Salon, ““Weeping Nazi” Christopher Cantwell went from libertarian to fascist — and he’s not alone”

Sheffield traced the paleo-libertarian movement — which is essentially a merging of free-market fundamentalism and far-right cultural populism — back to the “anarcho-capitalist” economist Murray Rothbard, who is famous for, among other things, advocating child labor and claiming that parents should have the legal right “not to feed [their] child [and] allow it to die.” Rothbard was a co-founder of the […]

Salon, “Stop calling the party of Donald Trump “conservative”: It’s a party of dangerous, destructive reactionaries”

In the United States, it has long been common for political terms to deviate considerably from their original European meaning, or even to acquire entirely new meanings. After the New Deal, for example, liberal came to represent those who advocated social democratic policies (e.g., universal health care, income and wealth redistribution, social security, strong labor unions) in America, […]

Tablet, “Cuban Solidarity and the Death of the Tyrant”

It is also true that, in Cuba, other people resisted the Batista dictatorship relentlessly and at every moment, and forever did their best to uphold a higher ideal for Cuban society, and had some achievements, too. I offer a factional example from the Cuban labor movement. The workers’ movement arose in Cuba in the later […]

Vice, “Libertarians Are Done with Politics,” October 15, 2014

Libertarians Are Done with Politics Cecelia D’Anastasio, Vice, October 15, 2014 This Saturday, Derrick Broze, a dreadlocked anarchist from Texas, was sitting alone reading in the VIP room of New York City’s LibertyFest while preparing to give a speech on how to dismantle the government. As the room filled with what Broze referred to as “celebretarians,” […]