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Howard Zinn on Anarchism
2008-05-19 17:18:00 Abridged from an interview with Ziga Vodovnik: Ziga Vodovnik: From the 1980s onwards we are witnessing the process of economic globalization getting stronger day after day. Many on the Left are now caught between a "dilemma" - either to work to reinforce the sovereignty of nation-states as a defensive barrier against the control of foreign and global capital; or to strive towards a non-national alternative to the present form of globalization and that is equally global. What's your opinion about this?Howard Zinn: I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization. In a certain sense the movement towards globalization where capitalists are trying to leap over nation state barriers, creates a kind of opportunity for movement to ignore national barriers, and to bring people together globally, across national lines in opposition to globalization of capital, to create globalization of people, opposed to traditional ...
By: Red Jenny
Christine Smith discusses child pornography, the FBI, anarchism, rule of la
2008-05-08 17:19:00 Radio interview: Christine Smith discusses child pornography, the FBI, anarchism, rule of law, the future of the LP, and more.Listen Here: http://www.spoxtalk.com/listen_-to_spox_talk/p13_sectionid/1/p1-3_fileid/790 Paul Kruger, Communications Christine Smith for President15400 W. 64th Ave., E9-105Arvada, Colorado 80007 phone: (303) 217-8848 PAID FOR BY CHRISTINE SMITH FOR PRESIDENT
Anarchism, Age of Consent Laws and the Dallas Accord (Wayne Allyn Root)
2008-05-07 22:58:00 May 7, 2008 From the desk of Wayne Allyn Root: Anarchism, Age of Consent Laws and the Dallas Accord By Wayne Allyn Root, Candidate for the Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination Recently a controversy has arisen over statements Mary Ruwart made in her book Short Answers to the Tough Questions regarding the rights children possess. The most salient quote on this subject is found on page 43 in her book: Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it’s distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life. And when given an opportunity to clarify her beliefs, Ms. Ruwart recently made it clear that she continues to be opposed to all age-of-consent laws, even in the case of pre-pubescent children. In a May 1, 2008 prepared statement posted on her website she states: Dr. Ruwart did not elab...
Great Commie Blog - Eastern Star
2008-04-13 11:12:00 Unfortunately, J Slavyanski of Eastern Star is a Hoxhaite (a supporter of Enver Hoxha, the former leader of Communist Albania) but his blog is still one of the finest ones out there. He's a superb author, with a fine style and a great sardonic sense of humor.An American who has drifted through all sorts of political positions before landing smack into anti-revisionist Communism, he has currently relocated to Moscow, which is where he authors the blog from. In his previous incarnations, unfortunately, he was a Nazi, or National Socialist, or some such thing. Now he has gone all the way over to the Left.My mother is fond of telling me how in Eric Hoffer's The True Believer, Hoffer reports how people would join the Nazi Party one week and the Communists the next. But there was a lot of drifting around in the days of the chaotic Weimar, and the Nazis were pretending to be socialists anyway, thereby confusing and co-opting a lot of working class folks.In real life, I have not seen muc...
By: Robert Lindsay
American Revolution Revisionism
2008-03-30 13:49:00 Via a fascinating new blog, The Art of the Possible, a completely revisionist history, from the Left no less (Yes, yes, yes, a million times yes!) of the political economy of the American Revolutionary Era.Chomsky's theory of a media controlled by the state (really by capital) and Gramsci's analysis of how capital takes over everything in a capitalist society (art, knowledge, history, philosophy, economics, you name it) to pull the poor, the working class, the low-income, and even the middle classes along on the scam called "cultural hegemony" to ream them good while they cheer bent over, are revealed in the clear light of day.This post by Kevin Carson, who is one smart fucker, all right. He's an anarchist, and that is not only unworkable and impossible, but it has hardly ever been tried and probably never will be.In contrast, we Commies have actually run the biggest states on Earth for up to 70 years and at least we have a track record. Whether we did a good job or not is up for...
By: Robert Lindsay
Faith in anarchism?
2008-03-14 14:32:00 Christianity is often portrayed as inherently conservative and hierarchical. But there is another, much more subversive side to it... read more
By: Ekklesia
Anarchism Essay
2008-03-06 11:22:00 A common feeling people have about modern anarchism is that it is primarily a negative political theory. They see it as defining itself more in its opposition to capitalism, coercive state power and general forms of authority rather than any positive alternative. It is also seen as closely tied to the anti-capitalist, anti-poverty, anti-United States ...
Death Note - Justice and Anarchism
2008-02-09 20:08:00 Composition of scenes from the anime "Death Note" concerning the question of harsh sentencing and who decides a judgement. For those of you who haven't seen the anime: I recommend watching the first few episodes, they are very good. Unfortunately later episodes don't really deal with the philosophical issues involved anymore.
CFP: Anarchism and Moral Philosophy
2007-12-13 15:39:00 The Anarchist Studies Network: A Political Studies Association Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism Is organising a conference on the theme of Anarchism and Moral Philosophy and invites submissions for panels on Anarchism and moral Philosophy, whether in terms of meta-ethics (such what is the status of ethical judgements? From where do they derive?), normative ethics ...
By: blackthumb
Government in Scripture: Luke 22:24-26
2007-10-22 16:21:00 24Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. 25Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. 26But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like ...
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
2007-09-14 00:01:00 Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press | ISBN 0192804774 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 125 pages
Tom Harvey - Anarchism
2007-07-16 14:04:00 Here is a piece on anarchism by my good friend Tom Harvey. I will respond to it in a separate post (or possibly in the comments section) when I get the chance, though it appears we agree much more than we disagree. Thanks a lot, Tom. If this piece works as I intend, anarchist readers will hopefully ...
William Dvorak - The Political Norm of Centuries (Carnival of Anarchism)
2007-05-30 03:14:00 This is my first worthy submission for my Carnival of Anarchism: There has consistently been a conflict between conservatives and liberals. Between those who want to maintain the status quo and those who want to see change. The connotations of the words conservative and liberal can change over time; here we are interested in their denotation. ...
Wikipedia Article on ?Anarchism? One of the Most Active
2007-05-23 23:51:00 http://myimedia.blogspot.com/20-07/05/top-20-most-active-articl-es-in.html I suppose this should definitely be considered a positive thing. More discussion of anarchism is exactly what we need. Here’s a link to the anarchism entry on Wikipedia, it really is an exemplary introductory article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-archism
Anarchism, in the present
2007-05-13 14:37:00 A nice little reminder from http://anarchistnews.org to keep concentrating on the present and, while keeping an eye on the future, knowing that anarchist institutions always exist within society, they just need help to be brought out fully: Anarchism, in the present by fuckauthority If you were to ask an anarchist at random to define the word ?anarchy,? chances ...
Anarchism versus Marxism
2007-05-05 12:34:00 Although anarchism and Marxism are both socialist political theories, and they share the view that a communal, participatory, voluntary, de-centralised society is an end goal worth pursuing, they differ in many respects, and should not be confused. Of course they are far from internally homogeneous theories themselves, but I’ll leave that issue to another entry. They tend to differ more when in comes to means, rather than ends. So they both criticise capitalist economy, bourgeois society, and the liberal democratic state, and they have both looked to the working class movement to bring their respective visions into fruition. But there differences are not trivial: for example, one of the most basic distinctions between Marxism and anarchism is that Marxists generally do not have an issue with organising themselves into hierarchies, whilst anarchists cannot countenance hierarchical structure within their organisations, they must always be based on equality and pure democracy. In...
Anarchism 101 videos
2007-05-03 16:03:00 If only there really was anarchism 101 at university… or better yet, anarchism classes at school! These are some pretty good (and clear) overviews of the basics of anarchism. I’ll be looking forward to the next in the series. Anarchism 101 #1 Anarchism 101 #2
Introduction to book on anarchism
2007-04-24 16:34:00 This is the first part of the introduction I have so far for my book. I wrote this a while ago so it’s up for revision like everything else… Introduction The purpose of this book is to persuade as many people as possible that the serious difficulties we face today are not inevitable nor necessary. A common ...
Chapters for book on anarchism
2007-04-24 16:31:00 As I mentioned when I started this blog, I plan on writing a book on anarchism as a tool to convince others of the evils of state capitalism and the merits of an anarchistic society. As of yet I haven’t made much progress on it but I have got a general structure down. It will be organised ... |
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