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Absolute Amorality vs. Relative Amorality
Nihilism is often associated with pessimism and apathy, a general form of indifference. Alejandro de Acosta (A de A) has deflated this 'purified negation' with content, provocatively suggesting that...
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Democracy: The Patriotic Temptation
From CrimethInc. by Uri GordonIn this installment in our series exploring the anarchist critique of democracy, guest author Uri Gordon discusses the attractions and risks of democratic discourse.Like...
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The Expropriated Bank of Gràcia: One More Step Forward in the Strategy of...
A report from Barcelona (published May 24, 2016) on the eviction of squatters from an expropriated former bank that was being used as a libertarian social center, the role of the City Government led by...
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The Veil Drops
From Return Fire #3 (Winter 2015-16) by some anti-authoritarian barbarians already inside the walls– anti-extremism or counter-insurgency?“The planning of psychological operations has to understand:a)...
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A War of All Against All: A Review of Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity...
by Arun GuptaIn the introduction to the book Taking Sides, the editor extends “an invitation to constructively debate the many thorny questions for which none of us have the answers.” In that spirit,...
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians Who are the real barbarians? The refugees or those who caused them to flee?Jesús SepúlvedaFifth Estate #396, Summer 2016, Vol. 51, No. 1, page...
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The Dispossessed by Paul Cudenec
“I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to...
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The Future of Insurrection
From AJODA #77 (2011)Section 1: The composition of insurrectionWhat is insurrection?'The goal of any insurrection is to become irreversible. It becomes irreversible when you've defeated both authority...
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Left and Loaded: An Anarchist Critique of Gun Control
From MaxistentialismI am unapologetically an anarchist, I have experienced mental illness in my life, and I do not own a firearm. I know the word ‘anarchist’ scares people, because the corporate media...
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Anarchy and Anarchism, Insides and Outsides
http://contrun.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchy-and-anarchism-insides-a...“Dad blame anything a man can’t quit.”—Roger MillerMake a more or less angry break with the anarchist milieu. Settle down to...
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Dark Virtue: Daoist Anarcho-Primitivism
From The Tigers Leap“Everything you say I reject.” —Robber Chih“Whatever is against the Dao will soon be destroyed.”—Daodejing“Everyone in the world is a human sacrifice.” —”Webbed toes”Resistance to...
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The Economics of Anarchy
From Robert Graham - by Robert GrahamAfter a bit of a break, I’m continuing with the installments from the “Anarchist Current,” the Afterword to Volume Three of my anthology of anarchist writings from...
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In a Moral Universe, There Are No Anarchists; A Response to Denunciations of...
by El Errante(Before you continue, know that this article is wholly my responsibility, that Hakim Bey has neither seen, read nor is aware of its existence. I take full responsibility for its...
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Breaking the Waves: Challenging the Liberal Tendency within Anarchist Feminism
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation The following article by two members of BRRN appears in the recent issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory that we are republishing with thanks to the Institute...
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A Non-Pacifist's Critique Of The Gun Debate
Radicals around me from the far-Left, mainly anarchists, Marxists, and non-affiliated anti-fascists, since Obama was elected, have been up in arms about the looming potential of maybe losing their...
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Murray Bookchin’s New Life
From Jacobian - by Damian WhiteWhatever their limits, Murray Bookchin’s ideas should be studied by today’s left.Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would...
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The Clarity of Rupture: Dallas and Los Angeles
From Lucha No FeikOn October 28, 1967 Huey Newton allegedly killed police officer John Frey. Up until that moment the Black Panther Party, barely a year old and only around one hundred members deep,...
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The Calusa: A Savage Kingdom?
From La Manta MojadaRepublished below is a fantastic piece recently brought to the attention of La Manta Mojada which attempts, “to address two themes that have been of interest in anti-civilization /...
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The Institute for Anarchist Studies at Twenty
From IAS - by Paul Messersmith-GlavinPerspectives offers this reflection on the IAS’ first twenty years from the current anarcha-feminisms issue, available here, by an IAS member who has been involved...
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Are Anarchism and Democracy Opposed? A Response to Crimethinc
Summary: Crimethinc has initiated a discussion about the relationship between anarchism and democracy. Their opinion is that anarchism must be opposed to democracy—not only to bourgeois representative...
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