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An anarchy of everyday life
by Jeff Shantz Contemporary anarchism offers a mid-range movement organized somewhere between the levels of everyday life, to which it is closest, and insurrection. Rooted in the former they seek to...
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Anarchy and autonomy: Contemporary social movements, theory, and practice
By Jeff Shantz In an earlier article (Shantz 1998), written almost three years before the dramatic anarchist interventions during the Seattle WTO meetings of 1999, I suggested that theories of social...
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Anarchism, protest and utopianism
by Ruth Kinna The recent explosion of popular energy made manifest in the Occupy movement was described by Adbusters as a shift in global revolutionary tactics, for democracy and against...
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Capitalism, anarchism and Black liberation
by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin The Capitalist bourgeoisie creates inequality as a way to divide and rule over the entire working class, but it is deeper than that. White skin privilege is a form of...
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Black blocs and contemporary “propaganda of the deed”
by Jeff Shantz That anarchists should run afoul of the authorities is hardly surprising. Indeed, anarchism has a long history of direct conflict with State institutions and their defenders. Some of...
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Anarchism in the academy
by Jeff Shantz Anarchist academic David Graeber devotes the first section of his book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology to his attempt to answer the question, “Why are there so few anarchists in...
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Practising (for) utopia
by Ruth Kinna This essay[1] highlights the constructive, utopian possibilities that spring from a sense of political compromise and argues that this distinctive type of utopian practice lends itself...
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Taking notes 35: The symbol of Anarchy in Singapore
by Sanjay Perera There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but...
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Taking notes 43: minorities versus majorities
by Emma Goldman If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life – production,...
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The Communist Manifesto: insights and problems
by Murray Bookchin It is politically restorative to look with a fresh eye at The Manifesto of the Communist Party (to use its original title), written before Marxism was overlaid by reformist,...
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What Is Anarchism? Noam Chomsky on capitalism, socialism, free markets
What Is Anarchism? Noam Chomsky on capitalism, socialism, free markets (2013)
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