by W.D. James I love this time of year! Partly, that has to do with the cooling weather and leaves turning beautiful hues. Partly it has to do with the seasonal activities like visiting local pumpkin patches (which sometimes have a bluegrass band on hand). A good bit of it though has to do with … Continue reading Cropsey and Social Horror: A Seasonal Film Recommendation
by Crow Qu'appelle For years, it has been undeniable that there has been a concerted COINTELPRO-style campaign targeting the anarchist left in the U.S. This has been an incontrovertible fact since at least 2021, when the Grayzone published an expose of Alexander Reid Ross, former editor of the Earth First! Journal, author of Against the Fascist … Continue reading How intelligence agents hijacked the U.S. anarchist movement and steered it into a dead end
Outright opposition to modernity is often dismissed as backward-looking or “reactionary” and associated with a rigidly hierarchical or aristocratic outlook. But there is another tradition of resistance to the modern world that has very different ideals and can serve as the basis of an old-new radical philosophy of natural and cosmic belonging, inspiring humanity to … Continue reading Rousseau’s Revival (Egalitarian Anti-Modernism Part 4)
by Paul Cudenec Russian thinker Alexandr Dugin (1962-) is often presented in Western media as being "the most dangerous philosopher in the world", a radical critic of modernity. For that reason alone, I thought it would be useful to get some idea of who he is and what he is talking about. But having started … Continue reading Alexandr Dugin: a globalist pawn
Paul Cudenec's latest piece for the organic radicals website looks at the ideas of Jacques Camatte “Revolution will make itself felt in the destruction of all that is most ‘modern’ and ‘progressive’” Jacques Camatte (1935-) is a political philosopher who rejects both marxism and industrial capitalism and has influenced the green anarchist movement in the … Continue reading Turning our backs on the left-right racket
Outright opposition to modernity is often dismissed as backward-looking or “reactionary” and associated with a rigidly hierarchical or aristocratic outlook. But there is another tradition of resistance to the modern world that has very different ideals and can serve as the basis of an old-new radical philosophy of natural and cosmic belonging, inspiring humanity to … Continue reading Rousseau and the Evils of Inequality (Egalitarian Anti-Modernism Part 3)
An interview with Winter Oak's Paul Cudenec appears in the October 2023 edition of La Décroissance, a French real-green real-life newspaper with a wide distribution. Here's the English-language version. LD: You criticise King Charles III. As his subject, shouldn't you rather be rejoicing at having a new sovereign who is presented by the mass media … Continue reading The king and the criminocrats
Outright opposition to modernity is often dismissed as backward-looking or “reactionary” and associated with a rigidly hierarchical or aristocratic outlook. But there is another tradition of resistance to the modern world that has very different ideals and can serve as the basis of an old-new radical philosophy of natural and cosmic belonging, inspiring humanity to … Continue reading Jean-Jacques Against the Pathologies of Civilization (Egalitarian Anti-Modernism Part 2)
by Paul Cudenec I have always felt an extreme dislike for globalisation. It flattens our cultures, annihilates our autonomies and steals our futures. It rips up the roots of our belonging and flings us into the greedy gaping jaws of its all-devouring worldwide Machine. Why then, some opponents of globalisation might ask, having also noticed … Continue reading Resisting global tyranny: nationalism, religion and the golden chain of tradition
Outright opposition to modernity is often dismissed as backward-looking or “reactionary” and associated with a rigidly hierarchical or aristocratic outlook. But there is another tradition of resistance to the modern world that has very different ideals and can serve as the basis of an old-new radical philosophy of natural and cosmic belonging, inspiring humanity to … Continue reading Was Jerusalem Builded Here? An Exploration of Egalitarian Anti-Modernism (Part 1)
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