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Woke Revolutionaries Versus Americanists
January 29, 2023 03:18Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Thomas D. Klingenstein and John Fonte Some words of advice for Jim Banks’s new anti-woke caucus. Indiana congressman Jim Banks recently announced the formation of an anti-woke caucus. Good. Banks is acknowledging, for the first time at a congressional level, the danger of woke tyranny. […]
Sanctuary Cities: The Way Forward for Pan-Anarchism and Pan-Secessionism?
December 04, 2021 04:01The article below seriously advocates for “pro-choice” sanctuary cities. Meanwhile, there are now at least 41 “pro-life sanctuaries” in existence. Pro-gun sanctuaries now include 1200 localities. About 40% of local jurisdictions in the US are now marijuana sanctuaries. Over 500 jurisdictions in the US are immigration sanctuaries. Efforts […]
Towards a Third World Class System
June 15, 2019 18:33 - 4.8 MBA fan created a montage of audio clips from Kick the Puppy Season One showing how we are moving towards a third world model class system. Right click to download
Beyond Social Justice
October 01, 2015 03:51 - 34.7 MBA discussion with Ian Mayes, Nexus X Humectress, and Keith Preston about how social justice activism has led anarchist movements astray and lots of other stuff. Topics include: Anarcho-pacifism Intentional communities Beyond Social Justice: how historical opposition to valid injustices has now evolved into something absurd. How totalitarian […]
Roundtable on Religion and the State: Can Pagans, Christians, and Atheists Get Along?
August 20, 2014 23:54 - 32.9 MBAttack the System Roundtable on Religion and the State: Can Pagans, Christians, and Atheists Get Along? August 3, 2014 ATS contributors discuss their spiritual and theological perspectives, and the relationship of these to history, ethics, and politics. Features conservative Christians Brock Bellerive and Todd Lewis, pagan Rodney Huber, […]
The State of the Resistance: Five Years Into the Age of Obama
April 12, 2014 06:23 - 15 MBAttack the System The State of the Resistance: Five Years Into the Age of Obama April 7, 2014 Keith Preston critiques the growing libertarian movement within the context of current political trends in the United States. Topics include: Topics include: How libertarianism has grown in popularity since 2007. […]
Anarchism and Spirituality
February 26, 2014 04:22 - 25.3 MBAttack the System Anarchism and Spirituality: An Interview with Jay Cypher February 22, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Jay Cypher, anarchist anthropologist and scholar of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and social movements. Topics include: Topics include: Her recent lecture “Anarchy and Spiritual Practice.” Libertarian tendencies within various religious […]
Women Against The State
February 02, 2014 03:06 - 29.6 MBAttack the System Women Against the State February 1, 2014 A panel discussion with M.K. Lords, Becky Belding, Trista Rundatz, and Keith Preston about gender issues in the libertarian milieu, and wider issues facing the libertarian and anarchist movements. Topics include: Topics include: Why anti-state movements attract more […]
Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords
January 30, 2014 00:13 - 20 MBAttack the System Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords January 29, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Bitcoin and counter-economics activist M. K. Lords. Topics include: How Bitcoins can be used to bypass the warfare state and assist with social justice issues such as homelessness. The Ron […]
Beyond Partisanship: The Fundamentals of Pan-Secessionist Activism
January 06, 2014 01:00 - 21.2 MBAttack the System Beyond Partisanship: The Fundamentals of Pan-Secessionist Activism January 5, 2014 Keith Preston gives a comprehensive overview of the ARV-ATS strategic outlook and clarifies certain misconceptions. Topics include: Why the philosophy of self-determination transcends ordinary partisan boundaries. The need to distinguish the meta-political and meta-strategic concepts […]
Attack the System: Who Are the Power Elite?
December 30, 2013 09:29 - 16.9 MBAttack the System Who Are the Power Elite? December 29, 2013 Keith Preston dissects the American ruling class. Topics include: The difference between power elite analysis and conspiracy theories. Power elite analysis versus theories of democratic pluralism. Classical elite theory as developed during the interwar period of the […]
Attack the System: The Intersection of Drug Prohibition, Totalitarian Humanism, and the Police State
December 13, 2013 18:45 - 21.6 MBAttack the System The Intersection of Drug Prohibition, Totalitarian Humanism, and the Police State December 8, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the power elite’s system of ideological and legal control. Topics include: How international drug prohibition is largely an American creation. How the war on drugs was instigated to […]
Attack the System: An Interview with Todd Lewis
November 29, 2013 00:17 - 20.7 MBAttack the System An Interview with Todd Lewis November 24, 2013 Keith Preston interviews Christian philosopher Todd Lewis. Topics include: Anti-state traditions within historic Christianity. The essence of the Christian faith and the nature of an organic Christian community. The Christian pacifist tradition of thinkers such as Leo […]
Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century
November 11, 2013 16:31 - 16.8 MBKeith Preston discusses his new book.
Moving to the Left of the Left of the Left, Part Two: Why the Progressive Left is Now Conservative
November 03, 2013 20:44 - 15.3 MBKeith Preston continues his discussion of the decline of American progressives as an effective opposition force, and outlines an agenda for a new radicalism.
Moving to the Left of the Left of the Left: The Case for Pan-Anarchism
October 21, 2013 06:46 - 15.2 MBAttack the System Moving to the Left of the Left of the Left: The Case for Pan-Anarchism October 20, 2013 Keith Preston continues his discussion of the likely political future of the United States. Topics include: Peter Beinart’s recent article, “The Rise of New New Left,” and how […]
The Next 30 Years of American Politics
October 14, 2013 03:36 - 68.1 MBAttack the System The Next 30 Years of American Politics October 13, 2013 Keith Preston discusses how American political culture will likely develop over the next few decades. Topics include: Why the American Empire will continue to implode due to loss of legitimacy and fiscal constraints. Why American […]
Libertarian Populism vs Totalitarian Humanism: The Battle for the 21st Century
October 07, 2013 13:48 - 20.1 MBAttack the System Libertarian Populism vs Totalitarian Humanism: The Battle for the 21st Century October 7, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the dynamics of political conflict as it will unfold over the coming century. Topics include: Pareto’s insight that political history involves perpetual struggles between elites and counter-elites. The […]
The World According to ARV-ATS
September 30, 2013 04:52 - 15 MBAttack the System The World According to ARV-ATS September 29, 2013 Keith Preston discusses contemporary events from the perspective of the ARV-ATS philosophy and strategy. Topics include: How Putin’s upstaging of Obama over Syria indicates the American state’s loss of legitimacy. The possibility of a bloc of “rogue […]
Grand Alliance Theory and Fourth Generation Warfare, Part Two: In Defense of Revolutionary Struggle
September 22, 2013 17:57 - 14.9 MBAttack the System Grand Alliance Theory and Fourth Generation Warfare, Part Two: In Defense of Revolutionary Struggle September 22, 2013 Keith Preston continues the discussion of revolutionary action within the context of contemporary political and military circumstances. Topics include: The unfortunate tendency of many contemporary radicals towards lifestyle […]
The Life and Times of Jerry Rubin
September 22, 2013 17:44 - 16.4 MBBiographical Podcast The Life and Times of Jerry Rubin September 21, 2013 Keith Preston examines the career of a 1960s radical leader and how it symbolizes the history of American society over the past 50 years. Topics include: Rubin’s role as an early anti-Vietnam War protest organizer, founder […]
Grand Alliance Theory and Fourth Generation Warfare
September 16, 2013 02:47 - 17.8 MBAttack the System Grand Alliance Theory and Fourth Generation Warfare September 15, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the definitive elements of the revolutionary struggle. Topics include: Common criticisms directed at ARV-ATS including accusations of reformism, crypto-statism, egalitarian populism, and reactionary nationalism. The need to strike a healthy balance between […]
Sometimes It Sucks to Be Right
September 09, 2013 00:26 - 13.6 MBAttack the System Sometimes It Sucks to Be Right September 8, 2013 Keith Preston revisits some of the core ATS documents in light of contemporary events. Topics include: How the neoconservatives have been eclipsed by the liberal internationalists as predicted in the 2003 essay “Philosophical Anarchism and the […]
Weekly News Update: September 2, 2013
September 09, 2013 00:12 - 6.42 MBNews of the Week Update September 2, 2013 Keith Preston discusses American saber rattling against Syria. Topics include: The role of the Power Elite in building the American Empire. The amazing continuity of U.S. foreign policy regardless of which party is in power. The convergence of interests that […]
Cascadia: Interview with Casey Corcoran
September 02, 2013 03:18 - 19.7 MBATS editors Keith Preston and Vince Rinehart discuss Cascadia and bioregionalism with guest Casey Corcoran. Topics include: -Defining Cascadia as a place rather than a political entity. -The ideas and history of bioregionalism as a movement. -The commonalities shared by colonized peoples. -The relationship between ecological crises and colonialism. -The need for food sovereignty. -How technological and ecological values can co-exist. -Why radical localism is the path to resistance. -The fil...
Totalitarian Humanism and the Paradox of the Sexual Minority Rights Movement
August 26, 2013 04:14 - 20.7 MBWeekly Podcast and News Update Totalitarian Humanism and the Paradox of the Sexual Minority Rights Movement August 25, 2013 Keith Preston revisits his controversial 2009 article “Is Extremism in the Defense of Sodomy No Vice?” in light of recent news events. Topics include: The lengthy history of the […]
Update August 18, 2013
August 19, 2013 04:26 - 7.63 MBNews of the Week Update August 18, 2013 ATS News of the Week Commentary with Keith Preston. Topics include: The harassment of Glenn Greenwald’s partner in London. The emerging left/right unity in opposition to the surveillance state. The work of writers like John Whitehead and William Norman Grigg […]
Where the Right Goes Wrong
August 18, 2013 18:28 - 23.7 MBAttack the System Where the Right Goes Wrong August 18, 2013 Keith Preston replies to conservative critic Todd Lewis’ critique of his work. Topics include: The actual origins and meaning of historic conservatism and why the contemporary American “conservative movement” is in fact a leftist movement. The roots […]
Back to Basics: The American Revolutionary Vanguard Twenty-Five Point Program
August 10, 2013 10:55 - 17.7 MBKeith Preston discusses the founding document of ARV-ATS and its continuing relevance to the struggle against the System.
The Manning Trial, Support Spots, the Paul Drug, and Libertarian Populism
August 04, 2013 18:45 - 6.28 MBNews of the Week The Manning Trial, Support Spots, the Paul Drug, and Libertarian Populism August 3, 2013 Weekly News Update Topics include: The trial and conviction of Bradley Manning and the necessity of a “Free Bradley” movement. The granting of asylum to Edward Snowden by Russia and […]
The Necessity of Defending the Undefendable
August 04, 2013 18:44 - 14.2 MBAttack the System The Necessity of Defending the Undefendable August 4, 2013 Keith Preston says too many anarchists and libertarians are falling down on the job. Topics include: A discussion of Walter Block’s classic work “Defending the Undefendable” and Sean Gabb’s new book on the decline of free […]
Weekly News Update July 23, 2013
July 29, 2013 07:52 - 6.43 MBNews of the Week Weekly News Update July 23, 2013 July 28, 2013 Keith Preston reviews recent articles that indicate ARV-ATS ideas are now moving into the mainstream. Topics include: Chris Hedges’ admission that the liberal class is a failure and has abandoned the poor in favor of […]
The Growth of Black Anarchism
July 29, 2013 07:51 - 8.68 MBAttack the System The Growth of Black Anarchism July 28, 2013 ATS senior editors Miles Joyner and Keith Preston discuss anarchist influences on radical tendencies in black communities. Topics include: The reaction of the black community to the Zimmerman verdict. The obscuring of the Bradley Manning trial by […]
“First They Came for the Fascists…”: Reflections on White Nationalism
July 22, 2013 02:59 - 22.6 MBAttack the System “First They Came for the Fascists…”: Reflections on White Nationalism July 21, 2013 Keith Preston strives for an objective analysis of the most taboo political philosophy. Topics include: The need to defend freedom of opinion and association for everyone. The lack of objective scholarly analysis […]
ATS News of the Week: Zimmerman Acquittal, Kokesh, and the Coerced Sterilization of Female Inmates
July 20, 2013 08:55 - 7.75 MBNews of the Week Zimmerman Acquittal, Kokesh, and the Coerced Sterilization of Female Inmates July 14, 2013 ATS Weekly News Update July 14, 2013 Topics include: The acquittal of George Zimmerman and the reasons for the media’s showering of attention on what was essentially a routine murder trial. […]
ATS Roundtable: Gangs and the Lumpenproletarian Class Base of Anti-System Struggle
July 15, 2013 02:03 - 17.9 MBATS Roundtable Gangs and the Lumpenproletarian Class Base of Anti-System Struggle July 14, 2013 ATS senior editors Miles Joyner, Vince Rinehart, and Keith Preston discuss the political potential of organized outlaws. Topics include: The misperception of gangs as a distinctively lower class social phenomenon. The enormous size of […]
Attack the System and the Question of Identity
July 08, 2013 18:04 - 14.7 MBAttack the System ATS and the Question of Identity July 8, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the theories of Daniel Byman of the RAND Corporation on the development of insurgent movements. Topics include: The identity of ARV/ATS as a challenge to the stagnant political ideas of the anarchist establishment […]
Attack the System: News of the Week July 8, 2013
July 08, 2013 17:44 - 5.93 MBNews of the Week Update July 8, 2013 July 8, 2013 ATS News of the Week Commentary with Keith Preston. Topics include: The overthrow of Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi and why the introduction of Western liberal democracy in Middle Eastern nations ironically tends to fuel the creation of […]
Attack the System: A Culture War Showdown at the Supreme Court
July 01, 2013 00:14 - 19.9 MBAttack the System A Culture War Showdown at the Supreme Court June 30, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the background and implications of the Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage. Topics include: Topics include: The historic role of the American judiciary as the legal arm of the ruling class. The mid-twentieth century shift in American jurisprudence towards the Left. The conservative backlash, Republican efforts to pack the judiciary with right-wing appointees, and how conservative successes be...
Attack the System: Robert Nozick and the Evolution of Anti-State Thought
June 26, 2013 22:47 - 11.7 MBKeith Preston discusses the work of the late Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick. Topics include: -Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" as a landmark work in political philosophy and its influence in academia. -How both the Left and Right often read Nozick selectively and vulgarize his thinking. -The relevance of Nozick's concept of the "ultra-minimal state" to fourth generation warfare theory. -Nozick's concept of a meta-utopia of self-determined communities and how this presents a model...
ROUNDTABLE: Gangs, Protesters, Facebook Groups, Whistleblowers, and more
June 24, 2013 01:49 - 14.5 MBNews of the Week ROUNDTABLE: Gangs, Protesters, Facebook Groups, Whistleblowers, and more June 23, 2013 A roundtable discussion of current events with ATS senior editors Keith Preston, Vincent Rinehart, and Michael Parish. Topics include: Recent gang killings in Chicago and the significance of gangs as a socio-political phenomenon. The protests in Turkey and Brazil. The limitations and possibilities of protest movements. How people choose their political ideologies as package deal consumer pr...
The Case of Edward Snowden: Breaking Down Boundaries of Left and Right
June 17, 2013 11:15 - 6.63 MBKeith Preston explains how concerns about the surveillance state are creating opportunities for new political realignments. More…
Attack the System: The Struggle to Come
June 17, 2013 11:15 - 15.2 MBKeith discusses the process of revolutionary build up that must occur in the decades ahead for the System to be effectively challenged by mid-century.. More…
Keith on Bilderberg, Leslie Van Houten, the Surveillance State, and more
June 10, 2013 06:23 - 8.44 MBATS News of the Week Commentary with Keith Preston. Topics include: -The participants in the current Bilderberg gathering. -The shooting in Santa Monica. -The parole hearing of former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten. -The death of a young Antifa in France. -Obama's culpability in the growth of the surveillance state. -A discussion of Jeffrey St. Clair's article on the decline of the American Left. -Scott Locklin's article on why Americans are too fat and lazy for a revoluti...
For a Libertarian Legal Revolution
June 09, 2013 06:51 - 15.7 MBKeith calls for a revolutionary reorganization of law along libertarian lines. Topics include: -The non-aggression principle as the basis for libertarian law -Conflicting interpretations of the NAP among anti-state radicals. -How legal institutions in a stateless society might be organized. -Much needed reforms within the realm of criminal law. More…
No State Steps Down Without a Fight
June 05, 2013 12:29Tom Woods answers with the obvious. For some reason, the finger-waggers at Salon think they’ve got us stumped with this one: “If your approach is so great, why hasn’t any country in the world ever tried it?” So this is the unanswerable question? What’s supposed to be so hard about it? Ninety percent of what libertarians write about answers it at least implicitly. Let’s reword the question slightly, in order to draw out the answer. You’ll note that when stated correctly, the question contains ...
Big Government v Big Business: David McDonagh Replies to Keith Preston
June 04, 2013 11:05Libertarian Alliance I do not admire Keith Preston or his friend Kevin Carson. They seem to think in utterly unrealistic Romantic terms, such as class. Maybe the main one that I will criticism below is what seemed to be the most used term in the 80 minute talk that Keith Preston gave, a term I have long since loathed viz. pluralism. Before giving my objections to the Politically Correct [PC] term of pluralism, I will make a few other criticisms. My guess is that in the future society that is ...
Neither Big Government nor Big Business
June 03, 2013 11:40 - 18.4 MBKeith Preston criticizes the mainstream narratives that promote the myth of big government and big business being antagonists of one another. Topics include: The false narratives maintained by liberals and conservatives alike regarding the relationship between State and Capital. The rise in recent years of popular movements rooted in economic discontent. More…
Radicalizing the Center, Part Two: Reflections on Movement Building
May 27, 2013 06:24 - 17.6 MBKeith Preston continues his discussion of how to bring revolutionary anarchist ideas into the mainstream. Topics include: How the prevalence of cultural leftist fanaticism within the anarchist milieu is undermining the growth of the movement and outreach efforts. Why the state is a unique institution of oppression and why efforts to equate statism with other forms of authoritarianism are misguided. More…
Beyond Sectarian Anarchism: Radicalizing the Center
May 20, 2013 08:38 - 19.5 MBKeith Preston reflects on recent violent conflicts within the anarchist milieu and discusses more constructive approaches. Topics include: How the variety of hyphenated forms of anarchism will continue to grow as anarchism becomes a more prevalent political ideology. How the many hyphens within anarchism need not be a source of division but of strength and potential outreach to an ever greater number of constituencies. The need for leaders and activists to emerge in different anti-state ...