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Author: Larry GamboneTitle: Cosmic DialecticsSubtitle: The Libertarian Philosophy of Joseph DietzgenDate: 2010Source: Extracted from "The Nature of Human Brain Work: An Introduction to Dialectics" by Joseph Dietzgen, PM Press 2010 Thinking About Thinking Dietzgen began by asking the question, “What happens when we think?” He observed that the basic thinking process was essentially the same whether done by the greatest scientist or a common...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 20.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: May 12, 1888Notes: Whole No. 124. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 23, 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: L’Ouvrier CommunisteTitle: Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Permanent Revolution and Revolutionary WarDate: 1930Source: https://libcom.org/article/dictatorship-proletariat-permanent-revolution-and-revolutionary-war (L’Ouvrier Communiste, No. 12, Octobre 1930) What must the proletariat do to break its chains, to conquer its freedom once and for all, to transform capitalist society, based on the profit of a minority, that is, of the bourgeoisie and its state apparatus, into a communist society, a society in...

Author: Leo TolstoyTitle: ResurrectionDate: 1899Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1938 TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE Opinions about Tolstoy and his work differ, but on one point there surely might be unanimity. A writer of world-wide reputation should be at least allowed to know how to spell his own name. Why should any one insist on spelling it “Tolstoi” (with one, two or three dots over the “i”), when he himself writes...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Beyond Power/KnowledgeSubtitle: An Exploration of power, ignorance and stupidityDate: 25th May 2006Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 4th September 2020 from https://libcom.org/library/beyond-powerknowledge-exploration-power-ignorance-stupidity Let me begin with a brief story about bureaucracy. Over the last year my mother had a series of strokes. It soon became obvious that she would eventually be incapable of living at home...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 19.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: April 28, 1888Notes: Whole No. 123. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 21, 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: Gregory WilliamsTitle: Free Speech and Love of EnemiesSubtitle: Anti-Fascism Theologically UnderstoodDate: 2017Source: Retrieved on April 20, 2025 from https://www.jesusradicals.com/blog-archives-2005---2017/free-speech-and-love-of-enemies-anti-fascism-theologically-understood I offer this reflection a bit sheepishly, and with a great many apologies, since it is just over three months late. In December, I agreed to write something on antifascist organizing and direct action in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, and...

Author: Marie Louise BerneriTitle: The Rise of Fascism in ItalyDate: 1943Notes: From War Commentary Volume 4 – Number 22 – Mid-September 1943, London, UK. The first part of this article, Italy After 1918, was published in the previous issue of War Commentary.Source: Retrieved on April 20, 2025 from https://archivesautonomies.org/spip.php?article5559 The Italian workers could during the occupation of the factories in August-September 1920 have seized...

Author: Vernard EllerTitle: Jesus and the FarmworkersSource: Retrieved on April 19, 2025 from http://www.hccentral.com/eller1/farmwkrs.html This won’t be what you are thinking it is. You are not herewith invited to be a spectator, or auditor, as I discourse about what I see to be the relevance of Jesus’ teachings for the present situation of the United Farmworkers (Cesar Chavez and people of that sort). No,...

Author: Vernard EllerTitle: How Jacques Ellul Reads the BibleSubtitle: Keeping the balance between the forest and treesDate: 1966Notes: This article was originally published by The Christian Century Foundation, Chicago, IL, in The Christian Century, on December 14, 1966. It is reproduced here with their kind permission.Source: Retrieved on April 19, 2025 from http://www.hccentral.com/eller1/cc112972.html Voices in our midst are calling for some sort of new...

Author: David GraeberTitle: The Center Blows Itself UpSubtitle: Care and Spite in the ‘Brexit Election’Date: January 13, 2020Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 5th September 2020 from https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/13/the-center-blows-itself-up-care-and-spite-in-the-brexit-election/ Politics, in wealthy countries, is increasingly becoming a war between the generations. While the support for smaller parties in the UK (Liberal Democrats, Greens, the Scottish National Party, even Brexit) is...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Concerning the violent peace-policeSubtitle: An open letter to Chris HedgesDate: February 9, 2012Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 3rd September 2020 from https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/concerning-the-violent-peace-police/ I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Caring too much. That’s the curse of the working classesDate: 26th March 2014Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 3rd September 2020 from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge “What I can’t understand is, why aren’t people rioting in the streets?” I hear this, now and then, from people of wealthy and powerful backgrounds. There is a kind of incredulity. “After all,”...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Can’t Stop BelievingSubtitle: Magic and politicsDate: November 2012Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 3rd September 2020 from https://thebaffler.com/salvos/cant-stop-believing I. Politicians are by definition dishonest. All politicians lie. But many observers of American politics agree that over the last few years, there has been something of a qualitative change in the magnitude of political dishonesty. In certain...

Author: David GraeberTitle: BuncombeDate: August 2013Notes: Published in Issue No.23 of The Baffler | See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 3rd September 2020 from https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/buncombe America is a country made possible by hucksterism and carnival buncombe. It is the birthplace of both modern PR and advertising, the first place on earth to apply techniques of commercial marketing to politics, and...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Beyond Power/KnowledgeSubtitle: An Exploration of power, ignorance and stupidityDate: 25th May 2006Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 4th September 2020 from https://libcom.org/library/beyond-powerknowledge-exploration-power-ignorance-stupidity Let me begin with a brief story about bureaucracy. Over the last year my mother had a series of strokes. It soon became obvious that she would eventually be incapable of living at home...

Author: Nika Dubrovsky and David GraeberTitle: Another Art WorldDate: September 2019Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 2021-11-26 from Part 1: https://davidgraeber.org/articles/another-art-world-part-i-art-communism-and-artificial-scarcity/ Part 2: https://davidgraeber.org/articles/another-art-world-part-2-utopia-of-freedom-as-a-market-value/ Part 3: https://davidgraeber.org/articles/another-art-world-part-3-policing-and-symbolic-order/ Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity We would like to offer some initial thoughts on exactly how the art world can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation, and a structure...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial classDate: 2014Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 3rd September 2020 from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.14318/hau4.3.007 Abstract Many of the internal changes within anthropology as a discipline—particularly the “postmodern turn” of the 1980s—can only be understood in the context of broader changes in the class composition of the societies in which university departments...

Author: David GraeberTitle: America’s Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by NatoDate: 1st February 2019Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 3rd September 2020 from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/01/americas-kurdish-allies-syria-turkey-nato Remember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended the Syrian city of Kobane from Isis? They risk being wiped out by Nato. The autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava in Northeast Syria, which...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Against Kamikaze CapitalismSubtitle: Oil, Climate Change and the French refinery blockadesDate: November 2010Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 3rd September 2020 from https://web.archive.org/web/20120420081446/http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=389 On Saturday, 16th October 2010, some 500 activists gathered at convergence points across London, knowing only that they were about to embark on a direct action called Crude Awakening, aimed against the ecological...

Author: David GraeberTitle: Against EconomicsDate: December 5, 2019Notes: See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/Source: Retrieved on 5th September 2020 from https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economics/ There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer...

Author: Anonymous, S.W.Title: Semi-Automatic SubjectsDate: April 10th, 2025Source: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/10/semi-automatic-subjects/ On August 25th, 2020, during the George Floyd Uprising’s Hot Summer, rebels in Kenosha set a used car dealership ablaze. And as those Civics, Camrys, and Altimas bathed in flame, white teenagers nationwide felt a stinging in their brains, as a feeling of immense moral sentiment activated at the sight of charred F-150s. It was...

Author: Noel IgnatievTitle: The American IntifadaDate: Fall 1991Source: "Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity" anthology by Noel Ignatiev. This essay was written in the fall of 1991, six months before the Los Angeles uprising, for a New Politics symposium on the question “Is There Life after the AFL-CIO?” In it, Ignatiev considers how white supremacy has shaped American social democracy and fragmented the...

Author: Tim MeadowsTitle: Why I work on the landDate: 1964Source: Retrieved on April 18, 2025 from https://libcom.org/library/why-i-work-land And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the...

Author: John EllerbyTitle: Fields, Factories and Workshops tomorrowDate: 1964Source: Retrieved on April 18, 2025 from https://libcom.org/library/fields-factories-workshops-tomorrow SOCIALISTS AND ANARCHISTS IN THE MAIN, remarked Bertrand Russell, “are products of industrial life, and few among them have any practical knowledge on the subject of food production. But Kropotkin is an exception. His two books The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, are very full...

Author: Tom JonesTitle: Approaches to the landDate: 1964Source: Retrieved on April 18, 2025 from https://libcom.org/article/approaches-land HOW ARE WE TO APPROACH THE QUESTION OF THE LAND? We could attempt to treat the subject globally, and without even trying to define the precise proportion of the world’s population which is actually starving or in a condition of continual under-nourishment, we could emphasise the fact that agricultural...

Author: Miguel G. GómezTitle: Critique of CommunalismDate: 03/03/2025Notes: Translated by Lisbon KidzSource: www.regeneracionlibertaria.org The Limits of Communalism When Abad de Santillán read the Confederal Declaration of Libertarian Communism in 1936, he was critical. The Leonese thinker believed it confused communism with communalism: “[The Declaration] speaks to us about everything, and in part with excessive detail, except for the organization of labor.” In the anarcho-syndicalist...

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...