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Author: LiaoTitle: A Critique of Filial Piety and the Traditional East Asian Family ModelDate: 11/26/24Source: Retrieved on 17 April 2025 from <thecommoner.org.uk/a-critique-of-filial-piety-and-the-traditional-east-asian-family-model> This piece is a continuation of a series of articles that seek to articulate Asian anarchism. To briefly reiterate, Asian anarchism aims to unite Asian and Asian diasporic thought under a lens of anti-hierarchical analysis as we look toward a liberatory future....

Author: LiaoTitle: Translations of Selected Articles of PingdengDate: 2025Notes: Edited and translated by Liao from the collection at UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library.Source: University of California Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library Anarcho-Communist Monthly #1 Selected Articles Tell Workers This world is a capitalist world. What is capitalism? This is when capitalists monopolize all production tools and production items, use the monetary system, and force us...

Author: Jason M. Brown and Christopher J. NielsenTitle: Plotino Constantino RhodakanatySubtitle: Introduction to a Mormon AnarchistSource: Retrieved on April 16, 2025 from https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/mw-issue-8/plotino-constantino-rhodakanaty-introduction-to-a-mormon-anarchist/ People! No more governments.Governments! No more prescriptive laws.Laws! Protection, naturalness, and no more confusions or sophisms.Such is the triple condition of social regeneration. –Rhodakanaty, 1877 Introduction As we spoke to a Special Collections worker at the BYU Library, another worker—a clean...

Author: Nikita ShepardTitle: Becoming UngovernableSubtitle: A ReassessmentDate: October 29, 2018Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2025 from <blogs.law.columbia.edu/praxis1313/nikita-shepard-becoming-ungovernable-a-reassessment> Introduction: Rethinking Ungovernability At the Praxis 13/13 Seminar event on October 3 discussing the Invisible Committee’s Now, discussion among panel participants seemed to run aground on the term ungovernable, which marked for some panelists a space beyond coherent praxis. Yet despite the frustration of academic critics, the...

Author: Elia J. AyoubTitle: A look at the Chinese Anarchist movement between 1905 and 1930Date: May 1, 2016Source: Retrieved on 16 April 2025 from <eliaayoub.com/2016/05/01/a-look-at-the-chinese-anarchist-movement-between-1905-and-1930> The following was written as part my studies at SOAS between 2015–2016 for a class entitled “Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern China” by Dr Lars Laamann. This piece is meant to be a simple introduction to a complicated...

Author: Cory BushmanTitle: A Brief History of Peasant TolstoyansDate: 2007Source: Retrieved on April 15, 2025 from https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/mw-issue-2/a-brief-history-of-peasant-tolstoyans/ Tolstoyans, also known as “Free Christians,” were devout followers of the Russian literary genius Leo Tolstoy. They opposed the Russian Orthodox Church because of its perceived corruption and its relations with the tsarist regime. Instead of practicing Russian Orthodoxy, the Tolstoyans followed a “ pure” religion through...

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...