Tag: USA
Combating Hate: A Radical Leftist Guide to Gun Control (Part 3)
This is the third part in a series. Be sure to check out parts 1, 2, 4 and 5. Poverty, Homelessness, and Unemployment Many gun-related crimes involve some form of theft. The root causes of theft usually have less to do with the thief wishing harm on anyone and more to do with financial desperation. Addressing issues of…
The Failures of Fight for $15
“The Fight for $15 started with just a few hundred fast food workers in New York City, striking for $15 an hour and union rights. Today, [they]’re an international movement in over 300 cities on six continents of fast-food workers, home health aides, child care teachers, airport workers, adjunct professors, retail employees – and underpaid…
Reactionaries Have Always Been “Post-Truth”
Nationalism and all other forms of traditionalism have always been “post-truth”. One might think that this is an odd statement, since reactionary movements are so often characterized by a kind of absolutism. Liberals and leftists have always been the ones who are accused of vacuous relativism.
Terrorist is the New Green
In the wake of several IWW-backed labor strikes in the US and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the US was thrown into a frenzy over fears of the red menace. Thus began the first Red Scare. The homes of suspected anarchists, socialists, social democrats, communists, and other radical leftists were raided and at least 500…
Time to Put the NAP to Rest?
The non-aggression principle is an ethical stance which asserts that “aggression” is inherently illegitimate. “Aggression,” for the purposes of NAP, is defined as initiating or threatening the use of any and all forcible interference with an individual or individual’s property. The NAP is considered to be the defining axiom of the modern libertarian movement. However,…
Combating Hate: A Radical Leftist Guide to Gun Control (Part 2)
This is the second part in a series. Be sure to check out parts 1, 3, 4 and 5. As radical leftists, we tend to favor looking at the bigger picture. We favor radical change in the world around us and it is with that goal in mind and many lifetimes worth of collective analysis that we tend…
Combating Hate: A Radical Leftist Guide to Gun Control (Part 1)
This is the first part in a series. Be sure to check out parts 2, 3, 4 and 5. Gun control is a big issue to many leftists. The Democratic Party has campaigned for years on a platform of gun control. Such measures, they claim, are the only ways to reduce gun violence and save lives. They claim they…
My God! It’s Full of Tsars!
Thomas L. Knapp on the proliferation of bureaucratic tsars.
War (On Your Health) Is The Health Of The State
C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp on government ratcheting up the cost of health care and what to do about it.
The War on Copyright Nazism: We Win Some, We Lose Some
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson on the recent wins and losses on the IP front in the struggle of the productive class.
Speaking of the State
C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp: Obama’s speech in Cairo is an anachronism.
Is Peak Oil the Solution to Global Warming?
Kevin Carson: “If you look at the range of estimates for reductions in oil supply over the next generation or so, it looks awfully similar in scale to the environmentalists’ targets for reducing CO2 emissions.”
Because They Can, Wingtip Edition
Thomas L. Knapp on what we can learn from the Larry Moore story.
Travel and Labor Should Be Peaceful
C4SS Contributing Writer Alex R. Knight III on the topic of immigration and arbitrary lines called “borders”.
Are Your Papers in Order?
Thomas L. Knapp on new passport requirements.
Libertarians Against Sprawl
Kevin Carson: Fighting sprawl is a matter of anti-statism.
“Dealergate” is Really Just Business as Usual
Thomas L. Knapp on political favoritism in business.
An Anarchist Looks at Memorial Day
Thomas L. Knapp: Mourn the dead, don’t glorify war
Gangsters in Blue
Kevin Carson: “Police, like other criminal gangs, use terror to intimidate those they rule into submission, intimidate snitches out of testifying against their crimes, and prey upon those living on their ‘turf.'”
Daniel Hauser’s Run for the Border
C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp on a young man’s flight for his life from the statist medical monopoly.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory