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Author: Gáspár Miklós TamásTitle: Communism on the Ruins of SocialismDate: 2012Notes: Transcribed from a lecture given at "The Idea of Communism" conference, 2012Source: https://isr.press/Tamas_Communism/index.html Our beloved heroine has said our choice is ‘socialism or barbarism.’ It is quite clear what she meant. Capitalism threatens to annihilate civilisation. Socialism took it upon itself to save it. By ‘socialism’ we should understand ‘the real movement’ –...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: The anarchistic appeal of the BibleSubtitle: A needed story for human wellbeingDate: 2021Source: Retrieved on May 1, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2021/02/16/the-anarchistic-appeal-of-the-bible-a-needed-story-for-human-wellbeing-theological-memoir-11/ I would say that I got politicized in the mid-1970s, about the time I finished college. I grew up paying attention to the news. My dad was a high school social studies teacher, so keeping up on current affairs was part...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: John Howard Yoder and anarchismDate: 2013Source: Retrieved on May 1, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2013/07/10/john-howard-yoder-and-anarchism/ A number of years ago when I read George Woodcock’s classic history of Anarchism, I found the thinking he described quite attractive. I spent some time considering how compatible anarchism would be with my Christian pacifism. I have believed it would be, but never quite found time to...

Author: The Peer ReviewTitle: Ten Theses on Science and RadicalismDate: 2025Notes: Issue #1 of The Peer Review zine. First things first What is critical thinking… Some writers and philosophers have approach defining it broad strokes: Robert Ennis, who spent six decades writing about the topic, claimed that critical thinking is simply “reasonable reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do.”...

Author: Muntjac CollectiveTitle: What is Anarchism?Subtitle: Everything you need to know about anarchism, its connection to decolonisation and how you can join the movementDate: April 17, 2025Source: Retrieved on 2025-05-01 from <shado-mag.com/know/what-is-anarchism> What is anarchism? Anarchism is the unity between means and ends, fighting for freedom in freedom. Anarchism is a philosophy, social movement, lens of analysis, and way of life built on the...

Author: Basel al-ArajTitle: Exiting Law and Entering RevolutionDate: 2024Notes: Translated by Bassem SaadSource: https://www.thebadside.net/tbs-2-exiting-law Foreword by The Bad Side The assassination of Basel al-Araj in 2017—caught on camera and shared, proudly, by the official Twitter account of the IDF—silenced one of the most fearless, inventive voices on the Palestinian radical left. He was thirty-one. A writer, teacher, and militant opponent of the Zionist state,...

Author: William Lloyd GarrisonTitle: Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace ConventionDate: 1838Source: Retrieved on April 30, 2025 from https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/declaration-of-sentiments-adopted-by-the-peace-convention/ ASSEMBLED in Convention, from various sections of the American Union, for the promotion of peace on earth and good-will among men, we, the undersigned, regard it as due to ourselves, to the cause which we love, to the country in which we live, and...

Author: Steven Best and Anthony J. NocellaTitle: Igniting a RevolutionSubtitle: Voices in Defense of the EarthDate: 2006Source: <libcom.org/article/igniting-revolution-voices-defence-earth> Praise for Igniting a Revolution “Igniting a Revolutions eclectic collection of radical voices speaks truth to power with an audacity and freshness of perspective that are essential to transforming this perilously troubled post 9/11 world. As important, these essays help to continue--and yet, redefine--a much needed...

Author: Benjamin R. TuckerTitle: The Attitude of Anarchism Toward Industrial CombinationsDate: 1903Notes: An address delivered by Benj. R. Tucker in Central Music Hall, Chicago, on September 14, 1899, before the Conference on Trusts held under the auspices of the Civic Federation.Source: Retrieved on April 29, 2025 from https://praxeology.net and https://catalog.hathitrust.org Having to deal very briefly with the problem with which the so-called trusts confront...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 23.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: June 13, 1888Notes: Whole No. 127. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 29, 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: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 22.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: June 9, 1888Notes: Whole No. 126. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 28, 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: Chuang, CanyuTitle: Palestine and “Xinjiang” under Capitalist RuleSubtitle: An Analysis from the Chinese LeftDate: July 16th, 2024Source: https://chuangcn.org/2024/07/palestine-and-xinjiang-under-capitalist-rule/ Below is our translation of an article by Canyu (惭语 “Shameful Words”). The author is a communist from mainland China who works with the cross-border network of internationalist activists whose collective piece “Against Pinkwashing: Sinophone Queers and Feminists for Palestine” we published in March. According...

Author: Chuang, Khun Heinn, Sinophone Palestine Solidarity Action Network, Progressive Muslim Youth AssociationTitle: “We are the Palestinians of Burma”Subtitle: Interview with the Progressive Muslim Youth AssociationDate: April 21st, 2025Source: https://chuangcn.org/2025/04/we-are-the-palestinians-of-burma/ We are pleased to share this translation of an interview with Khun Heinn, a participant in the ongoing Spring Revolution and co-founder of the Progressive Muslim Youth Association (PMYA). The interview was conducted by...

Author: Cathy ReisenwitzTitle: Thick And Thin Libertarianism And Tom WoodsDate: December 21st, 2013Source: Retrieved 04/27/2025 from c4ss.org On his blog, libertarian bestselling author and Ron Paul homeschooling curriculum writer Tom Woods has written some thoughts about thin and thick libertarianism and how they apply to the Duck Dynasty controversy. If you’ve been living in a cave, the star of reality television show Duck Dynasty...

Author: Alexandre ChristoyannopoulosTitle: Tolstoy the peculiar Christian anarchistDate: 2006Source: Retrieved on April 27, 2025 from https://archive.org/details/TolstoyThePeculiarChristianAnarchist/mode/1up Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified. Leo Tolstoy Even for a Christian anarchist, Leo Tolstoy’s reading of the Bible was unusual. When he ‘converted’ to Christianity near his 50th...

Author: Ted GrimsrudTitle: Does the Bible teach anarchism?Date: 2014Source: Retrieved on April 26, 2025 from https://thinkingpacifism.net/2014/08/25/does-the-bible-teach-anarchism/#:~:text=The%20exodus%20story%20tells%20of,not%20structural%20kind%20of%20authority. I first learned about anarchism back in the 1970s. My wife Kathleen and I got involved with an activist group opposed to Jimmy Carter’s decision to reinstate registration for the draft in order to “show resolve” to the Soviet Union (this is one of the darker aspects of...

Author: Benjamin TuckerTitle: Liberty Vol. V. No. 21.Subtitle: Not the Daughter but the Mother of OrderDate: May 26, 1888Notes: Whole No. 125. — Many thanks to www.readliberty.org for the readily-available transcription and www.libertarian-labyrinth.org for the original scans.Source: Retrieved on April 26, 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: Comrade MotopuTitle: Dirtbag’s nostalgia for the old working classSubtitle: Comrade Motopu finds class fetishism over class analysis in Amber Frost’s 2024 book Dirtbag.Date: January 15th, 2025Source: https://libcom.org/article/dirtbags-nostalgia-old-working-class This is a book about a millennial socialist’s ridiculous adventures in left politics, and what happened when I threw all my weight behind an unlikely insurgent left-wing presidential campaign. Sounds good to a publisher, but it’s...

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...