Against Economic Rigidity

This is a brief post just to get across a frustration I have with the anarchist movement. This critique applies mainly to modern social anarchists, though some mutualists may also be guilty of it. The charge I level against them is a kind of economic rigidity, specifically an unwillingness to address and incorporate modern economic […]
Against Economic Rigidity

100 years on, Kropotkin remains strikingly modern

Freedom News The centenary of Kropotkin’s death is a good time to return to the question he asked in Freedom in 1886: what must we do? Ruth Kinna considers a thinker whose work evolved through a rapidly changing political and social era but never lost its humanity and faith in the possibility of real change. […]
100 years on, Kropotkin remains strikingly modern

Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78

Like him or not, he was genuinely important for the cause of free speech and freedom of the press, which we will need in the years and decades ahead. By Paul Valentine, Washington Post Larry Flynt, one of America’s most notorious pornographers and self-proclaimed champions of First Amendment freedoms, who built his business interests on […]
Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78

Keith Preston: Anarchist Communities Past, Present and Future

The full video of a talk I gave in England a few years ago. Watch here. Imagine the proliferation of hundreds of thousands of communities reflecting infinite diversity in infinite combination. One of the main problems many anarchists have is their prescriptive universalism. But real anarchy would look more like the plethora of communities described […]
Keith Preston: Anarchist Communities Past, Present and Future

No Kings, No Plutocrats

Most leftists are actually pretty weak on the state, from Noam “I’d like to see the power of the federal government increased” Chomsky downward. It’s like medieval peasants who thought the king was going to save them from the landlords. Most libertarians are terrible on capitalism: “The state shouldn’t exist but state-chartered corporations are wonderful.” […]
No Kings, No Plutocrats

An Actual Anarchist Approach to “Healthcare Reform”

This is more like it.
An Actual Anarchist Approach to “Healthcare Reform”

The Best of Times for the “Libertarian-Left”?

It seems that right now things could be considered better for the “libertarian-left” than at any point in the past, at least in US history. By “libertarian-left,” I mean that umbrella of philosophies with a generally anti-authoritarian ethos but which also do not deify corporate tycoons as Nietzschean supermen in the same way as […]
The Best of Times for the “Libertarian-Left”?

A Kinky Cure for a Cruel World

Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Valentine’s Day is a bitch for the weirdos and trust me dearest motherfuckers, they don’t come much weirder than me. I’ve long fancied myself a hopeless romantic with a heavy emphasis on the hopeless angle, but lets face it, I’m a freak; a pervert, a sicko, […]
A Kinky Cure for a Cruel World