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...Stuart Davis Drawing on the case of O Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement), or MBL, this article interrogates key assumptions about the nature of networked digital activism. The MBL, formed in the early 2010s by a Koch‐funded network of libertarian student groups, utilized...

... the early 1900s by numerous ultra-patriotic, corporatist, and racist move­ ments. The second evolves within a composite libertarian discourse driven by a variety of forces, from anarchic unionism to radical indi­ vidualism, which attained its moment of glory in the 1890s before gradually declining during...

... as evidences of their faith. As for Mencken, Gregory writes that he represents the Jeffersonian ideal of aristocratic libertarianism and that upon the publication of Mencken s Notes on Democracy in 1926, For the first time it became evident that Mr. Mencken was not and never had been the glorious...

... brings under scrutiny. This period of transformation in thought about freedom of the press is marked by a change from the traditional idea that obtained in England and America from Milton to Blackstone to a more libertarian conception that grew out of the necessities of the Jeffersonians to formulate...

... of an attempt to rein in government and allow free markets to rule, but as Michel Foucault notes in his lectures on the birth of biopolitics it is a central force in the extension of governmentality through the policing function.3 The libertarianism that underlies the Tea Party movement...

... to the Constitu­ tion did not in fact wipe out the common law of sedition and thus make further prosecutions for criticism of the government forever impossible in the United States. In making his case he reviews libertarian thought as revealed in writings of the publicists and in the practice of the courts...

... with a particularly privileged, selfish, consumer-oriented, and technologically dependent libertarianism. Hiding under the guise of populism, the liberation politics touted in the pages of M2 are the stuff of a romantic, swashbuckling, irresponsible individualism that fills the dreams of mondoids who, by day, sit...

.... Blake, it is argued, was not a mystic, nor was he a theologian. He went to Swedenborg and Bohme, not for concepts, but for metaphors. His antinomianism was a natural extension of traditional Protestantism combined with the libertarianism of the most radical thinkers of his time. Since he had been...

... Press). john ely is the author of numerous articles on such diverse topics as left­ ist Aristotelianism, Green politics, libertarian confederalism, and Ernst Bloch. He recently served as a U.S. observer of the Bosnian elections. agnes heller is Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School...

... or libertarian socialism to which he subscribed. Chomsky showed that this was not, for him, a change of subject. Politics was still a question of human nature: If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation...

... : Duke University Press . Makhno Nestor . 1973 . “ Agricultural Communes .” In Avrich, Anarchists in the Russian Revolution , 128 – 33 . “ Manifestos of the Makhnovist Movement .” 2005 . In Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas , edited by Graham Robert , 1 : 300...

... of the writers on either of those lists opposing, say, greater efforts to integrate schools racially. So, you see, there s right and there s Right. mark dery: I wonder if what you re describing wasn t closer, in spirit, to libertarianism than to what we traditionally think of as rightism. Samuel r. delany...

.... Davies argues that not only were the norms by which women were marginalized or denigrated explicitly challenged by libertarian male thinkers like Cornelius Agrippa, but they were also implicitly contra­ dicted by the myth-making imaginativeness of politics, art and literature (25). In England, at least...

... had been ideological leader, organizing genius, and commanding general, came into being in 1905 in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair and lasted for forty years until dissolved in the post1944 liberation era. Resolved to combat everything that the secular, libertarian, and egalitarian republic...

... liberation era. Resolved to combat everything that the secular, libertarian, and egalitarian republic represented, it won many recruits to its banners in the years of the Third Republic. Royalist, authoritarian, and chauvinistic, it appealed to those who saw only weakness, decay, and agnosticism...

... was wont to call excellence. To still another, even more conservative, rising generation in the 1970s, he was a sensible political Tory and a joyous intellectual libertarian, having affinities with Wil­ liam F. Buckley, Jr., who according to Chilton Williamson, Jr. (in an article titled Commonsense...

... The 1920s were years of extreme contradiction. Hyperinflation having sent these critics of modernity south to Italy, their voluntary exile also followed the failure of revolution and the rapid sub­ sequent exclusion of libertarian and romantic-anticapitalist perspectives from the German Communist Party...

... libertarians. In 1850 Carlyle wrote, Choose well your governors; not from this or that poor section of the Aristocracy, military, naval, or redtapist; wherever there are born kings of men, you had better seed them out, and breed them to their work. For, according to an old dogma, the love of liberty...

... rejecting them out of hand, on the assumption that the overwhelming majority of Ameri­ cans wisely support a free society in which freedom is not absolute. I shall accept the central assumption of the libertarian argument (that any restriction of freedom can open the floodgates to authoritarianism...

..., the Peace Democrats, like the Majority Democrats, were agrarians, civil-libertarians, and anti­ abolitionists. However, in their opposition they went far beyond these issues. They claimed that Lincoln and the Republicans had balked all attempts to settle the differences with the South by sabotaging...