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  • Are Republicans and Democrats the Same?

    Early in my progressive activist/organizer life, begun in 1968, I was a big believer in the need for a “third party.” A primary reason was the prosecution of the Vietnam War by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. As I studied in college in 1967 about the history of that war, I learned that the USA had […]

  • The Great Revolutionary Divide

    The Great Revolutionary Divide

    Europe, mid-1800s: Two men stood at the center of a storm that would shape socialism’s future. Karl Marx, a German-born philosopher, believed in seizing the state (central government) and wielding its machinery to crush the ruling class. To him, power was a tool, not a curse. Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian anarchist strategist, saw it differently. […]

  • It’s Revolution or Death

    The third and final installment of the series seeks to bring the lessons learned in the first two episodes home. This segment features an interview with Peter Gelderloos in which he describes his experience working to build transformative infrastructure in Catalunya. Not all of us are so lucky to live near a large and organized […]

  • This Day in Anarchist History: The Oaxaca Commune

    On this day in anarchist history, June 14th 2006, we remember the Oaxaca Commune, when a sit-in organized by a militant teacher’s union transformed into a months-long popular insurrection against the Mexican state. The post This Day in Anarchist History: The Oaxaca Commune first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • This Day in Anarchist History: The Assassination of Colonel Falcón

    On this day in Anarchist History, November 14 1909, we remember young Simón Radowitzky and his assassination of Colonol Falcón, the head of the federal police in Argentina. Colonel Falcón rose through the ranks of the military by conducting genocide and enslaving Mapuche and other Indigenous People in Patagonia and brought those same skills to […]

  • Cross-Cultural Comparative Politics

    Cross-Cultural Comparative Politics

    Orientation What is politics? Nine Questions for Determining What is Politics In Part I of my article Seven Theories of Politics I posed ten questions for narrowing down what the range for defining what is politics. Temporal reach How far back into human history does politics go? Does politics go back to pre-state societies? Or […]

  • This Day in Anarchist History

    The Paris Commune Hello and welcome to the first of what we hope will be a many episodes of our new series, This Day in Anarchist History! In this series we’ll make brief primers on historical anarchist events, uprisings, bios of famous anarchists and beginnings of autonomous communities around the world and throughout time. It’s […]

  • Postliberalism: A Dangerous “New” Conservatism

    Postliberalism: A Dangerous “New” Conservatism

    In Wilhelm von Humboldt’s book The Limits of State Action (1792), one of the most thoughtful expressions of classical liberalism, these passages appear: The true end of Man… is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition which the possibility of […]

  • Western Marxism: The Unwholesome Temptation

    Western Marxism: The Unwholesome Temptation

    Image credit: Left Voice. The history of Marxism has a parallel history of counter-Marxism — intellectual currents that posture as the true Marxism. Even before Marxism came into being as a coherent ideology, Marx and Engels devoted an often-neglected section of their 1848 Communist Manifesto to debunking the existing contenders for true socialism. As the […]

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