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Communal living, making community: David Thoreau Wieck
The role of principle in anarchist thought and action, as I understand it, is to liberate the positive ethical life of human beings. Thus the principle of power-negation is rather a constitutive principle of the desired society than a rule … Continue reading
Joseph Déjacque: the State against boundless individuality
All that which is not liberty is against liberty. Liberty is not a thing that can be allocated. It does not pertain at the whim of whatever personage or committee of public safety that orders it, that makes a gift … Continue reading
Peter Kropotkin against the State
We recently posted an essay from the Crimethinc Collective on the illusions of a “revolutionary state“. As a complement to this text, we share an older essay by Peter Kropotkin on the same theme. If there is an urgency in … Continue reading
The anarchist critique of the state
We share, below, a sort of exercise of recollection, not of an event, but of the impossibility of “revolutionary government”, from the CrimethInc Collective. However complex the State, however much it is inseparable from our everyday life (it is not … Continue reading
Thinking through May 68: Murray Bookchin
From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog … Lately I have been focusing on recent events in France – the conclusion to the Tarnac trial and the police attack on the ZAD autonomous zone near Nantes. Now it is time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading
Anarchists and anarchy in May 68
Reflections on anarchism in france’s May 68, by David Porter and posted at the Anarchist Library.
Reimagining revolution: Amador Fernández-Savater
With the seeming proliferation and celebration of anniversaries of revolutions, “successful” or “failed”, we lose cite of the conceptual wealth and practical weight of the concept itself. The Autonomies collective has endeavoured, however modestly, to reflect upon the history and … Continue reading
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Vanishing points in working class culture: Miguel Amorós
As a complement to our last post “Revolution imagined outside history”, we share an essay by the anarchist militant-writer Miguel Amorós on the possibility of revolution after the “death of the working class”.
The long and winding May of 1968 (5): Japanese Anarchism 1960s
To share, a brief account of the anarchist movement in the 1960s of japan, by Michael Schmidt, followed by the third chapter of John Crump’s essay, The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906–1996.
The time of revolution: Reflections with Uri Gordon
In a richly argued essay, Uri Gordon critically evaluates the notion of “prefigurative politics”, an expression that has become popular with social movements, including anarchist groups, eager to maintain the ethical unity between means and ends. What has gone unnoticed however is what … Continue reading →