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Author: Ichikawa HakugenTitle: Intellectuals and ZenDate: 1968Source: Retrieved/Translation Finished on 12/23/2024 from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/17/1/17_1_87/_pdf/-char/ja 1. The Buddha renounced his worldly circumstance of birth as well as the maintenance of that lifestyle. He also exhorted the now world-renowned teaching of attaining perfect enlightenment by means of criticism and purification. There are individuals called “friends who lead one to Buddhism by means of teaching” (kaylana-mitra) and the...

Author: AnafentosTitle: Anarchist Cooking Guide for the National Issue [Cyprus Problem]Date: 1987Notes: Article originally published in 1987 in issue 2-3 (double issue) of Cypriot Limassolian anarchist magazine 'Traino stin Poli' [Train in the City]. The original article was in Greek, the translation below originates from the Cyprus Movements Archive.Source: https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:magazines:traino:no_2_3:anafentos_cyprob (A simple and boring explanation for those who do not understand the self-evident). APHRODITE...

Author: Anonymous, CrimethInc.Title: Turkish Anarchists on the Fight for KobanêDate: 2014-2015Source: Retrieved on February 7th, 2015 from http://crimethinc.com/texts/r/kobane/ In summer 2013, we interviewed the Turkish group Revolutionary Anarchist Action (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet, or DAF) about the uprising that began in Gezi Park. At the end of summer 2014, we learned that DAF was supporting the fierce resistance that residents of the town of Kobanê...

Author: Eric LaursenTitle: Why I Don’t Owe ‘Anonymous’ a LampSubtitle: A reply to the anonymous attack on my book, 'The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the State'Date: 2024 Not long after my book, The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the State, was published in 2021, a review-cum-attack on it started appearing online, first (I think) on itsgoingdown.com, here. The anonymous author says,...

Author: AnonymousTitle: Queer Anarcho CommunismSubtitle: An A-Temporal ApproachDate: 12/16/2024Source: Uploaded from my own computer In this essay, I hope to put forward a queer anarchist communism for the 21st century and beyond through various lenses, particularly of Fredy Perlman, Walt Whitman, Bæden’s Journal of Queer Heresy, and the authors of the anarchist magazine Mother Earth. A queer anarchism: an event gives rise to multiplicities...

Author: Leila Al ShamiTitle: The future of Syria will be decided by the Syrians and nobody elseSubtitle: An interview with Leïla al-ShamiDate: 16 December 2024Notes: Originally publisehd in Lundi Matin #456, 16/12/2024. Translated by Autonomies.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from autonomies.org Leïla al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab are the authors of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, an important book in which they...

Author: Julius GavrocheTitle: Syria: The dictator has fled, long live the revolutionDate: December 15, 2024Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from autonomies.org In less than two weeks, the Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria collapsed, with his flight to Russia, in the face of a military offensive conducted by a coalition of armed groups led by Hay?at Tahrir al-Sham. If we count his father’s reign,...

Author: Elia AyoubTitle: About the Syrian RevolutionDate: December 13, 2024Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from libcom.org The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas that coordinated to provide services in the absence of a state. They actually experienced life without the state, and...

Author: Mary HansenTitle: A Vision of SacrificeDate: November 1907Notes: Published in Freedom vol. 21, no. 223, p. 67.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from www.libertarian-labyrinth.org We selected the tallest of the bluffs, and climbed to its edge to view the sunrise. The air about us was thick and moist, the gaunt old trees stood out like ragged giants, while the bluff itself on which...

Author: Mary HansenTitle: Social Organism AgainDate: February 23, 1902Notes: Published in Free Society vol. IX, no. 8 (350), p. 3.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from blog.fair-use.org That he who uses the social organism analogy does not see clearly, seems plain to me at least. A few weeks ago a prominent Socialist stood before an audience, and by way of proving social interdependence asked:...

Author: Mary HansenTitle: Our PurposeDate: April 1906Notes: Published in Mother Earth vol. 1, no. 2.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from libcom.org I come, not with the blaring of trumpet,To herald the birth of a king;I come, not with traditional story,The life of a savior to sing;I come, not with jests for the silly,I come, not to worship the strong,But to question the powers...

Author: Social Science ClubTitle: A Catechism of AnarchyDate: 1902Notes: Preface by the Alliance of the Libertarian Left.Source: Retrieved on 27th December 2024 from store.c4ss.org Preface “A Catechism of Anarchy” was originally published anonymously in 1902 as a booklet of the Social Science Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This edition was first published by the Alliance of the Libertarian Left in December 2011. The text is...

Author: Blade RunnerTitle: Propaganda of the deed in the era of global social networksSubtitle: While personal acts of defiance cannot replace collective struggle, the distinction between collective and individual tactics may be superficial and their interaction could provide the momentum a movement needsDate: 20 December 2024Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/20/propaganda-of-the-deed-in-the-era-of-globalised-social-networks-2/ Millions of us share the same pain and anger that likely drove the hand of Luigi Mangione,...

Author: Yagiz Alp TangunTitle: The St. Imier Anti-Authoritarian International GatheringSubtitle: A Modern Get-Together With Roots Going Back One Hundred and Fifty YearsDate: Written 2024Source: Unpublished manuscript An international anarchist gathering was held in St. Imier, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2023. Over 150 years ago, the first such gathering was convened in the town to save the International Workingmen's Association (also known as the First International)...

Author: SunwoTitle: Against Black BritishnessDate: 14/12/24Notes: This peice was featured in Muntjac Magazine Issue 1Source: https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/14/sunwo-against-black-britishness/ For a country partly responsible for spreading ideas like nationalism across the globe, Britishness is not just a badge—it is a mechanism of control. To be “black” in Britain, then, should be a negation of coloniality. Yet, the lack of continuity in the decolonial struggle within the heart...

Author: Lev Zlodey & Jason RadegasTitle: Here at the Center of the World in RevoltDate: 2014Source: Retrieved on September 12, 2019 from https://archive.org A dream that ends in shouting Here we are. At the end of futures. Even the apocalypse has been stolen from us. The misery is at once obvious and easy to ignore. The blinking lights of the carnival pull our attention...

Author: Madeline SilverTitle: What I love about LuigiDate: 12/13/2024Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/13/what-i-love-about-luigi/ Imagine, if you will, a thought experiment, in Minecraft, many miles away. Let’s imagine I wanted to write an article in support of Luigi Mangione, the assassin of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson. Wouldn’t that be strange? How would I do that? By telling you – it’s not about him. The real attraction of...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Every Accusation of Economic Illiteracy Is a Confession of Historical IlliteracyDate: April 29th, 2024Source: Retrieved 12/13/2024 from c4ss.org The Freeman is back to its “best available option” defense of sweatshops and child labor (“What Many Critics of Child Labor Overlook”). It treats public outrage over the presence of child labor in the supply chains of Western corporations as a demonstration of...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Walter Block: Once Again Defending the UndefendableDate: June 26th & July 20th, 2024Source: Retrieved 12/12/2024 from c4ss.org (2) Part I In one sense, Walter Block is very much in the tradition of right-libertarian and anarcho-capitalist polemics, insofar as he hides power relationships and coercive institutions behind a facade of “free exchange” and “voluntary contract.” In another, however, he is much worse....

Author: AnonymousTitle: Every CEO is an opportunitySubtitle: A response to "Why I’m not clapping for Luigi Mangione"Date: 2024-12-13 This is a reaction to Why I'm not clapping for Luigi Mangione. The article deplores that so many anarchists : are still joining in the clapping for his [the shooter's] actions. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for self-defence and not mourning for the CEO,...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: “Tragedy of the Commons”Date: February 13th & 27th, 2024Source: Retrieved 12/12/2024 from c4ss.org (2) All Landlords Are Terrible Landlords As an object lesson in support of his thesis that “government is a terrible landlord,” Steven Greenhut (Reason, Dec. 1) recounts his experience trying to get action from his county government over complaints of a poorly maintained, overgrown vacant lot owned by...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and EnshittificationDate: February 27th, 2024Source: Retrieved 12/12/2024 from c4ss.org There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: What Right-Libertarians Fail to Grasp About the Last 100 YearsDate: October 2nd, 2024Source: Retrieved 12/12/2024 from c4ss.org At Foundation for Economic Education, Preston Brashers — commenting on a statement by Bernie Sanders that this country can’t afford a billionaire class which is at war with working families — replied (“What the Socialist Left Fails to Grasp about Wealth and Innovation in...

Author: Kevin CarsonTitle: Regulatory CaptureSubtitle: A Problem of Institutional Structure, Not Individual EthicsDate: January 5th, 2011Source: Retrieved 12/12/2024 from c4ss.org Regulatory capture — the tendency of the regulatory state to serve the interests of regulated industries — is a well known phenomenon. It’s more widespread than most liberals care to acknowledge. Even the showcase regulatory legislation of the Progressive Era, according to New Left...