Anarchy Works, Chapter 01, Human Nature

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The text can be read at https://libcom.org/article/paris-commune-and-idea-state-mikhail-bakunin Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin on the Paris Commune and the idea of government and the state.

6 Sep 27min

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Text can be read at https://libcom.org/article/soul-man-under-socialism-oscar-wilde “(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the Individual. Socialism having deployed technology to liberate the whole of humanity from soul-destroying labour, the State obligingly withers away to allow the free development of a joyful, anarchic hedonism... “Is this Utopian? A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.” Far from abandoning the epigram in favour of the slogan, Wilde wittily assails several of his favourite targets: the misguided purveyors of philanthropy; life-denying ascetics of various kinds; the army of the half-educated who constitute themselves the enemies of Art - and those venal popular journalists who cater to them... “Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle?” (Introduction by Martin Geeson)

30 Aug 1h 45min

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The essay can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-commune-of-paris Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin's analysis of the Paris Commune, a defining moment in revolutionary history which inspired both marxist and anarchist revolutionaries for many years afterwards, and warrants continued attention today.

23 Aug 25min

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The text can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bell-hooks-feminist-class-struggle  Published in The Northeastern Anarchist Issue #4, Spring/Summer 2002.

16 Aug 14min

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The text can be read at https://libcom.org/article/change-my-thinking-kotoku-shusui The 1907 article by Kōtoku Shūsui that launched an anarchist tendency among members and allies of the first Japan Socialist Party, translated into English. The classic article by Kōtoku Shūsui that launched the anarchist movement in Japan. In The Change in My Thinking, Kōtoku, one of Japan's foremost socialists in the late Meiji period, laid out the reasons for his move toward anarchism, his insistence that "direct action" is the only way to truly realize a social revolution, and his plea for his socialist comrades to re-consider their strategy of prioritizing parliamentary power.

9 Aug 22min

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The story can be read at https://libcom.org/article/mexican-jack-london Jack London's short story about a young boxer who uses his prize money to fund the Mexican Revolution.

21 Juni 1h 1min

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com Essay can be read at https://reddebreksbowl.blogspot.com/2025/04/war-is-health-of-state-1918-by-randolph.html Randolph Silliman Bourne was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living during World War I. His articles appeared in journals including The Seven Arts and The New Republic. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after he died. From this essay, which was published posthumously and included in Untimely Papers, comes the phrase "war is the health of the state" that laments the success of governments in arrogating authority and resources during conflicts.

14 Juni 13min

For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com The story can be read at https://libcom.org/article/assembly-line-b-traven "This is an early Traven story, taken, in an uncredited translation, (probably by Traven himself - I have Anglicised the spelling) from The Night Visitor and other stories, Allison & Busby, 1983 - a volume long out of print. The original German version - Der Grossindustrielle - was first published by the Buchergilde Gutenburg in 1928, as part of the collection Der Busch."

7 Juni 27min