#81: Direct Democracy: 08.6.22-7.12:
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0. US Secession Movements.
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1. Direct Democracy Models:--------
0) Family.
1) Virtual Cantons.
2) "Green Book".
3) Syndicalism.
4) Mutualism.
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0.US Secession Movement:-----------
0-0-0-1. ' Secession: The Final Frontier' http://tinyurl.com/6f3jdq on "2":--
0-0-0-2. "Secession: How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire" by Thomas H. Naylor (Author), Kirkpatrick Sale (Introduction): Feral House (April 1, 2008): http://tinyurl.com/5zf6sa / uk: http://tinyurl.com/6gvtwx
0-0-1. List 'Links' http://vermontrepublic.org/links
0-1. 'The Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination' http://middleburyinstitute.org/
0-2. 'NationalConstitutionalConvention06' Forum Feb,06-: http://tinyurl.com/57vheo
0-3. Aztlan, Cascadia, Jefferson: http://tinyurl.com/3q4s5x
0-4. 'The Second Vermont Republic, the League of the South and the Southern Poverty Law Center' http://attackthesystem.com/
Direct Democracy Models:-----------
0) Family.
1) Virtual Cantons.
2)'"Green Book".
3) Syndicalism.
4) Mutualism.
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0. US Secession Movement:----------
0-0-0-1. ' Secession: The Final Frontier' Andrei Kreptul: July11,08: http://tinyurl.com/6f3jdq
: "" Secession: How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire. By Thomas H. Naylor. Foreword by Kirkpatrick Sale. Feral House, 2008. 119 pages.
As a general matter, most Americans insist on placing their collective faith in "democracy" as the primary means to address the escalating problems " ... ...
" Pitted against this global democratic status quo is the political concept of "secession." Secession is commonly defined as the consensual exit of a group of people and territory from an existing nation-state. In many cases (but not all), what results from secession is the emergence of new politically-sovereign entities. That said, it is not too much of a stretch to note that secession remains a difficult concept for the average person to intellectually digest. " ... ...
" Nevertheless, is it possible that now, in the early part of the 21st century, the idea of secession may soon catch political fire and inspire millions of people to push for political decentralization and dismemberment of the world’s existing nation-states?
In his important new book, Secession: How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire, Thomas H. Naylor concludes that efforts to reform the "American Empire" are futile, and that secession is the only feasible mechanism that can be used to disentangle the United States in the most peaceful and least chaotic manner possible. This conclusion may seem somewhat unusual coming from someone like Naylor, who is not exactly your run-of-the-mill radical, judging by his "establishment" credentials as an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Duke University and former CEO of a successful computer software firm.
Naylor begins Secession with a dedication to, of all people, the famed American diplomat and foreign policy guru George F. Kennan. Kennan is most famous for having developed the foreign policy of "containing" Communist expansion during the Truman Administration of the 1950s. However, what is not widely-known is that by the early 1990s, in the twilight of his life, Kennan became a strong sympathizer for an independent Vermont and proponent of breaking up the United States into "a dozen constituent republics" as a means to roll back aggressive American foreign policy imperialism. Having been the father of containment diplomacy, it is reasonable to assume that Kennan may have known a thing or two about the dangers of aggressive imperialist expansion and how to combat it. Indeed, it is fascinating to note that Naylor considers Kennan to be "a major source of inspiration for the Second Vermont Republic," even going so far as to deem him as its "godfather." For those that do not know, the Second Vermont Republic is the name given by Naylor and others to a future Vermont that will perhaps one day become its own sovereign independent republic, broken free from the yoke of the current territorial borders of the United States.
The foreword to Secession is provided by Kirkpatrick Sale. He is perhaps best known as one of the political Left’s most prominent journalists and a prolific author of numerous books with topics ranging from environmentalism and radical political decentralization to neo-Ludditeism and bioregionalism. Sale has focused his energies on becoming a preeminent advocate of secession, and in particular, the secession of Vermont from the United States. In his foreword, Sale lays out in a few short paragraphs how a small group of attendees to a "Radical Consultation" conference in Middlebury, Vermont in 2004, went from completely rejecting American electoral politics to whole-heartedly embracing secession for effecting political change. By the end of that conference, Sale, along with Naylor and a few others, founded the Middlebury Institute. According to its Declaration, the Middlebury Institute is a think-tank created in order to "place secession on the national agenda, encourage secessionist organizations, develop communication among existing and future secessionist groups, and create a body of scholarship to examine and promote the ideas and principles of secessionism." Secession certainly represents a contribution to that body of scholarship.
Naylor begins Secession by declaring that the United States today is an imperial power centralized in the hands of an oligarchic federal government that exercises too much of that power both at home and abroad. Early on, Naylor offers the following insight, which sets the tone for the arguments he makes throughout the book:
A cursory study of world history reveals a self-evident truth. No major empire anywhere at any time in history has ever proven to be sustainable. Sustainability refers to the ability of a community, a town, a city, or a nation-state to ensure the availability of political, economic, agricultural, social, cultural, and environmental resources for future generations… (p. 28) "
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" Naylor also recognizes that American imperialism is comprised of "both external and internal imperialism." Again, this dichotomy of imperialism may remind one of a similar "welfare/warfare state" dichotomy conceived by libertarian and Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard to describe the U.S. federal government as a symbiotic, interrelated domestic and foreign policy leviathan. Naylor even cites libertarians Lew Rockwell and Thomas DiLorenzo as authorities on America’s internal imperialism, originating with the oppressive violations of civil liberties committed by former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s administration in the 1860s and continuing through to the present day with the current regime of President George W. Bush.
In a recent talk delivered at the Future of Freedom Foundation's conference on "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties" last month, Rockwell himself indirectly, but in a very cogent way, expands on Naylor’s attempt to put the purpose for secession in its proper perspective:
…Think of your local and state governments. They tax and spend. They manipulate and intervene. As with all governments from the beginning of time, they generally retard social progress and muck things up as much as possible. What they do not do, however, is wage massive global wars, run huge deficits, accumulate trillions in debt, reduce the value of money, bail out foreign governments, provide endless credits to failing enterprises, administer hugely expensive and destructive social insurance schemes, or bring about immense swings in business activity.
State and local governments are awful and they must be relentlessly checked, but they are not anything like the threat of the federal government. Neither are they as arrogant and convinced of their own infallibility and indispensability. They lack the aura of invincibility that the central government enjoys.
From their own divergent political perspectives, Naylor (despiser of Wal-Mart) and Rockwell (defender of Wal-Mart) put forth essentially the same argument in favor of dismantling the federal government through secession. This coming together of "left" and "right" may represent a new common ground among thinkers from different political places who happen to share the same anti-imperialist foreign policy values and understand that radical political decentralization may be the only true means to achieve those values. With the emergence of the Middlebury Institute, this ideological common ground could lead to a growing political coalition for secession in the future as the American socioeconomic and geopolitical landscape continues to degenerate and the average American becomes increasingly disillusioned with the political status quo.
That being said, Naylor’s primary and more selfish motive as a secessionist is to achieve a sovereign Vermont republic, wholly independent of the United States. To that end, he devotes a chapter that describes in some detail the uniqueness of Vermont as a state known for its political independence, grass-roots democracy, local markets, cultural heritage, and focus on clean environmental living. Naylor recites the importance of Vermont’s colonial heritage and streak of independence as originating largely from its favorite son, the colonial-era hero Ethan Allan. In telling Vermont’s story, Naylor provides a moral justification for preserving Vermont against the heavy hand of the U.S. federal government and all the "mega"-sized institutions that it bolsters. It makes one think – if some day the majority of Vermonters wish to preserve their unique values and way of life within an independent Vermont, who are others to tell them "no"? And if Vermonters could do it, why not others?
Perhaps the most important chapter in Secession is the cleverly-entitled "Untied States of America." By substituting "Untied" for "United," Naylor paints an effective picture of the precise purpose for secession. According to Naylor, secession is not meant to be disruptive or chaotic. Rather, secession is meant to, among other things, "disengage." In fact, this is one of the four "Ds" of secession that Naylor lists – the other three being "Denunciation," "Demystification," and "Defiance." To all four of these "Ds", one could add a fifth "D" – "Demolition" – which is exactly what Naylor does when he thoroughly refutes a number of preconceived notions and attitudes that most Americans have when it comes to the alleged unconstitutionality of secession and the overly-glorified Abraham Lincoln (in the course of "demolishing" Lincoln, Naylor cites generously to DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked). Reading Naylor here will make one at least rethink, and in all likelihood utterly reject, that oft-repeated and false notion that secession is nothing more than code for "slavery" and "states’ rights."
With Secession, Thomas Naylor provides the average person trapped in the "black-box" of democracy with a short, easy-to-read book that lays out a new political frontier using persuasive and well-reasoned arguments. Unlike most books published on secession, written mostly by political philosophers attempting to weigh the costs and benefits of secession under the assumption of some hypothetical Rawlsian "democratically just" state, Secession is one of the few books available that offers a truly normative case for breaking up the United States and many other of the world’s nation-states, using interdisciplinary arguments based on economics, politics, history, culture, and, most importantly, reason. Secession is a path-breaking contribution to the secession literature, and arguably the first of many books on the topic that are sure to follow in the years to come.
July 11, 2008
Andrei Kreptul [send him mail] is an attorney in Seattle, Washington.
Copyright © 2008 LewRockwell.com "
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0-0-0-2. "Secession: How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire" by Thomas H. Naylor (Author), Kirkpatrick Sale (Introduction): Feral House (April 1, 2008): http://tinyurl.com/5zf6sa
[[ Amazon.co.uk: FERAL HOUSE; POLS edition (7 Feb 2008): http://tinyurl.com/6gvtwx
: "" Product Description: Product Description:
America has lost its moral authority to huge corporate interests, say Secession movement leaders. This remarkable dossier shows how a seemingly wild political idea continues to grow and create debate on the US' unsustainable, ungovernable and unfixable empire. "" ]]
Amazon.com:
: "" Editorial Reviews: Product Description:
"Secession may seem like an outlandish idea at first, but when considered forthrightly and un-prejudicially it becomes a powerful alternative to other kinds of political action. Thomas Naylor has here charted a brave and inspiring course for any American interested in practical, useful, thoroughgoing social and political change in America."-from the introduction by Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Rebels Against the Future
Secession, the growing and evolving means to fundamentally change our national government, has been the recent subject of major articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The O'Reilly Factor.
Thomas H. Naylor, professor emeritus of Duke University and co-author of Affluenza and The Search for Meaning, is founder and chair of the Second Vermont Republic, the foremost secessionist organization in the country.
About the Author
Thomas Naylor is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University. During the 1970s he was president of a major software firm. He's written the New York Times and other major publications and thirty books, including the recent, much-discussed "Affluenza". In 2003 he founded The Second Vermont Republic. Naylor lives outside Burlington Vermont. ""
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0-0-1. List 'Links' http://vermontrepublic.org/links
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0-1. 'The Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination' http://middleburyinstitute.org/
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0-2. 'NationalConstitutionalConvention06'Forum Feb,06-: http://tinyurl.com/57vheo
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0-3. Aztlan, Cascadia, Jefferson: http://tinyurl.com/3q4s5x
' 'Secessionists' to celebrate ' Todd Milbourn - tmilbourn@sacbee.com: Jun29,08 METRO section, Page B1: http://tinyurl.com/5dawkz
: "" The glorious Republic of Rough and Ready lasted just three months in 1850, born out of frustration over a mining tax and abandoned – legend has it – after bartenders in neighboring towns started refusing to serve liquor to "foreigners."
The gold miners loved liberty. They just loved libations more.
Today, thousands will honor that independent spirit at Secession Days, an annual celebration featuring jug bands and re-enactments from the Nevada County town's rebellious history. "
" "Oh, it's genuine, believe me," said Tony Intiso, a candidate for the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors who supports the concept of Jefferson – "more local control" – though not necessarily a new state. "And growing every day."
A bit farther north, a separate band of radicals plot something even more ambitious – an entirely new country called Cascadia, encompassing British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California's Redwood Empire.
Based in Seattle, the Cascadian Independence Project has founded chapters on a dozen college campuses and boasts an informational MySpace page with 2,221 friends calling for a "sustainable society that values and protects our unique ecosystem." "
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0-4. 'The Second Vermont Republic, the League of the South and the Southern Poverty Law Center' keith: July8,08: http://attackthesystem.com/
Attack the System: Pan-secessionism against the empire; "We're all Iraqis now!"
: "" Recently, Thomas Naylor of the Second Vermont Republic issued something of a challenge to the League of the South:
http://vermontrepublic.org/to_the_league_of_the_south_from_vermont_with_love
Naylor begins:
When the Second Vermont Republic, through its sister organization the Middlebury Institute, first began reaching out to other independence movements in November 2006, four such groups were at the top of our priority list. They included the Alaskan Independence Party, the Hawaiian independence movement, the New Hampshire Free State Project, and the League of the South.
Within three months after the First North American Secessionist Convention met in Burlington, Vermont, the well-financed race-baiting Southern Poverty Law Center opened fire on SVR and the Middlebury Institute accusing us of racism for having attended a meeting which included four LOS members as well as representatives from fifteen other secessionist organizations representing eighteen states.
First thought: The SPLC is a scam organization that should not be taken seriously. They are not merely do-gooder anti-racism activists. They are, as one of Morris Dees’ former law partners says, “the Tammy Faye Bakker of civil rights.” Further, groups like the SPLC epitomize the modern ruling class ideology of totalitarian humanism. They will oppose secession or decentralization of any kind, no matter what, as this is incompatible with their goal of a global totalitarian order organized as a caste system with group privilege assigned according to victimological status:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/preston1.html
In other words, the SPLC and others of their ilk are our mortal enemies, and should be given no recognition whatsoever. To recognize them, to attempt to rebut or accommodate them, is to grant them legitimacy. We should treat them as we would treat an enemy army during wartime.
Naylor discusses the difficulties an alliance with the League of the South poses for his own movement:
The knee-jerk response of most Americans to secession is typically, “We’ve been there, done that, and it didn’t work out very well.” Secession always brings to mind images of the Civil War, slavery, racism, violence, and preservation of the Southern way of life. Secession is often equated with Southern, redneck, Christian fundamentalist racism. Anyone who is a secessionist is considered a likely racist, but a Southern secessionist is a racist a priori. Since the LOS is a Southern secessionist group, it’s hardly surprising that there is a widespread perception that it is racist.
To achieve its twofold objectives of Vermont independence and the peaceful dissolution of the American Empire, SVR needs all the help it can get from other independence movements. But so long as the albatross of racism hangs around its neck, the LOS can never be a truly effective partner for SVR. SVR, on the other hand, risks being tainted by the scourge of racism simply by associating with the LOS.
And offers this assessment of the state of race relations in America vis-a-vis the Empire:
Starting with the election of President Richard Nixon in 1968 and continuing through the 2000 election of George W. Bush, racism, particularly in the South, did pay for the Republican Party. Its so called Southern strategy was thoroughly grounded in racism. But things began to change when President Bush named Colin Powell and then Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State. This sent a very clear signal to white racists everywhere that racism was no longer part of the national agenda. When Bill Clinton tried to play the racial card against Barack Obama in South Carolina and elsewhere, he soon learned the hard way, that racism doesn’t pay anymore. White South Carolina Democrats got the message and voted for Obama.
When Bush II was elected in 2000, the favorite scapegoats of many white, conservative Southerners were blacks, gays, lesbians, abortionists, and so-called secular humanists. Tolerance was not the name of the game. But eight years of Bush II have convinced many Southerners that the real enemy of the South is the corrupt, unsustainable, ungovernable, unfixable American Empire. The white, conservative social agenda has been trumped by the Empire.
To bring down the Empire peacefully will require the support of all Southerners, not just like-thinking, white Southerners. The vision of a free and independent South can never become a reality unless all Southerners participate. Even the hint of racism has the potential to derail the entire independence movement.
Starting with the election of President Richard Nixon in 1968 and continuing through the 2000 election of George W. Bush, racism, particularly in the South, did pay for the Republican Party. Its so called Southern strategy was thoroughly grounded in racism. But things began to change when President Bush named Colin Powell and then Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State. This sent a very clear signal to white racists everywhere that racism was no longer part of the national agenda. When Bill Clinton tried to play the racial card against Barack Obama in South Carolina and elsewhere, he soon learned the hard way, that racism doesn’t pay anymore. White South Carolina Democrats got the message and voted for Obama.
When Bush II was elected in 2000, the favorite scapegoats of many white, conservative Southerners were blacks, gays, lesbians, abortionists, and so-called secular humanists. Tolerance was not the name of the game. But eight years of Bush II have convinced many Southerners that the real enemy of the South is the corrupt, unsustainable, ungovernable, unfixable American Empire. The white, conservative social agenda has been trumped by the Empire.
To bring down the Empire peacefully will require the support of all Southerners, not just like-thinking, white Southerners. The vision of a free and independent South can never become a reality unless all Southerners participate. Even the hint of racism has the potential to derail the entire independence movement.
The American South is as culturally and ethnically diverse as other regions. It has a large black population, a rapidly growing Hispanic population, and its metropolitan areas exhibit the same cosmopolitanism common to big cities in general. The South also has plenty of transplanted Northerners with “liberal” social or political views. This situation likely make a unified Southern secession under neo-confederate ideology or symbolism unlikely. A more viable approach would be to dissolve the southern states into regional federations of communities organized along cultural, ideological, political, economic, racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic or sexual lines. Naylor continues with some suggestions of his own:
1. Renounce Racism
The leaders of the League should draft a statement which takes the form of the unconditional denunciation of all forms of racism. This statement should be presented to LOS members at their next convention for ratification.
A problem here is defining “racism” in the first place. As anti-racism has become more and more powerful, “racism” continues to be defined in ever more extravagant and implausible ways. Is merely opposing affirmative action “racist”? Is opposing a completely open borders immigation policy “racist”? Is refusing to take the Al Sharpton line on controversial court cases like that of the Jena 6 “racist”? Once again, the enemies of secession or decentralism will be never placated no matter how “anti-racist” a particular secession movement may be.
Perhaps a more direct approach would be for the League to issue a statement indicating precisely what kind of racial policies they would prefer an independent South to have. Do they wish to keep present day antidiscrimination laws or even affirmative action? Do they favor slavery reparations? Or do they wish to reinstate slavery or Jim Crow? Do they favor a regime of meritocratic libertarian individualism? Do they favor a regime that is race neutral in the political and legal sense but recognizes the right of private self-segregation?
2. Recruit Black Members
LOS leaders should embark on a strategy to recruit African American members into the LOS. This will be a tough sell, because Southern blacks will be understandably suspicious of the motives of a formerly lily-white secession organization. It will most likely be necessary to offer scholarships or discounted memberships to attract blacks. The importance of this step cannot possibly be overemphasized.
Bad idea. Most blacks who are politically motivated prefer to have their own organizations for themselves. If even the most fanatically anti-racist leftist groups are constantly lamenting the lack of interest in their movement by racial minorities, then it’s unlikely a Southern secessionist movement will do any better. Blacks will regard such efforts as patronizing acts of pandering. Blacks who actually accepted such offers would feel like tokens. Others, black, white, left and right, would see such efforts as groveling on the part of the League, creating a sense of smug satisfaction on the part of the likes of the SPLC.
A better idea would be for the League to simply state its preferred racial policies, in detail, and then if this is shown to be incompatible with the interests of others in the South (blacks, Hispanics, liberals, secularists, gays, et.al.) starting seeking out dialogue with organizations that actually represent these culturally incompatible groups for the purpose of achieving mutual and equitable separation. The League has a variety of positions it could take. They could position themselves as “white nationalists” along the lines of Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance and explicitly advocate decentralization or voluntary self-segregation along racial lines. They could be “southern nationalists” advocating independence for the entire South with a decentralized governmental system along the lines of the Swiss cantons as a means of accommodating the cultural and racial differences of the people of the South. They could be Christian conservatives along the lines of the Christian Exodus Project favoring non-racial but socially and politically conservative government for the Southern states after achieving independence. Again, I think this latter approach will work only if some means of accommodating non-Christians or non-conservatives is established (for instance, making the large metro areas into independent “liberal” city-states a la Monaco or Singapore).
3. Black Speakers
One way to attract black members is to invite black speakers to participate in local LOS meetings as well as the annual convention. A wide variety of black speakers should be considered. For example, Professor Walter Williams of George Mason University is a black, conservative economist who favors secession. One might also invite left-wing, black political leaders who oppose secession.
Why not invite black nationalists who also support decentralization, secession or separatism. For instance, why invite representatives of the Nation of Islam, New Black Panthers, Pan-African International Movement, All-African Peoples’ Revolutionary Party, Peoples’ Democratic Uhuru Movement, or the Republic of New Afrika? How about inviting similar tendencies from the American Indian Movement, Aztlan Nation or decentralists from the Left?
4. Civil War
Having attended two of the LOS annual conventions, I am not sure that all LOS members realize that the Civil War ended in 1865. Much of the literature on sale at LOS conventions highlights Confederate symbolism, the flag in particular. Whether justifiably or not, most Southern blacks view the Confederate flag as an overt racist symbol aimed at rubbing salt in their 400-year wounds. If the LOS wants to be an effective secession organization, then the Confederate flag has got to go! And in a similar vein, nothing enrages Southern blacks more than the singing of “Dixie.”
Bad idea. Every group has the right to recognize and appreciate its history and heritage and I suspect this is a non-negotiable issue for a group like the League. Also, Civil War revisionism is important to the advancement of the secessionist cause in the intellectual arena, e.g., Tom DiLorenzo’s debunking of many of the Lincoln myths.
5. Southern Unity
Ironically, to achieve our common objective of disuniting the states of America, I am calling for Southern unity. And I am proposing that there is no organization better qualified to lead the way than the League of the South.
In the divisive 1860s the Confederate states tried unsuccessfully to lead our nation into disunion. After military defeat, occupation, and Reconstruction, they were dragged kicking and screaming back into the Union. I believe that it is high time the South and the rest of the nation reconsidered dissolution. The League of the South is in a unique position to help lead the South out of the Union and the nation into disunion.
May God bless the untied states of America.
Of course.
This brings us to an issue that will eventually have to be addressed if any movement to dissolve the U.S. empire is to be viable. The dissolution of the empire will necessarily have to include some kind of settlement to America’s historic racial divide. Many minorities have gotten used to looking to the federal government as the protector of civil rights, and they’re not going to give that up without compensation. Yet, minority support is essential to dissolving the empire, giving their prominence among the ranks of the lower socio-economic levels that would out of necessity be a primary class basis of an anti-empire movement. This is why I’m inclined towards the proposals outlined by the Americans for Self-Determination:
http://attackthesystem.com/americans-for-self-determination/
The jist of the ASD Plan is that reparations would be used for the cultivation and economic development of politically autonomous black states in exchange for the abolition of compensatory preferences like affirmative action and restoration of the right of private discrimination along ethnic or racial lines. I would add to this legal amnesty for the huge numbers of blacks currently being held in American penal institutions. The sum total of these ideas amounts to a position on race relations far more “liberal” than what most mainstream liberals and even many radical leftists advocate. Blacks gain political and cultural sovereignty, economic reparations and a chance for economic self-determination and self-sufficiency, and, I would add, legal amnesty. Meanwhile, the reverse discrimination of compensatory preferences would be eliminated and those whites who prefer a racially or ethnically homogenous environment for themselves would be able to obtain it.
Rest assured, conventional “liberals” and professional “anti-racists” will oppose such a plan. Their ambition is a totalitarian humanist multicultural state, not self-determination for peoples’. They are our enemies in a battle to the death.
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1. Direct Democracy Models:-----------
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1) Virtual Cantons.
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0) "Third Ways" Family Models:-----
: Some 20th Century's misssed efforts.
"Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies - And Why They Disappeared" Allan Carlson: Oct15,07 : http://tinyurl.com/4rg3dt
Amazon.com: "" Editorial Reviews
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Freewheeling capitalism or collectivist communism: when it came to political-economic systems, did the twentieth century present any other choice? Does our century? In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers from Bulgaria to Great Britain created economic systems during the twentieth century that were by intent neither capitalist nor communist. Unlike fascists, these seekers were committed to democracy and pluralism. Unlike liberal capitalists, they refused to treat human labor and relationships as commodities like any other. And unlike communists, they strongly defended private property and the dignity of persons and families. Instead, the builders of these alternative economic systems wanted to protect and renew the “natural” communities of family, village, neighborhood, and parish. They treasured rural culture and family farming and defended traditional sex roles and vital home economies.
Carlson’s book takes a fresh look at distributism, the controversial economic project of Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton which focused on broad property ownership and small-scale production; recovers the forgotten thought of Alexander Chayanov, a Russian economist who put forth a theory of “the natural family economy”; discusses the remarkable “third way” policies of peasant-led governments in post–World War I Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania; recounts the dramatic and largely unknown effort by Swedish housewives to defend their homes against radical feminism; relates the iconoclastic ideas of economic historian Karl Polanyi, including his concepts of “the economy without markets” and “the great transformation”; and praises the efforts by European Christian Democrats to build a moral economy on the concept of homo religious—“religious man.”
Finally, Carlson’s work explains why these efforts—at times rich in hope and prospects—ultimately failed, often with tragic results. The tale inspires wistful regret over lost opportunities that, if seized, might have spared tens of millions of lives and forestalled or avoided the blights of fascism, Stalinism, socialism, and the advent of the servile state. And yet the book closes with hope, enunciating a set of principles that could be used today for invigorating a “family way” economy compatible with an authentic, healthy, and humane culture of enterprise.
About the Author
Allan C. Carlson is president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society and international secretary of the World Congress of Families. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the National Commission on Children, on which he served until 1993. Over the last ten years he has advised various congressional leaders and presidential candidates on how to craft family-friendly policies and legislation. ""
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1) "Virtual Cantons" Model:--------
'Virtual Cantons: A New Path to Freedom?' Roderick T. Long; This article was published in the Autumn 1993 issue of Formulations, formerly a publication of the Free Nation Foundation, now published by the Libertarian Nation Foundation: Post Jun26,08 http://libertariannation.org/a/f11l1.html or http://tinyurl.com/6jpof3
: "" Outline
The Problem of Structure
Decentralize!
Housetrailers and Empty Landscapes
The Case of Iceland
Virtual Cantons
Two Functions of Virtual Cantons
National Government
The Problem of Structure
What would the constitution of a free nation look like? In trying to answer that question we immediately think in terms of a Bill of Rights, restrictions on governmental power, and so forth. And any constitution worth having would certainly include those things. But if a constitution is to be more than a wish list, it must also specify the political structure necessary to ensure that these freedoms are not eroded or ignored. "
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2) 1. The Green Book:--------------
' The Green Book, Part One: The Solution of the Problem of Democracy:
"The Authority of the People" ' Posted Jun22,08 http://tinyurl.com/4ahqe5
* The Instrument of Governing
* Parliaments
* The Party
* Class
* Plebiscites
* Popular Conferences & People's Committees
* The Law of Society
* Who Supervises the Conduct of Society?
* How Can Society Redirect its Course When Deviations From its Laws Occur?
* The Press
THE INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT
The instrument of government is the prime political problem confronting human communities (The problem of the instrument of government entails questions of the following kind. What form should the exercise of authority assume? How ought societies to organize themselves politically in the modern world?)
Even conflict within the family is often the result of the failure to resolve this problem of authority. It has clearly become more serious with the emergence of modern societies.
People today face this persistent question in new and pressing ways. Communities are exposed to the risks of uncertainty, and suffer the grave consequences of wrong answers. Yet none has succeeded in answering it conclusively and democratically. THE GREEN BOOK presents the ultimate solution to the problem of the proper instrument of government.
All political systems in the world today are a product of the struggle for power between alternative instruments of government. This struggle may be peaceful or armed, as is evidenced among classes, sects, tribes, parties or individuals. The outcome is always the victory of a particular governing structure - be it that of an individual, group, party or class - and the defeat of the people; the defeat of genuine democracy.
Political struggle that results in the victory of a candidate with, for example, 51 per cent of the votes leads to a dictatorial governing body in the guise of a false democracy, since 49 per cent of the electorate is ruled by an instrument of government they did not vote for, but which has been imposed upon them. Such is dictatorship. Besides, this political conflict may produce a governing body that represents only a minority. For when votes are distributed among several candidates, though one polls more than any other, the sum of the votes received by those who received fewer votes might well constitute an overwhelming majority. However, the candidate with fewer votes wins and his success is regarded as legitimate and democratic! In actual fact, dictatorship is established under the cover of false democracy. This is the reality of the political systems prevailing in the world today. They are dictatorial systems and it is evident that they falsify genuine democracy. " ... ...
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'International Green Charter: Human Rights for the Third Millennium' IGC Movement: http://www.mathaba.net/gci/docs/zip/
: Inspired by the Proclamation of the Great Green Charter for Human Rights on 12th June, 1988, the first Human Rights Charter to be issued by the people gathered in popular congresses, signalling the end of the era of the republics and the dawn of the era of the masses, as well as a new advancement in the definition of human rights;
Led by the Green Book , guide of humanity for the total deliverance from the power of individuals, classes, clans, tribes or parties, and the path towards the establishment of a society for all (the Jamahiriya) where all human beings are free and equal in the exercise of power and in the possession of wealth and arms;
Convinced that the rights of Man, vicegerent of God on earth, cannot be the gift of a person nor exist in societies where exploitation and tyranny are practised, and can only be achieved by the victory of the popular masses over their oppressors and the disappearance of regimes which annihilate freedom;
that the establishment of the power of the popular masses will consolidate their existence on earth, when the sovereignty of the people will be exercised directly through legislative popular congresses and executive people's committees;
that human rights cannot be guaranteed in a world where there exist governors and governed, masters and slaves, rich and poor;
Aware that human misery cannot disappear, nor human rights be affirmed, except by building a world where the people hold the power, the wealth and the arms; a world where governments and armies will disappear, and where communities, peoples and nations will be rid of all danger of war, a world of peace, respect, agreement and co-operation;
On the basis of the above,
the Green Charter International was formed to link men and women around the world who wish to achieve, promote and defend the true Human Rights and freedoms of this new age, the era of the masses, which were proclaimed by the free people, gathered in popular congresses in the Great Green Charter of Human Rights as the following:
1. Democracy is the power of the people, not only the expression of the people. We declare that power belongs to the people. It is exercised directly, without intermediary or representatives in the popular congresses and the people's committees. TOP
2. We consider the life of the individual sacred and protect it. We forbid its alienation. " ... ...
" 3. We are, in times of peace, free in all our movements and in the choice of our residence. TOP
4. Citizenship is a sacred right. Nobody can be deprived of it or have it removed. TOP
5. We forbid clandestine action and recourse to force in all its forms, violence, terrorism and sabotage. " ... ...
" 6. We are free to form unions, trade unions and leagues to defend our professional interests. TOP
7. We are free in our private acts and our personal relations. " ... ...
" 8. We consider the life of the human being to be sacred and protect it. " ...
" . The Jamahiriya guarantees the right to plead and the independence of the judicial system. Each of its members is entitled to a fair and complete trial. TOP
10. Our judgments are based on sacred law, religion or custom, the terms of which are stable, unchangeable and for which there can be no substitute. " ... ...
" 11. The Jamahiriya guarantees the right to work. " ... ...
" 12. We are liberated from any feudalism. The land is nobody's property. " ...
" 13. We are free from any rent. A house belongs to the person who lives in it. It enjoys a sacred immunity in respect of rights of neighbourhood: "your close neighbours or distant neighbours". The residence cannot be used to harm society. TOP
14. The Jamahiriya is united. It guarantees everyone a worthy and prosperous life and a developed state of health, so as to achieve a society of healthy people. It guarantees protection of childhood, motherhood, old age and of invalids. The Jamahiriya is the guardian of all those who do not have a guardian. TOP
15. Education and knowledge are natural rights for everyone. Any individual has the right to choose the education and the knowledge which suits them, without imposed constraint or orientation. TOP
16. The Jamahiriya is the society of goodness and of noble values. It considers ideals and human principles sacred. " ... ...
" 17. We affirm the right of each person to profit from the benefits, the advantages, the values and the principles which are obtained by the harmony, cohesion, union, affinity and the affection of the family, the tribe, the nation and humanity. To this end, we work to establish the natural national entity of our nation and support all those who fight to achieve this aim. We reject any segregation between men due to their colour, their race, their religion or their culture. TOP
18. We protect liberty. We defend it everywhere in the world. " ... ...
" 19. The Jamahiriya is a society of splendour and fulfilment. It guarantees each person the right of thought, creation and innovation. " ... ...
" 20. We affirm the sacred right to be born into a coherent family, where motherhood, fatherhood and brotherhood prevail. " ... ...
" 21. We are, men or women, equal in everything which is human. " ... ...
" 22. We consider servants as the slaves of modern times, enslaved by their masters. " ... ...
" 23. We are convinced that peace between nations can guarantee them prosperity, abundance and harmony. " ... ...
" 24. We call for the suppression of nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons and any other means of massive extermination and destruction. " ... ...
" 25. We undertake to protect our society and political system based on popular power. " ... ...
" 26. We commit ourselves to the bases of this charter. " ... ...
" 27. We offer the world The Green Book, the guide and path of emancipation for the acquisition of liberty. We announce to the popular masses the advent of a new age, when corrupt regimes will be abolished and from which any trace of tyranny and exploitation will be removed.
If you would like to live in a world where the above principles prevail, please support or join the Green Charter Movement so that we can all 'Meet and Talk, Helping All Become Aware' (Mathaba) to promote, achieve and defend our human rights and freedoms in this new age, the era of the masses.
Click here to join the Mathaba Green Charter Forums - demand your rights for the 3rd Millennium!
Note that the GCM Forums are only visible after you have registered and logged in. ""
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3) 'Syndicalism' Wikipedia: Jun24,08: http://tinyurl.com/3rv6ur
: "" Syndicalism refers to a set of ideas, movements, and tendencies which share the avowed aim of transforming capitalist society through action by the working class on the industrial front. For syndicalists, labor unions are the potential means both of overcoming capitalism and of running society in the interests of the majority. Industry and government in a syndicalist society would be run by labour union federations.
Contents
* 1 Introduction
* 2 Prominent syndicalists
o 2.1 French syndicalists
o 2.2 Scottish syndicalists
o 2.3 Welsh syndicalists
o 2.4 German syndicalists
o 2.5 Italian syndicalists
o 2.6 Spanish syndicalists
o 2.7 American syndicalists
o 2.8 Swedish syndicalists
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 Bibliography
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This emphasis on industrial organization was a distinguishing feature of syndicalism when it began to be identified as a distinct current at the beginning of the twentieth century. Most socialist organisations of that period emphasised the importance of political action through party organizations as a means of bringing about socialism. Although all syndicalists emphasize industrial organization, not all reject political action altogether. For example, De Leonists and some other Industrial Unionists advocate parallel organisation both politically and industrially.
Syndicalisme is a French word meaning "trade unionism". This milder version of syndicalism was overshadowed by revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism in the early 20th century, which was most powerful in Spain, but also appeared in other parts of the world, as in the U.S.-centered Industrial Workers of the World.
In a model syndicalist community, the local syndicate communicates with other syndicates through the Bourse de Travail (labour exchange), which manages and transfers commodities.
Syndicalism is one of the three most common ideologies of egalitarian, pre-managed economic and labour structure, together with socialism and communism. It states, on an ethical basis, that all participants in an organized trade internally share equal ownership of its production and therefore deserve equal earnings and benefits within that trade, regardless of position or duty. By contrast, socialism emphasises distributing output among trades as required by each trade, not necessarily considering how trades organize internally. Syndicalism is compatible with privatism, unlike communism. Communism rejects government-sanctioned private ownership and private earnings in favor of making all property legally public, and therefore directly and solely managed by the people themselves. In Syndicalism, unions are the basis for the future society rather than simply means of attaining that society.
Syndicalists often form alliances with other workers' movements, including socialism, communism, and anarchism. "
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4) Mutualism:
"Studies in Mutualist Political Economy" Kevin Carson: Mar1,07: http://tinyurl.com/4rg59v
Amazon.com: "" Editorial Reviews: Product Description:
This book is an attempt to revive individualist anarchist political economy, to incorporate the useful developments of the last hundred years, and to make it relevant to the problems of the twenty-first century. We hope this work will go at least part of the way to providing a new theoretical and practical foundation for free market socialist economics. ""
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: "" INTRODUCTION
Mutualism, as a variety of anarchism, goes back to P.J. Proudhon in France and Josiah Warren in the U.S. It favors, to the extent possible, an evolutionary approach to creating a new society. It emphasizes the importance of peaceful activity in building alternative social institutions within the existing society, and strengthening those institutions until they finally replace the existing statist system. As Paul Goodman put it, "A free society cannot be the substitution of a 'new order' for the old order; it is the extension of spheres of free action until they make up most of the social life."
Other anarchist subgroups, and the libertarian left generally, share these ideas to some extent. Whether known as "dual power" or "social counterpower," or "counter-economics," alternative social institutions are part of our common vision. But they are especially central to mutualists' evolutionary understanding.
Mutualists belong to a non-collectivist segment of anarchists. Although we favor democratic control when collective action is required by the nature of production and other cooperative endeavors, we do not favor collectivism as an ideal in itself. We are not opposed to money or exchange. We believe in private property, so long as it is based on personal occupancy and use. We favor a society in which all relationships and transactions are non-coercive, and based on voluntary cooperation, free exchange, or mutual aid. The "market," in the sense of exchanges of labor between producers, is a profoundly humanizing and liberating concept. What we oppose is the conventional understanding of markets, as the idea has been coopted and corrupted by state capitalism.
Our ultimate vision is of a society in which the economy is organized around free market exchange between producers, and production is carried out mainly by self-employed artisans and farmers, small producers' cooperatives, worker-controlled large enterprises, and consumers' cooperatives. To the extent that wage labor still exists (which is likely, if we do not coercively suppress it), the removal of statist privileges will result in the worker's natural wage, as Benjamin Tucker put it, being his full product.
Because of our fondness for free markets, mutualists sometimes fall afoul of those who have an aesthetic affinity for collectivism, or those for whom "petty bourgeois" is a swear word. But it is our petty bourgeois tendencies that put us in the mainstream of the American populist/radical tradition, and make us relevant to the needs of average working Americans. Most people distrust the bureaucratic organizations that control their communities and working lives, and want more control over the decisions that affect them. They are open to the possibility of decentralist, bottom-up alternatives to the present system. But they do not want an America remade in the image of orthodox, CNT-style syndicalism.
Mutualism is not "reformist," as that term is used pejoratively by more militant anarchists. Nor is it necessarily pacifistic, although many mutualists are indeed pacifists. The proper definition of reformism should hinge, not on the means we use to build a new society or on the speed with which we move, but on the nature of our final goal. A person who is satisfied with a kinder, gentler version of capitalism or statism, that is still recognizable as state capitalism, is a reformist. A person who seeks to eliminate state capitalism and replace it with something entirely different, no matter how gradually, is not a reformist.
"Peaceful action" simply means not deliberately provoking the state to repression, but rather doing whatever is possible (in the words of the Wobbly slogan) to "build the structure of the new society within the shell of the old" before we try to break the shell. There is nothing wrong with resisting the state if it tries, through repression, to reverse our progress in building the institutions of the new society. But revolutionary action should meet two criteria: 1) it should have strong popular support; and 2) it should not take place until we have reached the point where peaceful construction of the new society has reached its limits within existing society. ""
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'Notes on Organization Theory: An Individualist Anarchist Perspective': http://www.mutualist.org/id114.html
MANUSCRIPT CHAPTERS
Chapter One: A Critical Survey of Orthodox Views on Economy of Scale
Chapter Two: Empirical Evidence on Economy of Scale
Chapter Three: State Policies Promoting Excessive Corporate Size and Centralization
Chapter Four. Systemic Effects of State-Induced Economic Centralization and Large Organizational Size
Chapter Five: Knowledge and Information Problems in the Large Organization
Chapter Six: Agency and Incentive Problems in the Large Organization
Chapter Seven: Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth (the corporation as planned economy)
Chapter Eight: Managerialism, Irrationality and Authoritarianism
Appendix 8A: Blaming Workers for the Results of Mismanagement
Chapter Nine: Special Agency Problems of Labor (Internal Crisis Tendencies of the Large Organization)
Chapter Ten: Attempts at Reform from Within
Chapter Eleven: The Abolition of Privilege
Chapter Twelve--The Cost Principle
Chapter Thirteen: The Dissolution of the State in Society
Chapter Fourteen--Decentralized Production Technology
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Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
Studies in the Anarchist Theory of Organizational Behavior (working outline)
A Mutualist FAQ
Austrian and Marxist Theories of Monopoly Capital: A Mutualist Synthesis
Expanded Libertarian Alliance version (pdf file)
A "Political" Program For Anarchists
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand
"Capitalism vs. Free Enterprise"--Keith Preston's review of "Iron Fist"
Liberalism and Social Control: The New Class' Will to Power
Libertarian Property and Privatization
Letter to Editor on Publick Skools
The Right to Self-Treatment
Critiques of Neoconservatism
Reparations: Cui Bono?
State Sovereignty in the American Federal System: A Constitutional Defense
The Failure of Dual Sovereignty: The British Empire and the United States
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CONTENTS
Classics of Anarchism, Mutualism, Decentralism
More Recent Works on Decentralism and Bottom-Up Social Organization
Getting from Here to There
Issues of Economic Centralism, Efficiency and Economy of Scale
Primitive Accumulation, Statist Origins of Capitalism
Modern State Capitalism
New Class Elitism/Social Engineering
Globalization
Police State (and other aspects of Neoliberal revolution since 1970)
Information Control and the Cultural Apparatus
Resistance
Classics of Anarchism, Mutualism and Decentralism
Gilbert Keith Chesterton. "The Meaning of Merry England" Chapter VIII of A Short History of England (1917) http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/books/history.txt
Charles A. Dana. "Proudhon and His Bank of the People" (New York: Benj. J. Tucker, Publisher 1896). http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/proudhon/dana.html
Voltairine de Cleyre. "Anarchism and American Traditions" http://www.infoshop.org/texts/voltairine_traditions.html
P. E. De Puydt. Panarchy. Translated from French by John Zube, Adrian Falk (first published in Revue Trimestrielle, Brussels, 1860) http://www.panarchy.org/depuydt/1860.eng.html
Clifford Hugh Douglas. Social Credit (1924, 1933) http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/socialcredit/socialcredit.htm
Henry George. Progress and Poverty (1879). Abridged online text at http://www.henrygeorge.org/pplink.htm
George. Social Problems (1883). http://schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/spcont.html
Silvio Gesell. The Natural Economic Order translated by Philip Pye M.A. http://www.systemfehler.de/en/neo/index.htm
William Godwin. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice (1793) http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/het/godwin/pj.htm
William P. Greene. Mutual Banking (New York: Gordon Press, 1849, 1974). http://www.the-portal.org/mutual_banking.htm
Thomas Hodgskin. Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, 1969 [1825]).http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/econ/labdef.htm
Hodgskin. Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)
Pyotr Kropotkin. "Anarchism" Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910 http://www.blackcrayon.com/page.jsp/library/britt1910.html
Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bread 1st edition (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906) http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/conquest/toc.html
Kropotkin. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909). http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/mutaidcontents.html
Kropotkin. The State: Its Historic Role (London: Freedom Press, 1946). http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/state/state_toc.html
James J. Martin. "Bibliographical Essay" (on individualist anarchism)
http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/matsbibl.shtml
Martin. Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908. [the single best general source on American individualist anarchism]
Chapter 5 online http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/matschap5.html
Chapter 6 online http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/matschap6.html
Jeff Riggenbach. "James J. Martin, 1916-2004" May 18, 2004
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/riggenbach.php?articleid=2593
Albert J. Nock. Our Enemy the State (1935). http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html
Franz Oppenheimer. The State (New York: Free Life Editions, 1975) http://www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/st/state0.htm
Oppenheimer. "A Post Mortem on Cabridge Economics" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 2:3 (1942/43); 2:4 (1943); 3:1 (1944) http://www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/fo43a.htm
Eduard Heimann. "Franz Oppeheimer's Economic Ideas" Social Research (New York) 11:1 (February 1944) pp. 27-39. http://www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/eh44a.htm
Thomas Paine. Agrarian Justice (1797) http://geolib.pair.com/essays/paine.tom/agjst.html
Lucy Parsons. "The Principles of Anarchism" http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/writings/principles_of_anarchism.html
P. J. Proudhon. The Principle of Federation. Translated by Richard Vernon (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1979 [1863]).
Proudhon. General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by John Beverly Robinson (New York: Haskell House Publishers, Ltd., 1923, 1969 [1851])
Proudhon. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ProMise.html
Proudhon. What is Property? (1840-42)http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/proudhon/ProudhonCW.html
J. B. Robertson. The Economics of Liberty. (Mineapolis: Herman Kuehn, 1916).
Thomas Skidmore. The Rights of Man to Property (New York, 1829) http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/doct/829RMP.html
The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties (London: Rodwell and Martin, New-Bond Street, 1821) http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/source%20and%20remedy.pdf
Introduction by Tom Walker of the Work Less Party http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/srintro.pdf
Herbert Spencer. "The Right to Ignore the State." Chapter XIX of the 1851 edition of Social Statics, dropped from later editions.
Lysander Spooner. Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking (Worcester, Mass.: M. D. Phillips, 1843). http://www.lysanderspooner.org/constitutionallaw.htm
Spooner. An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852) http://www.lawcasella.com/spooner/TrialByJury.htm
Spooner. Natural Law http://www.econgov.org/articles/naturallaw.shtml
Spooner. A New System of Paper Currency (Boston: Stacy & Richardson, 1861). http://www.lysanderspooner.org/papercurrency.htm
Spooner. Poverty: Its Illegal Causes, and Legal Cure. Part I (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846). http://www.lysanderspooner.org/Poverty.htm
Max Stirner. The Ego and His Own. A Reproduction of the First English Edition. Translated from the German by Steven T. Byington. (New York: BENJ. R. TUCKER, Publisher, 1907).
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/stirner/theego0.html
Clarence Swartz. What is Mutualism? (Vanguard Press: April 1927) [excerpt] http://www.daft.com/~rab/liberty/history/mutualism.html
Henry David Thoreau. "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government)" 1849
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/thoreau1.html
Benjamin Tucker. Individual Liberty http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker.html [a radically streamlined version of Instead of a Book]
Tucker. "The Life of Benjamin Tucker" http://www.zetetics.com/mac/articles/tuckerauto1.html
Tucker. Instead of a Book: By a Man Too Busy to Write One. (New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1897 1969). [rich, massive compilation of Tucker's writings from the journal Liberty.]
Josiah Warren. Equitable Commerce. Revision of 1846 edition (New York: Burt Franklin, 1852).
Victor S. Yarros. "The Course of Social Reform and Political Psychology" American Journal of Sociology Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 77-89. http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992233/99p0084v/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3
Yarros. "The Labor Question and the Social Problem" American Journal of Sociology Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 768-90. http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992190/99p0335t/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3
Yarros "Social Science and 'What Labor Wants'" American Journal of Sociology Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 308-322. http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992247/99p03982/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3
Yarros. "Taxation and the Philosophy of the State" American Journal of Sociology Vol. 4 No. 6, pp. 758-64. http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992160/99p0365p/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3
Yarros. "The Trust Problem Restudied" American Journal of Sociology Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 58-74. http://www.jstor.org/view/00029602/dm992179/99p0179z/0?config=demo&frame=noframe&userID=4460b6ab@demo/048dd553400050cc8eb0&dpi=3
The Levellers
Christopher Hill. "Gerard Winstanley: 17th Century Communist at Kingston" Kingston University, January 24, 1996. http://www.kingston.ac.uk/cusp/Lectures/Hill.htm
The Levellers Vindicated (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/case.htm
John Lilburne et al. An Agreement of the Free People of England (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/leveller.ht
Lilburne. England's New Chains Discovered (1648)
http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/newchai1.htm Part II (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/newchai2.htm
Cornet William Thompson. England's Standard Advanced (1649)
http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/thompson.htm
"The True Levellers Standard Advanced: Or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men" (1649)
http://www.diggers.org/diggers/tlsa.htm
Gerard Winstanley. "A Declaration from the Poor oppressed People OF ENGLAND" (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/poor.htm
Winstanley. "A Letter to the Lord Fairfax and His Councell of War" (1649) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/letter.htm
Winstanley. "A New Yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie" (1650) http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/gift.htm
More Recent Works on Decentralism and Bottom-Up Social Organization
Herbert Agar and Alan Tate, eds. Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 1936, 1999). [a companion book to I'll Take My Stand]
Todd Altman. "The Democratic Freedom Caucus: The Democratic Party's Last Hope?" The Progress Report, December 31, 2003 http://www.progress.org/2003/altman04.htm
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Beato. The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (University of Michigan Press, 2003).
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Ward. "Temporary Autonomous Zones" Freedom Spring 1997 http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/ra_forum/en/people/ward_colin/taz.html
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Issues of Economic Centralism, Efficiency and Economy of Scale
Walter Adams and James W. Brock. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor and Government in the American Economy (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986).
Barry Stein. Size, Efficiency and Community Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Community Economic Development, 1974).
Primitive Accumulation, Statist Origins of Capitalism
Werner Bonefield. "The Permanence of Primitive Accumulation: Notes on Social Constitution"
http://rcci.net/globalizacion/2001/fg176.htm
Maurice Dobb. Studies in the Development of Capitalism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd, 1963).
Jim Goad. The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997). Especially Chapters 2 and 3.
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Hammonds. The Village Labourer (1760-1832) (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1913). http://www.chemengsoftware.com/huckin/villagelabourer.htm
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Gilbert E. Metcalf. "Fooled By the Shell Game" Boston Globe, March 1, 2004.
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Michael Perelman. "The Secret History of Primitive Accumulation and Classical Political Economy" from The Invention of Capitalism (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001), reprinted in The Commoner, September 2001.
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Standard Schaefer. "An Interview with Michael Hudson on How Privatization Sterilizes Culture" February 14/15, 2004
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Schaefer. "Russia: Reforming the Reformers" (an interview with Michael Hudson on Putin's Russia) February 27, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/schaefer02272004.html
E. P. Thompson. The Making of the English Working Class (New York: Vintage, 1963, 1966).
Modern State Capitalism
John Adams. "Senator Hatch Introduced Bill to Burn People's Eyes Out" June 18, 2003 http://www.jzip.org/jzip/archives/000573.html
Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy. Monopoly Capitalism: An Essay in the American Economic and Social Order. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966)
Hilaire Belloc. The Servile State (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1913, 1977).
David Callahan. "The Myth of the Populist Stock Market" Christian Science Monitor January 8, 2004 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p09s01-coop.htm
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Noam Chomsky. "Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality" Z Magazine November 1997
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Alexander Cockburn. "Understanding the World with Paul Sweezy" March 6/7, 2004
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G. William Domhoff. The Higher Circles. (New York: Vintage Books, 1970).
Domhoff. The Power Elite and the State (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990).
William M. Dugger. Corporate Hegemony (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989).
Yves Engler. "A Canadian Look at U.S. Healthcare"
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"Federal Toll Roads?" April 06, 2004
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Sam Francis. "Corporations Have No Souls" August 12, 2004 http://www.vdare.com/francis/corporations.htm
Robert Freeman. "Will the End of Oil Mean the End of America?" March 1, 2004 http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0301-12.htm
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John Kenneth Galbraith. The New Industrial State (New York: Signet, 1967).
Mark J. Green et al. The Closed Enterprise System. Nader Study Group Report on Antitrust Enforcement (New York: Grossman, 1972).
Daniel Gross. "Socialism, American Style: Why American CEOs covet a massive European-style social-welfare state" Slate Aug. 1, 2003 http://slate.msn.com/id/2086511/
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Nicholas Heidorn. "The Enduring Political Illusion of Farm Subsidies" The Independent August 18, 2004 http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1340
Edward S. Herman. Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
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David Horowitz, ed. Corporations and the Cold War. (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1969).
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Frank Kofsky. Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993).
Gabriel Kolko. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History 1900-1916 (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963).
William Lazonick. Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Lazonick. Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1990).
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Paul Mattick. "Economics of the War Economy" American Socialist April 1959
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Melman. The Permanent War Economy (Simon and Schuster, 1974).
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David Montgomery. The Fall of the House of Labor (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
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"The New Enclosures" Midnight Notes #10 (1990). Reprinted in The Commoner September 2001.
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Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. "Government Contractors Versus Real Business" October 6, 2004 http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1643
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Murray Rothbard. "The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device" in Barry N. Siegel, ed., Money in Crisis: The Federal Reserve, the Economy, and Monetary Reform. Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1984).
Murray Rothbard. "Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy" (1984) Reproduced at LewRockwell.Com (2005), with Afterword by Justin Raimondo http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html
Murray Rothbard and Ronald Radosh, eds. A New History of Leviathan: Essays on the Rise of the American Corporate State. (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972).
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Katherine Stone. "The Orignin of Job Structures in the Steel Industry," in Root & Branch, ed., The Rise of the Workers' Movements (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, Inc., ) pp. 123-157.
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Tim Swanson "Texas-Sized Tomfoolery" Mises.Org (September 9, 2003) http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1320 (how power deregulation really works).
Silja J.A. Talvi. "Cashing in on Cons: Undercover at the American Correctional Association’s 2005 Winter Conference" In These Times February 4, 2005 http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1924/
James Weinstein. The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968)
Sam Wells. "Power Elites in America: Oligopoly and Political Pull"
http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/monopoly.htm
William Appleman Williams. The Contours of American History (1961).
New Class Elitism/Social Engineering
Barton J. Bledstein. The Culture of Professionalism.
Bert Cochran. "Socialism, Power Elites and Bureaucracy"
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/cochran03.htm
Herbert Croly. The Promise of American Life (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1909,1989). [Since this book is the manifesto of corporate liberalism, it could just as easily have gone in the state capitalism section]
Cathy Cuthbert. "The Missing S Affair" January 26, 2000 http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/cuthbert5.html
Cuthbert. "The Rise of the American Empire" April 18, 2000 http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/cuthbert1.html
Michelle Bates Deakin. "Schoolhouse Rocked" Boston Globe March 21, 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/03/21/schoolhouse_rocked/
Frank Fischer. Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc., 1990).
John Taylor Gatto. "Against School" http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm
Gatto. "Confederacy of Dunces: The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling" Speech delivered at UT Austin http://www.spinninglobe.net/condunces.htm
Gatto. "Institutional Schooling Must Be Destroyed" http://www.spinninglobe.net/institsch.htm
Gatto. "A Map, a Mirror and a Wristwatch" http://www.spinninglobe.net/map.htm
Gatto. "Mudsill Theory, the Lancaster Amish, and Jaime Escalante" http://www.spinninglobe.net/mudsill.htm
Gatto. "Nine Assumptions of Schooling--and Twenty-one Facts the Institution Would Rather Not Discuss" http://www.spinninglobe.net/9assumptions.htm
Gatto. "The Psychopathic School" (from Dumbing Us Down) http://www.spinninglobe.net/psychosch.htm
Gatto. "The Public School Nightmare: why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?" http://www.dvschool.org/psngatto.htm
Gatto. "Radical Democracy and Our Future" http://www.spinninglobe.net/rademoc.htm
Gatto. "A Short Angry History of American Forced Schooling" Speech for Vermont Homeschooling Conference. http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm
Gatto. "Some Lessons From the Underground History of American Education" http://www.spinninglobe.net/lessons.htm
Gatto. "Some Thoughts on the National Socialization of Children" http://www.spinninglobe.net/natsockids.htm
Gatto. The Underground History of American Education. http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
Gatto. "We Need Less School, Not More" (from Dumbing Us Down) http://www.spinninglobe.net/lesschool.htm
Gatto. "What Really Matters"
Part 1. Natural Life Magazine #40 http://www.life.ca/nl/40/gatto.html
Part 2. Natural Life Magazine #41 http://www.life.ca/nl/41/gatto.html
Gatto. "Why Schools Don't Educate" Speech Jan. 31, 1990, on acceptance of NY Teacher of the Year award. http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html
Gatto. "The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher" (New Society Publishers, 1992) http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
Jim Henley. "When All the Time, There's This Great Plank in Your Own" (on New Class)
http://www.highclearing.com/archivesuo/week_2004_02_22.html#005088
"John Holt: Plowboy Interview" Mother Earth News July/August 1980 http://www.bloomington.in.us/~learn/Holt.htm
Roland Huntford. The New Totalitarians (New York: Stein and Day, 1971). [the wonderful Swedish system that NPR liberals love so much; they actually DID all the things Sidney and Beatrice dreamed of]
Christopher Lasch. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (New York: Norton, 1978, 1979).
Lasch. The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995).
Jesse Walker review ("The Expropriation of Everyday Life") http://www.libertysoft.com/liberty/reviews/53walker.html
Lasch. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics (New York: Norton, 1991).
Walter Lippmann. Public Opinion (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922).
John P. McCarthy. Hilaire Belloc, Edwardian Radical (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1970). [See chapter on his disputes with the Fabians]
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Virginia Postrel. "The Croly Ghost: Exorcising the specter haunting American politics" Reason December 1997 http://reason.com/9712/ed.vp.shtml
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. Trust Us, We're Experts! (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001).
Fred Reed. "Driving Down Unknown Roads" April 2, 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed30.html
Sheldon Richman. "Why the State took Control of 'Education': Government Schools Are Not There to Serve Children" http://www.sepschool.org/edlib/v1n4/lead.html
Llewellyn H. Rockwell. "The New Intellectuals" February 12, 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/new-intellectuals.html
Alan Singer. "An Encounter with Senator Charles Schumer" Counterpunch December 22, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/singer12222004.html
Joel Spring. Education and the Rise of the Corporate State (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972). [Rich source on corporate liberalism as an ideology, and on the managerial culture of "professionalism" and "expertise" that has befouled so many aspects of life]
Jesse Walker. "Mr. Showbiz Goes to Washington" Reason April 1, 2004
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Matt Welch. "New Jersey's Teen Matt Drudge" Online Journal Review, March 12, 2001. http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/Dahiller.htm [on Da Hiller, an underground student newspaper (see Links page)]
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H.G. Wells. The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution (1928)http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/hgwells/hg_cont.htm
Tom White. "School Architecture Gives the Game Away" July 6, 2004 http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white56.html
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. "Onward Christian Soldiers." The American Conservative March 29, 2004.
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_03_29/review.html
Globalization
Mark Almond. "The Price of People Power" The Guardian December 7, 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1367965,00.html
Jeff Ballinger. "Nike's Armies: How the Military Enforces Global Capitalism" Nonviolent Activist July-August 2000 http://www.warresisters.org/nva0700-1.htm
Nirit Ben-Ari with Bill Weinberg. "US-Sponsored Regime Change in Haiti" World War 3 Report
http://ww3report.com/haiti.html
William Blum. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995).
Chapter 52. "Iraq--1990-1991: Desert Holocaust" http://members.aol.com/bblum6/iraq2.htm
Chapter 53. "Afghanistan--1979-1992: America's Jihad" http://members.aol.com/bblum6/afghan.htm
Roger Burbach. "Argentina Fights Back: Facing Off with the IMF and Global Bankers" February 20/22, 2004. http://www.counterpunch.org/burbach02202004.html
Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC. "War is a Racket" http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
Laura Carlsen. "'Ugly Heads' and Blanket Condemnations: Protest and Populism in Latin America" October 9/10, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/carlsen10092004.html
Noam Chomsky. Deterring Democracy. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1991, 1992). http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/dd/dd-contents.html
Chomsky. World Orders Old and New. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
Chomsky. Year 501: The Conquest Continues (1993)
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/year/
John Patrick Diggins. "The -Ism That Failed" The American Prospect December 1, 2003.
Robert Dreyfuss. "The Thirty-Year Itch" Mother Jones March-April 2003.
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Madelaine Drohan. "Now They Tell Us: Privatization Is No Panacea" Globe and Mail Aug. 6, 2003 http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0806-08.htm
Freeman. "Sowing the Seeds of Corporatism in Iraq" November 14, 2004 http://freemanlc.blogspot.com/2004/11/sowing-seeds-of-corporatism-in-iraq.html
John T. Flynn. "The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor" Oct. 1945 http://www.antiwar.com/rep/flynn1.html
Stan Goff. "Debating a Neocon" November 10, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/goff11102004.html
Joe R. Golowka. "The American Empire and the Emergence of a Global Ruling Class" available on the Socio-Politics page of http://question-everything.mahost.org/
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Empire (Harvard University Press, 2001). [coalescence of core and periphery into one entity, with third-worldization and creeping authoritarianism in core and western standard of living for Third World elites]
Seymour Hersh. "The Coming Wars" The New Yorker January 24, 2005 http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
Nicholas Hildyard. "The Myth of the Minimalist State: Free Market Ambiguities" Corner House Briefing 05 (March 1998) http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/item.shtml?x=51960
Nicholas Hildyard. "Public Risk, Private Profit: The World Bank and the Private Sector" (July 1996)
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/item.shtml?x=52218
Nancy Holmstrom and Richard Smith. "The Necessity of Gangster Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation in Russia and China" Monthly Review February 2000
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Traci Hukill. "The New Southern Democrats" Alternet November 24, 2004 http://www.alternet.org/story/20590/
Samuel P. Huntington. "Political Development and the Decline of the American System of World Order" Daedalus 96 (Summer 1967). [admits that the postwar expansion of the USSR was relatively minor after it absorbed Eastern Europe; the central phenomenon since 1945 has been the expansion of the U.S. into the vacuum left by the British and French empires]
"Iraq's new patent law: A declaration of war against farmers" Against the Grain October 2004 http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6
Martin Khor Kok Peng. The Uruguay Round and Third World Sovereignty (Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network, 1990).
Naomi Klein. "A Deadly Franchise" The Guardian Aug. 28, 2003. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1030572,00.html
Gabriel Kolko. Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy 1945-1980 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988).
Kolko. The Roots of American Foreign Policy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969).
David C. Korten. When Corporations Rule the World. (West Hartford and San Francisco: Kumarian Press, Inc./Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1995).
William Kristol and Robert Kagan. "Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy" Foreign Affairs (July/August 1996) http://www.ceip.org/people/kagfaff.htm
Karen Kwiatkowski. "Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way" LewRockwell.Com December 22, 2003 http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski56.html
Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz. "American Hegemony Without an Enemy" Foreign Policy 92 (Fall 1993). http://www.u.arizona.edu/~volgy/LayneSchwarzAmericanHegemony.html
Leonard Lewin. Report From Iron Mountain: A Satirical Indictment of RANDthink (November 1967)
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Jim Lobe. "U.S. Militarizing Latin America" October 7, 2004 http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe135.html
Lobe. "What a Tangled Web the Neocons Weave" December 23, 2003 http://www.antiwar.com/ips/lobe122303.html
Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, eds. The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996).
L. Marcus. "The Third Stage of Imperialism," in K.T. Fann and Donald C. Hodges, eds., Readings in U.S. Imperialism (Boston: Porter Sargent Publisher, 1971) [Third state characterized by movement of manufacturing process itself to Third World, coupled with massive state aid to infrastructure and other investment through such agencies as Bretton Woods institutions, and state aid to authoritarian regimes]
Richard K. Moore. Global Transformation (2004). http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/rkmGlblTrans.html
"The National Security Strategy of the United States of America" Sept. 2002 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/national/nss-020920.pdf
Cheryl Payer. The Debt Trap: The International Monetary Fund and the Third World (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974).
James Petras. "The Politics of Imperialism: Neoliberalism and Class Politics in Latin America" Counterpunch November 13, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/petras11132004.html
Chakravarthi Raghavan. Recolonization: GATT, the Uruguay Round & the Third World (Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network, 1990).
Justin Raimondo. "The Yushchenko Mythos: Don't believe the U.S. government's fairy tale about what's happening in Ukraine" Antiwar.Com November 29, 2004 http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4072
Thomas Riggins. "Threatening Democracy in Caracas" Political Affairs December 2002.
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/12/1/16/
William A. Robinson. "Storm Clouds over Latin America" FOCUS ON TRADE NUMBER 83, DECEMBER 2002 http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/stormclouds.htm
Saddam Hussein Sourcebook. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm
Standard Schaefer. "Chile's Failed Economic Laborotory: An Interview with Michael Hudson" Counterpunch October 20, 2003. http://www.counterpunch.org/schaefer10202003.html
Charles M. Sennott. "The Imperial Imperative" Boston Globe February 8, 2004.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/02/08/the_imperial_imperative/
Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter. "Shaping a New World Order: The Council on Foreign Relations' Blueprint for World Hegemony, 1939-1945," in Sklar, ed.
Arthur Silber. "I Accuse: To Those Who Pave the Way for the New Fascism" Light of Reason weblog, June 25-July 8, 2003. http://coldfury.com/reason/comments.php?id=P801_0_1_0
Holly Sklar, ed. Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management (Boston: South End Press, 1980).
Toni Solo. "Rumsfeld in Nicaragua" Counterpunch November 17, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/solo11172004.html
Jeffrey St. Clair. "Empire of the Locusts" March 27, 2004 http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair03272004.html
Robert B. Stinnett. Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor (Free Press, 2000).
Stinnett. "December 7, 1941: A Setup from the Beginning" December 7, 2000 http://www.independent.org/tii/news/001207Stinnett.html
Joseph R. Stromberg. "Experimental Economics, Indeed" January 6, 2004 http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1409
Stromberg. "Inventing Iraq--Yet Again?" May 12, 2004
http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/
Stromberg. "Kantians With Cruise Missiles: The Highest Stage of 'Liberal' Imperalism" December 23, 2003 http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s122303.html
Stromberg. "A Post-Modern Nimrod" (review of Thomas Barnett's The Pentagon's New Map) September 28, 2004 http://www.lewrockwell.com/stromberg/stromberg66.html
Matt Taibbi. "Oligarchs R Us" NY Press 16:45 http://www.nypress.com/16/45/news&columns/cage.cfm
Eric Toussaint. "Another World is Possible After All"
http://www.cadtm.org/article.php3?id_article=290
"Twilight of the Neocons?" The Whiskey Bar December 25, 2003 http://www.antiwar.com/orig/whiskey2.html
Jude Wanniski. "Looking Back: Saddam's Invasion of Kuwait" December 19, 2003 http://www.wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=3182
Janine R. Wedel. "Neocon 'Flex Players' Await Bush's Second Term" Pacific News Service, Nov 03, 2004 http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=e5ac0f6d9a7cd2c69902a62f4e950549
William Appleman Williams. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: Delta Books, 1959, 1962).
Police State and Other Aspects of Neoliberal Revolution Since 1970
Matthew Barganier. "Ready for Four More Years? They Certainly Are" February 2, 2004 http://www.antiwar.com/barganier/?articleid=1833
James Bovard. Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000)
Bovard. Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999)
Bovard. Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
Bonnie Bucqueroux. "When Cops Become Combat Troops" Salon May 2, 2000. http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/02/swat/index.html
Alexander Cockburn. "The Jackboot State: The War Came Home and We're Losing It" Counterpunch 10 May 2000, at http://www.counterpunch.org/jackboot.html
Alfonso Chardy. "Reagan Aides and the 'Secret' Government" Miami Herald 5 July 1987, at http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/the_new_world_order/scrtgovt.html
Michel Chossudovsky. "Coup d'Etat in America?" October 7, 2004 http://www.williambowles.info/spysrus/coup_detat.html
"Combat Arms Survey"
http://www.tpromo.com/gk/gov/combat1.htm
Brian Doherty. "Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name? How About Everything Else About You?" Reason January 13, 2004. http://www.reason.com/links/links011304.shtml
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse. "Captain America: Superhero of the Military-Industrial Complex" October 16, 2004 http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt10.html
Charles H. Featherstone. "Is It Happening Here?" September 22, 2004 http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/featherstone2.html
Featherstone. "Kick-Ass Conservatism" December 8, 2003 http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/featherstone1.html
Thomas Frank. "Red State America Against Itself" Adapted from the book: What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004). http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1551 (scroll down).
Larry Gambone. "The Neocons in a Nutshell (where they belong)"
Pt. 1 http://www.attackthesystem.com/neoconnutshell.html
Pt. 2 http://www.attackthesystem.com/neocons2&3.html
Ritt Goldstein. "Foundations are in Place for Martial Law in the U.S." Sydney Morning Herald July 27, 2002. Reprinted at http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/signs318.htm
Robert Goldstein. Political Repression in America: 1870 to the Present (Cambridge, New York: Schenkman Publishing Co', 1978).
David M. Gordon. Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Management Downsizing (New York: The Free Press, 1996).
Bertram Gross. Friendly Fascism (New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1980).
Edward Hasbrouck. "Total Travel Information Awareness: Travel Data and Privacy" (an analysis of CAPPS I and II. The Practical Nomad http://www.hasbrouck.org/articles/travelprivacy.html
Gene Healy. "Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front" Cato Policy Analysis No. 503 (December 17, 2003) http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-503es.html
Jim Henley. "A Brief History of the Future" Unqualified Offerings, December 15, 2002 http://www.highclearing.com/uoarchives/week_2002_12_15.html#004043
Sander Hicks. "Fearing FEMA" April 14, 2003.
http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc1611.html
Jacob G. Hornberger. "Augusto Pinochet and the Conservative Threat to America" Future of Freedom Foundation, January 12, 2005 http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501d.asp
Samuel P. Huntington, Michael J. Crozier, Joji Watanuki. The Crisis of Democracy. Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission: Triangle Paper 8 (New York: New York University Press, 1975).
Gary Indiana. "No Such Thing as Conspiracy: Part 1 Village Voice May 25, 2004 http://villagevoice.com/issues/0421/indiana.php Part 2 (June 1, 2004) http://villagevoice.com/issues/0422/indiana.php Part 3 (June 8, 2004) http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0423/indiana.php
"John Timoney: The Man Behind The Massacre in Miami" November 24, 2003
http://www.ftaaimc.org/en/2003/11/2073.shtml
Robert Kuttner. "America as a One-Party State" The American Prospect February 1, 2004. http://www.prospect.org/print/V15/2/kuttner-r.html
Jerry M. Landay. "The Apparat: George Bush's Back-Door Political Machine" March 18, 2004 http://www.mediatransparency.org/stories/apparat.html
John Laughland. "The Technique of a Coup d'Etat" January 12, 2004. http://www.sandersresearch.com/Sanders/NewsManager/ShowNewsGen.aspx?NewsID=522
George W. Liebmann. "A Tale of Two Attorneys General" (American Conservative Union Foundation, 2003)
http://acuf.org/issues/issue9/040406gov.asp
David Lindorff. "Ashcroft's Cointelpro: Neutralizing Dissent in America" Counterpunch November 25, 2003. http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11252003.html
"Measuring Everything That Moves: The New Surveillance at Work" I. and R. Simpson, eds., The Workplace and Deviance. JAI series on Research in the Sociology of Work (1999). http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/ida6.html
Greg Mitchell. "Some Readers Want to Lock Up Al Neuharth" Editor and Publisher, December 29, 2004 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000743012
Richard K. Moore. "Escaping the Matrix" Whole Earth (Summer 2000). http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/374.html
Frank Morales. "The Militarization of the Police" Covert Action Quarterly Spring-Summer 1999, #67 http://demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com/militarizedpolice.html
Frank Morales. "Report on Federal Anti-Activist Intelligence Network" http://demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com/antiactivistintel.html
Frank Morales. "U.S. Military Civil Disturbance Planning: The War at Home" Covert Action Quarterly 69, Spring-Summer 2000, at http://infowar.net/warathome/warathome.html
Morales. "War Games at the Peace Rally" Winter 2003. http://demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com/wargames.html
David Neiwert. "The Rise of Pseudo Fascism" Part 1: The Morphing of the Conservative Movement September 19, 2004
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_09_19_dneiwert_archive.html#109028353137888956 Part 2: The Architecture of Fascism
September 26, 2004 http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_09_26_dneiwert_archive.html#109563628314780505 Part 3: The Pseudo-Fascist Campaign October 06, 2004 http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_10_03_dneiwert_archive.html#109596147171278590 Part 4: The Apocalyptic One-Party State
October 10, 2004 http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_10_10_dneiwert_archive.html#109694976530359103 Part 5: Warfare by Other Means (October 19, 2004) http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_10_17_dneiwert_archive.html#109755467135245579 Part 6: Breaking Down the Barriers (October 25, 2004) http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_10_24_dneiwert_archive.html#109858062597237163 Part 7 [Conclusion]: It Can Happen Here (October 31, 2004) http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_10_31_dneiwert_archive.html#109902109250035295
Neiwert. "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism" (2003) http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/Rush%20Newspeak%20%20Fascism.pdf HTML version http://www.cursor.org/stories/fascismintroduction.php
Rick Perlstein. "The Eve of Destruction" Village Voice January 18, 2005 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0503,perlstein,60130,6.html
Robert R. Raymond. "The IRS Claims New Patriot Act Type Power to Punish Political Dissenters" Men's News Daily, December 16, 2003 http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/r/raymond/03/raymond121603.htm
Jim Redden. Snitch Culture: ...How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State (Venice, Ca.: Feral House, 2000).
Paul Rosenberg. "The Empire Strikes Back: Police Repression of Protest From Seattle to L.A." L.A. Independent Media Center 13 August 2000, at http://www.r2kphilly.org/pdf/empire-strikes.pdf
Harvey A. Silvergate and Carl Takei. "Crossing the threshold" March 6, 2004
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/threshold/03650087.asp
Starhawk. "Police Lessons" 2000 http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/policelessons.html
Paul Starobin. "The Dawn of the Daddy State" The Atlantic Monthly June 2004
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/06/starobin.htm
Joseph Stromberg. "Things Not Said: Homeland Security and Official Ideology" April 29, 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/stromberg/stromberg63.html
Vin Suprynowicz. "What do police departments really do?" Las Vegas Review-Journal November 14, 2004 http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Nov-14-Sun-2004/opinion/25230212.html
Jeffrey A. Tucker. "The Violence of Conservatism" August 21, 2004.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker46.html
Carl Watner. "'Your Papers, Please!': The Origin and Evolution of Official Identity in the United States" The Voluntaryist Issue Number 121 http://www.voluntaryist.com/articles/121a.php
Diane Cecilia Weber. "Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments" Cato Briefing Paper No. 50, 26 August 1999, at http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-050es.html
Mike Whitney. "The Guantanamo Gulag" Counterpunch January 3, 2005 http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney01032005.html
Kristian Williams. "The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing" Monthly Review December 2003 http://monthlyreview.org/1203williams.htm
Claire Wolf. "Hardyville: Ashcroft, Bovard, the Patriot Act, and the Truth" Backwoods Home January 15, 2004
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe040115.html
Donald Atwell Zoll. "Shall We Let America Die?" National Review Dec. 16, 1969 pp. 1261-63. [on possibility of "conservative" alliance with corporate liberals and Schlesinger's "sensible center"--the direct predecessors of the neocons--in authoritarian dictatorship, if the only alternative was New Left victory]
Information Control and the Cultural Apparatus
Edward Bernays. Propaganda (New York: Horace Liberight, 1928).
Bernays. Public Relations (Norman, Ok.:University of Oklahoma Press, 1952).
Julian Borger. "The Spies Who Pushed for War" The Guardian July 17, 2003. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html
Alex Carey. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988).
Chomsky. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (Boston: South End Press, 1989). http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-contents.html
Noam Chomsky. "What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" Z Magazine October 1997
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm
J. Bradford DeLong. "Why, Oh Why, Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?" February 3, 2004 http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000200.html
Robert Dreyfuss. "More Missing Intelligence" The Nation July 7, 2003. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030707&s=dreyfuss
Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest. "The Lie Factory" Mother Jones January/February 2004. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
Don Feder. "AP's One-Sided Venezuela Coverage" The Narco News Bulletin Dec. 18, 2002 http://www.narconews.com/Issue26/article567.html
Larry Gambone. "A Brief History of Cultural Manipulation in America" The Idyllic Aug. 21, 2003 http://www.theidyllic.com/php/article.php?article=41
Al Giordano. "Three Days That Shook the Media: Online Journalism's Finest Hour/Exposed and Prevented a Coup" Narco News White Paper April 15, 2002 http://www.narconews.com/threedays.html
Harry Jaffe. "Pentagon to Washington Post Reporter Ricks: Get Lost" Washingtonian December 29, 2003 http://washingtonian.com/inwashington/buzz/tomricks.html
Robert Jensen. "Journalists Actually Need Less Objectivity" Newsday October 11, 2000 http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/freelance/objectivity.htm
Doug Kern. "Here I Blog, I Can Do No Other" October 5, 2004 http://www.techcentralstation.com/100504B.html
Harold D. Lasswell. Propaganda Techniques in the World War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927).
"Letterman vs. CNN-and-the-White-House" What Would Dick Think? (WWDT), April 1, 2004
http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2004/04/01.html#a139
Justin Lewis. "Objectivity and the Limits of Press Freedom" in Project Censored, Censored 2000 (New York, London, Sydney, Toronto: Seven Stories Press, 2000).
B.K. Marcus. "The Spectrum Should Be Private Property: The Economics, History, and Future of Wireless Technology" October 29, 2004 http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1662
Michael Massing. "Now They Tell Us" New York Review of Books February 26, 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/stromberg/stromberg63.html
Robert W. McChesney and John Bellamy Foster. "The 'Left-Wing' Media?" Monthly Review June 2003. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0603editr.htm
Michael Meacher. "The Very Secret Service" The Guardian, November 21, 2003 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1089931,00.html
C. Wright Mills. "The Cultural Apparatus," in Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (New York: Balantine, 1963).
"Operation Rockingham" http://stopimperialism.be/Operation_Rockingham.html
George Orwell. "Politics and the English Language" (1946) http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/o79e/part42.html
Michael Parenti. Inventing Reality:The Politics of the Mass Media (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986)
Peter Phillips. "Mainstream Media Fails Itself"
http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/mainmedia_failsitself.html
Christopher Reilly. "The Media, the CIA and the Coup" Counterpunch April 15, 2002 http://www.counterpunch.org/reilly0415.html
Craig Russell. "Television and the State" April 30, 2003 http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/russell/russell5.html
Herbert Schiller. The Mind Managers (Beacon Press, 1973).
Doc Searls. "Saving the Net" Linux Journal July 22, 2003. http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6989
Slactivist. "Reality Matters" Sept. 22, 2004. Part I http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/09/reality_matters.html Part II http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/09/reality_matters_1.html
Matt Taibbi. "Pravda, Izvestia, Time: On the 'Person of the Year' issue" New York Press 17:52 http://nypress.com/17/52/news&columns/taibbi.cfm
Siva Vaidhyanathan. "The new information ecosystem" "Part 1: cultures of anarchy and closure" June 26, 2003 http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=101&articleId=1319 "Part 2: 'Pro-gumbo': culture as anarchy" July 10, 2003 http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=101&articleId=1348 "Part 3: The anarchy and oligarchy of science" http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=101&articleId=1378 "Part 4: The nation-state vs. networks" August 28, 2003 http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=101&articleId=1459 "Part 5: Networks of power and freedom" October 16, 2003 http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=101&articleId=1544
Jesse Walker. "Copy Catfight: How Intellectual Property Laws Stifle Popular Culture" Reason March 2000 http://www.reason.com/0003/fe.jw.copy.shtml
Walker. "Independent Media Tribes: Bypassing the Old Gatekeepers" Chronicles June 2004 http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/June2004/0604Walker.html
Walker. "With Friends Like These: Why Community Radio Does Not Need the Corporation for Public Broadcasting" Cato Policy Analysis No. 277 (July 24, 1997)
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-277es.html
Resistance
Andrew Boyd. "The Web Rewires the Movement" The Nation Aug. 4, 2003. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030804&s=boyd
Christopher Burnett. "Social Netwar, the Independent Media Network, and the Necessity of Decentralized Organizing." November 2000. http://www.regenerationtv.net/Social_Netwar_Draft_042401.pdf
Harry Cleaver. "Cyberspace and 'Ungovernability'" http://www.spunk.org/texts/comms/sp001000.html
"Direct Action in Industry" IWA pamphlet from early 1970s http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/practice/sp001703.html
Julie Foster. "Arizona Prepares For Secession From U.S." Worldnet Daily January 14, 2004 http://www.rense.com/general47/ariz.htm
Alvin Lowi Jr. "Avoiding the Grid: Technology and the Decentralization of Water," from The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues edited by Fred E. Foldvary and Daniel B. Klein (New York: New York University Press, 2004).
http://lsb.scu.edu/~dklein/Half_Life/avoiding.pdf
Alvin Lowi Jr. and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. "Technology and Electricity: Overcoming the Umbilical Mentality," from The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues edited by Fred E. Foldvary and Daniel B. Klein (New York: New York University Press, 2004) http://lsb.scu.edu/~dklein/Half_Life/tech_elect.pdf
James Murray. "Chiapas and Montana: Tierra Y Libertad" Race Traitor #8 (Winter 1998) http://www.postfun.com/racetraitor/features/chiapas.html
David Neilson. "The Liberty Incident Command System" Sierra Times December 17, 2001
http://www.sierratimes.com/ics-1.htm
Notes from Nowhere Collective. We Are Everywhere (London and New York: Verso, 2003).
"Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising" http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1084.html
"Networks: The Ecology of the Movements" http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1089.html
"Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom" http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1092.html
"Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy" http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1097.html
"Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression" http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1098.html
"Power: Building It Without Taking It" http://www.narconews.com/Issue35/article1121.html
"Walking: We Ask Questions" http://www.narconews.com/Issue35/article1124.html
Rejuvenal. "Molotov Cocktail for Tom Lagana's Soul" http://www.connect.ab.ca/~mctsoul/lagana.htm
"Resistance is Necessary: How to Stop Fascism" http://www.stop-fascism.org/how_to_stop_fascism.htm
Howard Rheingold. "From Flashmobbing to Political Swarming" Aug. 13, 2003 http://www.smartmobs.com/archives/001457.html
Rheingold. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus Books, 2002) http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html
David F. Ronfeldt et al. The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico MR-994-A (Santa Monica: Rand, 1998) http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994
"Swarming and the Future of Protesting" http://www.why-war.com/features/read.php?id=4
David Wilcox. The Guide to Effective Participation (1994) http://www.partnerships.org.uk/guide/index.htm
Claire Wolf. "The Hardyville Beginners Guide to Encrypt**n" Backwoods Home February 15, 2004
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe040215.html
Claire Wolf. "Heading for Hardyville Gulch, Part I" Backwoods Home May 1, 2004
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe040501.html "Heading for Hardyville Gulch, Part II: Gulching: Yes, You Really Can Herd Cats" May 15, 2004
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Voluntary Cooperation Movement and Affiliates
Friendly but Non-Affiliated Sites and Organizations
Mutualist, Quasi-Mutualist, Crypto-Mutualist and Fellow Travellers
Including Populist/Constitutionalist, Georgist, Agrarian and Distributist, Secessionist, Miscellaneous Anti-Market
Industrial Workers of the World
Alternative News Sites
Including General News Compendia, "Conspiracy," Media Watch, Jackboot Watch, The Corporate State, New World Order, Old Right/Paleolibertarian , Miscellaneous Libertarian, and "Progressive"
Resources: Book catalogues, E-books, online periodicals, etc.
Do It Yourself: Tools for Self-Sufficiency
Fight Back: Tools for Resistance
Blogs
Northwest Arkansas
Voluntary Cooperation Movement and Affiliates
Voluntary Cooperation Movement
Meander Quarterly
Archived journal of the Affinity Group of Evolutionary Anarchists (later renamed Voluntary Cooperation Movement)
Red Lion Press
Excellent source of pamphlets on mutualism, decentralism, etc.
Mutualize!
All kinds of good material on "mutualizing" social services: that is, bringing schools, hospitals, etc., under direct, cooperative control of those they serve.
Joseph Dietzgen Page
Larry Gambone Archive
Interesting collection of articles by the same guy who operates Red Lion Press.
The Porcupine
Larry Gambone's personal zine. A lot of good stories about life in rural B.C. in the '50s.
Any Time Now: An Anarchist-Decentralist Newsletter
Just what the name implies. Variety of interesting articles, reviews, letters. Edited by Dick Martin.
Ahimsazine: Voice of Anarchopacifism
Edited by Dick Martin
Total Liberty
British publication edited by Jonathan Simcock. Wide variety of articles, reviews, letters, etc.; weighted toward individualist anarchism, which is pretty thin on the ground in the UK.
Total Liberty Vol. 1 Nos. 1-3
Total Liberty Vol. 1 No. 4
Black Crow
Ed D'Angelo's site. Includes his book Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library.
Anarchism Canada
El Unico
Published in Argentina by Vicente Eloy Cano
English Languages and Learning Review
Linguist Amorey Gethin, the VCM's answer to Chomsky.
Friendly but Non-Affiliated Sites and Organizations
(A history of close association with VCM members, but not directly affiliated)
Anarchist Information Network
Information exchange for anarchist groups in the East Midlands, UK.
Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade/BAD Press
Excellent individualist anarchist broadsides by Joe Peacott.
Kansas Anarchist Network
Among other things, includes Joe Peacott's Anarchy in Kansas periodical.
Rebel Worker (Eugene Plawiuk)
American Revolutionary Vanguard
The "Commentary" Page has some excellent articles promoting cooperation between left- and right-wing populists/libertarians against the corporate world order, and advocating coexistence for a wide variety of libertarian/decentralist communities in an "anarchism without adjectives."
Freedom Press
At last! They finally got another site up. When the last one went down, it took down a large archive of online literature, including the complete run of Total Liberty up to then.
And some friends who aren't available online:
The Match! P.O. Box 3012, Tucson AZ 85702
Edited and printed (with the kind of craftsmanship you probably thought was dead) by Fred Woodworth--an individualist anarchist with a powerful bulls**t detector, many definite opinions and little tolerance for idiots. Thoughtful commentary and (Anarchy magazine's claims notwithstanding) the largest letters section in the anarchist community. Still going strong after over thirty years.
The Free Press DEATH SHIP P.O. Box 55336, Hayward CA 94545
Edited and published by Violet Jones, a friend of Fred Woodworth's. And like Fred, she painstakingly prints it with traditional offset methods. Good graphics and a variety of interesting material, including a huge review section.
Mutualist, Quasi-Mutualist, Crypto-Mutualist
(and Fellow Travellers)
Libertarian Labyrinth
I don't know anybody who knows more about the history of nineteenth century American individualism than Shawn P. Wilbur--not to mention all the other subcurrents of libertarianism, decentralism, and grass-roots populism. Most of the links are not working yet, but when Shawn gets them up and running this site should be a great reference tool.
The Black Crayon
The latest welcome addition to the marginalized Tuckerite community. Some great articles and links.
Listen Liberty!
An individual anarchist site that stresses the socialist aspect of Tucker and Spooner.
The Portal
Nexonic's individualist anarchist site. Like Black Crayon, Listen Liberty!, Joe Peacott and others, Nexonic preserves the socialist side of individualist anarchism.
Anti-State.Com
Lively, undogmatic right-libertarian site with a lot of heterodox contributions from social anarchists, Georgists, etc.
Sean Gabb
Includes links to the excellent Free Life Commentary
Endervidualism.Com
Tom Ender's site. Tom is also editor of Ender's Review of the Web, the best libertarian internet digest I know of--and it's free!
Prolecat
Anti-Authoritarian Website
Movement of the Libertarian Left
Home site of the agorist movement. Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK3) carries on Rothbard's attempt at an antistate alliance between the libertarian Right and New Left. Free market libertarians who are more into Gabriel Kolko than Milton Friedman.
....I'm sad to report that we lost Sam unexpectedly in February. He is sorely missed.
New Paradigms
Site of Robert Klassen, author of Economic Government. The latter, despite its unfortunate Galambosian ideas on "intellectual property," bears more than a casual resemblance to Proudhon's idea of dissolving the state within the body of society.
Praxeology.Net
Website of Roderick T. Long--philosophy professor, frequent contributor to Strike-The-Root.Com, and president of the Molinari Institute
Molinari Institute
Individualist Anarchist.Net
Daniel Burton's individualist site. Good articles, lots of useful links.
Mutualismo--Economia Libertaria vs Capitalismo
Kit Sims Taylor's Home Page
An academic economist with eclectic interests, including right- and left-wing critiques of state capitalism. Lots of online resources for the economics student.
The Memory Hole
The 5th International
Anarchism.Net
"The greatest threat to freedom is the dogmatic factions of anarchism raising one great philosophical leader to the skies, aiming to convince or subjugate all other kinds of anarchism of the superiority of the True Anarchism. But virtually all anarchist thinkers throughout time have contributed or can contribute to the tradition of anarchism. By combining the great teachings of different views we can find new solutions to unsolved problems, and bring the shattered movement together."
Richard A. Garner
Used to be a mutualist, now considers himself an anarcho-capitalist. But his decentralist vision sounds a lot closer to Kirk Sale than to the corporate apology that usually passes for right-libertarianism.
Show Me The Money P.O. Box 48161, Coon Rapids MN 55448
An economic zine by Tony Hunnicutt, with lots of stuff on globalization, corporate domination, the Fed's money games, etc. Tony is one of a relative few Wobblies (he first came to my attention in an IWW publication) who emphasizes cooperatives, LETS, and other quasi-mutualist notions. Not available online, unfortunately.
Market Anarchism
Against Politics: Reason Liberty Extropy
Ithaca Hours Online Home Page
That's right, THE Ithaca Hours, that inspired a movement.
Ithaca Health Fund Home Page
From the same people as Ithaca Hours. One of the most impressive and promising mutualist health insurance schemes in the U.S. Unlike most cooperative insurance schemes, whose sole departure from the standard business model is cooperative ownership, Ithaca starts from scratch and organizes from the ground up. The result is a mere $100 annual premium, for coverage of a limited list of problems focusing mainly on injury and trauma. The larger their membership gets, though, the more ailments they can add to the list.
Turmel
The Hour Money Institute for Global Harmony
Transaction Net: How Currency Systems Work
Reinventing Money.Com
Thomas H. Greco's site.
Community Currencies
LETS.Net
Clarence Riegel
Grassroots Economic Organizing
Great articles on economic democracy, workplace organizing
DualPower.Net
Ecotopia
The name refers to a series of novels by Ernest Callenbach, and to the fictional republic of Ecotopia, created by a secessionist movement of the Pacific Northwest.
Movement for Beloved Community
William King Page
Named for a leader of the early cooperative movement in nineteenth century Britain. Includes...
Cooperative Commonwealth FAQ
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
John Papworth: Small is Powerful
Kenneth Rexroth Archive
The E.F. Schumacher Society and Library
The Preservation Institute
Unfortunately, they advocate statist solutions ("banned" "not allowed") to the evils of sprawl, waste, and economic injustice, instead of seeing them as the RESULTS of State intervention in the market. But their hearts are in the right place; and they have an excellent collection of material by Goodman, Illich, Sale, and Lasch, which covers a multitude of sins.
ConservationEconomy.Net
George Monbiot
My comment on the Preservation Institute applies equally well to George Monbiot. Despite his neglect of the statist underpinnings of corporate power, and support for counterproductive state-centered solutions, he's done some of the best writing on the Net on corporate globalization.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here
Pledge Bank
The Commoner: A Web Journal For Other Values
Amazing! Lots of articles on enclosures, primitive accumulation, and the history of capitalism, along with analysis of corporate capitalism today.
Friends of the Commons
The Transitioner
The Corner House
First-rate analyses of the overwhelmingly statist regime that the neoliberals pass off as "privatization" and "free markets."
Open-Economy.Org
The Committee for the Abolition of Third-World Debt
A treasure-trove of radical analysis of corporate globalization, especially as neoliberalism affects the Third World.
Sustainable Economics
Bimonthly newsletter of the Green Economy Working Group of the Green Party of England and Wales
Urban Renaissance Institute
Appropriate Economics
"Community Exchange Systems are community-based economic networks which encourage cooperation and reciprocation, self-reliance and mutual aid, local production for local needs, socio-economic solidarity and economic justice for the meeting of needs, cultural revitalization, socio-economic harmony and rural reconstruction."
Solari.Com
"Working together to make healthy local living economies
the best equity investment worldwide."
Radical Tradition
Takver's great collection of articles on the history of mutualism and friendly societies, especially Dr. Bob James' amazing articles.
The Australian Co-operation Web Portal
Race Matthews
Dr. David Beito
A professor of history at the University of Alabama. Along with Bob James and E.P. Thompson, essential reading on the history of mutualist self-organization by the working class. Author of From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State.
History of Work Cooperation in America
John Curl's history of attempts at self-management and cooperation, from colonial times.
The Republic: Vancouver's Opinionated Newspaper
BC Politics
See especially "New Economics" page
Alliance for Democracy
"setting forth to end corporate domination, to establish true political democracy, and to build a just society with a sustainable, equitable economy"
The Global Justice Movement
Guns and Dope Party
Ticket on which Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus! Trilogy) ran for governor of California.
Mindf*ck
Macroinformation.Org
Paul Knatz's work on decentralized information networks. To get some idea of what it's about, imagine if the internet had existed when Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling.
Eat the State!
A forum for anti-authoritarian political opinion, research and humor.
Social Anarchism
Like Freedom Fortnightly in some ways. If you like Ward, Goodman, Sale and Illich, you'll probably find something here to suit you.
The Anarchy Review
Elder Bear, a Christian anarchist who's big on Emma Goldman.
Bjorn the Great
Jesus Radicals
Starhawk
The Voluntaryist
New Mutualism
What's left of the old Co-operative Party, but almost completely submerged in a social democratic quagmire. Some mutualist wheat mixed in with a lot of New Labour chaff. They've even got an endorsement by Tony Blair (gag!) on their site.
Capital Ownership Group
"COG develops positive responses to globalization -
focusing on employee ownership best practices and
strategies internationally.... COGs mission is to: create a coalition that promotes broad ownership of productive capital; reduce inequality of income and wealth; increase sustainable economic development; expand opportunities for people to realize their productive and creative potential; stabilize local communities by improving living standards; and enhance the quality of life for all."
Work Less Party
Center for Economic and Social Justice: Capital homesteading
Employee Ownership Resources & Links
Democratic Economy
Labour Sponsored Capital & Investment Funds Links
The Big Idea: Vision for an Economy Based on Co-operatives
U.S. Federation of Workplace Cooperatives
Oklahoma Food Cooperative
Mutual Marketing
Tim Kitchens, formerly of the defunct Brand Activism: The Mutualist Manifesto.
Constitutionalist/Populist
Local Sovereignty
LexRex.Com
The Moneychanger
By Franklin Sanders, author of Heiland and "The Most Dangerous Man in the Mid South." An engaging mix of constitutionalism, rural decentralism, hard money, "anti-government extremism," and Calvinism. Hard to describe--check it out for yourself.
The Idyllic
Described by editor Jack Ross as an Online Journal of the Classical Progressive Viewpoint--an umbrella term including figures like Charles Beard and "Fighting Bob" LaFollette, along with those generally assigned to the "Old Right." Includes a lot of good articles by Larry Gambone and Keith Preston. Heads up: Ross also writes for some Liberty Lobby-funded periodicals that are decidely soft on Hitler, along with other charming editorial positions; so take what you can use and leave the rest.
Fountain of Truth
James Glaser
A contributor to LewRockwell and a Marine in the proud tradition of Smedley Butler.
GreenAndFree.Com
Site of Clyde Cleveland, Libertarian candidate for governor of Iowa. Not your stereotypical libertarian: this populist is for alternative energy and "bottom-up" democracy, and has some nasty things to say about agribusiness.
Barefoot's World
Apparently an amalgam of Georgism, constitutionalism and populism with a heavy American Indian emphasis. A catchbag of all sorts of interesting stuff.
Levellers Home Page
Georgist/Geolibertarian
The Progress Report
The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
The School of Cooperative Individualism
School of Living
Vehicle for the work of Ralph Borsodi, the grandfather of the back-to-the-land movement.
Spontaneous Order
(Dan Sullivan's) Geolibertarian Home Page
Debbie Clark's Debate With George H. Smith
Todd's Home Page
Professor Fred E. Foldvary
Henry George--Social Philosopher and Political Economist
Democratic Freedom Caucus
The Land Problem
The Geonomy Society: Forum on Geonomics
Land & Liberty
Understanding Economics (HenryGeorge.Org)
Henry George Foundation
Urban Tools
Agrarian
The Agrarian Foundation
The New Agrarian
Orion
Distributist
Distributism
Distributivism
What's a little IV use between friends?
Distributism.Org
Chesterton.Org
Catholic Worker
Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching
The Lonely Distributist
The Distributist Review
The Third Way
Caelum et Terra
Discussion group based on the CET magazine: "Faithful to the Church, agrarian and small community in its orientation, providing a critique of the 'culture of death' and a positive alternative of wisdom and beauty rooted on Catholicism." Distributist, Catholic Worker types, etc., along with some traditionalists who still don't eat meat on Fridays, just in case.
Angelus
Bill Powell is Alive
Granola Conservatives
Great article on cultural affinity between traditionalist conservatives and back-to-the-land hippies, despite being on the odious NRO site. Must reading for John Stossel.
Secessionist
BC Home Rule
England Devolve Homepage
New England Confederation (Rhode Island Chapter)
Republic of Alberta
Republic of Texas
Republic of Texas Provisional Government
Second Vermont Republic
Separation Party of Alberta
Western Canada Concept Page
Syndicalists, Council Commies, Anarcho-Commies, and Miscellaneous Anti-Market (but still some good stuff)
Discussion Bulletin
Published (until its discontinuation in late 2003) by the Discussion Bulletin Committee, I.U.C.E.--a committee which, as far as I know, consists of the indefatigable Frank Girard. Frank Girard is some kind of dissident De Leonist who split from the Socialist Labor Party over labor-time vouchers. The DB has served for years as a clearing house and forum for "the real revolutionaries of our era: the non-market, anti-statist, libertarian socialists," including "syndicalists, anarcho-communists, libertarian municipalists, world socialists, socialist industrial unionists, council communists, and left communists." Lots of arcana and fascinating debate between (undeservedly) obscure political movements. So if you're interested in detailed debates between Frank and the SLP on the hermeneutics of "Critique of the Gotha Program," or disputes between Wobblies and SLP's over who hit whom first, or detailed studies of Luxembourg's and Pannekoek's hell-raising in the Third International, start buying back issues while you still can. Despite the DB's anti-market leanings, Frank was kind enough to allow an occasional word from market types like me and Larry Gambone, and even to review "Iron Fist."
Update: Sadly, Frank passed on not long after he retired from publishing the DB.
Common Voice
"An Electronic Journal of Non-Market, Anti-State Ideas." An attempt to partially fill the void left since Frank Girard discontinued the DB.
Anarcho-Syndicalism 101
Industrial Workers of the World
Like the VCM, the Wobblies are an organization I'm proud to be affiliated with. The predominant philosophies in the IWW are non-market ones like anarcho-syndicalism and various forms of libertarian communism, rather than mutualism. But I know mutualists within the organization; and syndicalism is very much an outgrowth of Proudhon's mutualism and has a decidedly "petty bourgeois" background, according to Christopher Lasch. Workers' control of big corporate firms figures big not only among mutualists, but in the speculations of Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess. In fact, the IWW has exerted a peculiar fascination on a lot of right-libertarians. Hess joined at the height of his affinity for the New Left; and Samuel Konkin of the MLL calls us his "favorite union." The Wobs are the premier "One Big Union" fighting for worker control of the production process, and are coming back from their near-oblivion a lot faster than the corporate state would like to see.
Alternative News Sites
General News Compendia
Counterpunch
Excellent radical commentator, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Claire. Cockburn is a left-wing populist who EXULTS that Nader cost Gore the election.
Progressive Review
Sam Smith's incomparable one-man operation, originally a local alternative newspaper in Washington DC, still going strong after thirty years. He's a (gracefully) aging New Leftist who likes guns and hates Hillary. How can you beat that? With a simple email subscription, you can get the finest daily alternative news compendium around.
AltWeeklies.Com
New Democracy
Yellow Times
Infoshop
Reader post-driven news site created and maintained by the Reverend Chuck O. The anarchist movement's answer to Free Republic.
Independent Media Center
Similar format to Infoshop.
Guerrilla News Network
High production-value news stories you'll never see on network TV.
Information Clearing House
"News you won't find on CNN or Fox Mooooo's"
CommonDreams.Org
Democracy Now!
Consortium for Independent Journalism
Narcosphere: Authentic Journalism of the Masses
The Narco News Bulletin
"Conspiracy"
Note the quotes--I don't use "conspiracy theory" or "tin foil hat" as a term of dismissal. Weigh the evidence, people!
From the Wilderness
Mike Ruppert. Of widely varying plausibility, but includes valuable information for challenging the official version of events. Some scary stuff on 9-11 you won't ever see in the corporate prolefeed called "the news."
Cyberjournal
Richard K. Moore's site. The larger the scale of the purported conspiracy, the more skeptical I am. But his analyses of the long-term interests of the power elite are pretty much on the mark. His "Escaping the Matrix" is a must-read.
Emperor's Clothes
Jared Israel gives you a lot of material that just doesn't quite fit into the official picture of 9-11, Milosevic, etc. And he's been pilloried for stuff sympathetic to Israel and critical of Palestinian nationalism, so you know he ain't just doing this by the numbers.
Centre for Research on Globalization
Al Martin Raw
A former Iran-Contra insider. Interesting stuff on the past and present doings of the Abrams-Negroponte crime family.
Infowars.Com
Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.Com
Propaganda Matrix
WakeUSup: Coincidence Analysis
Sander Hicks
Media Watch
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
Project Censored
PR Watch: Public Interest Reporting on the PR/Public Affairs Industry
Media Transparency: The Money Behind the Media
Spinsanity: Countering Rhetoric With Reason
That rarity, a relatively unbiased media watchdog without an ideological axe to grind.
Media Wh*res Online
Apparently these people don't realize their name can be read two ways, both of them equally valid. Mostly devoted to apologias and/or uncritical cheerleading for Clinton. They regard Sid Blumenthal as a good guy. I mean, they're the kind of people who know all the words to "I Still Believe in a Place Called Hope" *gag*. Still, a lot of good dirt on the Bush family, Ken Starr, etc.
Daily Howler
Accuracy in Media: For Fairness, Balance and Accuracy in News Reporting
Reed Irvine's baby. Pretty much a right-wing mirror image of Media Wh*res, but lots of good stuff on Hillary/Rosie/Barbra and their ilk. If you can't appreciate their gibes at NPR liberals, you're probably not much of a leftist anyway.
Accuracy in Academia
Another Irvine outfit. Lots of PC howlers from the academic community, a never-ending source of material.
Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet
Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source
Disinfopedia
MediaLens.Org
Jackboot Watch
The Memory Hole
Russ Kick's digest of items the jackboots don't want to see the light of day. Includes mirrored websites shut down by the Gestapo. Also includes material, mirrored from official government websites, that conveniently disappeared when it became embarassing.
Cryptome
All kinds of official documents related to the total surveillance state. Constantly updated.
Open Government Information Awareness
Namebase.Org
They Rule
A massive database of the power elite: connections between government officials, senior corporate management, think tanks, etc.
Copwatch.Com: Policing the Police
Behind the Homefront
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Elaine Cassel: Civil Liberties Watch
PatriotWatch.Org
Information on John Timoney
Douglas Valentine
The Corporate State
Oligopoly Watch
Brings to bear much more of the scholarly apparatus of academic economics than is usual, among corporate critics.
Multinational Monitor
A considerable amount of useful information, despite the fact that it's edited by a prick who busted a union organizing drive at HIS OWN MAGAZINE. How's that for irony?
CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable
Die Off: a population crash course page
A wide assortment of material on the sustainability of global capitalism. A lot of material on the peaking of petroleum output in the near future, and the effects on the world economy.
New World Order
National Security Archive
Archives official documents on the national security state's shenanigans overseas, especially its ties to those fun-loving military oligarchies and death squads.
Virtual Truth Commission
Detailed, country by country studies of death squads, paramilitaries, and their ties to the School of the Americas/WHISC
Third World Traveler
Massive collection of material on global corporate rule, domestic police state and "Third Worldization" of U.S. A bit heavy on Chomsky, Herman and Zinn.
International Forum on Globalization
"....an alliance of sixty leading anarchists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers [including Lori Wallach and Walden Bello] formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization....
"....the [IFG] associates come together out of a shared concern that the world's corporate and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may prove as historically significant as any event since the Industrial Revolution. This restructuring is happening at tremendous speed, with little public disclosure of the profound consequences affecting democracy, human welfare, local economics, and the natural world."
In their decentralist reaction to corporate rule, and their perception of it as a revolution imposed from above, their instincts are sound. They still lack conceptual clarity concerning the central role of the state in imposing that revolution, and of the market as our hope for reversing it. But that is a large area for potentially fruitful dialogue between the free market anarchist community and the anti-globalization movement.
World War 3 Report
Bill Weinberg's excellent, massive weekly compendium of the New World Order's engagements in the Middle East, the Andes, Central Asia, etc. Available by email subscription, but check out the latest edition at the website instead, unless you want to face increasingly strident demands to "Either answer the exit poll (often a nonsensical waste of time) or send a donation."
Warning Shots
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski's (aka "Deep Throat") insider notes from the Pentagon. As Frank Gaffney whined: "In the case of Ms. Kwiatkowski, a review of numerous screeds she has published on the Internet including some evidently written while on active duty evince an ideological hostility towards the President, the Secretary of Defense and others in her chain of command that calls into question her objectivity and the accuracy of her charges." Such criticism from his ilk is high praise indeed.
Mario's Cyberspace Station: The Global Intelligence News Portal
Old Right/Paleolibertarian
LewRockwell.Com
Anti-war, anti-neocon, anti-Straussian anarcho-capitalists. As anti-state-capitalist as Rothbard. A bunch of delightfully crusty Old Rightists from the Mises Institute.
Antiwar.Com
Massive collection of commentary, current news links. Run by pretty much the same kind of people as Anti-State.Com and Lew Rockwell, but with a larger mix of lefties like Cockburn--not to mention "hippies of the Right."
Strike the Root
Miscellaneous Libertarian
Reason Online
Includes some material outside the right-libertarian mainstream (i.e., not just pot-smoking Republicans defending corporate rule).
The Libertarian Enterprise (L. Neil Smith)
The Independent Institute
The Future of Freedom Foundation
The Sierra Times
"Progressive" (gag!)
These last five publications are aimed mainly at "progressives" (i.e., NPR liberals and assorted statist goo-goos), but still present useful news you wouldn't get, say, from the Associated Press.
In These Times
Their mission statement includes a glib throw-away line decrying the replacement of "human values" with "market values." This despite the fact that a genuine market is based on quintessentially human values: all human relations are voluntary interactions between free people, in an environment free of coercion.
The Nation
One of the most disgraceful things I saw, post-9/11, was The Nation's editor exulting over the renewed popular trust in government and openness to statist solutions. Despite this rampant Renoism, they sometimes have some good information.
Mother Jones
Another low point was Mojo's 1999 apology for imperialist war when it served a "progressive" cause (e.g. Clinton's "humanitarian" war crimes in Yugoslavia). Just goes to show the line between an NPR liberal and a neocon gets pretty thin. Still, sometimes worth reading, I guess....
Z Magazine
Joined at the hip to Chomsky, and heavily invested in "parecon" (which is an absolute wet dream for anyone who wants to attend a hundred committee meetings to figure out whether to produce more toothpicks next year). Still (yet again), some decent material.
The Progressive
*Sigh*
Resources: Book catalogues, E-books, online periodicals, etc.
Spunk Press
Huge collection of contemporary and some classical anarchist texts.
Anarchist FAQ
Monumental compendium on anarchist history, theory and practice. Many hundreds of pages. The bibliography alone is incredible.
Anarchy Archives
Large collection of online classical anarchist texts
RA Forum: Research on Anarchism
Bibliotheque Virtuelle (English texts)
The Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
Kate Sharpley Library
Anarchist Library
Varied assortment of odds and ends, some quite fascinating, with a fair amount of individualist and mutualist stuff.
Marxists Internet Archive
Nearly complete Marx-Engels collected works, and dozens of other Marxist thinkers (plus reference library of classical and neoclassical economics).
Monthly Review
Vulgar Marxism's worst enemy! The Monthly Review group has included, among many others, Baran, Sweezy, and Magdoff, the people associated with "monopoly capital" theory.
The New School: History of Economic Thought
Political Theory Daily Review
Anarchteacher
Some great New Left/Rothbardian fusionist book reviews at Amazon.
Libertarian Alliance
Large archive of right-libertarian articles on economics, many of them quite critical of state capitalism. The fact that they've published Joe Peacott and Yours Truly should tell you something about their ideological diversity.
Liberalia
Substantial collection of interesting articles on classical liberal and free market themes, archived by Christian Michel.
The Mises Institute
Large collection of online texts by Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe, etc. Complete online archive of Journal of Libertarian Studies, Journal of Austrian Economics, Left and Right, and others.
Library of Economics and Liberty
Huge collection of online texts on classical and neoclassical economics, classical liberalism.
The Avalon Project
Partially overlaps content of Library of Economics and Liberty, but includes some Enlightenment radical, Ricardian socialist material they miss. Less material, but gives a fuller picture of classical liberal roots.
The Online Library of Liberty
Chomsky Archive
Articles
Books
Laissez-Faire Books
Not just Chicago school, Randroid or even Austrian material, as you might expect. Lots of classical liberal, commonwealth and oppositionist stuff (as the name of their imprint, Fox & Wilkes, might tell you). If you want a copy of Cato's Letters, here's the place to look.
Liberty Tree Books
Renaissance Books
Affiliated with the Advanced Book Exchange, specializing in books on history, politics and economics with a libertarian slant.
Constitution Society
Superlatives fail me. Their Liberty Library has a huge collection of online texts on English constitutional and common law history, as well as a lot of colonial and early U.S. stuff. Includes Coke's Institutes, Tucker's Blackstone, and a big collection of Leveller material. Also many links to other online libraries. Happy digging!
Land and Freedom--Resources on the Levellers
John Zube's Libertarian Microfiche Project
Absolutely astounding! His catalog will blow your mind. If you're looking for an obscure nineteenth century text on classical liberalism or anarchism, he's probably got it.
Libertarian CD-ROM Project (also Zube's)
American Labor History
OnPower.org
"a one-stop, selective, bibliographic compendium of both scholarly and popular works and commentary on the domestic and international ill-effects of national 'crises,' including preventative, interventionist wars around the world to create a U.S. empire."
Stromberg On War and Peace
A bibliography of New Left/Old Right revisionist history of American foreign policy.
William Lind on Fourth Generation Warfare
The Independent Institute: The War on Terrorism
Antiwar.Com: Pearl Harbor Resources
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
AARC: Assassination Archives and Research Center
Do It Yourself: Tools for Self-Sufficiency
Loompanics Unlimited
Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
Bagelhole.Org: Information Center For Low-Tech Sustainability
ITDG--Practical Answers to Poverty
Empowering Third World people through human-scale technology.
Mother Earth News
Backwoods Home
Grow Biointensive: A Sustainable Solution to Growing Food
Foxfire
M.I.T. Open Courseware
A revolution in online education! Every course in the M.I.T. catalog, with syllabus, reading list, and (sometimes) lectures.
Radio 4 All
Free Software Project
Radio Free School
Get and Stay Well
Village Earth: The Consortium for Sustainable Village-Based Development
Self-Publishing
Blitzprint
They're easily the best on-demand publisher I've been able to find--a reasonable per-book charge and excellent quality. I used them to publish Mutualist Political Economy.
Letters to Editor: Handy Universal Reference Tool
A comprehensive email directory of local newspapers, by Zipcode, with a program for emailing their "Letters" pages. All provided at the RNC's expense, for saturating the press with GOP talking points. No reason you HAVE TO stick to their agenda, of course. Heh heh.
Fight Back: Tools for Resistance
Fight the State
Fully Informed Jury Association
Gun Owners of America
Not a bunch of sell-outs like the NRA. None of this "enforce existing laws" cr*p. They don't use the expression "law-abiding" till you puke. And they don't like Ashcroft's jackboots any better than Renos, unlike a lot of Freepers out there.
Keep and Bear Arms
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Demilitarize the Police
Lots of good stuff by Frank Morales.
Global Corruption Report
Rational Anarchism
Free Market Alternatives to the State
AntiPolygraph.Org
Learn how to pass (or beat) a polygraph test.
PapersPlease.Org
FreeToTravel.Org
CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Responsible, among other things, for the Patent Busting Project
Fight your boss
IWorkWithFools.Com
InternalMemos.Com
Molotov Cocktail for the Soul
I.W.W. General Defense Committee
How to Fire Your Boss: A Worker's Guide to Direct Action
F*ck This Job.Com: the i hate my job blogging community
UFCW Canada: Members for Democracy
Service Employees International Union: Unite to Win
Fight the Bureaucratic Cretins at Your Local Publik Skool
Da Hiller
Originally an underground student newspaper created by Sergio Bichao. As you can imagine, the local government school authorities went ballistic. But every time they stepped up the pressure, he stepped up the rhetorical attacks on their incompetence and corruption.
Alliance for the Separation of School and State
RateMyTeachers.Com
John Holt
Deschooling.Org
Zero Intelligence: Fighting School Board Inanity Since 2004
Blogs
Adventus (Robert M. Jeffers)
The Ambler
Kevin Michael Grace's blog. Anyone who quotes Christopher Lasch, James Howard Kunstler and Anthony Burgess is surely numbered among the elect.
Antiwar.Com Blog
An Assembly of Pieces
Atrios
Anorakish: Socially Austistic Ramblings of a Working Class Libertarian
Barefoot and Naked
Beyond Branding
Brian's Education Blog
BUREAUCRASH
An anti-anti-globalization (but not necessarily pro-globalization) website.
In a Blog's Stead
Roderick T. Long's blog.
Calpundit
Catallarchy.Net
Catallaxis
CLASSical Liberalism
"I intend to focus on the history of Classical Liberalism with an emphasis on the more radical libertarian aspects within the 'Big Tent' of Classical Liberalism." Kent Hastings, an Altkampfer from the Movement of the Libertarian Left with a wide knowledge of classical liberal and individual anarchist history
Clusterf**k Nation (Jim Kunstler)
Code Name: Monkey
Cooperative Commonwealth Forum
Cybernethics / Cybernéthique (Fare)
Deconsumption
Democratic Freedom
Digamma
The Early Days of a Better Nation
Amazing fusion of post-Trostskyism and free market libertarianism by Ken Macleod, author of the Fall Revolution science fiction series.
Ecodema
Econlog: Library of Economics and Liberty
Fight For Freedom
Flagrancy to Reason
Flash of Freedom
freeman, libertarian critter
The Freeway to Serfdom
Hatless: Steve Koppelman's Catalogue of Poorly Catalogued Things
I first ran across this guy at Reason Hit & Run, giving Ron Bailey a run for his money on agribusiness issues. Some very thoughtful commentary.
How to Save the World (Dave Pollard)
inanis et vacua
Independent Country
Karmalized
KickAAS (Kick All Agricultural Subsidies)
Knappster: Peer-to-Peer Idea Sharing (Thomas L. Knapp)
Left2Right
(Lawrence) Lessig Blog
Libertarians for Dean
Liberty & Power: Group Blog
Blogging venue of David Beito and Arthur Silber.
The Light of Reason
Excellent commentary on foreign interventionism and domestic state capitalism by Arthur Silber--a member of the underpopulated genus of antiwar Objectivists.
Little Red Blogger
lowercase liberty (B.K. Marcus blog)
Magnifisyncopathological
Matthew Yglesias
MaxSpeak, You Listen!
Johnnie Moore's Weblog
Mutual Marketing (Tim Kitchens)
Not a Blog (Chris Sciabarra)
Orcinus
Our Word is Our Weapon
Out of Step (Wally Conger)
Panchromatica
Some excellent digs at the thin-skinned vulgar libertarians at the Adam Smith Institute blog, which has recently taken to blocking comments and trackbacks from anyone who questions its big business apologetics.
Pandagon
The Perpetual Three-Dot Column
Jesse Walker is a writer for the right-libertarian Reason magazine, who's also into lefty decentralists like Kropotkin, Ivan Illich, Colin Ward and Paul Goodman. In other words, a non-dogmatic anarchist.
A Pox on All Their Houses
Reason Hit & Run
Best comment boards in the libertarian blogosphere.
Reasons to be Impossible
A Revolution in Progress
Richard Garner's Thoroughly Enthralling Weblog
Rude Pundit
Scratchings
Screw the Kids
"Every time some syphylitic drip-dick of a politician or public policy wonk wants to pass a stupid new law, they cry 'It's for the children.'"
Shock and Awe
Slacktivist
Spontaneous Order
Steal This Brand (Tim Kitchins)
Strike the Root
Talking Points Memo
TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
Turning the Tide
The Undernews Blog (Sam Smith)
Unfair Witness
Unqualified Offerings
Leading antiwar libertarian Jim Henley.
Warblogging
Consistently the best blogging I've seen on natural security issues.
Washington Monthly
The blogger formerly known as Calpundit.
Claire Wolfe
Woolamaloo Gazette
WORK LESS Institute of Technology (Sandwichman)
WorldChanging: Another World is Here
You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship
Band site of Jason Perry, a grad student specializing in individualist anarchism.
Northwest Arkansas
The AMX: Frank Whalen
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I have criticized the law of Labour Value with all the severity that a doctrine so utterly false seemed to me to deserve. It may be that my criticism also is open to many objections. But one thing at any rate seems to me certain: earnest writers concerned to find out the truth will not in future venture to content themselves with asserting the law of value as has been hitherto done.
In future any one who thinks that he can maintain this law will first of all be obliged to supply what his predecessors have omitted--a proof that can be taken seriously. Not quotations from authorities; not protesting and dogmatising phrases; but a proof that earnestly and conscientiously goes into the essence of the matter. On such a basis no one will be more ready and willing to continue the discussion than myself.
--Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk. Capital and Interest p. 389
"Studies in Mutualist Political Economy" By Kevin A. Carson
CONTENTS
Preface
Part One--Theoretical Foundations: Value Theory
Chapter One--The Marginalist Attack on Classical Political Economy: An Assessment and Counter-Attack
A. Statement of the Classical Labor Theory of Value
B. Vulgar Political Economy, Marginalism, and the Issue of Ideological Motivation
C. The Marginalists versus Ricardo
D. Exceptions to the Cost-Principle: The Classicals in Their Own Defense
E. Generality and Paradigms
F. The Marshallian Synthesis
G. Rothbard versus the Marshallian Synthesis
Notes
Chapter Two--A Subjective Recasting of the Labor Theory of Value
Notes
Chapter Three--Time Preference and the Labor Theory of Value
Notes
Part Two--Capitalism and the State: Past, Present and Future
Introduction--Exploitation and the Political Means
Notes
Chapter Four--Primitive Accumulation and the Rise of Capitalism
Introduction
A. The Expropriation of Land in the Old World
B. Political Preemption of Land in Settler Societies
C. Political Repression and Control in the Industrial Revolution
D. Mercantilism, Colonialism, and the Creation of the "World Market"
Conclusion: "The World We Have Lost"--And Will Regain
Appendix--On the "Necessity" of Primitive Accumulation
Notes
Chapter Five--The State and Capitalism in the "Laissez-Faire" Era
A. Tucker's Big Four: Absentee Landlordism
B. Tucker's Big Four: The Money Monopoly
C. Tucker's Big Four: Patents
D. Tucker's Big Four: Tariffs
E. Transportation Subsidies
Notes
Chapter Six--The Rise of Monopoly Capitalism
Introduction
A. Liberal Corporatism, Regulatory Cartelization, and the Permanent Warfare State
B. Power Elite Theory
C. Monopoly Capital and Super-Profits
D. Socialization of Costs as a Form of Cartelization
Notes
Chapter Seven--Monopoly Capitalism and Imperialism
Introduction
A. "Open Door Imperialism" Through the 1930s
B. The Bretton Woods System: Culmination of Open Door Empire
C. Export-Dependent Monopoly Capitalism (with Digression on Economy of Scale)
Notes
Chapter Eight--Crisis Tendencies
Introduction
A. Accumulation Crisis
B. Fiscal and Input Crises
C. Legitimation Crisis
D. Neoliberal Reaction and Political Repression
E. Built-in Limits to Effectiveness of Neoliberal Reaction
F. Neoconservatism as Attempted Defense Against Legitimation Crisis
G. The Frankfurt School: Fascism and the Abandonment of the Law of Value
H. Global Political Crisis of Imperialism
Notes
Part Three--Praxis
Chapter Nine: Ends and Means
A. Organizing Principles
B. Getting There
Notes
Bibliography
"Congratulations Kevin! What you have done is a real break-through. With IRON FIST you gave us the first real development of anarchist economics since the days of Tucker and Proudhon. Now with MUTUALIST ECONOMICS you have given us a larger systematic approach – a dialectical critique and synthesis of marxist, marginalist, rothbardian and trad anarcho economics which used to examine and critique contemporary society. No longer need anarchists look embarrassed when the subject of economics comes up and simply grasp at vulgar marxism or mumble about something written 150 years ago and has never been developed since. There is something here for all anarchists to learn from, and not just mutualists and individualists."
--Larry Gambone, Red Lion Press
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