The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 2 - Well-Being for All
Chapter 2 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
6 Helmi 202119min
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, Chapter 1 - Our Riches
Chapter 1 of "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. You can find the full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
30 Tammi 202121min
Dear Comrades at Ilota by Errico Malatesta
The letter is part of the Method of Freedom Errico Malatesta reader and can be found here https://libcom.org/files/Errico_Malat... This is translated from “Cari Compagni dell’Ilota,” Ilota (Pistoia) 1, no. 9 (1 April 1883). The background to this letter was the defection from anarchism of Andrea Costa, one of the chief members of the Italian Federation, who in 1879 had started advocating the extension of socialist tactics to parliamentary ones. Costa had a significant following, especially in the Romagna region, and in November 1882 he had been elected to parliament. His tactics had sparked heated debates in part of the socialist press, and Ilota was one of the periodicals that considered those tactics legitimate.
23 Tammi 20217min
Against Economics by David Graeber
Essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... David Graeber's essay attacking the institution of economics and its use and misuse by governments in the pursuit of maintaining and advancing capitalist development despite the overwhelming evidence of its futility and potentially devastating consequences.
16 Tammi 202137min
Police Abolition and Other Revolutionary Lessons from Rojava by Hawzhin Azeez
Essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Hawzhin Azeez outlines and describes the attempts to replace the police in Rojava and its connections with the other aspects of the ongoing revolutionary process.
9 Tammi 202116min
What the Prison Abolition Movement Wants by Kim Kelly
The essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Kim Kelly's short primer on the prison abolition movement.
2 Tammi 202110min
Introduction to Mutual Aid by Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber
The Essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber wrote this introductory essay to a new edition of Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. The essay summarises and explains the importance of the work the context of its original publication and the importance of Kropotkin in current times.
26 Joulu 202021min
The Relevance of Max Stirner to Anarcho-Communists by Matty Thomas
The essay can be read here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... An essay on the relevance of Max Stirner to the Anarcho-communist movement. Recommended Reading The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner. Stirner’s only book and magnum opus. Unfortunately, there is still only one English translation available, Stephen T. Byington’s. Wolfi Landstreicher is currently working on a new one, slated to appear in the near future. Stirner’s Critics by Max Stirner. In this essay, Stirner (speaking in the third person throughout) clarifies some misinterpretations of his philosophy. The False Principle of Our Education by Max Stirner. In this article, which predates the publication of The Ego and its Own, Stirner critiques both the humanism of the aristocratic style of education, which aimed to produce disinterested scholars, and the realism of the democratic school of thought, which aimed to produce useful citizens. Stirner, while tending to favor the latter, argues that the goal of education should instead be the cultivation of free, self-creating individuals. “The Individual, Society, and the State” by Emma Goldman. Goldman’s most “Stirnerian” essay. “Victims of Morality” by Emma Goldman. In this essay Goldman attacks the spook of morality as a lie “detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people.” The Right to be Greedy: Theses on the Practical Necessity of Demanding Absolutely Everything by For Ourselves. An inspired fusion of Stirner and Marx by this short-lived Situationist-influenced group. For Ourselves argue that “greed in its fullest sense is the only possible basis of communist society. The present forms of greed lose out, in the end, because they turn out to be not greedy enough.” The Minimum Definition of Intelligence by For Ourselves. A critique of ideology and fixed thought coupled with theses concerning the construction of one’s own critical self-theory. The Soul of Man [sic] Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde. This beautiful essay is one of the most eloquent egoist defenses of libertarian communism ever penned. It is not known for certain whether Wilde actually read Stirner; however, he could read German and similarities in style between this text and The Ego make it seem likely that he did. In any case, this anarcho-dandy’s writing is invaluable to the serious student of egoism. Max Stirner’s Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation by John F. Welsh. The most thorough and coherent exploration of Stirner’s thought available in English. An exploration of Stirner’s philosophy, his influence on the thinkers Benjamin Tucker, James L. Walker, and Dora Marsden, and an investigation of the relationship between Stirner and Nietzsche.
19 Joulu 202026min
