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Author: ChrisTitle: When do you stop going to work?Date: August 26, 2023Notes: This post is the transcript of a video available here.Source: Retrieved on 08-26-2023 from https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2023/08/26/when-do-you-stop-going-to-work/ As I went to work this week, I looked at all the smoke in the sky and smelt it in my nostrils, and I wondered what it would take for me to stop going to work. So...

Author: Darren AllenTitle: The Mechanical MarxSubtitle: An Anarchist Critique of MarxismDate: 5 Oct 2021Source: Retrieved on 21st October from https://expressiveegg.org/2021/10/05/goodbye-marx/ The great mistake of the Marxists and of the whole of the nineteenth century was to think that by walking straight on one mounted upward into the air. Simone Weil Marx’s theories are well known enough to need little more than a summary. He...

Author: Piper TompkinsTitle: Anarchist Analysis of The Russian RevolutionDate: September 30, 2018Source: https://rageagainstcapital.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/anarchist-analysis-of-the-russian-revolution/ The Russian Revolution was perhaps the most important event in the history of revolutionary socialism and the struggle against capitalism. For the first time in October of 1917 workers took power on a grand scale and eventually the change in regime inaugurated by the revolution lead to Stalinism and it’s export...

September, 2023: Announcing Anarchistická knihovnathe Czech language anarchist library project! Summer, 2023: Librarian Picks: a list of some anarchist librarians’ favorite and recommended texts on the library Read here Share your own list over at the SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY! forums Are you in and/or from South Asia and literate in a South Asian language? Check out the Initiative for a South Asian...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: RevoltingSubtitle: Eco-Absurdist RebellionDate: 06/09/2023Source: https://ecorevoltblog.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/revolting-.pdf Jarach’s Introduction In between reading and commenting and correcting the first draft and receiving the second, Julian asked me for an introduction to the text that now holds your attention. On one of those days my partner was doing some domestic chores and messaged me at work asking if there were some task she could do...

Author: Flower BombTitle: Consequences: The Inexorable Nature of ConflictDate: 9/12/2023 Since Julian Langer and I have passionately decided to air out our dirty laundry for the world to smell, might as well give a little background. According to Julian’s bio on his page Eco-Revolt, Julian Langer is an “Eco-anarchist and guerilla ontologist philosopher. Lover of woods, deer, badgers and other wild beings. Musician and...

Author: Flower BombTitle: Consequences: The Inexorable Nature of ConflictDate: 9/12/2023 Since Julian Langer and I have passionately decided to air out our dirty laundry for the world to smell, might as well give a little background. According to Julian’s bio on his page Eco-Revolt, Julian Langer is an “Eco-anarchist and guerilla ontologist philosopher. Lover of woods, deer, badgers and other wild beings. Musician and...

Author: Acacio AugustoTitle: The Urgency of Police AbolitionSubtitle: And a Note on Moral Anti-RacismDate: April 3rd, 2021Notes: Original tittle: A Urgencia da Abolicao da Policia e uma nota sobre Antirracismo Moral. Translated into English by Amos Caldeira.Source: https://spectrejournal.com/the-urgency-of-police-abolition/ It was on May 25, 2020 in the US, and with COVID-19 infections at their initial peak globally, that an occurrence of police brutality caused an...

Author: Acacio AugustoTitle: The Many Coups in BrazilSubtitle: The Current Condition of State ViolenceDate: February 8, 2017Notes: Translated into English by Eliane Carvalho and Paul Z. Simons.Source: https://slingshotcollective.org/the-many-coups-in-brazil-the-current-condition-of-state-violence/ The main agent of violence in modern societies is the State. Through violence, it defines and maintains itself. Contrary to popular belief Brazil is an extremely violent country, despite the popular stereotype of football and carnival....

Author: Julian LangerTitle: RevoltingSubtitle: Eco-Absurdist RebellionDate: 06/09/2023Source: https://ecorevoltblog.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/revolting-.pdf Jarach’s Introduction In between reading and commenting and correcting the first draft and receiving the second, Julian asked me for an introduction to the text that now holds your attention. On one of those days my partner was doing some domestic chores and messaged me at work asking if there were some task she could do...

September, 2023: Announcing Anarchistická knihovnathe Czech language anarchist library project! Summer, 2023: Librarian Picks: a list of some anarchist librarians’ favorite and recommended texts on the library Read here Share your own list over at the SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY! forums

Author: Anarchist Assembly of ValparaísoTitle: RoadmapSubtitle: Anarchist proposals to dispute present and futureDate: 2023Source: Retrieved on 11th September 2023 from drive.google.com Before Starting “(...) why not? the human being, the man, the woman, the child, neither higher nor lower, always equal (...) how to do it, how to get there? there is only one way: revolution, yes, Revolution, the general strike, the big one,...

Author: Sam C. TenorioTitle: Assata’s escape as disincarceral practiceDate: 2020Notes: Published in Cultural Dynamics Vol. 33, Issue 1–2.Source: Retrieved on 10th September 2023 from journals.sagepub.com Abstract Often carceral studies tends to focus on the prison as a mode of stationary confinement, sometimes forgetting that its rationales and practices are based crucially in movement. This is especially true for black populations disproportionately affected by mass...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: RevoltingSubtitle: Eco-Absurdist RebellionDate: 06/09/2023Source: https://ecorevoltblog.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/revolting-.pdf Jarach’s Introduction In between reading and commenting and correcting the first draft and receiving the second, Julian asked me for an introduction to the text that now holds your attention. On one of those days my partner was doing some domestic chores and messaged me at work asking if there were some task she could do...

Author: Emma GoldmanTitle: MarriageDate: 18 July 1897Source: https://jwa.org/media/goldmans-first-published-writing-on-subject-of-marriage-0. Proofread online source RevoltLib.com, retrieved on July 4, 2020. Marriage. How much sorrow, misery, humiliation; how many tears and curses; what agony and suffering has this word brought to humanity. From its very birth, up to our present day, men and women grown under the iron yoke of our marriage institution, and there seems to be...

Author: PantaraiTitle: Against Speciesism, Against Leviathan!Date: July 2022Notes: First published in No Path #1. It has been uploaded here, along with some minor edits, in consultation with the author. The publisher can be contacted at nopath[at]riseup[dot]net. No Path can be purchased at Little Black Cart. This piece aims to open a dialogue between two key areas of anarchist praxis, those targeting speciesism and civilisation....

Author: Wayne PriceTitle: A Talk on the Ukrainian-Russian WarSubtitle: Based on a talk I gave at the August 12, 2023 Los Angeles Anarchist Book FairDate: August 31, 2023Notes: Submitted to Workers Solidarity: A Green Syndicalist WebzineSource: Retrieved on 8th September 2023 from www.anarkismo.net When the Russian state invaded Ukraine, I was immediately on the side of the Ukrainian people. Mainly this was because, like...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: RevoltingSubtitle: Eco-Absurdist RebellionDate: 06/09/2023Source: https://ecorevoltblog.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/revolting-.pdf Jarach’s Introduction In between reading and commenting and correcting the first draft and receiving the second, Julian asked me for an introduction to the text that now holds your attention. On one of those days my partner was doing some domestic chores and messaged me at work asking if there were some task she could do...

Author: Johan HellumTitle: HammerslagDate: 1911Notes: Hammerslag - newsletter for sharing and promoting anarchist ideas and thoughts. Released and can be ordered through Johan Hellum, 964 John Street, Seattle, Washington. Price in the US is 50 cents per year. Shipment to Norway costs two dollars yearly. Issued monthly. No. 1. October 1911. Issues 1,2, & 4Source: https://archive.org/details/hammerslag-no-1-2-4_scan Issue #1 Hammerstroke upon hammerstroke. Until the last...

Author: KlokkeblomstTitle: Green Desperation Fuels Red FascismSubtitle: Andreas Malm’s Authoritarian Leftist AgendaNotes: Return Fire vol.6 chap.3 (supplement), winter 2021–2022 Note from Return Fire It’s time again to confront the authoritarian turn brewing on the fringes of the climate movement, and here Klokkeblomst reminds us why. The essay’s subject – the academic Andreas Malm, who blows hot air about why pipelines should be blown up...

Author: Mark MatternTitle: Anarchism and ArtDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 33, pp. 589–602, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_33. Abstract The arts have been integral to anarchism since its inception in the nineteenth century. Foundational thinkers including Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Peter Kropotkin, and Emma Goldman wrote persuasively and eloquently about the power of art as a potential tool...

Author: James GiffordTitle: Literature and AnarchismDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 32, pp. 571–588, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_32. Abstract Anarchism contributed conceptual, thematic, and topical contents to literature—likewise, literature contributed to anarchism as a political philosophy and practice. This chapter covers Romantic through contemporary literature emphasising English-language traditions in Europe and North America since 1790. It...

Author: Benjamin FranksTitle: Anarchism and EthicsDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 31, pp. 549–569, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_31. Abstract This chapter defends the centrality of ethics to anarchist theory and practice. It starts by describing some of the main meta-ethical and normative positions associated with different constellations of anarchism and postanarchism. It then explains and argues...

Author: Michael CoatesTitle: The City, Urban Planning and ArchitectureDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 30, pp. 531–547, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_30. Abstract Anarchist modes of ‘doing architecture’ may seem, at first, a seemingly irreconcilable dichotomy. How can something as regulated, controlled, planned and expensive to execute as the building of buildings possibly take place in an...

Author: Judith SuissaTitle: Anarchist EducationDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 29, pp. 511–529, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_29. Abstract In this chapter I will discuss how the anarchist objection to the state and the defence of central anarchist values, such as mutual aid, autonomy and cooperation, yields a distinct perspective on debates about the aims of education....

Author: Anthony D'AgostinoTitle: Anarchism and Marxism in the Russian RevolutionDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 24, pp. 409–428, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_24. Abstract The intellectual history of the debate between Anarchism and Marxism has its own fascination as a story of two elaborate idea systems in perpetual and inevitable conflict. Yet they seem to share the...

Author: John MerrimanTitle: The Spectre of the Commune and French Anarchism in the 1890sDate: 2019Notes: This chapter draws on ‘L’influence de la Commune sur les anarchistes, au début des années 1890’ forthcoming in a volume edited by Marc César and Laure Godineau.Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 20, pp. 343–352, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_20. Abstract This chapter...

Author: C. Alexander McKinleyTitle: The French Revolution and 1848Date: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 18, pp. 307–324, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_18. Abstract The end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century were crucial years for the development of anarchist theory and practice. Anarchist ideology would draw on key ideas from the Enlightenment....

Author: International RevolutionTitle: Letter from an antifa militant in RojavaDate: Oct 2, 2022Source: Retrieved on 2023-09-06 from justpaste.it/6o98q We were born and raised in Europe. We asked ourselves some questions. The ones we all ask ourselves. What am I doing here, what is this society in which I live. We were socialized, we went to school. We followed, for a time, the path that...

Author: Nishikant SheoreyTitle: Prefiguring DegrowthSubtitle: Confronting Power, Accumulation, and EcocideDate: 23/08/2023Source: Retrieved on 2023-09-06 from nishikantsheorey.substack.com/p/prefiguring-degrowth The Beyond Growth Conference From 15–17 May of this year, much of the academic Degrowth community gathered at the EU Parliament in Brussels for the Beyond Growth Conference. While it wasn’t the first of its kind—there had been gatherings organized similarly in previous years—something seemed special about this...

Author: Rhiannon FirthTitle: Utopianism and Intentional CommunitiesDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 28, pp. 491–510, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_28. Abstract This chapter outlines the complex yet productive three-way relationship between utopianism, anarchism and intentional communities. It begins with a brief historical exegesis of the concept of utopia, and a critical exploration of the anti-utopian sentiment that...

Author: Andy PriceTitle: Green AnarchismDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 16, pp. 281–291, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_16. Abstract As the emergence of the green movement in the late 1960s ran alongside the resurgence of the anarchist tradition, it is perhaps no surprise that the two traditions would converge into what we would call today green anarchism....

Author: Donna M. KowalTitle: Anarcha-FeminismDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 15, pp. 265–279, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_15. Abstract Anarcha-feminism emerged as a ‘school of thought’ in late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Informed by the experience of female subjugation, anarchist women undertook a radical critique of sexual double standards and the gendered division of labour in ways...

Author: Peter RyleyTitle: IndividualismDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 12, pp. 225–236, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_12. Abstract Individualism is the poor relation of the anarchist movement. Its modern association with anarcho/capitalism has marginalised it within a movement that is predominantly collectivist and an advocate of stateless socialism. By examining the early history of individualist ideas, rather...

Author: Dana M. WilliamsTitle: Tactics: Conceptions of Social Change, Revolution, and Anarchist OrganisationDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 6, pp. 107–123, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_6. Abstract Tactics are the techniques and actions used by social movements that implement strategies for the purpose of achieving goals. For anarchist movements, tactics can assume a reactive, diagnostic, or destructive...

Author: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos & Lara AppsTitle: Anarchism and ReligionDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 9, pp. 169–192, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_9. Abstract Anarchism is nearly always anticlerical and frequently atheistic, yet the intersection of religion and anarchism is more complex than is often assumed. Indeed this intersection has proved a fertile ground for a variety of...

Author: Ole Birk LaursenTitle: Anti-ImperialismDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 8, pp. 149–167, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_8. Abstract Focusing on the period from 1870 to 1960, this chapter provides an overview of anarchist approaches to anti-imperialism, offering examples of collaborations, solidarities, antagonisms and syntheses between anarchists and anti-colonialists from across the British, Spanish, French and Portuguese...

Author: Carl LevyTitle: Anarchism and CosmopolitanismDate: 2019Source: The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism (edited by Carl Levy & Matthew S. Adams), chapter 7, pp. 125–148, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_7. Abstract In most surveys of anarchism, cosmopolitanism is mentioned in reference as one of its sources in discussions of classical Greek thought, namely the Cynics and the Stoics. Whether or not one can draw such a linkage with...

Author: Andrew KlemenčičTitle: Economic BattleDate: October 1906Notes: translated by CarniolanLeshySource: Prolatarec, Vol. 1 No. 1 "What are the reasons?", asks fellow citizen J. Z-k in issue 8 of Proletarec ["Proletarian" in Slovenian, name of this newspaper], looking at the Austrian proletariat's battle with the Austrian bureaucracy. Comrade Z-k says in his article, that the Austrian proletariat is getting ready for a general strike for...

Author: mutualist.orgTitle: A Mutualist FAQSubtitle: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT MUTUALISMDate: 2004Notes: This Mutualist FAQ, still quite incomplete, is the work of members of the Voluntary Cooperation Movement's vcmdiscussion list at YahooGroups. When it is updated, it will also include a large amount of historical information provided by Shawn P. Wilbur.Source: http://www.mutualist.org/id23.html A. WHAT IS MUTUALISM? A one-sentence answer is that mutualism consists of people...

Author: For OurselvesTitle: The Negation of the NegationSubtitle: A Contribution to the Concrete Imagination of Proletarian RevolutionDate: 1973Source: Retrieved on 2023-08-30 from isr.press/For_Ourselves_Negation_of_the_Negation/index.html The revolutionary process can be conceived as a chain of ever-deepening negations of capitalist production, of capital production, of capital itself. (1): The strike or general(ized) strike is the first level of negation of capital production we will deal with. The...

Author: Henry AddisTitle: The Work of PropagandaDate: 6/2/1895Notes: From 1895–1897 the journal was known as The Firebrand; and then from 1897–1904 as Free Society.Source: Firebrand Volume 1 Number 18 It may be interesting to the comrades to know how the propaganda is progressing on the Western Coast. There is here a rich field for work. “Times” and the mental condition of the people make...

Author: Rustbelt Abolition RadioTitle: Tasting AbolitionDate: August 12, 2020Source: Retrieved on 2023-08-29 from rustbeltradio.org/2020/08/12/tasting-abolition What follows are some notes on something we’ve been ruminating on these past few months. It is an attempt to think-chew through the density of Abolition in its many textures and flavors … especially now that many more of us have gotten a taste of it. What’s in a name?...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Sharing the ShameSubtitle: A Letter from Internationalists in ChinaDate: March 2nd, 2022Source: Retrieved on August 26th, 2023 from https://chuangcn.org/2022/03/letter-from-china-ukraine/. As noted in our previous post, the Chinese state and social media platforms have been censoring some of the content critical of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (although this has been inconsistent, as the state itself has yet to take a clear stance...

Author: Sasha FennTitle: A Sketch of a Consensual FutureDate: 01/04/2021Source: Retrieved on 08/26/2023 from https://polycentriclaw.org/2021/01/04/a-sketch-of-a-consensual-future/ Here I want to outline one set of ideas for how a future, stateless society could achieve peaceful cooperation and settle disputes as they arose. I do not mean to argue that all stateless societies or polycentric legal systems must look like the following account, but I believe that...

Author: Adrian RiskinTitle: End of Policing Means the End of CapitalismSubtitle: Some Likely but Rarely Discussed Economic Effects of AbolitionDate: August 24, 2023Source: https://chez-risk.in/2023/08/24/the-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-economic-effects-of-abolition/ A great deal of discussion about police abolition concerns non-police responses to violent crime, but most police work is unrelated to violent crime. Most, maybe all, of this is economic in nature – designed to keep working people from using...

Author: Jungkir MarutaTitle: A Wall Is Just a Wall, It Can Be DestroyedDate: 25th August 2023Source: Retrieved on 2023-08-25 from organisemagazine.org.uk/2023/08/25/a-wall-is-just-a-wall-it-can-be-destroyed-international Serikat Tahanan, is an anti-authoritarian prisoners association, organising both inside and outside of eleven different prisons across Indonesia.They have worked to reach out to fellow convicted anti-authoritarian activists to advocate and educate the public about prison conditions in Indonesia. "By organizing in Serikat...

Author: Anton PannekoekTitle: Marx and BakuninDate: 1949Notes: Anton Pannekoek’s letter to Australian anarchist Kenneth Joseph Kenafick (26 May 1949) on the differences between Marxism and anarchism. The original version of the letter is in International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) Archives (IISG, Pannekoek Archives, F. 108 PP.8).Source: Retrieved on 2023-08-25 from libcom.org/article/marx-and-bakunin-anton-pannekoek ... I think that we are now in a mood, determined by...

Author: Comrade CandleTitle: The An-ArchistDate: 8/23/23Source: Retrieved from 2023-08-24 from freesofiajohnson.com/the-an-archist-pdf-now-available Author’s Forward I have decided to preface this work, given the poetic style I have opted to employ, with a more mundanely worded segment so as to lend a hand over any pitfalls I could see as existent while traversing my inquiry. According with my identity as a transgender woman of mixed ethnicity,...

Author: Simon SpringerTitle: For anarcho-geography!Subtitle: Or, bare-knuckle boxing as the world burnsDate: 2014Source: Dialogues in Human Geography Journal Abstract Responding to the set of dialogues on my original article, ‘Why a Radical Geography Must Be Anarchist?’, I throw my hat back in the ring and offer a blow-by-blow commentary on the sucker punches and low blows that some Marxists continue to want to throw...