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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...