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Perfect binding, 5 x 7, 136 pp., 2009.
ISBN 0578006405.
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The ghosts of Hobbes, Sade and Stirner haunt Jonathan Bowden’s unique and captivating experimental study of mortality salience, interpersonal strife, and the emergence of the modern state. Originally released in 1989, Nine-Banded Books very proud to bring this remarkable book back into print.
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Insanity dislocates the nervous system from its axis. Mind and body lose the symmetry which both require. Hence, in the most extreme states, a multiplicity of persona, compete with one another, for mastery of the mind. The discursive intellectual sees deeper still. He sees a society where mounds of corpses left redundant in the Nazi’s wake were thought by many to have deserved their fate. Who then, in circumstances such as these, is wholly sane? The truth is that we are all in some sense mad. We are liable, in that moment of madness, to go over to the other side. We are sick because we have never diagnosed the possibility of curing our sickness. We are immoral because we lack the propensity to behave morally. In that moment of madness we are too nervous to attempt anything with anyone unless they’re a corpse first. Necrophilia is the privilege of the naturally human. The lividly swinish, the essentially bestial, the thing from which we emerged, and he stands there, behind every lawyer, every judge, every mendacious cesspit of a politician. You will find him there. The man with the gun, the individual of the first cause, the articulator of the original violation: Cain; the man who killed Abel.
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The Man who saw his own Liver
Bradley R. Smith
Perfect binding, 5 x 8, 144 pp., 2008.
ISBN 1605303321.
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Meet A.K. Swift, a working-class war veteran and family man who is haunted by visions of nuclear apocalypse. When matters of conscience determine that he can no longer support the State-sponsored institutions that create the machines that threaten the living, A.K.decides to stop paying. Trouble is, he’s not a very good tax resister. He forgets to attend the meetings and doesn’t bother to fill out the proper forms. Now he worries there may be consequences.
From the dustbin of Cold War protest literature, Bradley Smith’s The Man Who Saw His Own Liver emerges as a heartfelt meditation on the timeless problem of the individual against authority. Rooted in libertarian theory and American transcendentalism, it is the story of an accidental rebel trembling in comic defiance under the yoke of God and State, and before the faceless Leviathan of modern Bureaucracy.
Smith’s writing is animated by a crisp and laconic prose-poetic hum. His is a uniquely personal canvass in which storytelling and gently wrought polemics interweave, seamlessly, with turns of magical realism coming to rest in that frail, strangely familiar liminal space, where ineffable exaltation and terror transcend the political.
Originally conceived and performed for the stage in 1983, The Man Who Saw His Own Liver is presented by Nine-Banded books in novelized form. It is appended with Smith’s short story, “Joseph Conrad and the Monster from the Deep.”
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The Myth of Natural Rights and Other Essays
L.A. Rollins
Perfect binding, gatefold cover, 5 x 8, 304 pp., 2008.
ISBN 061519298X
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No, it won’t stop bullets. It won’t keep people from ripping off your property. It won’t even stop the government from putting you in a concentration camp, or executing you. About the only thing a “natural right” will stop is enlightened thinking on the ethics of liberty. Once you’ve read The Myth of Natural Rights and Other Essays, you’ll be able to put those imaginary protectors of freedom back in the museums where they belong.
Libertarian scholars have had a difficult time being taken seriously in intellectual circles. There’s a good reason for this. While they have gained recognition and acclaim for their staunch defense of the free market, compelling advocacy of civil liberties and devastating condemnation of interventionism, their stubborn reliance on the ancient myth of natural rights leaves them in philosophical disrepute. The doctrine of natural rights has persisted among libertarians, because there has never been a systematic and thorough critique of all it implies. Until now.
In one compact work, L.A. Rollins shatters the myth of natural rights, while exposing the “bleeding-heart libertarians” that promote it. With careful research and ample documentation, he shows that thinkers like Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Tibor Machan and Samuel Konkin not only violate reason and logic in their defense of natural rights, but also violate the standards they set for themselves.
Back in print for the first time in years, this newly revised edition features an insightful introduction by the Stirnerite-libertarian blogger, TGGP, along with a new afterword by the author. Bonus material includes an updated selection of splenetic jeu de mots from the underground classic, Lucifer’s Lexicon, as well as Rollins’ never-before-published writings on poetic insurrection, the Holy Qur’an and Holocaust revisionism.
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Considering Suicide
Andy Nowicki
Perfect binding, 4 x 7.5, 188 pp.,
Release date: August, 2009
ISBN 0615263321.
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Break His Bones: The Private Life of a Holocaust Revisionist
Bradley R. Smith
Perfect binding, 6 x 9, 320 pp.,
Release date: August, 2009
ISBN 0972375600
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In 1979, a playwright, author and bookseller named Bradley R. Smith stumbled across a bizarre idea: What if the stories of Hitler exterminating millions of Jews in gas chambers were not true? What began as a peculiar notion soon gave way to a dangerous and life-defining intellectual adventure. For his subsequent efforts as a public spokesman for dissident historical inquiry, Smith has been widely reviled and denounced as an anti-Semite. Break His Bones presents a seldom-heard side of a story that has come to be shrouded in misapprehension and acrimony. It is a simple book by a simple writer who chose to confront a profound question at great personal cost. It is the record of a man attempting to integrate into his daily life and consciousness what for him was a momentous discovery, one that brought about an almost geologic shifting of perspective and belief.
This is the book that creates a “human face” for Holocaust revisionists and revisionist theory. This is the antidote to the slander and false accusations that the Holocaust Industry makes against revisionism and revisionists. This is the story that reveals the programmatic exploitation of suppression, censorship, and taboo by the Industry to limit intellectual freedom with regard to the Holocaust question.
Smith remains an incorrigible romantic. He believes that a free press and open debate are preferable to taboo and censorship. He still believes there is an outside chance that he will find a way to convince the professorial class that to encourage intellectual freedom is a good, not an evil – even with regard to the Holocaust question. This is his story. And it’s one helluva good read.
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