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Author: Alexandre ChristoyannopoulosTitle: An Introduction to Christian AnarchismSubtitle: An Interview with Dr. Alexandre ChristoyannopoulosDate: 2011Notes: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. He recently published Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel.Source: Retrieved on April 15, 2025 from https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/mw-issue-10/an-introduction-to-christian-anarchism/ For people who are not...

Author: Petr ChelčickýTitle: On The Spiritual BattleDate: 1421Source: Retrieved on April 15, 2025 from <en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/On_The_Spiritual_Battle> Translator’s Preface Petr Chelčický wrote On the Spiritual Battle circa 1421 in response to the position of Jakoubek ze Stříbra and the Táborite Hussites, an early Christian reformation community. In it, he explained his opposition to the Hussite use of physical force and violence to advance their legitimate spiritual...

Author: Leonardo CaffoTitle: A Non-Manifesto to Understand Where We Are NowSubtitle: (And Where We Don’t Want to Be)Date: 2024Source: <academia.edu/125353120/A_Non_Manifesto_to_Understand_Where_We_Are_Now> Something is clearly not working. If we look beyond our glass cages, it’s evident that our technology-driven,online-based civilization (or “on-life,” as some call it) has become overly complex and unsustainable. Depression,new forms of poverty, ecological destruction, the demise of old dreams, and the dismantling...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 18.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: April 14, 1888Notes: Whole No. 122. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 14, 2025 from http://www.readliberty.org “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay...

Author: Ivan IllichTitle: The Educational enterprise in the Light of the GospelSubtitle: The spectacles of Holy WritDate: 1988Notes: Lecture manuscript, printout Nov.15th, 1988. Currently being edited by Dr. Lee Hoinacki.Source: Retrieved on April 12, 2025 from https://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1988_Educational.html David Ramage. I am your guest and I thank you for your hospitality. For this one evening you have, once again, appointed me to speak in a...

Author: Joseph A. LabadieTitle: I Welcome DisorderDate: 1910Notes: Detroit: The Labadie Shop, 1910Source: Retrieved on April 12, 2025 from https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002917761 I Welcome Disorder When confined to the need of defense       I welcome disorder in the field of       work! Why cry "Peace, peace!" when there is       no peace? When the very air gluts with the clash of       interests? Until my opportunities for making goods       shall...

Author: Adin BallouTitle: The Constitution of the Practical Christian RepublicDate: 1854Source: Retrieved on April 12, 2025 from http://www.adinballou.org/ConstPCRep.shtml A new order of human society is hereby founded to be called THE PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC. It shall be constituted, organized and governed in accordance with the following fundamental articles, to wit: ARTICLE 1. OBJECTS. The cardinal objects of this Republic are and shall be the...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 17.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: March 24, 1888Notes: Whole No. 121. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 11, 2025 from http://www.readliberty.org “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay...

Author: Aleksander ŁaniewskiTitle: Nestor Makhno in the Culture of Remembrance of Modern UkraineDate: 9th April 2025Source: Retrieved on 11 April 2025 from <anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-nestor-makhno-in-the-culture-of-remembrance-of-modern-ukraine> Translator’s Foreword The following interviews were originally conducted in Ukrainian and Russian and published in Polish in the anarchist magazine Inny Świat [A Different World], no. 55 (2024). The following English translation was completed by myself and Malcolm Archibald. We used...

Author: Eager NilTitle: Laborers, Luddites and LumpenSubtitle: A Folk History of Evansville, Indiana’s Boxtown NeighborhoodDate: June 7, 2017Source: https://wheretheriverfrowns.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/laborers-luddites-and-lumpen-a-folk-history-of-evansvilles-boxtown-neighborhood/ In 1824, prospectors drilled two salt water wells at Maryland Street and Fountain Avenue on the eastern banks of Pigeon Creek in Lamasco, Indiana. They auspiciously intended to open up a salt factory and expand their fortunes but would have no such luck. Despite their...

Author: Elia J. AyoubTitle: The Periphery Has No Time for BinariesSubtitle: We must focus on building more organic bonds in our lands and between our diasporasDate: May 25, 2021Source: https://lausancollective.com/2021/periphery-has-no-time-for-binaries/ As we’re witnessing Palestinians in Al-Aqsa chanting for the downfall of the regime, I was reminded of a conversation I had on the Istanbul-based podcast Mangal Media following the explosion at the port of...

Author: DrewtanukiTitle: Gender Self-DeterminationDate: March 3, 2025Source: https://drewtanuki.itch.io/gender-self-determination I am a human. I am not defined by my genitals. Just because I have a penis, doesn’t mean that I am a “male”. Just because I have a vagina, doesn’t mean that I am a “female”. Just because I have genitals that do not align with an arbitrary binary, doesn’t mean you can force me...

Author: Federación Estudiantil Libertaria — FELTitle: Senda: A Militant Assessment of the Experience of the Libertarian Student FederationDate: 01/08/2024Source: www.regeneracionlibertaria.org “Today, the radical critique of the modern world must target and encompass the ‘totality.’ It must inseparably contain its real past, what it effectively is, and the perspectives of its transformation. To tell the whole truth about the current world, and even more so,...

Author: T. Morago, MalfainerTitle: Anarchy and a Cool HeadSubtitle: Especifismo as the Spearhead “Revolutions without theory do not progress. We, the ‘Friends of Durruti,’ have outlined our thinking, which may be modified as necessary during major social upheavals, but which revolves around two essential and unavoidable points: a program and rifles.”[1] Anarchist organizations adhering to the especifista strategy have held our first Especifista Anarchism...

Author: SrgHkBkTitle: Especifismo Before its CriticsSubtitle: Neither Parallel Assembly nor Co-optation, but Strategic Organization: Responding to the Criticisms Leveled Against EspecifismoDate: 22/07/2024Notes: Translation by Cameron Pádraig.Source: www.blackrosefed.org We present here a translation of an article which appeared on July 7, 2024 in the recently revived Spanish anarchist journal Regeneración Libertaria. The journal describes itself as “a portal for the revolutionary anarchist tendency, concretely of...

Author: AnonymousTitle: On Ocalan’s Call for Peace and Social Democratic ImperialismSubtitle: An Anarchist Communist CritiqueDate: 2025Source: https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18070/ Revolutionary struggle is never a solitary endeavor; rather it is an unfolding process replete with contradiction and tension. But sifting through the complexity what fundamentally endures is solidarity and principles. When we – anarchist and communist revolutionaries – embark on the path of struggle we expect to...

Author: Crescencio CarreteroTitle: Trade union, works council and workers' councilDate: 2004Notes: Excerpt from the presentation given during the Solidaridad Obrera Debate WeekSource: Retrieved on April 7, 2025 from https://www.solidaridadobrera.org/ateneo_nacho/paginasagora/paginasarticulos/sindicato_consejo_obrero.html According to UN data, at the end of the last century, there were 350 million people in the world who owned as much wealth as half the world's population. The search for methods to change...

Author: Carlos Eduardo Pazmiño VásquezTitle: Anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism in EcuadorSubtitle: Myth and realityDate: 2016Notes: Carlos Eduardo Pazmiño Vásquez, Quito, Ecuador, 1987. He defines himself as a libertarian Marxist. He is a communicator and sociologist, and a scholar of anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism in Ecuador, the Kurdish question and the Middle East, processes of political violence, collective action, and theories of the state. He is a...

Author: AnonymousTitle: 12 Commandments for the Modern SlaveDate: 2004Source: Retrieved on April 7, 2025 from https://www.solidaridadobrera.org/ateneo_nacho/agora.html 1. Think of yourself first, always of yourself, and nothing but yourself. 2. Believe that the reality you have been forced to live is this way and cannot be changed. 3. Accept misery, injustice, and inequality as things of fate, the will of God, or nature. 4. Believe...

Author: Félix García MoriyónTitle: Eight theses for a libertarian ethicDate: 2011Source: Retrieved on April 7, 2025 from https://www.solidaridadobrera.org/ateneo_nacho/paginasagora/paginasarticulos/ocho_tesis_etica_libertaria.html 1. Although the social circumstances in which we live determine our activities, we are free and responsible for what we do, so we can and should take sides. Nothing is predetermined, and each person has the task of deciding what kind of life they want to...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 15.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: February 25, 1888Notes: Whole No. 119. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 7, 2025 from www.readliberty.org “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay...

Author: Jim ConsedineTitle: Anarchism and the Catholic WorkerDate: 2010Notes: Reprinted from The Common Good, No 55, Advent 2010Source: Retrieved on April 7, 2025 from https://catholicworker.org.nz/the-common-good/anarchism-and-the-catholic-worker/ One of the principle guiding influences within the development of Catholic Worker philosophy has been the principle of anarchism. The three most influential figures of the Catholic Worker- Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy – all professed to...

Author: 08Title: Revolution or Reification?Subtitle: A Critique of FRSO’s Political ProgramDate: 2024Source: https://toonworld08.substack.com/p/a-critique-of-frsos-political-program A Marxist Party of a New (Old) Type In the current evolution of the so-called radical left in the so-called United States, one concerning trend is the growing popularity of Marxist-Leninist organizations, particularly among newly-activated young people. One organization that has been a major beneficiary of such a surge has been...

Author: Jason BarrTitle: Radical HopeSubtitle: Anarchy, Christianity and the Prophetic ImaginationDate: 2008Notes: This pamphlet is an adaptation of talks the author has given, particularly “Anarchism, Christianity, and the Prophetic Imagination” at the Cynicism and Hope conference in Evanston, Illinois, Nov. 2–3, 2007. For an audio recording of the talk log on to http://www.cynicismandhope.org. For a more comprehensive discussion of the argument in this pamphlet...

Author: Gregory WilliamsTitle: In Defense of Multiple Belonging, or “On Christianity And”Date: 2016Source: Retrieved on April 6, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/in-defense-of-multiple-belonging-or-on-christianity-and?__cf_chl_tk=b5i6wx4wZLCK7qqdMc7WF6Dy_RMRjzrn7V6I7Cp4NaM-1743036833-1.0.1.1-C0z9do_xQQvarECHn5nfv7RuzCj9zR1 Arising, as it does, out of a turn towards anabaptist theology by white American evangelicals, Christian Anarchism has often displayed hostility towards multiple belonging. This can be seen in the precise relationship that many of those engaged in it imagine between radical Christianity and...

Author: Sarah Lynne GershonTitle: Finding Freedom In God’s SovereigntySubtitle: How the sovereignty of God challenges carceral logic and motivates us to work for prison abolition through transformative justiceDate: 2022Source: Retrieved on April 5, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/rockpaperscissors-427450/finding-freedom-in-gods-sovereignty “No Gods, No Masters” is the quintessential anarchist slogan. Rejecting hierarchy in all its forms, the idea that there is ontological subordination at the heart of reality seems...

Author: Sarah Lynne GershonTitle: Radical Subordination: Wives Submit to Your Husbands!Date: 2008Source: Retrieved on April 5, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/radical-subordination-wives-submit-to-your-husbands “Wives submit to your husbands.” Growing up, this seemed to be one of the least understood statements in the bible, right after women being admonished to be silent in church and to wear head-coverings when praying, of course. Bringing up these verses in my relatively...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 14.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: February 11, 1888Notes: Whole No. 118. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 5, 2025 from http://www.readliberty.org “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay...

Author: Britta GröndahlTitle: When Lenin abolished syndicalismDate: 1968Notes: Article in the weekly magazine Arbetaren no. 17-18/1968Source: Retrieved on April 5, 2025 from https://sv.anarchistlibraries.net/library/britta-grondahl-nar-lenin-avskaffade-syndikalismen When speaking of Russian anarchism, most people probably think first of the two great Russians who made significant contributions to anarchist ideology: Bakunin and Kropotkin. But Paul Avrich’s book “The Russian Anarchists” (Princeton University Press) does not deal with them, except...

Author: Britta GröndahlTitle: Syndicalism — what is it?Date: 1996Source: Retrieved on April 5, 2025 from https://sv.anarchistlibraries.net/library/britta-grondahl-syndikalism-vad-ar-det Syndicalism — what is it? Syndicalism is a trade union movement that differs from others in several ways. Syndicalism distances itself from party politics and parliamentarism. They prioritize trade unions and claim to want to improve the conditions of wage earners in the present through economic struggle but...

Author: Mark Van SteenwykTitle: A Mennonite anarchistSubtitle: Mark Van Steenwyk’s journey to radical Christian communityDate: 2013Notes: Mark Van Steenwyk, originally from Becker County, Minn., lives in Minneapolis with The Mennonite Worker community. The Mennonite Worker (formerly Missio Dei) has been affiliated with Central Plains Mennonite Conference since 2007. I got to know Mark when I began working with Mennonite Church USA in 2009. Since...

Author: Anarchists Against Capitalist WarsTitle: To fall in the abyss of war or to build a future for all?Date: March 2025Source: https://stuut.info/Tomber-dans-l-abime-de-la-guerre-ou-construire-un-avenir-pour-tous-English-6247 We live in strange times. We would call them, once again, the times of monsters. The international bourgeoisie is joining forces against the interests of the lower classes in order to escape from the economic crisis that it has caused. After the...

Author: Pëtr KropotkinTitle: The anarchist idea and its developmentsDate: 1891Notes: Published first in La Révolte, year 5, number 6, October 31, 1891.Source: Retrieved on April 3, 2025 from https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Id%C3%A9e_anarchiste_et_ses_d%C3%A9veloppements Anarchy means the negation of authority. But since authority claims to legitimize its existence based on the need to defend social institutions, such as the family, religion, and property, a host of mechanisms have emerged...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Yes, Politics is a Zero-Sum GameDate: November 14th, 2024Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org I find fodder for op-eds in some of the strangest places. I came across this video (“Politics is NOT a zero-sum game,” by Shai Davidai) in a HIT posted on Amazon Mechanical Turk by Davidai — an academic study in which he gauged viewers’ reactions to it. (For...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: How and How Not to Question the “Mainstream Narrative”Date: November 30th, 2023Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org In the unlikely event that anyone reading this is unfamiliar with him, Russell Brand is a one time more-or-less leftist who, like Naomi Wolf, has gone down the rabbit hole of batshittery (he endorses the “Great Reset” conspiracy, among other things). Rape accusations against Brand...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Another Stupid Right-Wing Talking Point That Won’t DieDate: March 25th, 2025Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org The right-wing talking point that Black poverty is the result, not of historic injustice, but of “Black culture” — and particularly the effect of Great Society welfare programs on Black culture — dates almost as far back as the Great Society itself. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, among...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Basic Income: The Wonderful World That Might Have BeenDate: February 26th, 2025Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org Advocates of Basic Income have trotted out a lot of arguments for its benefits, but I never expected John Stossel (“Universal Basic Income Shows Why Giving People ‘Free Money’ Doesn’t Work,” Reason, October 9) to produce such a convincing one. When I was young, If...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: “Libertarian” Stossel Marginally Less Statist Than TrumpDate: December 16th, 2015Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org Seemingly John Stossel never sits down to write without the goal of further lowering the bar for qualifying as a libertarian. This time (“My Trump Problem,” Reason, Nov. 11), he’s managed to push the criterion to the all-time low of being somewhat less statist than Donald Trump....

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Move Over, Hollywood: Stossel’s Writing His Own FantasyDate: July 13th, 2015Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org Every time I write a commentary on one of John Stossel’s godawful columns, I tell myself I’ll lay off him for a while. But good lord, this latest wretched little piece of pro-corporate apologetics (“Corporations Have Become Hollywood’s Go-To Villains,” Reason, July 1) is about the...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: John Stossel: A Parody of Self-ParodyDate: May 27th, 2015Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org Every time I read a column by John Stossel, I think my estimation of him has fallen to its theoretical limit. And then I read the next one. For years, Stossel has tipped his hat to the idea that “pro-market” and “pro-business” are not the same thing. He...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 13.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: January 28, 1888Notes: Whole No. 117. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 3, 2025 from http://www.readliberty.org “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty! Shines that high light whereby the world is saved; And though thou slay...

Author: Sheldon RichmanTitle: Real Liberalism and the Law of NatureDate: August 10th, 2007Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org “Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.” — Thomas Hodgskin Is government the source of our rights? I fear that today many people would say yes. Not infrequently it is said that the government or the Constitution grants...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Nice Hypothesis You Got There, Walter…Subtitle: …Be a Shame If Somebody Tried to Falsify ItDate: March 6th, 2025Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org The Foundation for Economic Education’s specialty is making “arguments” via the uncritical assertion of right-wing talking points. If anybody’s the go-to guy for that, it’s Walter Block — especially when if it’s the worn-out “minimum wages cause unemployment” talking...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: The Disconnect Is Coming From Inside the HouseDate: November 25th, 2024Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org At Reason, C.J. Ciaramella (“Tim Scott Says UAW Workers Should Be Fired, Invoking Ronald Reagan”) gives GOP Presidential hopeful Tim Scott two stars for his proposal to fire striking auto workers like Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers and broke PATCO: “He said, you strike, you’re...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: The Weird Correlation Between “Understanding Economics” and PayolaDate: October 6th, 2024Source: Retrieved 04/03/2025 from c4ss.org For more years than most of us have been alive, by-the-numbers “minimum wage increases cause unemployment” puff pieces have been an almost daily staple at right-libertarian propaganda sites like Foundation for Economic Education. As I remark every time I see one — more than once in...

Author: Margaret KilljoyTitle: Mythmakers & LawbreakersSubtitle: Anarchist Writers on FictionDate: 2009Source: Archive.org Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson THIS BOOK COLLECTS FOURTEEN INTERVIEWS WITH WRITERS who have either described themselves as anarchists, written about anarchists in historical or contemporary settings, or invented fictional cultures that they or others have called anarchist. Each person’s story is different, naturally, and the definitions they have given for anarchism...

Author: Julian LangerTitle: When We Are Human, by John Zerzan – a reviewDate: 17 July 2021Source: <ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/17/when-we-are-human-by-john-zerzan-a-review> [DISCLAIMER] – following the publication of this review Zerzan has apologised publicly on his radio show for his piece on autism and I personally consider the matter to be resolved, though I can’t speak for anyone else. If you want to hear the apology, the episode can...

Author: Crimethinc, AnonymousTitle: The Only Immigrant Trying to Steal My Job Is Elon MuskSubtitle: A Bus Driver’s Perspective on Elon Musk’s Austerity MeasuresDate: February 24th, 2025Source: https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/24/the-only-immigrant-trying-to-steal-my-job-is-elon-musk-a-bus-drivers-account-of-life-in-the-trump-era Introduction In the following narrative, a bus driver describes how the cuts that Elon Musk is carrying out in the federal government are affecting ordinary public transit workers. There is a poetic opposition between the figure of...

Author: Jean DrezeTitle: Chomsky in IndiaDate: 2014Notes: This is Jean Dreze’s introduction to the book Democracy and Power, by Noam Chomsky (OpenBook, 2014).Source: Democracy and Power Sometime around 1991 I wrote to Noam Chomsky and invited him to give a few lectures in India. It felt like wishful thinking – for one thing, I had no idea how his visit would be financed, if...

Author: David S. D’AmatoTitle: Military Revolution and the New State PowerSubtitle: The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648)Date: March 30, 2025Source: Retrieved on March 30, 2025 from https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/military-revolution-and-the-new-state Introduction: the Empire and the Thirty Years’ War The dimensions of the modern state are remarkably little well understood given its dominant role in social and economic life today. As Peter Kropotkin argued in The State: Its Historic...