Highlighting U.S. intervention in the further destruction of Somalia and as Ugandans mourn a terrorist attack from Somali militants and Fareed Zakaria noting the non-threat of ‘failed states’ and the imminent blowback induced by the failed missions of nation building.
Posts Tagged ‘anarchy’
The ‘Failed State’ Boogeyman
Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Political Science, SomaliaTags: AFRICOM, Ahmed Hassan, Al Shabaab, AMISOM, anarchism, anarchy, AQN ExOrd, Awil Salah Osman, Bush Administration, CENTCOM, child soldiers, CIA, civilian casualties, Clinton Administration, covert operations, Defense Department, Donald Rumsfeld, Ethiopia, failed state, failed states index, Fareed Zakaria, fascism, Greg Jaffe, Horn of Africa, human rights, humanitarian aid, humanitarian crisis, Jeffrey Gettleman, Jeremy Scahill, Kampala, Karen DeYoung, Lord’s Resistance Army, Mark Fineman, military welfare, Mogadishu, Mohamed Abdi Godane, Mohamed Siad Barre, Newspeak, oil, Paul Wolfowitz, Pentagon, SOF, Somalia, Special Ops, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Cambone, Suzanne Goldberg, terrorism, Uganda, UN, UN Security Council, UNSC, USAID, War, War on Terror, Xan Rice
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Charles Johnson’s ‘Liberty, Equality and Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism’
Posted: 6 March 2010 by Little Alex in Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: activism, anarchism, anarchy, anti-authoritarianism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-Statism, Austrian School, Ayn Rand, Benjamin Tucker, bossism, capitalism, Charles johnson, Constitutionalists, corporatism, culuture, David Beito, economics, equality, fascism, feminism, French Revolution, Friedrich Hayek, Herbert Spencer, human rights, labor, law, left libertarianism, libertarian, libertarian socialism, libertarianism, liberty, Lysander Spooner, market-anarchism, minarchism, Murray Rothbard, mutualism, Newspeak, revolution, Roderick Long, sexual liberation, socialism, solidarity, state capitalism, US, women's liberation
“I will argue that, rightly understood, these demands are more intertwined than many contemporary libertarians realize: each contributes an essential element to a radical challenge to any form of coercive authority,” Charles “Rad Geek” Johnson wrote in this essay published in 2008, excerpted in this post. “Taken together, they undermine the legitimacy of any form of government authority, including the ‘limited government’ imagined by minarchists.”
Workplace Direct Action and Libertarian Theory
Posted: 25 February 2010 by Brad Spangler in Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, anti-Statism, Brad Spangler, corporatism, free market, labor, labor unions, libertarian, libertarian socialism, liberty, market anarchy, syndicalism, working class