ALLiance Journal

Sustainability, Mutual Aid, and Liberation

By Chris Lempa

Originally published in Black Oak Presents, Winter 2009

“The mutual-aid tendency in humans has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to [...]

The Last, Whole Introduction to Agorism

by Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK3)

Originally published in The Agorist Quarterly, Fall 1995, Volume One, Number One.

Agorism, unfortunately, needs an introduction.

Counter-economics and agorism were originally fighting concepts, forged in what seemed to be the ever-cresting revolution of 1972-73, [...]

Free Enterprise: The Antidote to Corporate Plutocracy

By Keith Preston

A political libertarian, broadly defined, is someone who wishes to dramatically reduce the role of the state in human social life so as to maximize individual freedom of thought, action and association. The natural corollary to libertarian anti-statism is the defense of the free market in economic [...]

The Stateless Society: An Examination of Alternatives

by Stefan Molyneux

If the Twentieth Century proved anything, it is that the single greatest danger to human life are the thugs of the centralized political State, who extinguished more than 170 million souls during the bloodiest rampage in recorded history. By any rational standard, modern [...]

Eight Ways You Can Personally Help to Smash the State

By Francois Tremblay

One of the problems with Anarchism is that, unlike other political ideologies which rely on “the system,” the courses of actions one can take are not obvious. People who are convinced by the arguments are discouraged by the notion that “there’s nothing [...]

The Pen

By Royce Christian

There’s that old saying,

That the pen is,

Mightier than the sword.

But the metaphor is real,

The pen itself is a blade,

A sleek and versatile weapon.

A quick flick with a skilful hand,

And you can disembowel the dogma,

Of a soulless politician.

Cross swords [...]

An Introduction to Digital Gold: an excerpt

By Jim Davidson

“The coin is a delicate meter of civil, social, and moral changes…It is the finest barometer of social storms, and announces revolutions.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860, “Essay on Wealth”

My own personal introduction to digital gold currencies came in December 1998. Having been frustrated [...]

Human Resource Management

By Royce Christian

They get ‘em early.

When they’re fresh outta the womb.

Still in shock,

And manageable,

Eyes closed,

Bawling their eyes out.

Sign,

Stamp,

Date,

Inject,

Stamp again,

File,

Back He goes,

On loan for five years.

They wait,

Till He can walk,

Is toilet trained,

Can [...]

Whatever Happened to Political Philosophy?

By Al Date

The men and women who founded the USA were avid students of political philosophy, if not philosophers in their own right. People seemed to realize that ideas preceded actions, and that philosophy guided the formation of ideas.

So, the Physiocrats were the rock-stars [...]

Libertarianism: Left or Right?
by Sheldon Richman

My own notion of politics is that it follows a straight line rather than a circle. The straight line stretches from the far right where (historically) we find monarchy, absolute dictatorships, and other forms of absolutely authoritarian rule. On the far right, law and order means the law of the [...]