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Author: Harry HootonTitle: The Politics of ThingsDate: 1955Source: http://takver.com/history/aia/aia00024.htm Society is sick; and the politicians as usual have the cure. Only we don’t want it. The cure is worse than the disease. In fact, the cure is the disease ... We are sick to death of the attempts of the political medicine men to make us better. Human beings are quite all right as...

Author: Morten SøndergaardTitle: The Anarchists from the White MountainsDate: August 2021Notes: Original title: Anarkisterne fra de hvide bjerge. Translator: Christopher Sand-Iversen. Published by RSS Press. Original Danish version first published in Pist Protta no. 84, edited by Anna Maria Orrù, Morten Søndergaard, Jesper Rasmussen, Åse Eg Jørgensen and Jesper Fabricius.Source: RSS Press www.rssprss.net 1. The mountains are the first thing you notice. They look...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: “Saving” the Joshua story?Subtitle: An anarchistic readingDate: 2014Source: Retrieved on May 15, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2014/11/13/saving-the-joshua-story-an-anarchistic-reading/ One of the more challenging passages in the Bible is the story told in the book of Joshua. God’s chosen people enter the “promised land,” meet with opposition from the nations living there, and proceed—with God’s direction and often miraculous support—the kill or drive out the...

Author: William H. DouglasTitle: Ancient Biblical Anarchy In The Law Of MosesDate: 2021Source: Retrieved on May 14, 2025 from https://thelatterdayliberator.com/ancient-biblical-anarchy-in-the-law-of-moses/ A few weeks back I wrote an article using a recent address by President Dallin H. Oaks wherein he lays out five principles of government which he teaches are inspired of God. Building on his argument in my article I explain how consensual governments...

Author: William Van WagenenTitle: An Introduction to Mormon AnarchismDate: 2007Source: Retrieved on May 14, 2025 from https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/archive/an-introduction-to-mormon-anarchism/ Introduction In this paper I wish to show that the consistent application of the principles expounded in Mormon scripture, should lead a person to become an anarchist. In other words, every Mormon should look forward to the abolition of government and the building of a socialist society...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 26.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: August 4, 1888Notes: Whole No. 130. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on May 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: Kevin CarsonTitle: Exit and VoiceDate: May 7th, 2025Source: Retrieved 05/12/2025 from c4ss.org Mainstream right-libertarianism has a long history of tending to prioritize what Albert O. Hirschman called “exit” (i.e., the ability to escape governance through relocation or circumvention) over “voice” (having a say in the governance process that one lives under). Now, there’s nothing wrong with the notion of exit as such. Under...

Author: Leroy MaisiriTitle: Zimbabwe: Why does the state persist when its outputs are poverty, violence and humiliationDate: 22 April 2025Source: Retrieved on 11th May 2025 from mg.co.za As Zimbabwe commemorates 45 years of independence, the spectacle of celebration orchestrated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a dilapidated and waterlogged stadium serves as a metaphor for the trajectory of the postcolonial state. The accumulation of rainwater...

Author: cavegirlTitle: Dropping OutSubtitle: (for students)Date: 2001Source: <https://crimethinc.com/zines/dropping-out> Contents In here you’ll find... Part One: An introduction to the radical idea of dropping out. Why I’m doing this How it all began (my story) And now... Part two: Doing it yourself! Getting the hell out of there Free food and stuff Dumpster diving Scavenging Shoplifting Other stuff Sleeping and traveling. Self-defense Beyond survival And...

Author: Leroy MaisiriTitle: Burkina Faso: Revolution, authoritarianism and the crisis of African emancipation politicsDate: 8 May 2025Source: Retrieved on 2025-05-09 from <mg.co.za/thought-leader/2025-05-08-burkina-faso-revolution-authoritarianism-and-the-crisis-of-african-emancipation-politics> There was a time when Robert Mugabe stood as the towering figure of African liberation. Raised fists, Pan-Africanist banners, and chants of self-rule marked Zimbabwe’s emergence from white settler colonialism. Mugabe, like many of his generation, represented the victory of the oppressed...

Author: Tsuji JunTitle: Notsudoru NudoruSource: Retrieved on 01/10/2024 https://ja.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tsuji-jun-notsudoru-nuudoru Translator’s Preface: This is my first time translating anything into English from Japanese so there are bound to be more than a few mistakes in this translation. I’m also pretty stupid so there may be parts where I have misinterpreted the meaning of a sentence and warped it into something completely different. But I think...

Author: Decolonize AnarchismTitle: Anti-imperialism of the IdiotsSubtitle: How Western Campists and Tankies Align with the Axis of ResistanceDate: January 25, 2025Source: Retrieved on May 8, 2025 from muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/24/decolonize-anarchism-anti-imperialism-of-the-idiots/ Following Iran’s rocket and drone strikes on the Israeli apartheid regime on April 13th, authoritarian leftists in the Global North once again turned a blind eye to the struggles of oppressed peoples. Instead of focusing on...

Author: Muntjac CollectiveTitle: Muntjac Magazine #2 Insurgency & Counter-InsurgencyDate: 02/05/2025Source: Retrived on 05/05/2025 from https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/02/muntjac-issue-2/ <strong>Contents</strong> Mutt. — Editorial Zhachev — They Who Returned to the Rock Sidiq — Pengar / Hangover Mar — this poem is dedicated to uncle Margeret Kimblerly & Roddy Rod — Martinique’s History of Resistance Simoun Magsalin — The Anarchy of the Peripheries: Preliminary Notes to a Study of...

Author: Laurance LabadieTitle: Infantile RadicalismDate: 1949Notes: Published in Vol. 8 No. 3 of the anarchist journal Resistance. Brackets used to mark small grammatical and spelling corrections where possible.Source: Retrieved on 4/3/23 from https://c4ss.org/content/58262 A mature person is one who has outgrown childish emotional impulses. He has learnt about himself and his environment thru personal experience, and has become able to control his emotional feelings...

Author: Osamu DazaiTitle: About FactionsDate: 1948Notes: Translated by the Panty Sniffers InternationalSource: https://ja.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dazai-osamu-totou Factions are governments. By the looks of things, governments also seem to be power. Well if that’s the case, then maybe factions are organizations created with power as an objective. What’s more is that such power possibly only finds hope within the “majority,” at the end of the day. Nevertheless, in...

Author: Laurance LabadieTitle: Is Credulity Sweeping the World?Date: 1937Notes: Originally published in Vol. 1 No. 6 of Labadie’s own publication Discussion: A Journal of Free Spirits. Brackets used to mark small grammatical and spelling corrections where possible.Source: Retrieved on 5/6/25 from https://c4ss.org/content/60239 Somewhere in his book, What is Property[?], Proudhon tells of a Parisian of the 17th century who heard it said that in...

Author: E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe) and George Bradford (David Watson)Title: Blood and Soil IdeologiesSubtitle: Excerpt-ReprintDate: 2018, SummerSource: Accessed May 5, 2025 at https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/401-summer-2018/blood-and-soil-ideologies/ The following is an excerpt from an article commenting on the 1993 Palestine Liberation Organization/Israel peace agreement, “The PLO/Israeli Treaty: Another Defeat for the Palestinians,” from Fifth Estate #343, Fall/Winter 1993. ( https://www.fifthestate.org/343-fall-winter-1993/the-plo-israeli-treaty/ ) Few realize that in the 45 years...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 24.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: July 7, 1888Notes: Whole No. 128. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on May 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: HaraamiTitle: Follow the FiresSubtitle: Insurgency Against IdentityDate: June 2024Source: https://livingandfighting.net/Follow-the-Fires “Unlearn the identity and ally politics you learned at colleges and non-profits, or from people who work at colleges and nonprofits. They are tools of counterinsurgency and make you really fucking annoying.” —Wendy Trevino 1. BIPOC radicalism is an imprecise name for a number of slippery dynamics and tendencies that foster repressive habits,...

Author: The Peer ReviewTitle: Ten Theses on Science and RadicalismDate: 2025Notes: Issue #2 of The Peer Review zine. Letter from the Editor The anarchist response to the emergence of COVID-19 put divisions in the movement into stark relief. On the one hand, many recognized its severity and the resulting need for quarantine, social distancing, and vaccination. There was a strong moral imperative to protect...

Author: Simoun MagsalinTitle: Rebel PeripheriesDate: May 1, 2025Source: Muntjac Magazine. Retrieved on May 3, 2025 from <muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/02/rebel-peripheries> and <bandilangitim.xyz/library/simoun-magsalin-rebel-peripheries-en>.   ~Dedicated to the anarchists and abolitionists in the Philippines that we’ve met along the way, including those who have moved on or fallen out of touch   When anarchism (or any other idea for that matter) is brought into new contexts, it necessarily enters...

Author: Organise!, Peter Ó MáilleTitle: Mayday 2025. Some Thoughts.Date: May 1st, 2025 (May Day)Source: https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/05/01/mayday-2025-editorial/ “It is not murder, however, of which you have convicted me. The judge has stated that much only this morning in his resume of the case, and Grinnell has repeatedly asserted that we were being tried not for murder, but for anarchy, so the condemnation is—that I am an...

Author: Gáspár Miklós TamásTitle: Communism on the Ruins of SocialismDate: 2012Notes: Transcribed from a lecture given at "The Idea of Communism" conference, 2012Source: https://isr.press/Tamas_Communism/index.html Our beloved heroine has said our choice is ‘socialism or barbarism.’ It is quite clear what she meant. Capitalism threatens to annihilate civilisation. Socialism took it upon itself to save it. By ‘socialism’ we should understand ‘the real movement’ –...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: The anarchistic appeal of the BibleSubtitle: A needed story for human wellbeingDate: 2021Source: Retrieved on May 1, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2021/02/16/the-anarchistic-appeal-of-the-bible-a-needed-story-for-human-wellbeing-theological-memoir-11/ I would say that I got politicized in the mid-1970s, about the time I finished college. I grew up paying attention to the news. My dad was a high school social studies teacher, so keeping up on current affairs was part...