anarchism

What is Representation?

Recent years have seen inspiring uprisings and mass mobilizations against racial, ethnic and gender-based oppression. One of the responses to this surge in activity has been a rise in a right-wing populism that has sought to defend established hierarchies of power through appeals to violence, often couched in the language of “law and order.” But […]
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KOL319 | The Libertarianism Litmus Test, Part 2 – With Keith Knight, “Don’t Tread on Anyone”

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 319. This is Part II of my appearance on Keith Knight’s Youtube show “Don’t Tread on Anyone” (Feb. 3, 2021), discussing my “Libertarian Litmus Test” post on Facebook.  In this second hour or so of our discussion, we covered “Logic, Exploitation, Homesteading, & Freedom”, and other issues (see below). See […]

System Fail #6: Eagle Stew [MATURE]

CW: Graphic violence, police brutality, death In this episode we take a look back at the January 6th debacle in DC, when Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building. We also talk with anarchist organizer and revolutionary emcee, Sima Lee. Check out Sima Lee’s podcast, the Marooncast, which she co-hosts with KLC: buzzsprout.com/1414102 And check […]
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The Situation is Hopeless, Just Hopeless

Soon people will be coming here to make documentaries about how we’ve been forgotten, about how nothing has been done. — survivor of the Brumadinho dam collapse Some call them ‘mountains of doom.’ Dotting the landscape of once-green Wales to this day are the stygian slag heaps resulting from centuries-old collieries, mammoth piles of debris […]
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Creative Common Law Project, R.I.P. and Waystation Libertarians

A couple years ago, one Jamin Hübner, who had previously submitted an article to my journal Libertarian Papers, then later appeared on Tom Woods’s show, ep. 1214, to discuss his anarcho-capitalist based Creative Common Law Project. I thought it was interesting so emailed him comments and constructive criticism. He invited me to join the Advisory Board. I […]

Why Does Mayor Ted Wheeler Hate Us So Much?

 Tear Gas Ted is getting Tough On Crime and Anarchy, and I’ve got some analysis for you. Oregon Public Broadcasting has been giving a lot of play to Mayor Wheeler’s latest couple of speeches, where he once again criticized “violent anarchists” for doing terrible things like spray-painting memes on plywood, or breaking the windows […]
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Thomas Sowell vs. Noam Chomsky

In an interview with Peter Robinson, Thomas Sowell (Hoover Institution) criticizes the political work of Noam Chomsky on grounds that make clear he does not distinguish Chomsky’s libertarian socialism from the technocratic and highly militarized state capitalism favored by liberal elites. Incredibly, Sowell lumps him in with the liberal intelligentsia Chomsky has long attacked, ignoring […]