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Tag Archives: Anarchism
The Culture of Vehicular Attacks
On the Murder of Deona Marie Erickson By CrimethInc. On June 13, a driver attacked a demonstration in Minneapolis, killing Deona Marie Erickson. This is the result of years of right-wing efforts to normalize—and even legalize—vehicular attacks. Now the corporate … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, freedom of speech, Law, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged activism, Anarchism, Breonna Taylor, civil liberties, Deona Marie Erickson, fascism, George Floyd, Government, Heather Heyer, law, Nicholas Kraus, police state, Police Violence, racism, Systemic Racism, Winston Smith
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Ireland: Thoughts on Wildness and Domestication
By Renzo Connors Source: Anarchists Worldwide “If I decide to break the chains of domestication, I can only do so because I feel the chains and suffer the effects of domestication on my own skin.” – Alfredo Bonanno I While out … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Anarchism, Authoritarianism, civilization, culture, domestication, environment, Human Extinction, industrial society, nature, Philosophy, society, spirituality, Technocracy, Tenalach, wildness
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Saturday Matinee: Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
SACCO AND VANZETTI brings to life the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. The ordeal of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, History, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Anarchism, Documentary Film, Peter Miller, SACCO AND VANZETTI
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The Seeds of Anti-Capitalist Revolt Found in Everyday Resistance: A Review of Guerrillas of Desire – Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter (AK Press, 2017)
By Scott Campbell Source: Institute for Anarchist Studies Back when I first began selling my labor for a wage in the wasteland of suburbia’s strip malls, I can recall the tedium of stocking shelves, summoning up insincere courtesy in the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Labor, Philosophy, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Anarchism, capitalism, culture, Economics, Guerrillas of Desire, Labor, Marxism, Radicals, resistance, Revolution, Social Organization, society, Work, Working Class, Zapatistas
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Anarchy vs. Statism: Uncontrolled Order Over Controlled Chaos
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” ~Frederick Douglas Caught up, as we are, in the politics of statism, it is often extremely difficult to see the forest for the trees. We’re … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Empire, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Anarchism, Anarchy, Bureaucracy, Chaos, conditioning, Derrick Jensen, Government, Order, Philosophy, propaganda, society, Statism, Terence McKenna
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Review: The Utopia of Rules, by David Graeber
By Jonathan Woolley Source: Gods & Radicals Reading a book about bureaucracy may not sound like an exciting way to spend a weekend off with my family. And yet, having just started David Graeber’s latest – A Utopia of Rules … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, conditioning, culture, Economics, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged A Utopia of Rules, Anarchism, Authority, Bureaucracy, Comics, Corporatism, David Graeber, Economics, Labor, Liberalism, media, Neoliberalism, police, Power, technology, Violence, Work
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Stop Pretending the Rich Care About You
By Dr. Bones Source: The Conjure House One of the terrible things about being a lone bastion of bomb-throwing, fire-starting, up-against-the-wall-fascist-killing type of Anarchism is you have to mingle and jive with the enemy. Like a Seminole off the reservation … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Film, Financial Crisis, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, news, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged Anarchism, Class War, corporate media, Donald Trump, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Free Trade, hollywood, Identity Politics, income gap, Jobs, Labor, Liberals, Meryl Streep, Neoliberalism, Poverty, wall street, war, Wealth Divide
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Resistance is Fertile: The Art of Having No Masters
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “You don’t become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.” ~Naseem Nicholas Taleb In the midst of a hyper-violent culture blinded by the statist … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Empire, Law, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Whistleblowers
Tagged activism, Anarchism, Anarchy, Authoritarianism, Authority, Courage, Freedom, Leadership, Life, Militarism, Military, police state, Self Empowerment, Statism, The Matrix, tyranny
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