April 2012
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March 2012
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WARRIOR, WALDGAENGER, ANARCH: An essay on Ernst... →
These ideas have never been popular, even with some of his loyal readers. Jünger himself had burnt himself on the hot iron of modern democracy. Naturally those who believe in the saying of Winston Churchill, “Democracy is the worst form of government, but the best we’ve got,” will certainly disagree with Jünger’s political analysis, but the further we go down this strange path called the modern...
To Die Is Not Enough! →
While it lasted, the short lived Free State of Fiume, under the direction of Commandante D’Annunzio, stood as a heroic, passionate revolt against mediocrity.
The Communal Solution - A political alternative →
“There is no more order to conserve; it is necessary to create a new one.”
– Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (via cercleproudhon)
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive....”
– Ezra Pound (via bardsandsages)
The Individual and Dictatorship →
“For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I...”
– Ernst Jünger
Side Effects of Capitalism — III
widespreadpropriety:
Moving Away from Holistic Approaches
Dependence on Herbicides
Loss of Quality Soil
Shrinking Companion Farming
Pill Dependent Health — Pharmacology and Pill Vitamins
Compartmentalized Life Choices
Growth of Disposable Products — large landfills, shipping trash over seas, & pollution
Side Effects of Capitalism — II
widespreadpropriety:
Loss of Personal Property
Shrinking Family Farms
Shrinking Family Businesses
Shrinking Opportunity to Productive Property
Wage Slavery — Employment for Life with no Chance to own productive property
Alienation from the products of labor
Side Effects of Capitalism — I
widespreadpropriety:
Mass Advertising — Needless Desire Creation
Junk Food
Fast Food
Needless clothing
Quick Fashion Trends
Loss of Patience and Growth of Immediate Gratification
Made By Hand web-series →
widespreadpropriety:
The artisan movement gives this country hope, as do the various ‘back to the land’ movements. Beautiful ideas and videography to match.
C4SSdotORG: Jackboots Without Borders →
c4ss:
More than a year ago, I reported on the mission of Frank “Bagman of Empire” Wisner to Egypt (“Egypt: Let the Looting Begin,” Center for a Stateless Society, February 4, 2011). Wisner, formerly of Enron and AIG, was Obama’s plenipotentiary to Egypt, tasked with managing the post-Mubarak…
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path...”
– Voltaire
Watchcercleproudhon:
Children of the Revolution
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest”
– Thomas Paine (via cercleproudhon)
“We may again consider these phases under other terms. 1. Authority, the genius...”
– Dyer Lum
An eccentric dialectic, certainly different than Proudhon, but still interesting and gives you a taste of what mutualism was originally all about, a dialectic philosophy. Though I certainly don’t want to dismiss what it has become, I enjoy it’s conflicted and ambiguous tradition.
(via...
Gary Chartier on Reason.tv
c4ss:
C4SS Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier ‘sat down with Reason.tv’s Zach Weissmueller to discuss why libertarians should stop embracing the word “capitalism,’ why there’s reason to take the concerns of the political Left seriously, and why the economic system in the United States does not even begin to resemble a free market.”
Original Article
“What a farce this modern liberality! Freedom of speech means practically, in our...”
– G.K. Chesterton (The Napoleon of Notting Hill)
singtheloveofdanger: Resilient Communities:... →
cercleproudhon:
“Resilient Communities: Society After State Capitalism”
by Kevin Carson
“For centuries, as described by Pyotr Kropotkin and other thinkers, the institutions of civil society have been crowded out or actively suppressed by the state. As the state capitalist system reaches its limits and…
THE IRON FIST BEHIND THE INVISIBLE HAND Corporate... →
Alternative Economics →
