Anti-democratic reflections on the recent new school occupation. A case study of occupation as non-event. Seven points on occupation.
Topic: Social Movement Theory
What has online activism really done to help activists or would-be activists? For most people, online activism equals an inbox full of email. Our participation is restricted and we generally act as passive consumers. For most groups, they struggle to make their small static website interesting (if they have one at all!) and to distribute an email newsletter--mastering the possibilities of the dynamic web lies far beyond their grasp.
Topic: Social Movement Theory
Solidarity: the alliance of oneself with others in order to prevent the destruction of less powerful groups or individuals.
Topic: Social Movement Theory
A one-shot publication of social reconnaissance. It seems more and more obvious that the present social organization does not try to be loved for its results, but rather solely on the basis of its enemies. If the subjects of this totalitarian democracy accept what exists, it is only from fear of the worse things that could happen.
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Philosophy
Benjamin R. Tucker on John Babcock, Jr's Saves to Duty: "A unique addition to the pamphlet literature of Anarchism in that it assails the morality superstition as the foundation of the various schemes for the exploitation of mankind. Max Stirner himself does not expound the doctrine of Egoism in bolder fashion."-In Charles A. Dana, Proudhon and the Bank of the People.
Topics: Anarchism, Social Movement Theory
A conversation between a mother cat and her kitten regarding the nature of leftism and the state This is a sample of Monsieur Duponts' writings, written by pil pil. MD is a rather strange phenomenon. hailing from the UK, they have published a few very interesting pieces to contribute to an anarchist and seemingly ultra-left communist tendency. Their most well known, although difficult to get a hold of, works is Nihilist Communism, a critique of Optimism. Soon, we will be distributing more of...
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Communism
It's time to break out of the master's future by finding old passageways to freedom. Ways and means ridiculed, abandoned, paved-over and carpet-bombed will offer us hope..
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Philosophy
Anarchism is not a concept that can be locked up in a word like a gravestone. It is not a political theory. It is a way of conceiving life. And life, young or old as we may be, is not something definitive. it is a stake we must play day after day. When we wake up in the morning and put our feet on the ground we must have a good reason for getting up. If we don't it makes no difference whether we are anarchists or not. We might as well stay in bed and sleep.
Topics: Anarchism, Social Movement Theory
The problems which many people face today in "defining" themselves, in knowing "who they are"--problems that feed a vast psychotherapy industry--are by no means personal ones. These problems exist not only for private individuals; they exist for modern society as a whole. Socially, we live in desperate uncertainty about how people relate to each other. We suffer not only as individuals from alienation and confusion over our identities and goals our entire society, conceived...
Topics: Environment, Social Movement Theory
Open to those who want to hasten the disappearance of this whole stinking order. Everyone who is fed up with the masochism of trying to reform a fundamentally destructive techno-totality. Everyone who wants to live, to breath, to banish the cancer of divided, deformed existence.
Topics: Environment, Social Movement Theory
Bimonthly anarchist review. Our task as anarchists, our main preoccupation and greatest desire, is that of seeing the social revolution realized: terrible upheavel of men and institutions which finally succeeds in putting an end to exploitation and establishing the reign of justice.
Topics: Anarchism, Social Movement Theory
The logic of Occupation
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Philosophy
The absence of imagination needs models; it swears by them and lives only through them
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Anarchism
Maybe it is fear of being pushed out of the way by real people, making real change, that keeps the supposed 'anarchists' to their weird little worlds. Jealous of their specialized subject being taken from them by those it's really from and for.
Topics: Anarchism, Social Movement Theory
5 Essays Gary Chartier is Associate Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the School of Business at La Sierra University. He is the author of The Analogy of Love and Economic Justice and Natural Law as well as the forthcoming The Conscience of an Anarchist.
Topics: Socialism, Social Movement Theory, Philosophy
The red army faction story 1963-1993
Topics: Political Science, Social Movement Theory
The Cross Border Network for Justice and Solidarity is a non-profit organization dedicated to building international bridges of solidarity and mutual aid between workers and communities of working people, in order to educate and organize for social and economic justice in the wake of runaway profiteering from globalization.
Topics: Kansas, Immigration, Social Movement Theory
The majority of the doctrine currently published by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command intended to guide operators in conducting Unconventional Warfare (UW) focuses overwhelmingly on training and employing a guerrilla force. But how are these guerrillas recruited and, once enlisted, how are they equipped, paid, and sustained? The answer for successful guerrilla movements in the past has been a well organized resistance underground. In this thesis I will examine the underground movements...
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Unconventional Warfare
Two important political organisations in the history of the amaerican white left. It points out their contributions while not glossing over their mistakes and weaknesses. SDS grew to become a large white radical student movement against the Vietnam war in the sixties, while the WUO, a splinter group of SDS, tried to move "from protest to resistance" by carrying out clandestine actions against U.S. imperialism from 1970-1976.
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Radical Education
Individual Commitment: The mature individual, then makes commitments to something larger than the service of his "convulsive little ego," to use William James' memorable phrase
Topics: Community Building, Social Movement Theory
This paper examines "alternative institutions" in a variety of institutional domains as participatory-democratic modes of organization. Grounded in comparative data, it posits structural conditions, both internal to an organization and in its environment, which support or undermine the achievement of its collectivist-democratic ideals. While the literature on social movement organizations well demonstrates the fragility of democratic systems and their tendency toward oligarchical,...
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Political Science
There is nothing more true than Emma Goldman's statement "The most violent element in society is ignorance." This is why it's important for us Revolutionaries to remember that whoever fights monsters, must be very careful that in the process, he does not become a monster.
Topics: Prison, Social Movement Theory, Philosophy
The ideology of nonviolence has come to play a major role in political struggles in the United States of America and, indeed, in nations around the world. Almost every organization seeking radical change in the USA has been targeted by organizers for the nonviolence movement. Organizations like Earth First!, which originally did not subscribe to the ideology of nonviolence, have since then adopted that ideology or at least its set of rules for protest and civil disobedience. Yet nonviolence...
Topics: Social Movement Theory, War & Militarism
This booklet about the possibilities for creating green, sustainable and self-governing cities in a future social-environmental anarchy is one of a number of related pamphlets concerning specific areas of anarchist theory and practice. By anarchism we understand a future society consisting of self-governing communities anmeshed in the ecological dynamics of the bioregion in which they are located. The idea is not to return to small and isolated villages. Rather, we wish that they federate from...
Topics: Anarchism, Social Movement Theory, Environment
On the terminus of student life
Topics: Radical Education, Social Movement Theory
The everyday practical activity of tribesmen reproduces, or perpetuates, a tribe. This reproduction is not merely physical, but social as well. Through their daily activities the tribesmen do not merely reproduce a group of human beings; they reproduce a tribe, namely a particular social form within which this group of human beings performs specific activities in a specific manner.
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Political Science
What is populism? A brief history of populist thought. Social conservatism conspiracy theories and populism fascism, populism and leftism patriotism vs nationalism
Topics: Political Science, Social Movement Theory
Common perspectives on ourselves, our world and social change
Topics: War & Militarism, Social Movement Theory, Environment
An Anarchist Publication
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
An Anarchist Bimonthly
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
Theory and analysis for discussion, debate, and development of an insurrectionary anarchist project
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
Welcome to the third issue of Vengeance, an insurrectionary proletarian publication that started as a personal project and has now become an open invitation into ringing the death call for every leftist, liberal, and bourgeois element within the current scene and brining into being a movement that makes total destroy on class society and abolishes our present conditions and the very things which make us working class in the first place. Class society is a totality; we do not compartmentalize...
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Political Science, Philosophy
There is nothing desirable in politics today. The election is a racket, and the political parties are organized crime. We despise all of the worthless bureaucrats and refuse to take part in the democracy proclaimed and organized by the government. Why should we waste our lives throwing paper in ballot boxes and listening to lies? Let's do away with all of it.
Topics: Political Science, Social Movement Theory, Art
Students for a Democratic Society. Who are students? Food not bombs.
Topics: Socialism, Social Movement Theory, Radical Education
History of Russian Nihilism What is Left? Nihilism as Strategy What I wish I had said September 12, 2001
Topics: Eurasia, Social Movement Theory, World History
An Anarchist Publication
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
An Anarchist Publication
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
Theory and Analysis for Discussion, Debate, and Development of an Insurrectional Anarchist Project
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
It's time to celebrate our resistance: digger diving, window smashing, pleasant picnicking, office occupying; hoody wearing, G crop trashing, squat cracking, sun lit lovin', machine burning, travelling, total fucking anarchy. It's time to mourn for our moment. Over the last decade thousands of species have been wiped out of existence. Vast forests-charred stumps. Coral reefs bleached dead by warmed seas, Millions starved within the prison of civilization. Wild peoples massacared, enslaved and...
Topics: Philosophy, Social Movement Theory, Political Science
Between November 1880, when the first social revolutionary club was established in New York, and October 1883, when a major social revolutionary congress was held in Pittsburgh, a revolutionary anarchist movement of considerable proportions took shape in the United States.
Topics: Anarchism, U.S. History, Social Movement Theory
The Culmination of Separation The Commodity as Spectacle Unity and Division Within Appearance The Proletariat as Subject and Representation Time and History Territorial Domination Negation and Consumption Within Culture Ideology Materialized
Topics: Social Movement Theory, Political Science, Philosophy
Syndicalism died after WWI. Syndicalism was finished as a revolutionary movement by 1910. Syndicalism was finished off by Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Syndicalism was a primitive millenial movement which evolved into modern social democratic unionism.-or so the academic labor historians will tell you. The purpose of this pamphlet is to show that these conceptions are myths.
Topics: Political Science, Social Movement Theory, Philosophy
Our country is in the midst of a national crisis. It is at once a constitutional and a moral crisis. It extends the length and breadth of the land, deep into the guts of every aspect of American life.
Topics: General Race Studies, Social Movement Theory
A political statement from the black underground
Topics: New Afrikan/Black, Social Movement Theory
Our history is tragic and our future opaque. We ride a storm of oppression into accelerating change, and we long to curve our path towards hope, towards the joy and justice, the world we know is possible. So we struggle, we organize and agitate, we protest and advocate, and yet the corrosive might of the world globalized into a new apartheid engorges, swallowing our victories and outflanking our defenses. How can we resist such state violence? How can we empower in the midst of such TV-drugged...
Topics: Political Science, Social Movement Theory, Philosophy
There is a great deal of confusion among anarchists in terms of what anarchism is and, more importantly, when anarchism is not. It is all too common for anarchists to mistake tactics for principles. Even worse, some mistake opponents for allies. Many anarchists need to be reminded that we are against the State and government, and that this fundamental stance is the main characteristic that differentiates us from others who promote social change. It is my hope to begin a process of analysis and...
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
Everyone believes himself to be superior to his opponents on ideological grounds. That is why we are so disunited and fragmented, and can no longer join for a common activity should there be a need to do so. Thus passion and fanaticism always prevail. But the idea of coexistence in solidarity has been launched and it will become a reality in the future, when intellectual dictatorships as well as material dictatorships have been abolished.
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
I grew up in Los Angeles. Recently I had the misfortune to have to return there. As it turned out the day of my visit was richly endowed with the worst smog in a quarter of a century. In addition, the foothills and mountains encircling the city were ablaze with forest fires. The first fires were natural, but they soon inspired arsonists to work in harmony with nature. As I flew over the city toward the airport, I remembered Nathaniel West's apocalyptic novel "The Day of the Locust",...
Topics: Environment, Community Building, Social Movement Theory
Renzo Novatore is the pen-name of Abele Rizieri Ferrari who was born in Arcola, Italy on May 12, 1890 to a poor peasant family. Unwilling to adapt to scholastic discipline, he only attended a few months of the first grade of grammar school and then left school forever. Though his father forced him to work on the farm, his strong will and thirst for knowledge led him to become a self-taught poet and philosopher. Exploring these matters outside the limits imposed by the educational system, as a...
Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
Anarchism is a political theory which ais to create anarchy, "the absence of a master, of a sovereign". In other words, anarchism is a political theory which aims to create a society within which individuals freely co-operate together as equals. As such anarchism opposes all forms of hierarchical control be that control by the state or a capitalist- as harmful to the individual and their individuality as well as unnecessary.
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Topics: Anarchism, Political Science, Social Movement Theory
