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Insurrection vs. Pacifism: A False Dillema
There is a general traditional strategic split among anarchists between insurrectionary anarchism and pacifist anarchism. Insurrection is generally associated with either individual or public violent revolution, although if one wants to be specific it...
Posted Wed, Jun 3 2009 by Brainpolice | 5 comment(s)
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Struggling With Max Stirner
I have a great amount of respect for the near-forgotten figure Max Stirner. His ill-famed "The Ego and His Own" is probably the most radical, thought provoking and challenging writting that I have ever read. Not only did Stirner explicitly take...
Posted Sun, Jan 25 2009 by Brainpolice | 14 comment(s)
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On Amoralist Anarchism
I've been a part of numerous online social networks or general social groups online that contains some amoralist anarchists, who either are former libertarian anarchists who have come to reject libertarianism or they are anarchists who rejected libertarianism...
Posted Thu, Jan 22 2009 by Brainpolice | 7 comment(s)
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Politics Is The Opiate Of The Masses
Theism is not the only kind of mysticism. Collectivist and political ideologies are also forms of mysticism. The nature of politics involves blind faith in a "highest essence". The abstractions of these "highest essences" function...
Posted Tue, Jun 3 2008 by Brainpolice | 571 comment(s)
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The Paradox of "State's Rights"
One of the most well known American legal traditions is state's rights. State's rights is essentially the idea that each individual state should retain its sovereignty or independance from the federal government. The idea is that each state may...
Posted Wed, May 7 2008 by Brainpolice | 2 comment(s)
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Re: Moral vs Hierarchical obligations
The following is a response to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoXjrlxDSL4 Dear Mr1001Nights, Unchosen positive obligations are indeed slavery, which should be obvious because the obligations are not chosen. In claiming or bestowing unchosen...
Posted Thu, Feb 28 2008 by Brainpolice | 2 comment(s)
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Anarchism and Atheism, Theism and Statism
Anarchism and atheism are both defined in negative terms. As general paradimes they do not actually advocate any particular belief or system of organization. They represent the lack of a belief. Atheism is a lack of belief in deities and religions, while...
Posted Fri, Dec 28 2007 by Brainpolice | 2 comment(s)
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Minarchism: Ethically Self-contradictary
The basic idea of minarchism is that the government should be expressly small and limited to the defense of person and property of those within the territorial dominion of the government. This generally implies that the government's services be limited...
Posted Tue, Nov 27 2007 by Brainpolice | 494 comment(s)
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