1. Building the Future Society There is an allegory about friends who were lost in the desert, hungry and thirsty. One of them had found a settlement filled abundantly with every delight. He remembered his poor brothers, but he had already drawn far off from them and did not know their place. What did he...
What is “revolutionary defeatism,” where does it come from, and what is its current relevance for anarchists and other social rebels? As a slogan and stance, revolutionary defeatism was devised by the Russian statist socialist Vladimir Lenin and, to a lesser extent, the Ukrainian statist socialist Grigory Zinoviev, in the context of the First World...
In this survey of some biblical themes looked at from an anarchistic angle, I will not be real precise in my use of “anarchistic.” I’ll be talking about a sensibility more than a full-fledged political philosophy. The key “anarchistic” motifs I will focus on will be a strong suspicion toward centralized social power, especially kingdoms...
It is no exaggeration to say that we are at a turning point in history. Our collective response to the global crises we are now facing will determine our success in not only the next few years, but the next few decades – perhaps even the next century. The coronavirus pandemic has, of course, become...
I have become motivated to pursue, as a thought experiment, an anarchistic reading of the Bible, for several reasons. For quite some time, probably going back to my discovery of Christian pacifism now nearly 40 years ago, I have found the Bible to be a great resource for thinking politically. However, it has been rather...
It cannot be our charge to deal with the laws concerning the school in the broadest sense, since they are to be regarded as applying not only to the pupils but also to the teachers and across all [über alle] relationships of the school, both internally and externally. Rather, we know the school laws as...
An Oriental wise man always used to ask the divinity in his prayers to be so kind as to spare him from living in an interesting era. As we are not wise, the divinity has not spared us and we are living in an interesting era. In any case, our era forces us to take...
Don’t you stop me. I am dreaming.We lived centuries of injustice bent over.Centuries of loneliness.Now don’t. Don’t you stop me.Now and here, for ever and everywhere.I am dreaming freedom.Though everyone’sAll-beautiful uniquenessTo reinstituteThe harmony of the universe.Lets play. Knowledge is joy.Its not school conscription.I dream because I love.Great dreams in the sky.Workers with their own factoriesContributing...
1 The schoolmaster was watching the two men climb toward him. One was on horseback, the other on foot. They had not yet tackled the abrupt rise leading to the schoolhouse built on the hillside. They were toiling onward, making slow progress in the snow, among the stones, on the vast expanse oft he high,...
The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all. ~ Interviewed by Elizabeth Vasileva ~ You recently spoke about the importance of solidarity and connections, between prisoners and with their supporters on the outside. Can you give us any examples of this...
On April 16th, 2025, the supreme court of the united kingdom ruled that the categories of female and male would be defined by one’s assigned sex at birth. Just a single step behind the united states in the sprint towards trans genocide, Terf Island has placed trans women not only squarely in its rifle sights,...
Identity: The Annihilation of the Self “Ye” is the Primary Act of Destitution. Not a name change, but a symbolic assassination. It’s the calculated obliteration of the bourgeois identity, the proper noun as a brand, in favor of a pronoun – a collective “you.” This is the first strike of anarchic anonymity. Fluidity Over Fixation....
In recent years in Paris, language as a phenomenon has dominated modern theoretical systems and the social sciences and has entered the political discussions of the lesbian and women’s liberation movements. This is because it relates to an important political field where what is at play is power, or more than that, a network of...
INTRODUCTION The preponderance of the state as a political vehicle to manage societies across the globe is ingrained in our political cultures to such an extent that imagining a life without the rules, regulations, directives and, indeed, the ideology of the state seems virtually impossible. Both the command economy-based socialist states as well as the...
Based on an exchange of ideas with two people who are in different ways comrades, I wanted to formulate a thought about miracles, why God allows suffering and why it affects us so differently. Perhaps it is supposed to think the way I do from the incredibly privileged position I have. And for God’s sake,...