All things considered, it is a good thing that the phenomenon of “left-wing anti-woke” has emerged in recent times with writers from across the spectrum of “left” opinion (from centrist liberals to Marxists) increasingly expressing discomfort with the “woke” paradigm. For a long time, critics of totalitarian humanism […]
Anarchist News Topic of the week – How anarchists engage in the sharing of information has long been a critical part of the anarchist project, and as the media landscape of the future changes, perhaps anarchists must too. In this topic of the week, we will discuss the […]
The Conversation Architecture and anarchy may not seem like the most obvious pairing. But since anarchism emerged as a distinct kind of politics in the second half of the 19th-century, it has inspired countless alternative communities. Christiania in Copenhagen, Slab City in the California desert, La ZAD in the French countryside, and Grow […]
By Kyle Shideler Militant Wire On January 18th, an unnamed group of self-identified Black anarchists released a statement entitled: Black Armed Joy: Some Notes towards a Black Theory of Insurrectionary Anarchy which includes an overt call for armed violence and criticizes the contemporary anarchist movement in North America, […]
By Ella Fassler, Vice Open-source blueprints are inspiring activists to distribute tent-safe heaters that can be built for as little as $7. As temperatures fall sharply and the number of unhoused people swells throughout the United States, anarchists are forming a decentralized network that builds and distributes tent-safe, […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week Do you remember the “libertarian moment”? I wouldn’t blame you if not. For a few years around the end of the Obama administration, though, it looked as if the right just might coalesce around restrained foreign policy, opposition to electronic surveillance and other […]
I think Morgan‘s main point is that “prescriptive anarchism” is a contradiction in terms. The dispersal/decentralization of power implies extreme diversity of thought and practice. For a lot of left-anarchists, the ideal is merely “Progressive Liberalism + Workers’ Coops” and for a lot of ancaps/libertarians, the ideal is […]
An interesting critique of Kropotkin and anarcho-communism from the neocon magazine The New Criterion. Reading the list of names associated with this publication is a “Yikes!” moment. Of all the scams the neocons have pulled off, one of the most successful has been the way they present themselves […]
By Pietro Missiaggia When the Italian scholar of political doctrines, the historian of the “radical right”, the so-called “revolutionary left” or the anarchist movement hears about National-Anarchism and its leading ideologue, Troy Southgate, they are baffled and doubtful in the face of such a thinker and such an […]
“Tragedy” doesn’t even begin to describe the condition of libertarianism these days. And at a time when the popularity of virtually all institutions is at an all-time low. “Libertarianism is owning the libs by becoming right-wing authoritarians. Franco was a cool guy.” “No! Libertarianism is rioting for state […]
By AntiBoomerEquation For an Aristocracy of the Ego. Mencken and Christophe Cieters both advocate a Nietzschean approach to libertarianism. Renzo Novatore, Max Stirner, Zo d’Axa, Georges Palante and S. E. Parker are all examples of a profoundly anti-democratic rejection of statism and collectivism. John Beverly Robinson, John Badcock, […]
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 Gabriel Kuhn , Erich Mühsam Erich Mühsam (1878-1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany’s most renowned and influential anarchists. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he challenged the conventions of bourgeois society at the turn of the century, engaged in heated debates on the rights of […]
A classic from Murray Bookchin. Note A splendid text with many interesting considerations and anticipations. From: Post-Scarcity Anarchism, 1971. In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch of science, often in conjunction with a school […]
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What if we could rebuild our society in a way that works for everyone? Epochal changes are now underway that are radically transforming how society operates. Johann will describe this revolution, and how […]
By Vishwam Jamie Heckert Following Andy Fisher’s call for a radical ecopsychology – one which heals individuals and transforms social, philosophical and psychological systems of organisation and knowledge – this paper explores the anarchist pasts and possible futures of the field. While anarchists such as Kropotkin, Goodman, and […]
By Matthew Sanger and Lewis Borck The genesis of our special section, “Anarchy and Archaeology,” was a symposium chaired by Matthew Sanger and Lewis Borck at the 80th annual SAA meeting in San Francisco. At that time and as the issue took shape, few expected the outcome of […]
Excellent news. Business leaders, government leaders and journalists are basically the same group of people these days. The interconnectedness of them is insane.
Michael Malice, bestselling celebrity ghostwriter, and author of ‘Dear Reader,’ ‘The New Right,’ and ‘The Anarchist Handbook,’ talks about anarchism and why Donald Trump isn’t a good vessel for Trumpism.
It sounds like the American people are on the right track. By Samuel Goldman, The Week Just two years ago, populists were riding high. In the U.S., U.K., several European countries, and parts of Asia, leaders and parties who appealed to ordinary people against an allegedly or actually […]
By John Zube Note Anarchy and Panarchy are not two opposite forms of social organization. In fact Panarchy is mainly a method of solving problems of social organization and through that method anarchy (as well as statism, or communism, or any other conceivable social model) can be implemented […]
By Duane Fuller, Center for a Stateless Society As an anarchist prisoner, it has been said many times that one can learn a great deal about society by looking towards its prisons. Look towards its dungeons and there you will see in concentrated and microcosmic form the sickness […]
By Ted Galen Carpenter, Antiwar.Com Earlier this month, the country marked the one-year anniversary of the storming of the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. For one faction in America’s increasingly polarized political system, however, it was not enough to castigate the rioters for their disgraceful, indefensible […]
By Vishwam Jamie Heckert When order is presumed to rely upon centralised authority, anarchy is assumed to mean violent chaos. However, anarchists have long argued, and demonstrated, that other forms of order are both possible and beneficial: ecologically, socially and psychologically. While anarchism has been influential in the […]
Kevin Carson is by far the best contemporary left-anarchist economist. His ideas on economics are more or less what I think the dominant mode of production would look like in a world where anarchist movements achieved political hegemony on a cultural and intellectual level. Although, like Noam Chomsky, […]
By Dolores Martín Moruno Abstract: This article explores the way in which the Spanish Civil War has been traditionally shaped in the collective memory as a Manicheanconflict fought between two well-defined sides, the Republicans and the Nationalists, in order to demythologize this common representation in contemporary Spanish society. According […]
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Anarchist News From Freedom News UK I’ve been thinking recently about the various themes that I’ve written about since starting this regular column for Freedom in 2016. I try really hard not to repeat myself too much but history has a way of making that pretty tough. These […]
Anarchist News From Freedom Press UK a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition Features, Jan 13th Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Pluto Press The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by […]
By Süreyyya Evren In ordinary language, a ghostwriter is someone who stands behind or writes on behalf of a named author. In dubbing George Woodcock the ghostwriter of anarchism we instead want to suggest that Woodcock identified anarchism’s ‘essence’ or, as Stirner has it, ‘the spirit that walks […]
By AntiBoomerEquation Borders are Not Property, Authority is Not Indivisible. The main reason I dislike nationalism: territorialism. The process of territorialization of political demesne has been a recipe for totalitarian sovereign states. Polities do not consist of rocks and streams, they consist of persons. There is no such […]
By Simon Springer, James D Sidaway, Richard J White, Nicholas J Crane The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation advances several arguments. On the one hand, it wishes to recover and applaud the legacies of two anarchists who were also geographers—Kropotkin (1842– 1921) and Reclus (1830–1905)—and celebrate […]
Buckle up, this one is a wild ride. Author of “The Anarchist Handbook” and podcast host of “Your Welcome” Michael Malice wants to burn it all down, peacefully and with a smile. “My rights are NOT up for discussion,” he tells Glenn. He explains why his version of […]
January 12, 2022 Leave Cuba, and Leave Cuba Alone On the 20-year anniversary of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture and prison center and their military-tribunal judicial system at their imperial base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some critics are asking the obvious question: Why doesn’t President Biden simply order […]
By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society Partition & Entanglement: Review of Home Rule by Nandita Sharma “The entire, eons-long practice of human movement into new places was pushed out of our imagination — or, perhaps more accurately, was reimagined as a national security threat. In the […]
Apparently, Kevin Carson, who is definitely the best modern anarchist economist, has a publicly available manuscript for a new book examining different theories of the state. As many readers know, I lean toward a type of hybrid theory of left/right power elite models, a kind of intersection of […]
By Kevin Carson, Anarchist Library Reviews Abstract Preface Part One: Background Chapter One: The Age of Mass and Maneuver I. A Conflict of Visions II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left III. The Assault on Working Class Agency IV. Workerism/Laborism Chapter Two: Transition I. Drastic Reductions […]
It is interesting to find a discussion of David Graeber in the Examiner of all places. By Geoff Shullenberger Washington Examiner In his 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber marshaled historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence in an effort to dismantle some of the […]
By Kevin Morgan In its heyday around the turn of the twentieth century, Emma Goldman more than anybody personified anarchism for the American public. Journalists described her as anarchy’s ‘red queen’ or ‘high priestess’. At least one anarchist critic was heard to mutter of a ‘cult of personality’. […]
By Brandon Smith, Activist Post Despite a growing resurgence of interest in the science and psychology of narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths it seems as though society today has lost track of how these people can sabotage the core fabric of a civilization or nation. It is very easy […]
By Saidiya Hartman, Anarchist Library Esther Brown did not write a political tract on the refusal to be governed, or draft a plan for mutual aid or outline a memoir of her sexual adventures. A manifesto of the wayward: Own Nothing. Refuse the Given. Live on What You […]
By Min, Anarchist Library A short historical summary of the forgotten Korean project known as Shinmin Prefecture and Korean People’s Association in Manchuria. This was a self-governing region of around two million people from 1929 to 1931. 1. Inception Many Koreans gathered in Manchuria to avoid oppression from […]
“Overwhelming popular demand…” That kind of throws a wrench in popular government or mass democracy of the kind that liberals and social democrats favor.
One question that I’m interested in is what the cultural framework of hegemonic anarchism would look like. I think it’s clear the political aspect would more or less be a world of free cities, micronations, federated bottom-up imperiums, millets, eco-villages, intentional communities, communes, diffused networks, etc. But I […]
By Dana Williams 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 force for opposing hierarchy, repression, and inequality. Tactics can also assume a proactive, prognostic, or […]
Anarchist News We all have contradictions in our practice and our ideas. Not just anarchists, obviously, but definitely anarchists, perhaps most foundationally (at least, I like to think so). What are the four main contradictions in your life with your anarchist ideas of how life should be (you […]
By Uri Gordon This guide is pitched for A-level teachers looking to keep up with modern developments, and/or to provide material to more advanced students who may be able to go beyond the basics to grasp more difficult approaches to the study of anarchism, probe core concepts or […]
By Keith Preston Every so often, I like to provide readers with an updated description of who I am and what I do as newer readers are constantly coming to Attack the System who are unaware of this site’s history. I’ve written previous narratives containing the backstory of […]
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