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Tag Archives: anti-militarism
Virginia Woolf: Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Virginia Woolf, in times of war … The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a … Continue reading
Virginia Woolf: Anarchy against war
The daughters of educated men who were called, to their resentment, ‘feminists’ were in fact the advance guard of your own movement. They were fighting the same enemy that you are fighting and for the same reasons. They were fighting … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Giorgio Agamben, Virginia Woolf
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Reading the past through the present: Marx and Engels on the Crimean War
Let us rather observe this lad of ten, clad in an ancient cap, his father’s probably, shoes worn on bare feet, and nankeen breeches, held up by a single suspender, who had climbed over the wall at the very beginning … Continue reading
Remembering Howard Zinn
My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Howard Zinn, marxism, revolution
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Karl Kraus: In these great times … and in our times
To brandish Karl Kraus’ 1914 essay “In these great times” against our own may seem out of place. And in some sense it is, for the First World War is not ours. Yet Kraus condemns not only the war, but … Continue reading
Tom Cornell and the Catholic Worker
It would be almost impossible to describe any of the regular participants or contributors to Autonomies as catholic, or christian, or even religious, in any traditional or institutional sense of the latter. And yet we are equally aware of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ammon Hennacy, anarchism, anti-militarism, Cornel West, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, religion, revolution, The Catholic Worker, Tom Cornell
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Errico Malatesta: Lessons for Anarchists Considering the Ukrainian War
We share below an article by Wayne Price reading the war in Ukraine through the work of Errico Malatesta, published in the last issue of Black Flag Anarchist Review and posted at the Anarchist Library website. Malatesta on War and … Continue reading
Reading war and anarchy with Sigmund Freud
The reflection that follows is driven by our own ongoing effort to understand the crises of our time, which now include the war in Ukraine, as well as being inspired by a video interview with Catherine Malabou, which we share … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-militarism, Catherine Malabou, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud
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Of war and revolution: Ukraine
Why is our century worse than any other? Is it that in the stupor of fear and grief It has plunged its fingers in the blackest ulcer, Yet cannot bring relief? Anna Akhmatova, from Plantain (1919) “The main enemy is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, belarus, revolution, Rosa Luxemburg, russia, ukraine, V.I. Lenin
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Fritz Oerter: Violence or non-violence?
Before the horrors of the First World War and the violence unleashed by the new, post-war German republic against the revolution of 1919-20, the anarchist-syndicalist Fritz Oerter made an impassioned defence of what he called “non-violent socialism”. If for some … Continue reading →