Freedom Lost

America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe when he or she assumes office. He will also inherit a shadow government, one that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country.

Source: The Rutherford Institute :: The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay

It’s after midnight. From this mountaintop perch, he can still see the radioactive remains of what used to be Washington, D.C., illuminating the horizon as he exits the helicopter. The nuclear glow serves as stark proof that the intelligence community failed to foresee and prevent the worst, but at least someone was smart enough to build this mountain bunker in rural Virginia for him and his fellow spies to regroup and survive. He opens the reinforced steel door and begins his descent.

Source: The Secret Mountain Our Spies Will Hide In When Washington Is Destroyed

On two separate occasions in the last couple of weeks, people have asked me a familiar question: “In a system of ‘anarcho-capitalism’ or the free-market order, wouldn’t society degenerate into constant battles between private warlords?” Unfortunately I didn’t give adequate answers at the times, but I hope in this article to prove the adage that later is better than never.

Source: But Wouldn’t Warlords Take Over? | Mises Institute

The Free Land of The Free Territory of Makhnovia is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, unlimited-speed roads, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.523 billion Free Territory of Makhnovians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

Source: NationStates | The Free Land of The Free Territory of Makhnovia

Building upon the federalist and libertarian socialist ideas of his friend Pierre-Joseph Proudhon as well as those in the European labour movement, Bakunin shaped anarchism into its modern form. His revolutionary, class struggle based anarchism soon became the dominant form of anarchism in the First International. He combated the state socialism of Marx and Engels and laid the foundations for both communist-anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism. His predictions about Marxism have been confirmed and his critique of capitalism, the state and religion as just as valid as when they were first expounded. Both the Russian and Spanish revolutions have confirmed the power of his ideas on revolution.Yet Bakunin’s ideas are less well known than they should be outside the anarchist movement. This is due to the fact that Marxists hate him while liberals cannot understand him. Their combined distortions of his ideas have ensured that many radicals have failed to read him and see for themselves the power of his theories. So why should we be interested in what a dead Russian had to say in the 1860s and 1870s?

Source: The Revolutionary Ideas of Bakunin | Anarchist Writers

The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century is one of the classics of anarchist literature.[1] Written in the aftermath of the 1848 French Revolution, it sets forth a libertarian alternative to the Jacobinism which at that time still dominated the republican and revolutionary movements in France. It contains a critique of existing society and its institutions, a vision of a free society based on equality and justice, and a detailed strategy for revolutionary change. Despite its ambivalent p

Source: The General Idea of Proudhon’s Revolution | The Anarchist Library

Joey Salads1 month agoCan AnCaps stop calling themselves anarchists please? The only thing they have in common with anarchism is the opposition to the state, besides that they clearly have no understanding of anarchist theory, thought, or tradition. Could any AnCap name and describe the ideologies of Proudhon? Of Stirner? Of Bakunin and Kropotkin? Of Goldman and Malatesta? Or what of the anarchist/libsoc societies that either have or currently exist. Could any AnCap tell me about Makhnovia? About Revo