The Establishment Right, The Far Right And The Alt Right
By VJM
A recent comment on the VJM Publishing FaceBook page asked us to define far-right. This was in response to an article on the company page that had used this adjective in reference to the rising far-right populist movements in Europe. It was not our intent to use far-right as a pejorative, but simply to use […]
Read more..February 5, 2020
What A Wonderful World
By NZB3
Anarchists are the ones who appreciate diversity and pluralism and multiculturalism in their proper and authentic sense. The State has a nose for sniffing out what people prize and value, and a talent for levering those things to gain and keep power. All the confidence tricks and propaganda used to rule us draw their power […]
Read more..February 4, 2020
“Australia, Let Us Back In!”
By NZB3
Eighty years¹ after New Zealand broke away from Australia to become its own State, many Kiwis are now trying to get back to the shelter of former political administrators. According to Alisha Rouse of the Daily Mail Australia, they, (who she never names,) are asking for actor Russell Crowe to pitch in and help. “The expats say ‘racist […]
Read more..February 3, 2020
2020: Frankenstein’s Maori
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Another State lolly scramble with your money, another academic corruption of what should be natural and authentic. No community, no culture, no language, requires or pursues million dollar professorial task forces to sift through accidental trivia for 3 years. No commercial enterprise would pay $666k to try to measure how much random drift words […]
Read more..January 30, 2020
1929: That Pommy Bastard
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Joseph Stewart Smith was a British boy of 15 in 1928 when he was plucked out of his native environment and forcibly acclimatised to the strange wilds of New Zealand. Without any doubt, this was traumatic to young Stewart but he repressed it. The final cut with home was being rejected at Southampton Dock by […]
Read more..January 28, 2020
2018: Language Trauma
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
What is Language Trauma? The short answer is that it was an enabling term minted in 2018 to excuse people who were supposed to be Maori but were not speaking and behaving Maori enough. What is the nature of this excuse? Who came up with it? And what is ‘Maori enough’ supposed to mean? “My […]
Read more..January 27, 2020
Where In The World Does New Zealand Rank On Cannabis Law Reform?
By VJM
New Zealand was once looked to for moral leadership. We were the first country to give women the vote and the first to institute a universal old-age pension, but these were 19th Century issues. On 21st Century issues, such as cannabis law reform, we are no longer close to the frontrunners. This article attempts to […]
Read more..January 25, 2020
Narcissistic Sadism And Narcissistic Masochism
By VJM
Narcissistic people pose a number of challenges for the societies in which they reside. Their selfishness is liable to cause suffering to those around them, and the indifference that the typical narcissist shows to this suffering is liable to cause violence. As this essay will examine, however, there are two distinct types of narcissism. Narcissistic […]
Read more..January 24, 2020
1974: Join Together
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 24 January, 1974, Christchurch hosted the10th British Commonwealth Games. There was sports, there was tourism, there was construction, there was politics. Above all, it was a time for various public and private organisations to join together on a short-lived gravy train in the expectation of making some big money. Even the museum! […]
Read more..January 24, 2020
The Gentlemen Shows That The Normalisation Of Cannabis Is All But Complete
By VJM
Guy Ritchie’s latest crime caper film, The Gentlemen, is the rollicking, romping gorefest that one has come to expect from the director of Snatch. Behind the larger-than-life characters and the brilliant dialogue, however, are a few hints about where society is going, and a few things made to look normal that aren’t usually normalised. This […]
Read more..January 23, 2020
1800s: New Zealand Not Quiet
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
There were thousands of non-Maori legally coming and going from New Zealand prior to 1840. Very soon after Captain Cook’s (re)discovery, this country became a destination for numerous visitors and of course it was covered by governing laws. Comment to AHNZ: No, there was no “law” at that time so how could they be legal or […]
Read more..January 21, 2020
Considering Historical Justice
By NZB3
I’ve had a bit of push-back about sentiments expressed in the previous post, Social Justice. My argument is that Justice is supposed to be dispensed according to the facts of the case not the facts of the race. It’s an Individualistic outlook. Our Western justice system is still running on the fumes of this outlook, […]
Read more..January 21, 2020
