak of anarchism as a socio-political movement and not only as an ideology. To close oneself in the ideology has been above all an excuse to avoid a reality that was to us adverse. As everything which surrounds us is contrary to our principles, we don’t act and we criticise from our spaces, from within our spaces of comfort. We believe that we have to break with this dynamic and confront the problems that surround us, even equivocally if necessary. Anarchism is a tool for liberation and if it ceases to be so, then it will be no more than a pose.<br /><br />Q. – What opinion do you have of political organisations such as Podemos or Ganemos [a series of radical political municipalist movements seeking power at the local city level. In some cases, they have allied themselves with Podemos for the upcoming spanish municipal elections. For example, Ganemos Madrid] ? They have in same way taken our territory? How do we recuperate it?<br /><br />R. – They are expressions of discontent in society. Before the lack of evident victories in the street, people move towards electoral politics. In this case, new versions of a parliamentary left appear. The libertarian of course opposes the electoral game as the easy solution and denounces that electoralism forgets what is truly important: to empower the people. We do not believe that one can attain a great deal through the institutions, given that those who hold power in this country are the capitalists, and not those who govern. Local governments have relatively limited power and what they can realise will be meagre. But neither will we remain with our arms crossed and letting a moment pass without struggling, without carrying with us the demands of people to their end and also proposing new, more ambitious, ends. Power should be in the streets, and that is our role: to help organise society.<br /><br />Q. – You present yourselves as ambitious … What objectives would you like to reach with this initiative? What will be the stages to attain them?<br /><br />R. – Let us make it clear that for the moment we are a process of organisation and not an organisation formally constituted. This occurred when different groups that constitute Embat so decided. We have a long journey before us, but recently we have noticed a significant acceleration. In any case, what must grow is not our organisation in itself, but the influence of our ideas and our ways of acting within the social and popular movements. If we can count on some well politicised and autonomous social movements, and furthermore organised between them, we will have something like an organised people. The role of organised anarchism should be that of catalyst and motor of initiatives and that of avoiding the recuperation of struggles by other political movements. At that moment, we will be in a new stage of struggles in this country.<br /><br />Published: Peridico CNT n° 415 – January 2015Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-15470330401633353932015-03-07T10:24:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.872-07:00NATA-NY @ Shutdown AIPAC Washington D.C. March 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqqKxDxMLsQtA8qSmapZZhGrfrWX0nlNcuAedLLC1G_wPSYlK6c6ptyvavL1sxCYvVmpaAYU3uRxxwBIWRc8hnKwTLVh_PhcHJASK1zO04rNgwlQ238Kf15IBaAqbO5HgC-1Tb1PVf70/s1600/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqqKxDxMLsQtA8qSmapZZhGrfrWX0nlNcuAedLLC1G_wPSYlK6c6ptyvavL1sxCYvVmpaAYU3uRxxwBIWRc8hnKwTLVh_PhcHJASK1zO04rNgwlQ238Kf15IBaAqbO5HgC-1Tb1PVf70/s1600/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start;">Several Neturei Karta Anti-Zionist Jews protesting outside the AIPAC </span><span style="background-color: white; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-40rzsC_0c3gj9rAwirUKfUVOXACx3P8mBO6Ujj27ZaRsToRaO93nojVY4EBZMZB0sYeHB8ipWrPdId3AId8x7kTsncSGSSqwyO5WvTenEBiVSRKXxWRg4HYqLr0p4ZKE5vnJoNl5-w4/s1600/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>NATA at AIPAC stands with Neturei Karta and other antizionists</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEQajk9c2TFzkz3Qm1UHlVvbSV_gLtwu-DAvXCOJeHRgRYbRSW7kZWAyiQz1x33VVU7ns8z0fp3IY2EbgJOGVfeztMt8Nq9NLcqT2DB2ksT_olDwUOmm4bTHkEQ8aNNGrIafCySVlimA/s1600/005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEQajk9c2TFzkz3Qm1UHlVvbSV_gLtwu-DAvXCOJeHRgRYbRSW7kZWAyiQz1x33VVU7ns8z0fp3IY2EbgJOGVfeztMt8Nq9NLcqT2DB2ksT_olDwUOmm4bTHkEQ8aNNGrIafCySVlimA/s1600/005.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zionist "salutes" Old Glory</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMa9wEBEnyrQtqrc52Y9j8daTnujI5-ANNbgqgRCrjXEXTWoZpn53IzBKXE62LvSoyI-3Mm7TXmZbnuyh0GSUOejlXfLFCmZceaicQMTdciknbSS3ST2yq8h2XRYY5SNqq0JfAYZIkPWc/s1600/006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMa9wEBEnyrQtqrc52Y9j8daTnujI5-ANNbgqgRCrjXEXTWoZpn53IzBKXE62LvSoyI-3Mm7TXmZbnuyh0GSUOejlXfLFCmZceaicQMTdciknbSS3ST2yq8h2XRYY5SNqq0JfAYZIkPWc/s1600/006.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zionists appropriating the American flag with their Israel first agenda</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2q-N23wYzDOsABKP6VhFDusY-pQ-s4qovtbeoBUCJjwaYUEMo_Gp1IlYEAui0gFr5Qdhb77u2qNT1FnGq1DTB9bXC7JNy_m9zjfK4ogmhWSYLTu2BkIwKhLzFD2jZXD6AkWe09pkOyUs/s1600/007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2q-N23wYzDOsABKP6VhFDusY-pQ-s4qovtbeoBUCJjwaYUEMo_Gp1IlYEAui0gFr5Qdhb77u2qNT1FnGq1DTB9bXC7JNy_m9zjfK4ogmhWSYLTu2BkIwKhLzFD2jZXD6AkWe09pkOyUs/s1600/007.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zionists fly IDF flag.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7LO8aj38S4fl5U5KBpx0JweVpGPc3k1h1_5swWKqfu1ccm9QxRFd9pHytx-Cx5NKIAC9rykrugZwmF493cdT1GsT7OtMVvx1KJ6b-veUjTpWLWS_auLG2lwm2K9bIP4IO31PGRv7NSjU/s1600/008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7LO8aj38S4fl5U5KBpx0JweVpGPc3k1h1_5swWKqfu1ccm9QxRFd9pHytx-Cx5NKIAC9rykrugZwmF493cdT1GsT7OtMVvx1KJ6b-veUjTpWLWS_auLG2lwm2K9bIP4IO31PGRv7NSjU/s1600/008.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Zionist group from our neck of the woods</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1SQML0lf8yJis_wpImCR_9xudeAlJieFVrEiSi31CPZTyAm_EYZyzWPmHsGwXXe4vHdtdyFKuGPKTDIVvT80tx8dsl3xdit-kULgmKs-BJOJ9F7nGt3LDdaU6vGz6tw0pBFOykW8b4c/s1600/009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1SQML0lf8yJis_wpImCR_9xudeAlJieFVrEiSi31CPZTyAm_EYZyzWPmHsGwXXe4vHdtdyFKuGPKTDIVvT80tx8dsl3xdit-kULgmKs-BJOJ9F7nGt3LDdaU6vGz6tw0pBFOykW8b4c/s1600/009.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Real 1%ers know better than to support Israel, unlike this weekend warrior.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzjB3GI_Dei_ndpo0UxsiGrDQMu6QGWeHPmCdp9ASmqUgYh-eZj1cJm5LKST1BrueQHPjyng1jb3ySRaCpU3tfKhijfdOA-lRhEQAp-RtsphQLVSujLxaGEwu_1yPYTK0Mhkcehw0Kq3Q/s1600/017.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No police presence surrounding Zionists</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7aO_0z8nxLY9ohcWJ51c7Y7nVKOSWO5Nxp4DC9tPH2YRFYGTGYV2lelusNO9n-L8rPWwZ3SM9jhM7jovVgL8aufBKYCZ0S1zqJOZVoi4fyGrdV2F-Od3ffJDPqKq9Pm6WSqPhp3UBJs/s1600/019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7aO_0z8nxLY9ohcWJ51c7Y7nVKOSWO5Nxp4DC9tPH2YRFYGTGYV2lelusNO9n-L8rPWwZ3SM9jhM7jovVgL8aufBKYCZ0S1zqJOZVoi4fyGrdV2F-Od3ffJDPqKq9Pm6WSqPhp3UBJs/s1600/019.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The great Patriot John Wilkes Booth</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRNX39A1mcOPPpRzbXtPs5DJq0t2-mQb42QGw7zhJkh-c4593TPmaK36kijfktTdDrG9p1aHHtSvUOE41_QZwdYSVEzYzghShe2al3Wy-ctnPLnqcd9qbW2Hd6OSxl6ejnaczofy4mzo/s1600/016.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NATA at FBI</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVdnPrPao-19Kyg99cvTTXP_S8o7MLjR_nZGziJEsb4_tu_e6g8T7fsnIkAY_WbQIs86eQwjUeaF1njeOvorta1b3-ChJs8ek73CMHWlFZJY3UjYRGqkAh4MeQKPmoyHlU6ZQD8cUFDs/s1600/015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVdnPrPao-19Kyg99cvTTXP_S8o7MLjR_nZGziJEsb4_tu_e6g8T7fsnIkAY_WbQIs86eQwjUeaF1njeOvorta1b3-ChJs8ek73CMHWlFZJY3UjYRGqkAh4MeQKPmoyHlU6ZQD8cUFDs/s1600/015.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-76514458234126599882015-03-04T09:29:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.890-07:00Anarchist and Christian, But Neither Left nor Right <br /><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sturgeon" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="320" src="https://attackthesystem.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/sturgeon.jpg?w=474" width="228" /> </div><br /><br />Anarchy, Faith, and Tradition: A Review of Wayne John Sturgeon’s <em>Albion Awake</em><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Albion-Awake-Mystical-Anarchism-Alternative/dp/0992745292">The book is presently available at Amazon.Com</a><br /> By Keith Preston<br /> <br />Decades ago, I became interested in the classical anarchist tradition rooted as it is in the works of such thinkers as Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, and Peter Kropotkin. The message of anarchism was powerful one, and even then I realized that the anarchists had not made their final stand in such places as Kronstadt and Barcelona. Instead, the philosophy of anarchism offered a glimpse into the future, perhaps the far distant future. However, from the earliest days of my exposure to anarchism, I realized that the state of the “movement” as it was and is in late modernity is hardly up to the task of challenging capitalism and the state.<span id="more-35553"></span> I instinctively understood that an ultimately successful anarchism would have to make its peace with the cultures, traditions, faiths, and folkways of ordinary people, rather than positioning itself as an enemy of all that common folk hold to be sacred. I likewise realized that such a daunting task would be a long time in the making.<br /> Yet it would appear that such a moment has arrived in the form of Wayne John Sturgeon’s <em>Albion Awake</em>, published in 2014 by Black Front Press. Sturgeon is a veteran of the English left-wing anarchist scene, a Christian convert, and a proponent of a decentralized, libertarian folkish patriotism that is reminiscent of earlier thinkers ranging from Gustav Landauer to Johann Gottfried Herder, both of whom he claims as influences. Sturgeon’s knowledge of various libertarian, anarchist, and decentralist traditions is voluminous. He possesses an equally encyclopedic knowledge of the many variations of “third way” philosophies that propose an alternative to both state-capitalism and state-socialism, ranging from social credit to the Catholic Worker movement to guild socialism to anarcho-syndicalism.<br /> <br />To top it all off, Wayne John Sturgeon is also quite erudite in the many traditions of radical Christianity. He describes his own faith outlook as “Orthodox but not eastern, Catholic but not papal, and Anglican but not protestant.” Sturgeon’s Christian perspective is neither the shallow ecumenicalism of contemporary established churches nor the reactionary fundamentalism common in American evangelical circles or the right-wing authoritarianism found in some Catholic traditionalist camps. Instead, Sturgeon embraces a faith outlook that manages to be radical, traditional, progressive, and libertarian all at once.<br /> <br /><em>Albion Awake </em>is a profoundly nuanced work. Sturgeon provides a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of topics in this collection of eighteen essays. Among the subjects he touches on are British mythology, integralism, folk radicalism, free markets, statism, Gnosticism, counter-economics, national-anarchism, futurism, William Blake, and metaphysics. The figures cited in this work are as diverse as Proudhon, Tolkien, Tolstoy, Dorothy Day, C.S. Lewis, William Morris, George Orwell, Richard Hunt, and the Sex Pistols. Many luminaries from the worlds of anarchist and libertarian thought are referenced, as are those from various Christian traditions and folkish philosophies. Every page of this book contains fascinating nuggets of information.<br /> As eclectic as Sturgeon’s outlook and analysis are, he does not hesitate to criticize the excesses of various political currents. He has no time for crude racism, fascism, neo-nazism or the left’s counterparts to these such as Stalinism, Maoism, or the “cultural Marxism” of present day Western leftists. He criticizes the global imperial pretensions of the New World Order while rejecting various camps that call for a counter-imperialism of their own. Among the various descriptions Sturgeon offers to characterize his own outlook are such balanced pronouncements as patriotist but not nationalist, socialist but not Marxist, libertarian but not capitalist, non-violent but not pacifist, and liberal but not politically correct. The book’s chapters explore many unusual byways of political theory, history, economics, and religion. A discussion of Murray Bookchin will appear on one page, of Murray Rothbard on another page, of national-syndicalism another page, and on still other pages Martin Heidegger, W.B. Yeats, or John Milton.<br /> <br />One of the key points that <em>Albion Awake </em>insists upon is the archaic nature of the left/right model of the political spectrum. Sturgeon recognizes that libertarians, decentralists, and anarchists, whatever the many differences among them, are properly situated on end of the spectrum, with fascists, communists, state-socialists and reactionary nationalists on the other end, and the liberal capitalist center situated in the middle. He also has no time for self-proclaimed “anarchists” who nevertheless engage in wantonly destructive violence or champion Marxist-inspired repression. Indeed, Sturgeon’s work provides a blueprint for what genuinely radical populist movements organized in opposition to the neo-liberalism and totalitarian humanism of the establishment might look like.<br /> <br />Sturgeon’s thought is representative of what a mature anarchism might be. In recent decades, various European nations have witnessed the socialist and labor parties becoming completely absorbed by neo-liberalism. Meanwhile, frustrations with mass immigration, political correctness, and a loss of national sovereignty to the bureaucratic expanse of the European Union have triggered the rise of various populist-nationalist parties. Yet these parties typically offer virtually nothing other than a return to the status quo as it was before the 1990s. In place of such a mundane program, Sturgeon offers a revolutionary outlook that is authentically far sighted yet is not the sort of thing one might feel they have to hide in a brown paper bag. This is not a radicalism of smashed windows and inane slogans, or outmoded Marxist clichés, politically correct self-parody, flag-burning, and FEMEN. This is a radicalism that one may introduce to a wide cross section of one’s peer from all walks of life.<br /> Wayne John Sturgeon’s amazing ability to synthesize left, right, anti-capitalist, decentralist, ecological and libertarian ideals in a way that is appreciative of traditional culture, ethnicity, faith, community, and family is a much needed addition to the anarchist canon. Contemporary anarchism has spent much of its energy attempting to appeal to the most extreme elements of the left or the most marginal subcultures. Somewhere along the way the question of “What about most people?” seemingly got lost. When the day finally comes that a political realignment takes place bringing the decentralist forces into alliance against totalitarians everywhere, it is not unlikely that the work and thought of Wayne John Sturgeon will have made a significant contribution to such a turn of events.Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-66730239519734833512015-03-04T09:25:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.909-07:00Taking the ATS/NATA Philosophy and Strategy to the Next Level: Building the Pan-Secessionist Meta-PartyBy Keith Preston<br /> <br />In the essay, “<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/liberty-and-populism-building-an-effective-resistance-movement-for-north-america/">Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America</a>,” written in 2006, I made the following observation:<br /> <blockquote><em>Ultimately, we may at some point be able to combine the Green, Libertarian, Populist, Constitution, Natural Law and other minor parties into a single party,… I would suggest calling such a party the “Federalist Party” for several reasons. First, there is precedent for this from American history. Second, it accurately describes what the internal structure of the party should be. Third, it provides a model for the general types of institutional arrangements we should seek to develop. Perhaps our party flag could be an anarchist black flag with the snake from the “don’t tread on me” Gadsen battle flag embroidered on it.</em></blockquote>It is now time to begin the application of the core strategic ideas outlined in such ARV-ATS documents and “Liberty and Populism” and “<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/philosophical-anarchism-and-the-death-of-empire/">Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire</a>.” <span id="more-35665"></span><br /> <img alt="" height="319" id="irc_mi" src="http://dailyanarchist.com/img/market-anarchist-gadsden-flag.JPG" width="425" /><br /> Since the above was written, at least two proposals have been put forward concerning how the type of meta-party described above might be organized and what it’s orientation might be. The most elaborate plan of this kind has been advanced by Ryan Faulk’s <a href="http://neweuropeanp.tumblr.com/post/46714812901/to-dissolve-the-union">All Nations Party</a>. The ANP is a proposed pan-secessionist party that would have ethnic separatism as its primary, though not necessarily exclusive, orientation. Another such proposal is Joe Kopsick’s <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/24/panarchist-party-u-s-a/">Pananarchist Party USA</a>, which seeks to advance the concept of non-territorial governments within a general individualist anarchist framework. While both proposals are a commendable efforts to open dialogue and engage in strategic formulation on this question, in both instances there might also be a bit of overreach.<br /> <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/17/awakening-the-sleeping-giant/">Twenty-five percent of the US population currently expresses at least casual sympathy for the idea of a secessionist movement</a> in their own region or locality. The principle objective for those of us who have embraced the pan-secessionist strategy should at this point be the awakening of this sleeping giant. The question is how to we turn this mass of 80 million passive sympathizers into a mass of active sympathizers? The first thing that should be recognized is that most of these 80 million potential constituents are not adherents of extremist or exotic ideologies. Instead, the bulk of the opinions held by these people are likely to be rather close to the mainstream on most issues.<br /> <br />There is no evidence that there is a sizable constituency for ethnic separatism within any ethnic group. To be sure, there is a tiny but outspoken minority of people within all ethnic groups who advocate for ethnic separatism, but the sum total of all ethnic separatists within all ethnic groups would still be a tiny fraction of the 320 million people who make up the US population. It is also true that there are many people who practice <em>de facto </em>ethnic separatism, but this largely reflects the economic and lifestyle choices of individuals, and is a far cry from advocating <em>de jour </em>ethnic separatism as a matter of ideology or moral conviction. While it is certainly true that ethnic separatists can also be pan-secessionists, it is unlikely that a pan-secessionist meta-party (PSMP) that advances ethnic separatism as a primary value will win a great deal of sympathy.<br /> Likewise, it is unlikely that a PSMP that is primarily oriented towards the promotion of an esoteric or exotic ideology will gain much of an audience. While there are certainly plenty of historical precedents for such concepts as non-territorial governments, such ideas are also culturally alien to the overwhelming majority of persons in North America. Therefore, it would be unwise to adopt an ideological stance of this kind as principal strategic objective.<br /> <br />However, the concept of secession maintains very powerful roots within mainstream American history, culture, and politics for reasons that are too obvious to require discussion. Further, secession is a tactical concept that can be embraced by movements of any ideological, cultural, ethnic, religious, or economic orientation. How then should a PSMP organize itself?<br /> The All Nations Party idea of a PSMP that functions as a umbrella for a set of constituent parties and regional or local secessionist movements that have their own interests is generally a solid one. However, I would suggest that at the meta-party level the PSMP should have only two stated objectives:<br /> <br />1. Promoting, advocating, legitimizing, and legalizing the right of secession by regions and localities from larger governmental units.<br /> <br />2. Promoting, advocating, legitimizing, and legalizing the right of minor parties to participate in public elections against the present two-party duopoly.<br /> From this basic starting point, the constituent parties and secessionist movements associated with the PSMP would have every right to advocate for whatever philosophies or issues they wished. For example, the PSMP would have no position on foreign policy. If a collection of red state secessionists wished for the red states to go to war with ISIS, then so be it. The PSMP would have no position on economics. Presumably, for example, there would be both advocates of socialism and capitalism within the PSMP. The PSMP would exist only for the purpose of defending the rights of constituent groups to form their own parties or secessionist movements advocating for any ideas that they wished, and to strip away political and legal barriers to both competition in public elections by minor parties and secession by regionalist movements. This is does not in any way mean that any constituent party, organization, or movement of the PSMP would abandon or even downplay any of its other issues. It simply means that the PSMP would provide an organizational umbrella for the advancement of the interests of all minor parties and secessionist movements at the collective level. Within the framework of the PSMP, socialists would still advocate for single-payer healthcare, libertarians for tax cuts, social conservatives for the pro-life cause, and social leftists for LGBT issues. The PSMP would no doubt include many constituencies who were otherwise antithetical to each other, such as the Prohibition Party and the U.S. Marijuana Party.<br /> <br />In this sense, it must be understood that the PSMP would maintain both macro-level constituencies and micro-level constituencies. At the macro-level, the PSMP would have only two constituencies: the 25% and growing number of Americans who sympathize with the idea of secession, and those who prefer alternatives to the two-party duopoly. At the macro-level, the PSMP would exist only to promote the two issues of third party rights and secessionist rights, and these issues would be promoted in the same way that proponents of marijuana legalization, gay marriage, gun rights, gun control, the right-to-life or abortion rights have promoted their own issues. At the micro-level, the PSMP would have many constituencies, i.e. the constituencies of its component parties, organizations, movements, and the issues raised by each of these. Obviously, the opportunity would arise within such a scenario for a infinite variety of conflicts between the various constituents of the PSMP, and such conflicts are to be expected. Therefore, mutual agreements among the PSMP constituents would have to be formulated in order to maintain the common peace to the greatest degree reasonably possible. The most practical approach would be for the various constituent forces to simply agree to stay out of each other’s backyards. For example, the constituents forces that trended rightward would agree to focus their organizing and recruiting activities on the “red” demographic sectors of the US, and the forces that trended leftward would agree orient themselves towards organizing among the “blue” sectors.<br /> <br />At the national level, the presidential candidates of the PSMP would run solely on the two core principles of the PSMP: advocating for the rights of third parties, and the rights of secessionists. Preferably, the presidential ticket would be split between the Left and Right. For example, the presidential candidate might be from the Socialist Party or the Green Party, while the vice-presidential candidate would be from the Libertarian or Constitution Parties. Further, the Left/Right split ticket should be reversed every four years. For example, in the 2016 election the presidential candidate might be from the Left with the vice-presidential candidate might be from the Right. In 2020, the presidential candidate would then be from the Right while the vice-presidential candidate would be from the Left.<br /> <br />All other candidates of the PSMP would run on joint tickets of both the PSMP and their respective constituent parties. For example, the candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts might run on the tickets both the PSMP and the Socialist Action Party, and a comparable candidate in Texas might run on the tickets of both the PSMP and the Objectivist Party. Once again, in order to avoid overlap, rival constituent parties and organizations would mutually agree to stay out of each others backyards. Additionally, the candidates from minor parties and secessionist movements might also be combined at times. For example, a candidate in Georgia might stand simultaneously for the PSMP, Constitution Party and the League of the South, while a candidate in Oregon might stand for the PSMP, Green Party and Cascadia.<br /> <img alt="" height="481" id="irc_mi" src="http://www.davidwalbert.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/political_parties_poster.jpg" width="734" /><br /> An approach of the kind that has been outlined above would serve multiple purposes. One would be to simply awaken the sleeping giant of potential secessionist sympathies among one-quarter of the U.S. population, and to challenge the Democratic-Republican two-party duopoly. Yet another would be to create a forum where many different kinds of people with otherwise opposed philosophies would be able to work with one another against the common enemy. A third would be to create a prototype for the kind of system that might exist following the inevitable demise of the present system, a decentralized system based on the principal of self-determination for all.<br /> <br />Of course, the emergence of a PSMP of the kind described above would also receive a great deal of criticism from a variety of sources. The critics would include ideologues and sectarians of both the left and right, the professional anti-rightist cottage industry, anti-leftists of a comparable nature, avowed statists and totalitarians, neoconservatives, jingoists, the party hacks of the system’s parties, their kept media, and, of course, the overlords of the system themselves. So be it. Revolutionaries without enemies are not revolutionaries at all.<br /> Of course, some from the general anarchist milieus will object that party politics is antithetical to the wider anarchist values of rejection of the state. I previously address this question in “Liberty and Populism,”:<br /> <blockquote><em>Some anarchists will no doubt object that my approach reeks far too much of a reformist/electoralist outlook. While I certainly respect this point of view, I believe it is unnecessarily sectarian and archaic. The classical anarchists often advocated boycotting elections and for good reason. In most of the countries where the classical anarchist movement existed on a scale of any significance, the “right to vote” was either non-existent or the franchise was very limited. Even in nominal democracies like Switzerland and America, women and other large population groups were denied the vote. Even at that, many Spanish villages elected anarchist mayors and village councils in the years leading up to the civil war. I believe modern anarchists need to develop an approach to this question that is relevant to the nature of modern states and modern societies. The approach I favor is one of cold realism and pragmatism. It is indeed possible for ordinary people with conventional levels of resources to be elected to local and state offices in many parts of the US. Persons who achieve some level of success in this area are then in a position to influence appointments to other positions of influence. This can be very important as a means of keeping the worst elements away from seats of power.</em></blockquote>It should also be pointed out that the PSMP would be merely a means to an end, and not an end unto itself. It would merely be a vehicle for promoting and popularizing a wider subversive agenda. Further, it would create a framework that would allow anarchists to reach out to and connect with people from all over the cultural and political spectrum, and experience the opportunity to work with a vast array of dissidents as equal partners towards common goals. Anarchists would would have the opportunity to embed themselves in the PSMP for the purpose of pursuing a more radical line and the advancement of more extraneous issues that are among the unique concerns of anarchists. Just as the myriad of constituent parties and movements of the PSMP would maintain their own objectives, and pursue those objectives within other contexts, so would anarchists do the same. Specifically, anarchists might concentrate their own efforts on local politics, and strive for the achievement of political preeminence in an increasingly greater number of cities, towns, and counties. Two, three, many Christianias, Marinaledas, Mondragons, and Kobanis could begin to proliferate. Meanwhile, the prototypes of South Africa’s conservative Orania community and Liechtenstein’s libertarian monarchical micro-nation provide models of how Anarchists and the Left might peacefully co-exist with the Right. Further, there might be a parallel pan-anarchist federation that co-exists with the PSMP, and functions as a base of activists and organizers for the PSMP. The relationship between the pan-anarchist federation and the PSMP would be comparable to the relationship between the FAI, the CNT, and the Anti-Fascist militias during the period of Revolutionary Spain.<br /> The general demographic and electoral base of the PSMP would be that which has previously been outlined in “Liberty and Populism,” though periodically modified in order to adapt to changing trends. The PSMP would then emerge as a populist alternative political force perhaps comparable to <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/02/13/anti-representative-democracy-how-to-understand-the-five-star-movement/">Italy’s Five Star Movement</a>, or the <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/30/who-are-the-independent-greeks/">recently formed coalition in Greece between Syriza and the Independent Greeks</a>. There is also the further possibility of the PSMP embedding itself in the major parties on the ground level. For example, Norman Mailer’s secessionist “left-conservative” Democratic candidacy for mayor of New York in 1969 is one example, and Larry Kilgore’s secessionist conservative Christian Republican candidacy for Senator from Texas in 2008 is another example.<br /> <br /><strong>The PSMP and the Pan-Anarchist Movement</strong><br /> Within the context of the PSMP, the pan-anarchist movement would then work to advance its wider body of strategic and political ideas such as core demographic theory, fourth generation warfare, libertarian populism, inside/outside strategy, left/right/center tripartite strategy, alternative infrastructure, <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2014/01/05/3263beyond-partisanship-the-fundamentals-of-pan-secessionist-activism/">cultural organizations that would replace the state’s social infrastructure</a>, <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/american-revolutionary-vanguard-twenty-five-point-program/">the 25 point platform</a>, building coalitions of anti-state interest groups, a peoples’ economic front, legal defense organizations, civilian defense organizations,expanded cop watch and neighborhood watch programs, tax protests, civil disobedience campaigns, Kevin Carson’s “<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/a-political-program-for-anarchists/">political program for anarchists,</a>” Larry Gambone’s “<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2013/09/05/the-neocons-in-a-nutshell/">populist groundswell</a>” and <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/the-myth-of-socialism-as-statism/">decentralist economics</a>, a <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2014/10/17/the-case-for-a-coalition-against-consensual-crimes/">coalition against consensual crimes</a>, a <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2015/01/13/an-amnesty-for-prisoners-of-the-war-on-drugs/">prisoner amnesty movement</a>, a libertarian common law system, a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-so-successful-2014-12">Norwegian approach to criminology</a>, a Swedish or Swiss approach to foreign policy, the<a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2014/10/22/the-case-for-the-city-state-system/"> city-state system</a>, and much else.<br /> <img alt="" height="325" id="irc_mi" src="https://www.wordans.com/wvc-1337632737/wordansfiles/product_previews/2012/5/21/7917/7917_650.jpg" width="650" /><br /> Once again, none of this meta-political or meta-strategic program implies that any of the myriad of anarchist, libertarian, anti-statist, anti-authoritarian, or decentralist factions would abandon their preferred issues. As I wrote in “Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire” concerning the concept of “anarcho-populism”:<br /> <blockquote><em> Hence, what I am proposing is a new strategic paradigm and, to a certain extent, a new school of anarchist thought that I call “anarcho-populism”. This new brand of anarchism would draw on the other schools in various ways. The classical anarchism originally developed by Proudhon would be its foundation. Like anarcho-socialism, anarcho-populism would be anti-capitalist and pro-class struggle. Like anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-populism would endorse property, markets and the independent sector as an antidote to statism, corporatism and welfarism. Along with leftist-anarchists, this new anarchist tendency would support political freedom and cultural self-determination for racial minorities, women, gays and the like but would not seek to mindlessly glorify or privilege these groups or demonize white males. Along with primitivists and eco-anarchists, anarcho-populism would seek to preserve the natural environment, but without the misanthropy and anti-tech hysteria of much modern environmentalism. Like national-anarchists, anarcho-populism would endorse the right of traditional racial, ethnic, religious or cultural groups to self-preservation and political sovereignty and cross-cultural, cross-ideological alliances against the NWO, but would seek to branch out into “mainstream” society rather than seek out reclusive isolation from the modern world.</em></blockquote>Presumably, every libertarian faction would continue to focus on its primary areas of concern, from sovereign citizens to anarcha-feminists, and every faction could maintain its own sub-organizational identities within the context of the pan-anarchist federation as well. However, organizing and advancing the PSMP might serve as a common project and rallying point for all libertarian factions.<br /> <img alt="" height="617" id="irc_mi" src="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/anarchy-flags-set-24397502.jpg" width="647" /><br /> The main thing that is needed as this point is action. It is necessary for activists to step forward and being applying the ideas that have been outined above. How did other movements that have achieved a great deal of success, or at least size and recognition, begin? How did the marijuana legalization movement being? The gay marriage movement? The Tea Parties? The anti-Vietnam War movement? The civil rights movement? The religious right? The modern American conservative movement? Surely, there are things that can be learned from each of these.Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-71927438188672983712015-03-03T12:15:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.923-07:00Anti-Zionist Jews protest outside AIPAC<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6goGWbR-H2jpJ9hPqD0NBMfEAJMxp0hCaar6qieSaa1Tc7n0zGHm6RLoJA_rrBN3NWC7yVsIeNtxpRF69imeerndDnwwG5mvFnjNLwIHFxBBl5usu3OSBz19wjHu7qJJk2kp3vhMbM_U/s1600/jews.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6goGWbR-H2jpJ9hPqD0NBMfEAJMxp0hCaar6qieSaa1Tc7n0zGHm6RLoJA_rrBN3NWC7yVsIeNtxpRF69imeerndDnwwG5mvFnjNLwIHFxBBl5usu3OSBz19wjHu7qJJk2kp3vhMbM_U/s1600/jews.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /> <i>NATA-NY has stood with Neturei Karta against Zionism on many occasions including this years AIPAC conference-NATA-NY</i><br /><br /><br /><br />By <a href="http://wtop.com/author/the-associated-press/">The Associated Press</a> <span class="Entry-date">March 2, 2015</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="Entry-content u-textFormat">WASHINGTON (AP) — Some anti-Zionist Jews have attracted attention outside the pro-Israeli convention in Washington where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke. The handful of protesters from the group Neturei (neh-TOO’-ray) Karta carried signs denouncing the Israeli leader’s U.S. visit. They also chanted slogans denying the Jewish state’s right to exist.<br />Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss (yees-ROH’-el DOH’-vid WYS) said the Torah offers no support for the existence of modern Israel. His group maintains that the Jewish state occupies Palestinian land, fueling anti-Semitism.<br />Attendees entering the convention of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, engaged in spirited arguments with the anti-Zionist Jews.<br /><br />(Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, anti-Zionist protester, outside convention of American Israel Public Affairs Committee)-“Torah for Jews”-Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, an anti-Zionist protester, says there’s no religious justification for the modern state of Israel. (2 Mar 2015) <br /> "Torah for Jews"<br />(Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, anti-Zionist protester, outside convention of American Israel Public Affairs Committee)-“peace and harmony”-Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, an anti-Zionist protester, says the modern state of Israel should not exit. <br /> "peace and harmony"<br />(Anti-Zionist protesters, outside convention of American Israel Public Affairs Committee)–Sound of anti-Zionist protesters, chanting outside convention of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. (2 Mar 2015)<br /><br /></div>Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-24170227856112476532015-02-24T09:56:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.937-07:00Anarchists vs. ISIS: The Revolution in Syria Nobody’s Talking About<span><span> Via; <a href="http://www.cvltnation.com/" target="_blank">Cult Nation</a></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.cvltnation.com/" target="_blank"><span><span> </span></span></a><span><span>by <a href="http://www.cvltnation.com/author/garethw/" rel="author" title="Posts by Gareth Watkins">Gareth Watkins</a> </span> <span><a href="http://www.cvltnation.com/2015/02/">February 6, 2015</a></span></span><br /><div class="caps"><span><span> </span></span>Photos: <a href="http://www.corbisimages.com/photographer/erin-trieb" target="_blank">Erin Trieb</a></div><br />The Middle East today is the last place anyone in mainstream western thought would think to look for progressive political thought, and even less to see those thoughts translated into action. Our image of the region is one of dictatorships, military juntas and theocracies built on the ruins of the former Ottoman Empire, or hollow states like Afghanistan, and increasingly Pakistan, where anything outside the capitol is like Mad Max. The idea of part of the region being not just free, but well on its way to utopian, isn't one that you're going to find on mainstream media.<br /> <br />But you're not on the mainstream media right now, are you?<br /> Along Syria's borders with Turkey and Northern Iraq, lies a mainly Kurdish area with a population of 4.6 million where a huge social experiment is taking place at the centre of a crossfire between Syria's dictatorship, ISIS's collective insanity and Turkey's ongoing hostility towards the idea of Kurdish autonomy, with the US and NATO looming large in the background. The <strong>Democratic Union Party (PYD) </strong>and <strong>Kurdish National Council (KNC)</strong> established in the region of Rojava a society that mixes fierce libertarianism (guns are everywhere and there are no taxes – none) and Occupy-friendly anarchist thought with a healthy dose of feminism. While most Kurdish groups, especially those the US is friendly with, would some day like to establish a Kurdish state, in Rojava they have leap-frogged over the idea of the nation state into a more advanced system that they call <strong>Democratic Confederalism</strong>.<br /> <a href="http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/YPJ2.jpg"><img alt="YPJ2" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-140221" height="547" src="http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/YPJ2-820x547.jpg" width="820" /></a><br /> <br />In the cantons of Rojava, there is a small central government with an absolute minimum of 40% female delegates, but most of the day-to-day work of running society happens at a local level, street by street and village by village. Democratic Confederalism's chief architect, <strong>Abdullah Ocalan</strong>, says that “Ecology and feminism are central pillars” of the system he has spearheaded, something that you would have to go very far to the margins to hear from Western politicians. In Rojava, men who beat their wives face total ostracism from the community, making their lives in a highly social, connected society virtually impossible. Instead of a police force and jails, 'peace committees' in each municipality work to defuse the cycles of inter-family revenge killings by consensual agreements between both sides – and it works.<br /> <br />The only part of Rojava's experiment that has received any international attention has been the <strong>YPJ</strong>, the female-only paramilitary forces that have been fighting, and winning, against ISIS and the Syrian Army. <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/meet-kurdish-women-fighting-isis-syria-n199821">NBC</a>, the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/30/kurdish-women-died-kobani-isis-syria">Guardian</a> and even <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a6643/these-are-the-women-battling-isis/">Marie Claire</a> have all covered the YPJ's bravery without even paying lip service to the ideology that makes it possible.<br /> <br />It was the YPJ, along with their male counterparts the <strong>YPG</strong>, that rescued the thousands of Yazidis stranded and encircled by ISIS on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq. The Yazidi community had the misfortune to be based almost entirely inside the area that ISIS has claimed – and they have been a hated minority in the Islamic world for a thousand years, accused of 'devil worship'. While the US dropped supplies from above, the Syrian fighting groups broke ISIS's lines and saved tens of thousands of lives. They also successfully defended the city of Kobani when ISIS launched an all-out assault on the city of forty-five thousand with tanks, missiles and even drones. Despite heavy losses, the city remains ISIS-free, though its surrounding villages are still contested.<br /> <a href="http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/YPJ1.jpg"><img alt="YPJ1" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-140220" height="447" src="http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/YPJ1-820x447.jpg" width="820" /></a><br /> The YPJ/G and the the Democratic Society Movement that they fight for aren't perfect: they have been accused of using child soldiers (girls as young as twelve serve as cooks and cleaners for the YPJ and undergo some basic combat training, though they aren't deployed in combat) and they are forever tainted by their association with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), led by Abdullah Ocalan and classified as a terrorist organization by most nations. The formerly Marxist-Leninist party also has some murky connections to the drug trade and Turkish intelligence.<br /> <br />Despite all the obstacles facing them, the people of Rojava are, right now, the only large-scale movement on the entire planet implementing a real, working alternative to the state and capitalism. Like the Spanish anarchist federations and the Mexican Zapatistas before them, the people of Rojava have chosen to do the impossible: to create a new society while fighting as one of the smallest forces in a regional war, a tight-rope walk through a dodge-ball court. Only time will tell if they can pull it off.Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-79058976612186131162015-01-11T11:19:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.952-07:00Libertarian Welfare QueensBy MK Lords<br /> <br />Lately, I’ve been getting tired of the same old scams coming from the same old people in the libertarian “movement”. Many OG libertarians I’ve spoken with agree, so I thought I’d compile a list of popular but parasitic libertarians. It turns out libertarians and ancaps are some of the worst capitalists ever. Despite raging against tax payer supported “welfare queens” there seems to be quite a lot of libertarians fighting for the ever depleting capital flowing from the chapped teat that holds the earnings of fellow libertarians.<br /> Libertarians employ a variety of tactics to spread their message, but a tactic I must disagree with is begging for money from people in your movement for stunts that are utopian at best and ineffective or dangerous at worst.<br /> <span id="more-35279"></span><br /> <br />Libertarians also have an aversion to critiquing fellow libertarians because of the small scope and influence the philosophy currently has and because many of them feel it would harm the movement. Any movement worth its salt can stand criticism of its members, and if it can’t then it’s not worth being a part of to begin with.<br /> I’ve been distancing myself from the label libertarian for some time now because I hate echo chambers and increasingly felt being pulled into one. My news feed has slowly but surely become filled with the same slogans, the same news stories, the same solutions, the same begging, even the same fake names! Criticism is shot down with paranoid accusations of concern trolling or even of being a Fed. Yawn. Dissidence is not allowed and any half-assed attempt at activism by a “celebritarian” is venerated as groundbreaking. Thousands of dollars get thrown at “activists” who have disappeared other thousands with little explanation. Critiques of thought leaders are brushed away with the weak argument, “But such and such did sooooo much for liberty in the past!!!” as if it matters.<br /> <br />Redirecting capital to effective, peaceful, free market solutions could do wonders for human progress and I support a diversity of tactics approach to solving social problems. That doesn’t mean I believe all tactics are equally effective. It’s important to ask hard questions of charismatic leaders and press even harder when they evade. Living off of the charity of people in your own movement while arguing for capitalism seems oxymoronic especially when you keep ignoring market responses to your work.<br /> <br />I am not a part of the “liberty movement” though people still try to get me to add it to my work description on the Facebook. Do I promote the ideas of liberty? Sure–I’ve done several podcasts and am even a co-host on a <a href="http://www.freedomfeens.com/" target="_blank">libertarian themed radio show</a>. But it’s because I want liberty for myself; I have no illusions about achieving freedom for mankind and sacrificing myself for the greater cause of liberty to the point of financial hardship. News flash: you can be an activist and have a job. And you can even be an effective full time activist. I like the idea of free markets but ultimately I’m an individualist anarchist if you must label it. The religiosity of some libertarians is off-putting. They criticize nonbelievers for being “brainwashed sheep” as they parrot the words of their own deities who unfortunately range from the scholarly to the deranged. They also cry a lot about not having the capital of other movements as if it’s a mystery where it’s going.<br /> Sorry, but you guys wasted it on libertarian welfare queens.<br /> <br />A libertarian welfare queen is a prominent libertarian who lives off the donations of other libertarians but produces content that is factually incorrect, manipulative, embarrassing, threatening, and oftentimes ineffective or counterproductive. They are the leeches who are somehow able to keep raising money despite questionable practices in their activism and whose serious ethical breaches are ignored or forgiven despite no attempt at restitution. The people named here are not the only ones in libertarianism I consider counterproductive, either.<br /> <br />But enough bitching, I’m gonna name a few libertarian welfare queens because I am so tired of this particular problem robbing well intentioned people who have jobs of their well-earned money. It’s also important to be able to laugh at the strange humans that try to lead you when you’re more than capable of leading yourself. I generally like libertarians, but there are a few bad apples, and I want to let others know so they don’t support jobless swindlers. Libertarian Welfare Queenism is a problem, but the solution is simple and voluntary.<br /> (In no particular order)<br /> <br />First up is His Holiness Stefan Molyneux.<br /> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_531" style="width: 310px;"><a href="https://silentache.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/blamingmom.jpg"><img alt="h/t Bitcoin Not Bombs comrade Davi Barker for this gem" class="size-medium wp-image-531" height="300" src="https://silentache.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/blamingmom.jpg?w=300&h=300" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">h/t Bitcoin Not Bombs comrade Davi Barker for this gem</div></div><br />Known as Holy Moly by his detractors, this guy makes his money off of repackaging old philosophy and bad touching donor brains. I tried to like him, I really did, but he reminded me of my mother. His audience is mostly young men and women who, if true believers, have separated from their families on his advice (that is not to make light of child abuse, I do believe separation is appropriate in certain circumstances). The same advice that got his actual therapist wife fined and threatened with suspension. He also <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/controversial-podcaster-listened-in-on-therapist-wife-and-clients-lawsuit-alleges/article22158708/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">creeps on her clients</span></a> which I’m pretty sure by any standard is a violation of privacy. Molyneux bullies listeners in precarious financial situations to send him money. And when I say bully, I mean he <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CM_--di7L8" style="color: black;" target="_blank">berates broke college kids over $1 donations</a></span>. Like all good authoritarian figures, he’s blatantly hypocritical in applying his own philosophy. He caused some ruckus lately when he filed a DMCA take down claim on a critic despite claiming to be virulently anti-IP for years. His older videos provide simple, easily accessible arguments for anarcho-capitalism but his recent ones are riddled with misogyny and cop apologia. And I’m not one to throw the term misogyny around irresponsibly, but he likes to call women “estrogen based parasites” which is ironic given that his wife is the one with a real job and his living is subsidized by young people in an unstable economy.<br /> He also uses classic manipulation techniques to lure listeners in such as immediately asking about their childhoods. This approach builds a façade of false trust and closeness. It’s disturbing to say the least and I’m genuinely pissed he does it to people I care about. This is in between bizarre outbursts about black kids who dare to smoke blunts and other black kids that have miraculously figured out how to make <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pr1oE34bIM" style="color: black;" target="_blank">“lean” from tea and skittles</a></span>. Who knew Trayvon was an alchemist?! Even worse is his belief that he is singlehandedly saving the world (“I am the ring of fire protecting the fragile tree of virtue” is an exact quote). His followers appear to be much smarter than him and it’s unfortunate he’s such an arse because I can agree that peaceful parenting is a great thing.<br /> Also, despite complaints of donation decreases and claims his website takes “tens of thousands of dollars” to operate, dude is <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blockchain.info/address/1Fd8RuZqJNG4v56rPD1v6rgYptwnHeJRWs" style="color: black;" target="_blank">sitting pretty on a stack of bitcoin.</a></span> Weird that the documentary he was hyping a few years ago still hasn’t been made…and no doubt his Paypal donations greatly exceed his bitcoin ones. He’s gonna need them for the lawsuit filed by his critic for shutting down her Youtube channel, so if you feel moved please find it in your heart to send him a few bits. Or you’re a thief.<br /> The second offender would probably be proud to be called that, say hello to Christopher Cantwell.<br /> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_532" style="width: 310px;"><a href="https://silentache.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/cantshootgunswell.jpg"><img alt="cantshootgunswell" class="wp-image-532 size-medium" height="285" src="https://silentache.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/cantshootgunswell.jpg?w=300&h=285" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Cantwell showing that piece of fabric who’s boss.</div></div><br />Cantwell can’t do much well other than bloviate on his blog and beg for donations while doing everything in his power to offend people, which would be hilarious if he were funny but his career is a bad joke. (hyuckhyuckhyuck!) He calls himself a comedian but I’m pretty sure living in your mother’s basement well into your thirties is only funny as a libertarian stereotype not a reality. I wish I was lying about that last part, but it’s entirely true. Since he moved out of his mom’s, he likes long walks in downtown Keene harassing meter maids and bragging about how cool it is to kill cops. He’d be infinitely more interesting if he followed through but he never will because he is a huge coward. I’m usually the first one to say attack the argument not the man, but he’s called better people worse things and I assume (often to my surprise) if people can dish it they can take it.<br /> <br />He also likes to talk about how any publicity is good publicity as a coping mechanism to his <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/dvppp6/difference-makers---the-free-keene-squad" style="color: black;" target="_blank">humiliating appearance on The Colbert Report</a></span> and generally pathetic existence. Finally, libertarians get that juicy mainstream coverage, but *spoiler alert* it’s an ogre with atrocious gun safety practices. Oh yeah, he wields guns like a <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQDAttiK3Q" style="color: black;" target="_blank">giant retarded baby</a></span>. Other sources say he knows his shit IRL but he somehow managed to appear in at least two videos violating basic gun safety rules so I remain skeptical. He’s one of those sacrificial full time activists which I assume means being an internet tough guy. You mean to tell me an able bodied middle aged man with what I assume is years of job experience can’t go get a job like the productive libertarians? Ok. This 3edgy5me welfare queen also helped Adam Kokesh organize a failed armed march on Washington, D.C. because getting a bunch of your supporters massacred sounded like a good idea at the time. Cantwell is that bully in school that talks a lot of shit but acts on none of it. Honestly, I don’t even think he’s siphoned that much money off of libertarians, but he’s embarrassing enough to make the list with his bitching about how he “desperately” needs donations. Get a job, Cantwell, the market has spoken.<br /> Last on the list is everyone’s favorite freedom fighter, Adam Kokesh.<br /> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_533" style="width: 278px;"><a href="https://silentache.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/kokesh.jpg"><img alt="kokesh" class="wp-image-533 size-full" src="https://silentache.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/kokesh.jpg?w=474" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Nothing could possibly go wrong here.</div></div><br />If there’s one person libertarians should stop sending any money to immediately, it’s this guy. Please, I implore you; stop sending money to him. For your own sake, for the sake of future generations, please just STAHP. Sure, the butthurt among you will say, “look at all he has done!!!1!11!!!” but the butthurt among you don’t realize homeboy is a trust fund kid. Maybe back in 2010, Kokesh had some good ideas if you ignore that he stole them from other activists. I know some of them personally, but I won’t name names because I respect them and know they don’t wish to start any trouble within libertarianism. He also has a nasty habit of not paying people who work for him which is pretty messed up considering how good he is at raising money.<br /> Kokesh is a man notorious for raising large sums of money that disappears without a trace if not squandered on useless activism. This guy riled up a bunch of mentally unstable people to march on Washington D.C. with weapons—quite possibly the dumbest stunt I’ve ever heard of—then cancelled it. He followed it up by an even more half-baked stunt: literally standing in front of the White House and Capitol racking a shotgun. Kokesh, with thousands of dollars in film and effects equipment, chose to do that instead of using a fucking green screen and then goaded libertarians into supporting his defense team after he was unsurprisingly raided. He then bailed on a legit mutual defense agency while his close team members slandered George Donnelly’s good name despite George’s <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://shieldmutual.com/2013/09/adam-kokesh-longer-customer/" style="color: black;">meticulous records proving shenanigans</a></span>. Then, and this is <em>rich</em>, he blamed his buddies for the missing funds! That’s 50 grand down the memory hole, mind you. Donors whined and he got his poor girlfriend to give some half-assed explanation. Everyone promptly forgot and no lawsuit was filed. Then, as if that wasn’t enough for libertarians to <em>at least</em> question his judgment, he goes on a book tour to spread the good word of liberty! I can understand needing to hustle when you get out of jail, but <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-american-campfire-freedom-tour" style="color: black;">dude got another $30,000</a> </span>from people for this tour. After he and/or his team disappeared over $50,000. Re-read that last sentence until it really sinks in.<br /> <br />So it seems libertarians and their money are easily departed, but what stings worse is that this asshole doesn’t need their money. His father is a venture capitalist who <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2009/comp21264.pdf" style="color: black;">memholed $45 million</a></span> and according to confidential sources his mother bankrolls his lifestyle. If you think he doesn’t have a trust fund, you are out of your goddamned mind. I give him props for being the best ancap on this list because that’s kind of impressive that he can squeeze so much money out of broke people over and over again.<br /> <br />**Dishonorable mention: Ron Paul. Paul was originally on the list and I removed him because he did make his money except when he was campaigning and being a congressman. All I will say is don’t be surprised when the millions people donate to a failed political campaign are wasted on bribes. Did you really think politics was fair? Bless your heart.<br /> Libertarian welfare queens are a drain on libertarianism and I think libertarians can do better. How can libertarian welfare queens ever hope to change the world if they can’t get past their entitled mindsets? How can libertarians ever inspire others to lead themselves if they’re still following these vermin?<br /> <br />Now there are still some scammers about that don’t quite make the list and activist methods I find are a waste of money even with the best of intentions, so here’s a litmus test if that money is burning a hole in your pocket. If any of the people on this list ask for money, don’t give it to them; if someone tells you there’s a Randian utopia waiting for you in Chile, don’t give them money (even if they have a team of cryptoanarchists ready to pounce); if someone says they are going to tour America spreading the good word of liberty, don’t give them money; if someone threatens to quit the “movement” because they’re not able to pay their bills as an activist, don’t give them money; if someone says they’re running for office, you know better than to give them money; if someone asks you to fund their anarcho-hippie commune, don’t give them money; if you’re a broke college kid, don’t give your money to anybody. If it sounds too good to be true it is and if it’s coming from a libertarian welfare queen it will probably be ham-fistedly executed.<br /> <br />Good ideas spread organically and now virally thanks to the internet, and despite a rough economy you can make money if you produce something valuable to others. There is no need to resort to older, more time consuming and expensive methods. Put your money where it matters and lead yourself. Or at the very least, do your due diligence on activists asking for money—there are some excellent projects out there by trustworthy people, but there are a lot of scammers too.Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-32775968561381352332015-01-02T14:42:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.973-07:00Celtic Anarchism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/su9OqvBbSD0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642519851603586075.post-61084379889522890502014-12-03T07:08:00.000-08:002016-10-04T17:12:35.984-07:00Should Long Island Secede, With Brooklyn As The Capital?<span class="byline"><i>(NATA-NY, wholeheartedly supports The ISL and any and all attempts by the people of Long Island to secede from the city & state of New York and the US federal government if they see fit.)</i> </span><br /><br /><span class="byline">by <a href="http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/author/arthur-b/" rel="author" title="Posts by Arthur Borko">Arthur Borko</a> </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPei0o-zj6PRwGSeWAuPVXb-Gjv3nug374IK5bGnEgPRo2LOZEDqbwsuGRbmXbyO-17RK4GsZfn0KRQb1eSV7frzZVHUGUv5Ff4xj19HRqbpk21uMc3a51hVLfMxG-_XYquHbPR9cQuaE/s1600/ili-flag-medium.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPei0o-zj6PRwGSeWAuPVXb-Gjv3nug374IK5bGnEgPRo2LOZEDqbwsuGRbmXbyO-17RK4GsZfn0KRQb1eSV7frzZVHUGUv5Ff4xj19HRqbpk21uMc3a51hVLfMxG-_XYquHbPR9cQuaE/s1600/ili-flag-medium.png" height="192" width="320" /></a><span class="byline"> </span>There are lots of people who often joke about New York City seceding from New York State, and I admit, I’m one of them. But imagine my surprise to hear that there’s a secessionist movement for Long Island. As it turns out, Brooklyn is the capital of <a href="http://ilination.net/" target="_blank">The Independent State of Long Island</a>. That’s<br /> right, I was watching the most recent episode of “<a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/257257/how-the-states-got-their-shapes-mouthing-off" target="_blank">How The States Got Their Names</a>” on History Channel. This episode focused on the various accents across the country and eventually they got to discussing the accent’s from Long Island. This led to a small segment about The Independent State of Long Island and their dream of Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk succeeding into it’s own state. There’s even a pretty clever flag! Well, it got me to thinking. If Brooklyn was the capital of Long Island the 51st state then what would that mean for Sheepshead Bay?<br />How would things be different around here? Would we get more tax money for infrastructure? Would the port and bay get more development? Would we be a tourist destination? Without the MTA would we retain the focus for public transport to New York, or would easy access to the rest of the island become a priority?<br />Kinda makes you think doesn’t it? As for The Independent State of Long Island, the movement has been around since 2007. Check out the website for a whole bunch of <a href="http://ilination.net/info.html" target="_blank">interesting statistics</a>, they even have a <a href="http://ilinews.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">news</a> page! As for me, I kinda wanna get that flag!!Anarcho-Nationalist0083http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625167266104877376noreply@blogger.com0