December 2009 - Bad Press

Anarchism Without Hyphens

December 25, 2009 - 8:44 pm | anchorage anarchy, Karl Hess

Leave a comment

There is only one kind of anarchist. Not two. Just one. An anarchist, the only kind, as defined by the long tradition and literature of the position itself, is a person in opposition to authority imposed through the hierarchical power of the state. The only expansion of this that seems to me reasonable is to say that an anarchist stands in opposition to any imposed authority. (more…)

In Defense of Pro-capitalist Anarchists

December 25, 2009 - 8:43 pm | anchorage anarchy, Individualism, Joe Peacott

Leave a comment

What is an anarchist? What practices are libertarian? Which kinds of social arrangements are compatible, and which incompatible, with freedom? These are the kinds of questions that have been debated and written about by anarchists for well over a hundred years. (more…)

War is Peace

December 25, 2009 - 8:40 pm | anchorage anarchy, Joe Peacott

Leave a comment

That is, apparently, the view of the Nobel Committee which awarded their peace prize to Barack Obama. How else to explain the fact that these folks can see an american president who is overseeing two full-scale wars, replete with the deaths of non-combatants at the hands of the armed thugs at his command, as some kind of agent for peace? (more…)