By Ruth Kinna It’s no surprise to discover that anarchist theorist Pyotr Kropotkin was interested in Christmas. In Russian culture, St. Nicholas (Николай Чудотворец) was revered as a defender of the oppressed, the weak and the disadvantaged. Kropotkin shared the sentiments. But there was also a family link. As everyone knows, Kropotkin could trace his […]

An Anarchist Guide to Christmas

Debunking the presumptions of liberal democracy should be the main intellectual project of anarchists in the modern world. The majority of the world’s nations are now liberal democracies, and all of the developed countries. In the ancient world, the royals were worshipped as gods (which still takes place in some remote Asia societies where the […]

Dear Biden Voter…

Recently, certain facts about labor and markets and exploitation theory have congealed in my mind, like disparate ingredients uniting into a tasty whole. In this brief essay, I hope to summarize my findings and help bring into clear language the type of class-conflict that modern left-libertarians should sincerely invest in. Class theory has been around […]

Labor Markets & Exploitation: Statism vs. Liberty

This “culture war” stuff has nothing to do with “socialism vs. capitalism” let alone “communism vs. fascism.” The Red Tribe/Blue Tribe “civil war” is quintessentially American in origins. The election amounted to a contest between two moderate Republicans. Both of our parties are center-right plutocratic-capitalist parties by world-historical standards, and both of them are on […]

The Culture War is Everywhere

In case anyone cares… Another recent appearance on the same program. These are some pretty good discussions. These folks have a good show.

Episode 46: w/Keith Preston on his own path to radicalization

The postwar West was a historically unique time of unprecedented economic expansion, technological development, and economic reforms that allowed the working class to live like an upper middle class. All of that is disappearing now, and we’re becoming “normal” societies once again with traditional levels of social stratification. By Carey Biron, Reuters America grew up […]

Boarding Houses: Co-Living In Cities Becoming Normalized Again

With the release last week of the long-awaited, hotly-anticipated, and much-hated Cyberpunk 2077, the media has started to cover both the game, the man who inspired it, and the genre that it draws from. Here is some of the coverage, including a few pieces we’ve published previously. The Role-Playing Game That Predicted the Future [The […]

Cyberpunk in the News #cyberpunk

Number 62 In this issue: We will prevail! Naming the enemy Shattering illusions Here comes Santa Klaus! Jaime Semprun: an orgrad inspiration Acorninfo 1.  We will prevail! It was back in March 2020 that we first reported signs of resistance against the Covid-themed totalitarian coup. We hoped back then that this would quickly develop into […]

The Acorn – 62

Over the past ouple of years, I’ve learned a few things about Japanese that are not obvious to people just starting out in Japanese. Let me try to summarize them here. Maybe I’ve said some of these before, but I’ll just repeat here if so, I guess it bears repeating. Okurigana Okurigana are those hiragana […]

Tips and Tricks for Japanese Learners

By Morgan Gibson The centrality of anarchism to the praxis of contemporary anti-systemic social movements has been well documented. From the alter-globalisation movement to Occupy, many contemporary anti-systemic movements are defined by their commitment to some of the central tenets of anarchism, including the pursuit of decentralized, directly democratic and egalitarian organisational forms that are […]

The Failure Of The State And The Rise Of Anarchism In Contemporary Anti-Systemic Praxis