Several people have recently said to me—half-jokingly—“You anarchists must be happy now that the Republicans are dismantling the government!”
I’m afraid I replied angrily and bitterly that such a remark (even half in jest) represents a serious misunderstanding about the …
In a recent issue of Something For Nothing Idy mentions that his Christianity is considered by many to be contradictory to punk. He’s mentioned similar statements in the past. I too have been guilty of a knee-jerk dismissal of Christianity …
The article titled Benjamin Tucker American Mutualist, Part 1 [in anchorage anarchy29], dealt with the economics of American Mutualists like Benjamin Tucker and Josiah Warren. To recap, rather than capitalism, which is a market based on the subjective theory …
I reject the pathology model of mental illness, as promoted by the psychiatric and medical community. There is something that strikes me as authoritarian in the notion that certain modes of thought are objectively sick. Ideally the notion of neuro-diversity …
The goal of every anarchist is the elimination of the state and all other forms of authority. From this common starting point, however, libertarians then take off in many different directions. Ideas about how people should or could interact with …
In an Individualist Mutualist market economy of Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker, or Stephen Pearl Andrews employers can indeed pay themselves more money than their employees for equal time worked. However, even though they can pay themselves more money than their …
It has been entertaining to watch all the demonstrations and actions by anarchists and leftists since the election of Donald Trump. These have largely been prophylactic interventions since Trump had not yet actually done much but talk and insult people, …
Back in 2015 accusations that author and activist Michael Schmidt was a racist white nationalist trying to infiltrate the libertarian movement turned into an international anarchist cause célèbre.…
All too often anarchism as a movement and a discourse is oriented towards collectivist ideology. I mean this in a literal sense of an ideology. Much of what is called anarchism seems to be more of a form of Hegelianism. …
The word anarchist has long been used to label various people and movements that often are and have been quite different from each other in their approaches, ideas and goals. People who have called themselves or been described by others …