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Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists?
#26932566 - 09/12/20 09:44 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Links and information would be appreciated.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts]
#26932577 - 09/12/20 09:49 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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www.reddit.com
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: meltdowner]
#26932587 - 09/12/20 09:54 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was looking for something a little deeper than cat memes, bro.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts]
#26932597 - 09/12/20 10:00 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Shivas.Wisdom is probably the guy to talk to, though he's busy lately.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Kryptos]
#26932600 - 09/12/20 10:04 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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He the one setting those fires?
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts]
#26932881 - 09/13/20 05:59 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ahab McBathsalts said: Links and information would be appreciated.
Uhh, via the wikipedia links section towards the source sites? Wikipedia itself tends to have a skew but everything's referenced with source sites which makes it a good starting point for your search. Just don't end it there.
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#26933177 - 09/13/20 10:49 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Kryptos said: Shivas.Wisdom is probably the guy to talk to, though he's busy lately.
yeah I spent most of summer grasshopperin' around as usual and now it's cold and I'm rushing around preparing for winter. Ahab hits a soft spot though - my first major lived anarchist experience was setting up a guerilla library in a city park at a time when the city government was closing down libraries. The city police evicted us two months later, but before that happened we grew our collection to ~2000 books and had a few news articles written that threw shade at the city government: "I find myself wondering how it is that the entire City of Toronto cannot maintain a public library that serves the local community, but that somehow a few kids in tents can do exactly that."
Ever since, I just can't resist a request that combines anarchy and literature 
@ Ahab McBathsalts - something you'll hear repeated often is that 'anarchism is not a blueprint'. It is not a system that would supposedly work if only it were applied right, like democracy; nor a goal to be realized in some far-off future, like communism. It is a way of acting and relating that we can put into practice right now. Reading about anarchism might be the most obvious way to start learning - but nothing can replace the lived experience of anarchy. To assist in achieving that, I'll point you towards the concepts of affinity groups, direct action, and the modern-day anarchist cookbook Recipes for Disaster.
Otherwise, I compiled this reading list a short while ago that covers a wide range of topics:
These provide a basic primer: To Change Everything: An Anarchist Appeal Bob Black - Anarchy 101 Albert Meltzer - Anarchism: Arguments for and against
These books offer more detailed looks at some of the basic principles of anarchism in action: Peter Gelderloos - Anarchy Works! Petr Kropotkin - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Petr Kropotkin - Fields, Factories and Workshops
These books provide a look into anarchist resistance: Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience Peter Gelderloos - How Nonviolence Protects the State David Graeber - The Shock of Victory
These are more esoteric texts that give a look into the individualist and insurrectionary tendencies of anarchism - they tend to blend the line between poetry and political text: Renzo Novatore - Toward the Creative Nothing (the most personally influential piece of literature in this list) Max Stirner - The Unique and Its Property Alfredo Bonanno - Armed Joy The Invisible Committee - The Coming Insurrection
Some green-nihilism texts - must reads in our present era of ecological upheaval: Anonymous - Desert Anonymous - We Fight because We Like It: Maintaining Our Morale against Seemingly Insurmountable Odds
These are some examples of post-left anarchism - which approaches things outside of the 'workers organizing' offered by traditional leftism: Nadia C - Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck Curious George Brigade - Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs David Graeber - On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant David Graeber - What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? Bob Black - The Abolition of Work
And some anarchist fiction - most are short fiction but the first is a modern anarchist mythology and the last two are full length novels: Aragorn! - Stories of the Bear and Raccoon People Ursula K. Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin - Ile Forest Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin - The Day Before the Revolution Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
On a final note, anarchism is inherently antifascist so consider everything above to fall within that category - but here's a few selections that dive into the concept through historical accounts, personal accounts, and discussion of tactics: Joshua Curiel - Confronting the Nucleus: Taking Power from Fascists Shane Burley - Twenty-Five Theses on Fascism Peter Gelderloos - Fascists are the Tools of the State William Gillis - How Fascism Will Beat Us || How We Will Beat Fascism Anonymous - Why We Fought in Charlottesville: A Letter from an Anti-Fascist on the Dangers Ahead Anonymous - Italy: We Partisans Cloudbuster - Notes on Anti-Fascist Self-Defense Training: 10 Lessons from the Russian Anti-Fascist Experience Anonymous - This Is Not a Dialogue: Not Just Free Speech, but Freedom Itself Gord Hill - The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book; The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book; The Antifa Comic Book Mark Bray - Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook Shane Burley - Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#26934855 - 09/14/20 09:58 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Everyday Anarchy/Practicial Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux is a punishing 1,2 punch. It changed my whole worldview bro. Free and brief.
https://www.freedomain.com/product/everyday-anarchy/
https://www.freedomain.com/product/practical-anarchy/
Granted, he's a full blown capitalist, but his analysis of The State might be helpful.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Yellow Pants] 1
#26935087 - 09/14/20 11:46 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yellow Pants said: Granted, he's a full blown capitalist
He's also a "race realist", which is a nice way of saying that he's a racist. I'd tread very carefully with Molyneux's work. The guy consistently advocates for white nationalism.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: shivas.wisdom] 1
#26935097 - 09/14/20 11:50 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thank you so much, shivas.wisdom, this is such a great list.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Nonagon Infinity]
#26935117 - 09/14/20 12:00 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Whether he's a "race realist" or not makes no difference to his analysis of The State. Everyday/Practical Anarchy has nothing to do with race whatsoever despite what his doubters would enjoy.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Nonagon Infinity]
#26935186 - 09/14/20 12:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yellow Pants said: Granted, he's a full blown capitalist
He's also a "race realist", which is a nice way of saying that he's a racist. I'd tread very carefully with Molyneux's work. The guy consistently advocates for white nationalism.
Yeah I have to emphatically agree here - the guy openly supports the idea that humanity is not a single species, and that the 'white subspecies' must protect itself from the great replacement.
Beyond that, his anarchist critique is obviously insufficient - given that it's only applied to the state while he continues to openly endorse capitalism. Where the few, the privileged, control the conditions of existence, it's not possible for most individuals to truly determine their existence on their own terms. Individuality can only flourish where equality of access to the conditions of existence is the social reality. The basic relationship structure of capitalism is the coercion of workers into exploitative contracts in order to access these conditions of existence. It makes no difference whether the authority is derived through constitution or currency; the nature of authority remains the same.
If someone is inconsistently applying their critique, I assume that they are just trying to shift the balance of power to an authority more favourable to them, rather than attack the concept directly. Stephen is one of these people.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#26935268 - 09/14/20 02:00 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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shivas.wisdom said: If someone is inconsistently applying their critique, I assume that they are just trying to shift the balance of power to an authority more favourable to them, rather than attack the concept directly. Stephen is one of these people.
This is a great point. Yet I wouldn't the baby out with the bathwater.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Yellow Pants]
#26935308 - 09/14/20 02:23 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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shivas.wisdom said: If someone is inconsistently applying their critique, I assume that they are just trying to shift the balance of power to an authority more favourable to them, rather than attack the concept directly. Stephen is one of these people.
This is a great point. Yet I wouldn't the baby out with the bathwater.
Stefan Molyneux would, if the baby were black.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Asante]
#26935362 - 09/14/20 03:04 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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His "white nationalism" stems from the assumption of The State which he is opposed to. It's all a secondary analysis which I guess he took very far because it won him followers and coin.
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Re: Who has some literature about anarchists and antifascists? [Re: Nonagon Infinity]
#26935412 - 09/14/20 03:31 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nonagon Infinity said: I'd tread very carefully with Molyneux's work. The guy consistently advocates for white nationalism.
His logic has been torn apart many times in this forum.
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