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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...