By Ben on April 1, 2011
Posted in Books, News and Views | Tagged community, Detroit, Grace Boggs, interview, revolution, sustainability, urban |
From MetroTimes:
Grace Lee Boggs says she would like the chapter titles of her new book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, written with Scott Kurashige, to become buzzwords for progressive activists.
So I imagine “Detroit, Place and Space to Begin Anew” or “We Are the Leaders We’ve Been Looking For” on T-shirts, [...]
By Ben on November 15, 2010
Posted in Art, Books, Communication, Digital, Music | Tagged copyleft, copyright, Samuel Konkin |
Found a great post on lewrockwell by SEKIII about his view on the fallacy of copyrights. These ideas can be expanded to the current digital media debate with the RIAA. A novel take on copyright licenses that allows free use of someones work in the public domain, is called copyleft. This basically gives each person [...]
By Kevin on July 21, 2010
Posted in Books, Mental, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged essay, Frank Chodorov, individualism, non-voting, protest |
I recently ordered Fugitive Essays by Frank Chodorov (1887-1966), a collection of his essays, and have been thoroughly enjoying the read. In it, he rails against statism of all stripes. He is a staunch individualist who opposed intervention in the marketplace and foreign affairs.
I just finished reading his essay entitled If We Quit Voting, and [...]
By Harold on April 20, 2010
Posted in Books, Featured Posts, Self-Defense | Tagged army field manual, fighting, free book, mixed martial arts |
Learn what the U.S. Army teaches it’s troops in hand-to-hand combat techniques, with the newest version of the U.S. Army Field Manual for Combatives. Based heavily on Gracie Brazilian jiu-jitsu, the current version (2002) of the U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-25.150 was drafted by Matt Larsen, Director of the Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) [...]
By Ben on April 8, 2010
Posted in Books, Mental, Philosophy | Tagged Complete Liberty, free book, freedom, state, voluntaryism, Wes Bertrand |
Wes Bertrand, the author of this book, hosts an excellent, weekly podcast by the same name. He has made his book available as a free PDF download, as well as readable online, and in audiobook form.
This book starts by covering what’s wrong with the state system, common myths, incomplete solutions, and the nature of freedom. [...]
By Ben on April 7, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Books | Tagged Alongside Night, collapse, fiction, free market, J Neil Schulman, novel, science fiction |
This book is a fictional story of the triumph of the truly free market in a chaotic world on the brink of collapse.
Published in 1979, the 30th anniversary edition is now available as a free PDF from Pulpless.
What the critics are saying:
“An absorbing novel–science fiction, yet also a cautionary tale with a disturbing resemblance to [...]
