Superstition and Ignorance versus Courage and Self-Reliance Every well informed person knows, today, that man has evolved from lower forms of animal life. With this evolution in my mind, we may imagine the progress he has made in ideas and social valuations. Primitive man worshipped the sun, which was natural because from it came both…

Di Robert Anton Wilson. Originale pubblicato il 12 dicembre 2015 con il titolo The Semantics of “Good” and “Evil”. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Il compianto Laurance Labadie una volta mi raccontò la parabola di quel re che un giorno decise che avrebbe dato un calcio nel sedere a tutti quelli che incontrava, tanto per rimarcare…

De Qianzi. Artículo original: Capitalism as Religion and The Myth of Capitalist Nature, 9 de marzo de 2021. Traducido al español por Camila Figueroa. Una breve indagación sobre el diagnóstico proporcionado por Walter Benjamin. “Se puede discernir una religión en el capitalismo, es decir, el capitalismo sirve esencialmente para aliviar las mismas ansiedades, tormentos y…

De Qianzi. Artigo original: Capitalism as Religion and The Myth of Capitalist Nature, 9 de Março 2021. Traduzido para o português por Gabriel Serpa. Uma breve investigação da crítica de Walter Benjamin No capitalismo encontramos uma religião; isto é, ele serve essencialmente para apaziguar as ansiedades, tormentos e agitações às quais as chamadas religiões ofereciam…

Di Qianzi. Titolo originale: Capitalism as Religion and The Myth of Capitalist Nature, 9 marzo 2021. Articolo pubblicato originariamente il 19 febbraio 2021 su Black Fire Notes Breve analisi della critica di Walter Benjamin “Nel capitalismo percepiamo una religione; il capitalismo serve sostanzialmente a placare le ansie, i tormenti e le agitazioni a cui le…

[This article was originally published on February 19, 2021 at Black Fire Notes] Capitalism as Religion and The Myth of Capitalist Nature A brief inquiry into the diagnosis provided by Walter Benjamin. “A religion may be discerned in capitalism – that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances…

Joining us today is Aria DiMezzo. Aria is a candidate running for sheriff in Cheshire County in New Hampshire as a Republican. Even though, at first glance, it may seem odd we have a Republican candidate for sheriff on our anarchist show, you’ll soon be able to shed light unto this mystery. Aria is neither…

Original : Jules Elysard. “Liberty, for you, is the Devil”: Divinity and Subordination in Anarchist Thought. Traduit par Decarnelle Rémi. « Viens ! Satan, viens, le calomnié des prêtres et des rois, que je t’embrasse, que je te serre sur ma poitrine ! » Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1858). Dieu, dans presque toutes ses incarnations dans les religions monothéistes, représente la…

“Per te la libertà è il demonio” Di Jules Elysard. Originale pubblicato il 26 gennaio 2019 con il titolo ”Liberty, for you, is the Devil”: Divinity and Subordination in Anarchist Thought. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Vieni, Satana, vieni, tu che sei calunniato da preti e monarchi! Lascia che ti abbracci, lascia che ti stringa al mio petto! ~…

Come, Satan, come, slandered by priests and kings! Let me embrace you, let me clutch you to my breast! – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1858) God — in nearly all monotheistic incarnations — represents the ultimate authoritarian. The creation must adhere to the creator’s rules for fear of eternal judgement. Anarchist thought has long reflected this, and…

The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson’s recent continuation of the Star Wars saga, has generated many new takes. Yet most focus on debates about aesthetics, storytelling, cinematography, fandom politics, and concerns with fantasy physics rather than the social and political commentary of the movie. Perhaps it’s because the main political messages of this installment were so…

[Di Logan Glitterbomb. Originale pubblicato su Center for a Stateless Society il 25 aprile 2016 con il titolo Porn Prohibitionists Declare Public Health Crisis. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna.] La settimana scorsa il governatore dello Utah Gary R. Herbert ha firmato una risoluzione che equipara la pornografia ad una crisi sanitaria. Quest’ultima mossa autoritaria da parte…

Last week, Governor Gary R. Herbert signed a resolution which declared porn a public health crisis in the state of Utah. This latest authoritarian move by anti-porn moralists has been defended by Utah state Senator Todd Weiler who said, “This isn’t just a religious moral issue. Some people want to make this about sex education; no boy…

Capitalism’s relation to spiritual attitudes and ideologies has historically been hostile. The use of magic and the holding of pagan beliefs in peasant communities in the transition from feudalism to capitalism was mercilessly crushed, as they were seen as a belief systems that removed control from the mercantile elites and prevented the mechanistic control needed…

Classical liberalism recommends, in Thomas Jefferson’s words, “a wall of separation” between church and state. In his case for religious toleration, John Locke argued that separation protects people from the “compulsive force” of individuals trying to inculcate “certain doctrines” through “fire and sword.” Robert Audi later added that “if the state prefers one or more…

The Semantics of “Good” and “Evil” by Robert Anton Wilson The late Laurance Labadie once told me a parable about a king who decided that every time he met somebody he would kick them in the butt, just to emphasize his power. My memory may have elaborated this yarn a bit over the years, but…

It’s about time someone challenged the phrase radical Islamic terrorism. The most objectionable part is the word radical since it is now popularly associated with aggression — violence against innocents — as an acceptable means to politico-religious ends. But nothing about the word radical implies approval of aggression or terrorism. Rather, the word signifies an approach that goes to the…

Gli attentati di Parigi del tredici novembre erano ancora in corso quando già si levavano le prime voci che chiedevano porte chiuse ai profughi in Europa e America. Per chi conosce la politica e gli obiettivi dello Stato Islamico, l’organizzazione fascista responsabile degli attentati, la tragedia è evidente. Come i tanti spacconi sciovinisti e nazionalisti…

The Paris attacks on 11/13 were hardly concluded before the first cries for excluding refugees from Europe and the U.S were shouted. The tragedy is clear to those who know the politics and goals of the Islamic State, the fascist organization responsible for the attack. Like so many western chauvinists and nationalistic goons in this country…

Property and the family are two ideas, for the attack and defense of which legions of writers have taken up arms during the last half century. Recent systems, founded upon old errors, but revived by the popular emotions which they aroused, have in vain disturbed, misrepresented, sometimes even denied, them. These ideas express necessary facts,…