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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GatheringSubtitle: A Modern Get-Together With Roots Going Back One Hundred and Fifty YearsDate: Written 2024Source: Unpublished manuscript An international anarchist gathering was held in St. Imier, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2023.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...

Author: Sonia Muñoz LlortTitle: Why I’m not clapping for Luigi MangioneSubtitle: Guys like him shoot a CEO one day, and a lot of kids on another—they just hide their personal reasons behind “brutal honesty”Date: Dec 12th, 2024Source: <freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/12/why-im-not-clapping-for-luigi-mangione> The last days have been full of news about Luigi Mangione, the shooter of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson. So far have we have understood that...

Author: Duane RousselleTitle: Georges Bataille’s Post-anarchismDate: 11 October 2012Notes: Journal of Political Ideologies (October 2012), 17(3), 235–257. Cultural Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario K9H 7P4, Canada.Source: www.tandfonline.com Abstract Post-anarchist philosophy has widely been regarded as an attempt to challenge the ontological essentialism of the traditional anarchist discourse. The problem for the post-anarchists is that by focusing exclusively on the critique of ontological essentialism and...

Author: Albert SánchezTitle: Libertarian degrowthSubtitle: Anarcho-syndicalist paths for a just degrowth transitionDate: March 2024 Note of the author The conclusions of this thesis do not necessarily represent the opinions and views of the organizations and persons that participated in the research process. They only represent the opinions of the author himself. Whenever a statement or opinion is shared by one of the organizations or...

Author: Victor BérardTitle: Intervention by Victor Bérard in Favor of the ArmeniansDate: 1903Notes: Intervention by Victor Bérard during a conference organized in 1903 by Pierre Quillard, in which other anarchists, such as Reclus, participated. Here, he reflects on the situation of his time within the Ottoman Empire, particularly concerning the treatment of Armenians, and attempts to envision a possible path toward anarchy in this...

Author: Stephen ConditTitle: Proudhonist Materialism & Revolutionary DoctrineDate: 1982 I. Materialism and Political Philosophy As Western societies enter their historical decline and approach a new era of revolution, the need for political philosophy to redefine previously authoritative values will grow. Unless revolutionary philosophy treats all levels of society and social knowledge, from the most intimate and practical functions of everyday life to the broadest...

Author: Renzo ConnorsTitle: The Patriotic PsychosisDate: July 2024Source: The Effrenatum, Journal of Unruliness “There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.” — Franz Fanon There’s a specter haunting Ireland, and that specter is backwards ultra moronic patriotism. The phantasms of patriotism and nationalism have been on the rise throughout the globe over the...

Author: Shavon reznikov and Marceline SmallTitle: A Hofi ManifestoDate: 3/28/2024Source: https://freudjung.neocities.org/hofi/indexhofi PURPLE WORDS Rhizomic-thought free-jazz urban-revival water-fountain post-hippie avant-garde cosmopolitan psych pangea vibrations golden-chain noise post-dualist karma-yoga psychopoetics humanity communal peace connection clarity relaxation earth gender-abolition post-capitalist sky-watching experiments liberation suffering seeking soup listening memory revival alternative the end of all Preface: The End of The End of History Without being too redundant with...

Author: Max StirnerTitle: Review of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of ParisDate: July 1843Notes: German Source: Berliner Monatsschrift. Erstes und einziges Heft. Hrsg. von Ludwig Buhl. Selbst-Verlag L. Buhl, Mannheim 1844, pp.302–332; Kleinere Schriften pp.278–295.Source: Stepelevich, Lawrence S. “Addenda: II B.” Translated Essay. In Max Stirner On the Path of Doubt, 174–188. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020. All footnotes Stepelevich's. See English original for translator's...

Author: Danny EvansTitle: The Spanish Anarchist Movement (1871–1939)Date: 2023Notes: doi:10.4324/9781003218784-34Source: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish History, pp. 331–341 At the dawn of the twentieth century, millions of people believed that a revolution would transform their societies and establish new social relations based on cooperation and self-organisation. After the First World War, this was briefly acknowledged to be an imminent prospect by both its partisans...

Author: Alexandra Ariadni VassiliouTitle: Listen or DieSubtitle: The Terrorist as a RoleDate: June 1995Notes: A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of The Union institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in Social Psychology. Portland, Oregon.Source: <iapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dissertations/vassiliou-listenordie.pdf> Acknowledgments I would like to thank my Union committee--Dr. Nancy Owens, Dr. Don Klein, Dr. Arnold Mindell, Dr. Julie Diamond,...

Author: Andrew Bard SchmooklerTitle: The Parable of the TribesSubtitle: The Problem of Power in Social EvolutionDate: 1984Notes: View the first edition here: <archive.org/details/parableoftribesp0000schm_k5u7>Source: Second Edition (1995) from Libgen. <libgen.li/edition.php?id=136509265> “Imagine a group of tribes living within reach of one another. If all choose the way of peace, then all may live in peace. But what if all but one choose peace ...?” Why has...

Author: John CreagheTitle: The Chicago AnarchistsDate: 1 November 1891Notes: Original Title: Creaghe, John, “The Chicago Anarchists”, in The Sheffield Anarchist, Vol. 1, No. 10, (Sheffield, 1891) pp. 38–9Source: Retreived on 20 August 2024 from https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll1/id/5/ On the 11th of November, the Anarchists of Sheffield will commemorate the death of five comrades slain in cold blood by the enemies of the workers in Chicago, U.S....

Author: László MolnárfiTitle: To Overthrow Capitalism, We Must First Overthrow the Communism of the PastSubtitle: In Defence of Democratic SocialismDate: August 22, 2021Source: Retrieved on August 19, 2024 from https://marxisthumanistinitiative.org/international-news/to-overthrow-capitalism-we-must-first-overthrow-the-communism-of-the-past.html Editor’s note: László Molnárfi is a 20-year-old student at Trinity College Dublin, where he is active in the student movement. A native of Hungary, he grew up in Brussels. Tankieism, Then and Now Contrary...