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Anarchism is movement: Tomás Ibáñez (5)
(Bordeaux, May 68, Archives Sud ouest) The fifth chapter of Tomás Ibáñez’s Anarchism is movement brings the principal argument of the essay to a close. Ibáñez is here concerned to demonstrate the bases upon which the contemporary anarchist resurgence and renewal … Continue reading
Anarchism is movement: Tomás Ibáñez (4)
The fourth chapter of Tomás Ibáñez’s essay, Anarchism is movement directly engages the debate over the significance of “postanarchism”. Neither tempted by a blind adherence to this current of thought, nor categorically dismissive, Ibáñez attempts to navigate between these extremes, … Continue reading
Anarchism is movement: Tomás Ibáñez (3)
Engaging directly with the contemporary resurgence and renewal of anarchism, Tomás Ibáñez, in the third chapter of Anarchism is movement, endeavours in part to conceptualise what he calls the “constitutively changeable” nature of the movement. Binding together thought and action, … Continue reading
Anarchism is movement: Tomás Ibáñez (2)
Tomás Ibáñez, not without hesitation and only as a heuristic, employs the term “neoanarchism” to refer to the resurgence and changing nature of the movement in the wake of May 1968, France. But these changes have not been without their … Continue reading
Anarchism is movement: Tomás Ibáñez (1)
With this post, we begin the publication of an english language translation of Tomás Ibáñez essay, “Anarchism is movement: Anarchism, neoanarchism and postanarchism” (2014). Among our motives for undertaking the exercise, there is first the desire to share with english … Continue reading
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
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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
An anarchist critique of horizontalism: Mark Bray
The concept and practice of “horizontalism” has significantly marked recent social movements. And for some, this has suggested affinities with older anarchist politics and served to justify the participation of anarchists in them. Yet whatever affinities there are – and … Continue reading →