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A 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 humanism’s focus on privilege and microaggressions forestalls social revolution. Is feminism necessary in the West? Radical gender equality. How the men’s rights movement fits the dictionary definition of feminism. MGTOW: Men Going Their Own Way, the new subculture of anti-marriage relationship nihilists. No “hope” for revolution. “Anarchist” More…

Attack 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, and atheists Spencer Pearson and Keith Preston. Topics include: The unfortunate history of mutual persecution between Christians, pagans, and secularists. The question of which religious or philosophical traditions have the most blood on their hands. How political decentralization and cultural separation help to foster peaceful co-existence File More…

Attack 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. Why the libertarian movement is merely a microcosm of the wider society. How the mainstream right is experiencing a growing conflict between libertarians, neoconservatives, and social conservatives. The bleak future of the Republican Party.

Attack 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 traditions. Her involvement with the National-Anarchist Tribal Alliance of New York. Do-It-Yourself activism and intentional communities. Anarchism on the macro-level and micro-level. The human instinct for freedom and resistance to oppression. The importance of alternative sources of food production. The role of art, music, and culture in More…

Attack 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 men than women. The left/right divide within libertarianism and anarchism. The role of statist oppression vs oppressive social and cultural norms. The relationship between libertarianism and women’s issues. Currents within feminism and how these compare and contrast with libertarian values. Is the pendulum swinging concerning gender role More…

Attack 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 Paul campaigns as a transition to more radical forms of libertarianism. Subversive concepts such as agorism, counter-economics, and crypto-anarchy. Gender roles and the cultural divide among anarchists and libertarians. Educating the public on knowing their rights during encounters with the police. The increasing repression of the poor More…

Attack 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 related to pan-secessionism from the personal or collective views of individual activists or organizations. The need for a federation of anti-state movements. The possibility of an alliance of minor political parties around common interests. A call for a Peoples’ Economic Front. The need to cultivate anti-system political More…

Attack 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 1920s. C. Wright Mills as the godfather of power elite theory. James Burnham and the managerial revolution. William Domhoff and the role of ideological institutions. Robert Putnam and the role of technological elites. Thomas Dye and the development of consensus among elites. How the power elite uses More…

Attack 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 suppress dissident political movements. The various components of the American police state that has emerged in recent decades. How constitutional rights have been hollowed out by police state legislation and a compliant judiciary. How the system has been able to co-opt past protest movements and integrate these More…

Attack 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 Tolstoy and Dorothy Day. The nature of freedom within the context of traditional Christian and historic Greek thought. The relationship between freedom and ethics. How the plutocratic elite helped to develop the 1960s counterculture. How freedom is dependent on individual virtue, and how tyrants pacify their subjects More…

Keith Preston discusses his new book. More…

Keith Preston continues his discussion of the decline of American progressives as an effective opposition force, and outlines an agenda for a new radicalism. More…

Attack 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 this thesis is consistent with the ARV-ATS outlook. Rick Perlstein’s skeptical response, which raises the spectre of an American fascism. How the Left has never recovered from the traumatizing experience of fascism and the crippling paranoia that grips the Left as a result. Why Anarchists should reject More…

Attack 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 society will become more diverse and integrated than ever before due to demographic change. How more and more previously marginalized social groups will begin to demand recognition. Why the Republican Party has no future. How the war on drugs and the prison-industrial have leveled off and started More…

Attack 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 necessity of realizing that a far reaching revolution has occurred in the Western world over the past half century: cultural, demographic, generational, socioeconomic, and technological. How the cultural radicals of the 1960s and 1970s undertook a long march through established institutions and came to power in the More…

Attack 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 nations” emerging in opposition to the empire. Russia as a potential benefactor of fourth generation warfare tendencies. The possibility of cooperation between rogue nations, independence movements and separatist forces, and fourth generation armies against the empire. The empire’s ongoing belligerence against Iran. The repression of Golden Dawn More…

Attack 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 radicalism, which underestimates the importance of genuine revolutionary struggle. How the advancement of civilization ultimately involves period episodes of political and social upheaval. The necessity of revolutionary political leadership that is capable of meeting ordinary people where they are at while retaining a long term radical vision. More…

Biographical 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 of the Yippies, and defendant in the Chicago Conspiracy trial. His immersion in the lifestyle fads of the 1970s and reinvention of himself as a yuppie businessman in the 1980s. His subsequent “yippie vs yuppie” debates with former partner Abbie Hoffman before his death in 1994 at More…

Attack 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 elitism and populism, reform and revolution. Why the revolutionary struggle must be international in character even as revolutionary movements within different nations, cultures, and communities will retain their unique identities. How successful revolutionary struggles in one region or nation might provide for their self-defense in a world More…

Attack 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 Death of Empire.” How a resurgent Russia is challenging the unipolar American empire as predicted in the same essay. How the liberal internationalist/cultural Marxist alliance has become the dominant ruling class faction as predicted in the “Liberty and Populism” essay. How totalitarian humanism is emerging as the More…

News 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 shape U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. How Obama’s planned aggression against Syria is a mirror image of Bush’s and the neocons’ build up to war with Iran a decade ago. The astounding foolishness of U.S. diplomats like John Kerry and Samantha Power. Imperialism’s body count. More…

ATS 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 film "Occupied Cascadia." More…

Weekly 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 persecution of sexual minorities by the state. How sexual minority individuals like Chelsea Manning and Glenn Greenwald have taken the lead in the contemporary struggle against the state. The contributions of homosexuals to past anarchist movements and the mixed record of anarchism’s relationship with homosexual rights issues. More…

News 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 detailing the growth of the American police state. How many on the Left are starting to realize the Left has failed to develop an effective opposition force against the Bush-Obama wars and surveillance regimes and how libertarians have picked up the torch. Eric Holder’s belated recognition that More…

Attack 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 of conservatism and libertarianism in polar opposite historical and philosophical currents. Why political anarchism and philosophical libertarianism are not synonymous. A discussion of the moral skepticism of Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner. A comparison of the 20th century ideological wars with the wars of religion from the More…

Keith Preston discusses the founding document of ARV-ATS and its continuing relevance to the struggle against the System. More…

News 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 how this fits with the ARV-ATS prediction that Russia and other rogue nations might be sources of support for future anti-imperialist insurgencies. How libertarian politicians like Ron and Rand Paul are ultimately no solution to the problem of the soft totalitarian state but might be “gateway drugs” More…

Attack 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 speech in England. Why defending the outcast, despised, and disreputable much be a libertarian first principle. How too many left-anarchists have become de facto liberal Democrats and too many right-libertarians have become de facto conservative Republicans. Why the revolutionary strategy and program of ARV-ATS necessarily involves the More…

News 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 middle class cultural politics. John MacArthur’s piece in Harper’s attacking the Wilsonian legacy of the Democratic Party and calling for a left/right alliance against the surveillance state. Justin Raimondo’s observation of the increasing appeal of libertarians and paleo-rightists like Rand Paul to liberals dismayed by the Left’s More…

Attack 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 the Zimmerman trial. The legacy of the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army. The influence of black anarchist thinkers like Ashanti Alston and Lorenzo Komboa Ervin. Contemporary black anarchist tendencies like Black Autonomy Federation and Anarchist People of Color. Black nationalism, anarcho-capitalism, and black libertarians. Problems More…

Attack 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 of white nationalism. The backstory to the odd relationship between ATS and white nationalism. The many variations in white nationalist ideology. Issues raised by white nationalists. Failures and excesses in the white nationalist milieu. The reasons for left-wing hysteria over white nationalists. How the Left and white More…

News 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. . The political persecution of Adam Kokesh and the lessons his experience provides for anti-state radicals. The California prison system’s alarming practice of coerced sterilization of female inmates. File type: MP3 Length: 33:51 Bitrate: 32kb/s Download (right click, ‘save as’) Email Keith: kppgarv@mindspring.com

ATS 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 the gang population in the United States. Gangs as a form of stateless tribal networks and models of fourth generation warfare organizations. Past efforts at the political organization of gangs. The role of gangs in past rebellions such as the 1992 West Coast uprisings. Why the lumpenproletariat More…

Attack 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 and the foundation for a new anarchist movement. The ambition of ARV/ATS to represent the near-universal discontent with “the system” now prevalent in American and other societies and offer a positive alternative vision. The ongoing conflicts between ARV/ATS and the mainstream anarchist movement and why such conflicts More…

News 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 Islamic states. The ongoing saga of Edward Snowden and why there must be public campaigns on behalf of whistleblowers on the model of the “Free Mumia” movement. The ongoing atrocities perpetrated by the American police state on innocent civilians and the need for a militant anti-police insurgency More…

Attack 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 became failures. Why gay marriage has so much symbolic value to both Left and Right even if its practical impact is More…

Keith 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 for the evolution of anti-state radicalism beyond both leftist anarcho-social democracy and vulgar libertarian plutocratic apologies. More…

News 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 products. Social media as a double-edged sword. How whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, or Julian Assange will likely become more common in the More…

Keith Preston explains how concerns about the surveillance state are creating opportunities for new political realignments. More…

Keith 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…

ATS 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 revolution. -The need for an American Hezbollah. More…

Keith 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…

Keith 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…

Keith 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…

Keith 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 movements who recognize the need for a united revolutionary front against common enemies. More…

Keith Preston offers a critical evaluation of the movement that shaped the cultural life of contemporary Western societies. Topics include: The intellectual and political origins of the New Left as a "fourth way" movement beyond capitalism, fascism, and communism. The convergence of social forces during the 1960s that made the growth of the New Left possible. The success of the New Left at carrying out a comprehensive cultural revolution in Western civilization. The failure of the New Left at opposing American imperialism, challenging the hegemony of plutocratic capitalism, and preventing the subsequent growth of police state repression. More…

Keith Preston interviews returning guest Ryan Faulk. Topics include: Ryan's latest project, the All Nations Party, a proposed political meta-party devoted to pan-secessionism. How such a party might be composed of sub-parties devoted to specific regional, ideological, or identitarian interests and how these might break down into constituent sub-interests of their own. How cultural conflict prevents the growth of effective opposition to the political class. More…