By Luis Fernandez This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future, this edition will strike a chord […]
By Sidney E. Parker “The question of Anarchism is not the concern of a single class, consequently also not of the laboring class, but it is the concern of every individual who values his personal liberty.” John Henry Mackay “The Masters have never lacked for a kind, sweaty […]
By Dana Williams Although the period of highest activity for anarchist movements peaked in the early 1900s, such movement continues in the present. Contemporary antiauthoritarian movements are a product of the 1960s and New Left, as well as the USSR’s demise. Antiauthoritarian movements are either explicitly anarchist or […]
The tragedy of so many intellectuals in the contemporary world is that while opposing extreme forms of totalitarianism, they are themselves half-totalitarian; that is to say, they express a desire for a society which is half-controlled, half-regimented, half-planned, part capitalist, and part socialist. This strange hybrid they will […]
By Shmuel Lederman Anarchism is often considered to have inspired the New Social Movements emerging in the last few decades. The 2011 mass demonstrations in Spain, Israel, the United States, and other places seem to confirm that what is often called “new” or postanarchism indeed inspires the visions […]
Hyphenated forms of anarchism are the yin and yang. By James J. Miller The topic of canon is more than a discussion revolving around texts, historical figures, or someone’s status in relation to that canon. This paper argues that the canon itself includes a way of applying and […]
Liz Wolfe points out inconsistencies in Americans’ views towards federal government spending.
From Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur For me, the last few years have involved a rather public renegotiation of my relationship with anarchism—and more specifically with the possibility of an anarchism-in-general that is not just a jumble of incommensurable theories with some superficial resemblances. I have most […]
By Ian Mayes, Parenthesis Eye I’ve noticed a pattern that I have. Every few years I feel the need to publicly re-think and re-clarify what exactly it is that I personally believe regarding anarchism. This usually corresponds with me affixing a new anarchist label to my beliefs and […]
The Anarchy Wars continue From ChillGoblin This video answers the age old question, what the H is going on with this guy Michael Malice? Is he an anarchist? Why not? Also, could there be a largely unrelated Kropotkin- themed game show in the middle of the video please? […]
From Center for a Stateless Society by Ash P. Morgans There is something else happening in Byas’ account of our own self-enslavement that I find interesting. It’s not just that Byas’ portrayal of anarchism is meant to be retroactively binding, emerging from our selves only to ensnare us […]
From It Could Happen Here Podcast Andrew joins us to talk about what an anarchist society would actually look like and how it would function.
Anarchist News From Militant Wire by The WannabeWonk Exclusive Interview with an Anarchist Fighter of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine Militant Wire’s Tom Lord Speaks with a Member of The Resistance Committee One of the defining aspects of the current war in Ukraine is the presence of […]
Sorry, left-libertarians, but this woman doesn’t really seem like much of a “fascist.”
By Caitlin Johnstone The struggle to obtain power is the struggle to gain control over the people around you. Trying to gain more control over a romantic partner, a family member, workers, the citizenry; all of these things are an attempt to obtain power. Gaining control over others […]
By Luis Fernandez The link below is to a pdf…. “This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the […]
N-AM-Conference 2018-Anarchist Communities-Past Present Future A powerpoint for a talk on historic anarchist practice that I gave a few years back.
Anarchist @zxcsvdf43_zx77 of https://t.co/hSRdP2JSFu talks anarchism, geopolitics, globalization, and the multipolar world, on @tntradiolive. https://t.co/lJiaeU7QQE — Geopolitics & Empire (@Geopolitics_Emp) May 26, 2022
I have a much broader definition of what anarchism is than this author, but this is a very good articulation of the general left-anarchist perspective. I am more of the view that left-anarchism (with its many schismatic subdivisions and hyphens) is one major branch of anarchism. The liberal-libertarian-anarchist […]
By Dana Williams Anarchy and Society explores the many ways in which the discipline of Sociology and the philosophy of anarchism are compatible. The book constructs possible parameters for a future ‘anarchist sociology’, by a sociological exposition of major anarchist thinkers (including Kropotkin, Proudhon, Landauer, Goldman, and Ward), […]
By Mitchell Abidor Victor Serge became a propagandist for the revolutionary government almost immediately after arriving in Soviet Russia in 1919. He wrote in praise of the new state and called on anarchists to support the Bolsheviks. However, contemporary reports in anarchist journals and memoirs by his contemporaries […]
By William Darling A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements Ammon Hennacy was arrested over thirty times for opposing US entry in World War 1. Later, when he refused to pay taxes that support war, he lost his […]
Anarchist News from Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur The schematic anarchism introduced over the last few months is at once a comparatively adjectiveless anarchism and a tool for synthesis. It is, however, not an example of anarchism without adjectives or anarchist synthesis in their most familiar senses. […]
By Louis Gerald Plottel Punk and anarchism, as lived practices that espouse antiauthoritarianism and prefigurative politics as their guiding principles, share a close affinity. Yet, the political value of punk has tended to be overlooked in favour of the punk “identity.” This paper considers the overlapping politics of […]
Man is an individual being. Man is also a social being. His material success — even his existence — depends on the progress of others. Yet, man’s fortunes and existence depend also on himself. In some respects he is tied to others, but in most respects he must […]
I will be joined by Thought Bat to discuss his thoughts on anarchism without adjectives and how he envisions an anarchist federation organizing all the disparate groups of anarchists; or how do you thread the needle organizing cats to resist the state?
By Adam Ormes Nowhere News (Originally published in Tribes Magazine, 2018) “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination.” – Attributed […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Thought Bat to discuss his thoughts on anarchism without adjectives and how he envisions an anarchist federation organizing all the desperate groups of anarchists; or how do you thread the needle organizing cats to resist the state?
Anarchist News via Freedom News Freedom is pleased to present the next Ukraine video dispatch produced for us by film-maker and journalist Alexis Daloumis. Alexis spent last few weeks in Kiyv, and previously you may have heard of him due to his other production, Belkî Sibê: A Journey […]
An interesting discussion of historic anarchism, including an interesting, occasionally insightful, but IMO overly negative critique of Murray Rothbard. Anarchist Writers Many men, I know, speak of liberty without understanding it; they know neither the science of it, nor even the sentiment. They see in the demolition of […]
By Jesse Cohn Over the course of its history, the anarchist movement has produced a form of literary theory – a critical aesthetics and epistemology grounded in its emancipatory ethics. In sketching an outline of this body of thought, this essay attempts to call attention to several aspects […]
By Chris Rossdale My research sits at the intersection between international relations theory and the study of resistance, looking at the ways in which our understandings of international politics shift when we begin from the perspective of radical social movements. My major research programme to-date has looked at […]
This is an interview I gave to a Swiss magazine around five years ago. I don’t think it has ever been published in English before. 1-In your book “Attack the System” you describe the current ideology of the West as a “totalitarian humanism,” yet you claim to be […]
My views are basically the same as Hoppe’s although I am a little more “left-wing” in the sense of being much less sympathetic to business corporations whom I regard as the economic arms of the state, and a little more “right-wing” in the sense of rejecting Lockean universalism […]
By Anthony Ince This article critically investigates past and contemporary treatments of the state within geographical scholarship. We propose that there is a silent statism within geography that has shaped it in ways that limit geographical imaginations. Statism, herein, refers to a pervasive, historically contingent organisational logic that […]
By Keith Preston The Russian war in Ukraine has accelerated the rising trend toward multipolarity (or even a multi-order order) within international relations. The Western retaliatory sanctions against Russia have pushed the BRICS nations and their economic allies closer together. The conventional wisdom is that the 21st century […]
Discussing Utopian Anarchism, Non-Violent Communication, and Communal Living with Parenthesis Eye!
By Simon Springer If anarchism is a spirit, it is the spirit of revolt. For those unfamiliar with the actual content of anarchism or the enabling possibilities of revolt this statement might appear doubly negative. Just as so much of the contemporary discourse surrounding anarchism is framed by […]
By Blair Taylor From Alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street: Neoanarchism and the New Spirit of Capitalism The Research Group on Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Tuesday, September 29th This talk will present an overview of my doctoral research, which examines how political transformations within left social movements have helped […]
By Paul Raekstad One of the more debated topics in the recent realist literature concerns the compatibility of realism and utopianism. Perhaps the greatest challenge to utopian political thought comes from Bernard Williams’ realism, which argues, among other things, that political values should be subject to what he […]
By Bill Angelbeck, Lewis Borck, Matthew Sanger The theory of anarchism primarily concerns the organization of society in a way that fosters egal- itarian or equitable forms of association and coop- eration and resists all forms of domination. An anarchist perspective involves an awareness of, and critique of, […]
An interview I did with Joseph Cotton in early February. WATCH HERE
The data doesn’t lie. It seems that populism is the in-thing right now. Not surprising given that anarchists and libertarians have done an absolutely horrible job at communicating their core ideas, and have largely become mere appendages to various culture war factions.
A reader writes: I think you make an absolute mistake of allowing your silly anarchistic tendencies to blind you into being anti-American just for the sake of it and this is a terrible way to start objective analysis. History has a track record of overturning the analysis of […]
The “anarchist abduction” story from 1910 described in this article sounds like the idiotic drama that goes on in anarchist circles today. By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman […]
By Bill Angelbeck and Colin Grier Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. […]
An Eastern Orthodox conservative challenges the anarchist position. By Jay Dyer The appeal of anarchism is understandable, especially in our day of what seems to be spectacular corruption on the part of members of the establishment. In the online-fueled furor of Ron Paul’s libertarian surge in 2008, those […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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