[90] William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte, Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1991); Roy Morrison, We Build the Road as We Travel (Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1991).
[91] Satish Kumar, “Gandhi’s Swadeshi: The Economics of Permanence,” http://caravan.squat.net/ICC-en/Krrs-en/ghandi-econ-en.htm; Muammar Qaddafi, The Green Book (Tripoli: The World Center for Studies and Research of The Green Book, 1987).
[92] Kevin Carson, “The Left Libertarian Vision of the Good Society,” http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeftLibertarian/message/6821.
[93] Joseph Sobran, “Small States Are Path to Peace,” Wake-Up Call America, January– February 1999.
[94] As Eduard Limonov says: “There’s no longer any left or right. There’s the system and the enemies of the system.”
[95] Keith Preston, “Law and Anarchism,” http://attackthesystem.com/law-and-order.
[96] Harold Barclay, People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy (London: Kahn and Averill, 1982), 148.
[97] Michael van Notten, “From Nation-State to Stateless Nation,” Liberty, April 2003.
[98] Bruce L. Benson, Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1990); Randy E. Barnett, Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
[99] Keith Preston, “Dealing with Crime in a Free Society,” http://attackthesystem.com/dealing-with-crime-in-a-free-society/.
[100] “The [Christian] zealots for conversion took to the streets or criss-crossed the countryside, destroying no doubt more of the [pagan] architectural and artistic treasure of their world than any passing barbarians thereafter.” Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984), 119.
[101] The disparity in birth rates alone render it virtually certain that Muslims will outnumber indigenous Europeans within a century. For an interesting look at the growth of Christian fundamentalism in North America, see Dean M. Kelley, Why Conservative Churches Are Growing: A Study in Sociology of Religion (New York: Harper and Row, 1972). For a look at African Christianity, see Harvey J. Sindima, Drums of Redemption (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).
[102] For a discussion of traditions of decentralization in Western culture, see Clyde Wilson, “Devolution,” http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson15.html.
[103] For a discussion of the implications of anarchist theory for ethnic matters, see my “A Calm Anarchist Look at Race, Culture and Immigration,” http://attackthesystem.com/a-calm-anarchist-look-at-race-culture-and-immigration/. Interestingly, within contemporary anarchist thought two diametrically opposed schools have developed concerning the question of race. One of these, situated on the Far Left, has adopted doctrines rooted in the latter New Left of the 1960s, such as “white skin privilege,” “whiteness” theory, and other similar perspectives of questionable intellectual character. On the other end, national-anarchism (or at least a subset of it), originating from the European Far Right, maintains a relief in racial separatism and ethnic “identity” theories more commonly associated with neo-Nazis and certain fundamentalist religious perspectives such as Christian Identity. As to which side is more authentically anarchistic, it would appear that national-anarchists are more strongly committed to the practice of voluntarism, wishing to set up their own sovereign ethnically homogeneous enclaves and allowing for similar communities among other ethnic groups and non-racial ideological tendencies. Left-wing anarchists frequently seem to have no conception of the principle of voluntarism when it comes to questions of social relations and often seem committed to eliminating those who oppose their rabid integrationist/left-multiculturalist agenda by violence. In many ways, these two diametrical opposites may be necessary counterparts to one another within the broader realm of anarchist theory. This conflict also illustrates the degree to which most contemporary anarchist factions are derived from the cultural fringes. Most people are neither racists nor racial separatists or “anti-racist” multicultural fanatics. Presumably, once the New World Order is defeated and modernism disappears, communities and regions will emerge that reflect the entire panoply of racial and ethnic identity. There will likely be homelands for racial separatists and/or supremacists, authoritarian multiculturalists, militant integrationists, and racially neutral persons such as myself alike.
[104] For background on the Fortuyn phenomenon, see Tjebbe van Tijen, “The Sorrow of the Netherlands,” http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-newright/article_382.jsp.
[105] Keith Preston, “Canning Reactionary Leftism,” chapter 11 of this volume.
[106] The adoption of some pseudo-Nietzschean concepts may be useful here. Nietzsche tended to categorize persons as slaves, masters, and “Übermenschen.” A heterodox adoption of these categories may provide us with certain insights into modern social psychology. Most people appear to fall into the category of the “slaves,” demonstrating an inability to think or act independently of group norms, directions provided by authority figures, and the values of their particular culture of origin. The dominant instincts for this category are those of survival and the herd. They are concerned primarily with obtaining their own day-to-day sustenance and look to peers and leaders for a sense of security and identity, hence the reflexive, non-reflective, and often quite irrational attachment of those in this category to particularistic notions like religion, tradition, “morality” as defined by their culture of origin, nationality, ethnicity, family, the orthodoxy of the official ideology of the state to which they are subjects, and so on. The category of the “masters” includes those who are more intelligent and perceptive than others, and also more ruthless and cunning. This element tends to see through established cultural, political, religious, national, or moral myths, and instead devote themselves to the pursuit of power, wealth, and pleasure. It is from this category that societal leaders in the political and economic realms are typically drawn. The final category, the Nietzschean “Übermenschen,” are those genuinely superior individuals who find base concerns like the pursuit of wealth and power for its own sake to be unsatisfying. For this element, knowledge, creativity, and discovery are the highest values. It is from this category that the greatest achievers in the arts, sciences, and philosophy are drawn. It is those in this category who become the innovators and instigators of genuine human progress.
[107] Larry Gambone, “The Neocons in a Nutshell,” http://attackthesystem.com/2013/09/05/the-neocons-in-a-nutshell/#comment-53510.
[108] Paul Gottfried, “The Trotsky Hour,” http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried46.html.
[109] Paul Gottfried, “The Trotsky Hour,” http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried46.html.
[110] Ancient Hebraic religion seems to me to be more closely related to pre-biblical paganism than either Christianity or Islam. First, it is considerably more particularistic, the Jews having their god, Yahweh, with each of the other ethno-cultures having theirs, whether it be Shamash, Baal, Moloch, Zeus, or whomever. Also, biblical Judaism in considerably more “this-worldly” than its two offshoots, with this life and the nation of Israel being where the action is. Christianity seems to me be little more than an apostate, apocalyptic spin-off from Judaism intertwined with various ideas lifted from paganism—virgin births, savior gods, resurrections from the dead, etc. Islam has always seemed to me to be a cheap imitation of Christianity, albeit one with superior warrior traditions.
[111] Shadia B. Drury, Leo Strauss and the American Right (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).
[112] Preston, “Canning Reactionary Leftism.”
[113] Kenneth J. Schmidt, “Populist Nationalism Developing Across the Western World,” The Barnes Review 9, no. 3 (May–June 2003), http://www.barnesreview.org/May_2003/Populist/populist.html.
[114] Keith Preston, “Conservatism Is Not Enough: Reclaiming the Legacy of the Anti-State Left,” chapter 6 of this vo
lume.
[115] Preston, “Canning Reactionary Leftism.”
[116] From Aristotle, we derive the core principles of logic against mysticism and irrationalism. From Burke and Jefferson, we understand the relationship of community to anti-statism. From Stirner and Nietzsche, we recognize the importance of the superior individual in the shaping of history. From Proudhon, we adopt the classical anarchist alternative to state-capitalism. From Mencken, we understand that no totems should be spared attack. From Lawrence Dennis, we know the importance of operational as opposed to ideological thinking. From Hayek, Kirk, and Nisbet, we champion evolved traditions, organic society, and natural social evolution against centralist social engineering schemes of any kind.
[117] Archonis, “Onward Eurasia,” http://www.rosenoire.org/essays/eurasia.php. See also Archonis, “The Hammer of Nihilation,” http://www.rosenoire.org/essays/hammer.php.
[118] Alexander Dugin, “Manifesto of the Eurasia Movement,” http://arctogaia.com/public/eng/Manifesto.html.
[119] From the Arctogaia website at http://www.arctogaia.com/public/engl1.htm.
[120] For a look at the works of David Michael, visit his website athttp://www.nationalanarchist.com. For an overview of national-anarchism, visit http://www.rosenoire.org and http://terrafirma.rosenoire.org.
[121] Jaroslaw Tomasiewicz, “An Alternative to the American Empire of the New World Order,” http://www.attackthesystem.com/alternative.html.
[122] Schmidt, “Populist Nationalism Developing Across the Western World.”
[123] For an unintentionally comical discussion of “producerism” by a reactionary leftist, see “Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort,” http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/producerism.html.
[124] Noam Chomsky has developed an interesting “investment theory” of US politics. Chomsky argues that the US political system operates on the basis of shifting coalitions of investors. These investors have previously acquired enough private wealth and power to make the acquisition of political power feasible. See Anthony Gancarski, “Does Noam Chomsky Hate America?,” http://www.antiwar.com/gancarski/gan102403.html.
[125] Mark Gillespie, “The Vanguard Idea,” http://www.attackthesystem.com/the-vanguard-idea/. See also Keith Preston, “Smashing the State: Thoughts on Anarchist Strategy,” chapter 24 of this volume.
[126] David Michael, “On Strategy,” http://www.nationalanarchist.com/strategy.html
[127] Hoppe, Democracy.
[128] David Michael, “Unity in Diversity,” http://www.nationalanarchist.com/unity.html.
[129] Troy Southgate, “The Case for National-Anarchist Entryism,” http://www.rosenoire.org/articles/entryism.php.
[130] Larry Gambone, “Proudhon and Anarchism: Proudhon’s Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement,” http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/proudhon/sp001863.html.
[131] Dennis Prager, “The Second American Civil War: What It’s About,” http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2003/10/14/the_second_american_civil_war_what_its_about/page/full, and “The Second American Civil War: What It’s About—Part II,” http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2003/10/21/the_second_american_civil_war_what_its_about_part_ii/page/full.
[132] Joseph Sobran, “A New Constitution—Coming Up!,” http://www.sobran.com/columns/2003/030930.shtml.
[133] John Fonte, “The Ideological War Within the West,” September 9, 2002, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=2853.
[134] Joseph Sobran, “The Empire and Its Denizens,” The Wanderer, May 15, 2003.
[135] Robert Locke, “Why America Is Not a Propositional Nation,” Front Page Magazine, June 4, 2002, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24240.
[136] Larry Gambone, Sane Anarchy (Montreal: Red Lion Press, 1995), 12.
[137] Norman Mailer, “I Am Not for World Empire,” The American Conservative, December 2, 2002, 18.
[138] Gambone, Sane Anarchy, 9.
[139] David Michael, “National Anarchist FAQ,” http://www.nationalanarchist.com/faq.html.
[140] Michael, “Unity in Diversity.”
[141] Gambone, Sane Anarchy, 12.
[142] Ibid., 8.
[143] Gambone, “The Neocons in a Nutshell.”
[144] Kevin Carson, “A ‘Political’ Program for Anarchists,” http://attackthesystem.com/a-political-program-for-anarchists/.
[145] Ibid.
[146] Opposition to the drug war as a wedge issue has been repeatedly suggested by R. W. Bradford of Liberty magazine.
[147] Tijen, “The Sorrow of the Netherlands.”
[148] Gambone, Sane Anarchy, 13.
[149] One thing that will certainly be necessary in the broader struggle against the New World Order, particularly in the Western countries, is the cultivation of a warrior ethic appropriate to the battle at hand. Thus far, most Western radicals are heavily under the influence of the delusions of liberalism, humanism, pacifism, democratism, and other perspectives that look askance at any sort of warrior ethic. Traditions and cultural phenomenon we might look to for inspiration include the gladiators of ancient Rome, the Spartan warriors, the chivalry of medieval knights, the New Model Army, the Taiping rebels, the bushido warrior ethics of the samurai and the kamikaze, and, of course, modern Islamic jihadists.
[150] Joseph Sobran, “The Reluctant Anarchist,” http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/sobran-j1.html.
[151] Paul Craig Roberts, “A Holocaust in the Making,” http://www.antiwar.com/cs/roberts3.html.
[152] Larry Gambone, Porcupine Blog, May 17, 2003.
[153] William S. Lind, “That Old Romanov Feeling,” The American Conservative, April 9, 2012.
[154] Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992).
[155] William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II(Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2003); James A. Lucas, “Deaths in Other Nations Since WWII Due to U.S. Interventions,” Countercurrents.Org, April 24, 2007, http://www.countercurrents.org/lucas240407.htm (accessed September 23, 2012).
[156] Michael Schmidt, “South Asian Anarchism: Paths to Practice,” Anarkismo.net, July, 27, 2012, http://www.anarkismo.net/article/23404 (accessed September 23, 2012).
[157] Ibid.
[158] Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot (Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1990).
[159] James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World (New York: John Day, 1941).
[160] Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man(New York: Free Press, 1992).
[161] Keith Preston, “The New Totalitarianism,” chapter 15 of this volume.
[162] Martin van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
[163] Daniel McCarthy, “Left, Right, and Le Pen,” LewRockwell.Com, April 30, 2002, http://www.lewrockwell.com/dmccarthy/dmccarthy31.html (accessed September 23, 2012).
[164] Schmidt, “South Asian Anarchism.”
[165] Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996 [1973]).
[166] Johann Hari, “How Multiculturalism Is Betraying Women,” The Independent, April 30, 2007, http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-multiculturalism-is-betraying-women-446806.html
[167] Harold Barclay, People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchism (London: Kahn and Averill, 1982); Robert L. Carneiro, “Political Expansion as an Expression of the Principle of Competitive Exclusion,” in Origins of the State: The Anthropology of Political Evolution, ed. Ronald Cohen and Elman R. Service (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978), 219; Tim Ingold, “On the Social Relations of the Hunter-Gatherer Band,” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers, ed. Richard B. Lee and Richard Heywood Daly (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
> [168] Norman Yoffee, Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States and Civilizations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 05), 102.
[169] Martin van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 1–58.
[170] Ibid., 127–54.
[171] Ibid., 184–88.
[172] Benoît Dubreuil, Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies: The State of Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 189; Scott Gordon, Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 4; Colin Hay, “State Theory,” in Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, ed. R. J. Barry Jones (London: Routledge, 2001), 3:1469–75; John Donovan et al., People, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Science (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993), 20; Martin Shaw, War and Genocide: Organized Killing in Modern Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2003), 59.
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