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![]() Welcome to the Anti Communitarian League/ACL Books website!We are a grassroots research institute and publishing company based in Copper Center, Alaska.
The ACL thesis: After centuries of dialectical conflicts between opposing social, economic, political and religious theories, the world is being rebuilt under an entirely new system of government. It's called Communitarianism, supra-national global governance. Our objection to America's conversion: This system was never approved by a majority of informed citizens. (Most still don't know.) It's a foreign system that violates US principles & domestic, natural laws. It's imposing regulations that deprive our citizens of liberty, property, freedom and access to an entrepenurial private marketplace. It's criminal. It makes us, our children, and civilians around the world into slaves and sacrifices in staged Hegelian conflicts. (A) Communitarianism did not evolve naturally. (B) It was never a movement that arose out of U.S. society. (C) Communitarianism has no natural home in the USA. We've detailed our analysis and opposition to the philosophy in The Anti Communitarian Manifesto & simplified the system in 2020: Our Common Destiny. Paul Barnes from Canada added so much to the last version of 2020 that ACL Books is now actively soliciting contributions from people of all nations. Please email us if you have an interest in adding to our expanding catalog. ![]() ![]() Howard Dean Declares Debate Between Capitalism and Socialism To Be Over, and explains that "we are going to have both." Dean tells the room without any hesitation, the synthesis between capitalism and socialism is called "communitarianism". April 2009 video of a talk he gave in Paris. Judi McLeod at Canada Free Press, The Worldwide Debut of the Communitarians published January 15, 2010: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/the-worldwide-debut-of-the-communitarians/ Devvy Kidd at News With Views, DETROIT BOMBER INCIDENT: PLAYING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AGAIN, January 1, 2010, http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd478.htm Britian 2010: Common Purpose, Corruption and Communitarianism by John Francis Walker, Stop Common Purpose, UK, January 1, 2010, http://www.stopcp.com/Britain_2010_Common_Purpose_corruption_and_communitarianism_20100101.pdf *This pdf will be included in the next edition of 2020. Thanks John! Local Agenda 21 - united nations plan for the world, Forum at Prison Planet (Alex Jones site; Jones himself never writes or talks about communitarianism, nor its Zionist founder, but commentors do mention the ACL there from time to time). http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=157576.0 Some Recent Direct Quotes
![]() Communitarianism crosses all borders and cultures"It is argued that two different wars are taking place in Afghanistan: One is a communitarian inspired national security informed search and destroy operation (for Al Qaeda) unilaterally led by the United States and a coalition of willing supporters, with a high level of aggression and ruthlessness, fought by warriors (special forces). The other war is a cosmopolitan nation-building exercise, with far more participants, but with a weaker depth of commitment, managed by UN and NATO soldiers. This analysis sheds additional light on why Germany and France were reluctant to commit to the Iraq war, arguing that this war was not conceived as necessary for either communitarian or cosmopolitan reasons, whereas the opposite was the case with the United States and the United Kingdom, albeit to different degrees.Finally it is argued that with the increasing depth and scope of international norms and laws there is a tendency of moving from the traditional communitarian towards increasingly cosmopolitan impetuses for war. However with the continued relevance of the state as the primary unit of international relations, most states choose to retain the capability for - if not often demonstrating the will to ? communitarian warfare." Henriksen, R. , 2007-02-28 "Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Communitarian and Cosmopolitan Impetuses for War in the West" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online"Which turned out to be a potent combo for communitarian France. For young French people to watch the Village community hound and almost lynch Number 6 in this episode for the sin of being "unmutual" (that is, for insisting on his privacy instead of happily joining the collective), was to turn a cherished French ideal on its head. In the episode, those who refuse to conform are subjected to "instant social conversion" via frontal lobotomy. When French fans felt outrage at this brain-deadening cure to "individualism"—a word almost always used as a pejorative in France—they were unwittingly swallowing a libertarian message without ever having heard the word." Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner in France How TV's most individualist character made a communitarian country swoon, Emmanuelle Richard | January 15, 2009 http://reason.com/archives/2009/01/15/patrick-mcgoohan-and-the-priso "A more accurate description of Japanese political economy perhaps is communitarian capitalism, in which an interventionist state engages in a degree of economic (and social) management and articulates, through moderately redistributive social policies [2]" Neo-liberalism vs. Communitarian Capitalism: Japan's Dilemma, By Chan Chee Khoon, http://www.japanfocus.org/-Chan_Chee-Khoon/2163 ![]()
"It was relatively easy to change the political system because communism more or less collapsed. It was sufficient to liberalize the entry into the political market. New political parties were created almost instanteously and the needed political plurality was established without constructing (or designing) it. It was a spontaneous process, it was nobody’s design. The only attempts to do it differently came from the civic-society or communitarian camps. They wanted to overcome parliamentary democracy and to do politics without political parties." Vaclav Kalus, 2.9.2002 - http://www.klaus.cz/Klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=GT6oufXnegvd. ![]() A new global architecture for an enlightened global citizenryACL's Non-Fiction Studies of Communitarianism,an overview of our work, motivation and arguments against Dr. Amitai Etzioni. What Communitarianism really means "The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with." ("Europe, A Beautiful Idea" by Amitai Etzioni, September 2004 conference at the Hague) What we're supposed to believe it promises "Communitarianism presents an encouraging universal notion of freedom, transcending the one-sided stances of Marxism and libertarian capitalism and promoting the vision of a unified human destiny." Communitarianism, the Vatican, and the New Global Order by Robert L. Phillips, Decemeber 2, 1991, Carnegie Council, the voice for ethics in international policy. How they've robbed the concept of national systems "What I call communitarianism Ted Trainer (University of New South Wales, Australia) calls The Simpler Way: “The top priority is to develop small-scale local economies which enable people to provide for themselves most of the things they need, using local resources and labour. This frees a country from having to export fiercely in order to have the money to import what it needs. Above all it enables a country to take control of its own fate.” Re: Bolivia, Nationalization, Socialism, Communitarianism Posted by Steve Welzer on 05/03/06, Green Horizon http://www.green-horizon.org/index.php/blog/details/re_bolivia_nationalization_socialism_communitarianism/ ![]() ![]() President Barack Obama with his communitarian guru, Dr. Amitai Etzioni Besides the fact that McCain and Palin are also both communitarians, communitarian thinkers know how Americans would vote on his real change: Individual rights versus community rights is the most ignored topic of the 21st century, and possibly the most important debate in American history. Maybe it's time we all joined in. Is personal freedom and justice for all outdated? Many thanks to the 3,851 visitors who've answered this poll! ![]() I'm Niki Raapana, co-founder of the ACL, my blog is Living Outside the Dialectic. ![]() Me picking wild sage and rosehips along the Copper River, summer 2009 Some of my youtube videos: Local Agenda 21 for Blonds, an R-rated montage with blond vocals. The Scam of the Century, an R-rated montage of the communitarian lie. The Hidden Guru of Globalization, an expose of Amitai Etzioni by Niki Raapana. Obama's Community Volunteerism, text presentation of Obama's philosophical beliefs. American Freedom versus Communitarian Slavery 24 points - US law against international law. Looking for new information on GerTee? Go to: Camp Redington.com. Summer of Gertee 2009 youtube slideshow of Gerteeville, where we live.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our logo is an original painting called Die Neue Mitte Ist Eine Neue Mythe, donated in December 2005 by the Belgian artist, Jan Theuninck. Vielen Dank, Jan!
To all our contributors, readers, supporters, well-wishers and fans around the world: thank you for visiting, donating, joining, sharing your thoughts, and spreading the word. You make this difficult project worthwhile. To every hater and flamer who ever belittled us or sent a nasty note: thank you as well, because each one is an affirmation. ![]()
Updated January 31, 2010 |