#anarchistlibrary — Public Fediverse posts

🤡 Ah, the timeless musings on chopping heads—brought to you by an anarchist's dream library, where you can toggle your way into a black hole of endless verbosity! 📚 Because who doesn't want to reflect on execution methods while navigating a website that feels more like a 90s choose-your-own-adventure book? 🙄
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-reflections-on-the-guillotine #anarchistlibrary #executionmethods #90snostalgia #chooseyourownadventure #verbosity #HackerNews #ngated

Rebel Reads in Cork has been keeping radical books and organizing space alive since before it had a name. Volunteer-run, non-hierarchical, free to community groups. The Cork Anarchist Library meets here monthly.

https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/rebel-reads/

#RadicalSpaces #AnarchistLibrary #Ireland #RadicalBookshop

My #LittleFreeLibrary has been freshly restocked with some new books, more community & book lovers & environmentalist stickers, rad anarchist zines & a few other extra awesome freebies! My LFL is listed on Google maps under Dino Books Little Free Library. I run the only #anarchist LFL in the area 🤘

#CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityLibrary #FreeBooks #FreeZines #FreeStickers #ReadMoreBooks #bookstodon #ComeGetFreeBooks #Saanich #VictoriaBC #placemaking #VancouverIsland #ShareBooks #AnarchistLibrary #SolarPunk #library

@dlakelan So, I'm sure you're aware of the #AnarchistLibrary . It could be better organized (IMHO), but it's a good example of folks sharing what they know.

Loved this tiny little anarchist library's door and etalage today :palestine_flag_heart: :blobhaj_trans_pride_heart:

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamStreetArt #AmsterdamGraffiti #stickers #trans #EatTheRich #freepalestine #anarchistlibrary #anarchist

I like that there's a number of orgs that advertise via stickers. If they didn't, I'd probably never find out about them, because I'm so terribly isolated.

#anarchistlibrary #AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamStickerArt #AmsterdamGraffiti #antifa

Who's got articles I can send well-meaning high-privilege friends with ideas and mindset for low-risk stochastic #resistance ?

I've already got "Don't Just Do Nothing", but it treads really close to "joy is resistance" which doesn't cut it for straight white cis people. Looking for something that instructs them on actual material resistance.

A little "why it's important to liberate Black people if we're going to fix any of this" article would be nice, too.

#AnarchistLibrary #zine

Excerpt from "Commons, #Libraries & #Degrowth" by Andrewism

"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?

"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European #colonialism, and of course, the rise of #IndustrialCapitalism. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.

"After the #MagnaCarta, the #BlackDeath, the #Crusades, and all the other dramas that brought #feudalism into decline, the nobility initiated a process of #privatisation that laid the groundwork for early #capitalism through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through #EuropeanColonialism.

"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the #GlobalCapitalist status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.

"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.

"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.

"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include #forests, #groundwater basins, irrigation canals, #lakes, #fisheries, #pastures, and even #infrastructure like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the #renewability of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of #replenishment.

"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.

"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.

"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived #droughts, #floods, #wars, #pestilences, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of #autonomy and #resilience in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.

"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."

Read more:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth
#SolarPunkSunday #AnarchistLibrary #ClimateCrisis #Resiliency

Анархистский марш протеста в Тбилиси: фото и видео

Вчера, 28 декабря, в #Тбилиси прошел анархистский марш протеста, который был анонсирован на странице #AnarchistLibrary. Как сообщают наши подписчики, ранее в грузинской столице прошли шествия врачей, учителей, пенсионеров, жителей различных районов, электронщиков и веганов.
В анархистском марше участвовали местные анархисты, релоканты из #Беларуси, #Украины и #России, а также сочувствующие анархизму местные феминистки. Кричалки были исключительно на грузинском языке: против полицейского и прочего государственного насилия, "свободу нам всем", "#Грузия, восстань, проснись", "свободу политзаключенным".

https://avtonom.org/news/anarhistskiy-marsh-protesta-v-tbilisi-foto-i-video
#анархизм #АвтономноеДействие

Анархистский марш протеста против репрессивного режима пройдет сегодня в Тбилиси

Анархисты из #Тбилиси анонсировали на странице #AnarchistLibrary марш протеста. Он пройдет уже сегодня, 28 декабря, и стартует в 19 часов от филармонии (просп. Петра Меликишвили, 1). Наши подписчики прислали нам перевод анархистского призыва в свете непрекращающихся акций протеста против политики правящей партии "Грузинская мечта":

"До 500 задержанных по административным делам, до 40 арестованных по уголовным, больше 300 жертв полицейского насилия, пытки, жестокость, унижения: таков ответ режима на месяц народного сопротивления — режима, который на фоне потери легитимности объявил народ своим врагом и держится на полицейском терроре.
Цель политики — благосостояние граждан, цель полиции — подчинение граждан, марионеточный парламент подчинен власти и принимает законы, предназначенные для подавления протеста.

https://avtonom.org/news/anarhistskiy-marsh-protesta-protiv-repressivnogo-rezhima-proydet-segodnya-v-tbilisi
#анархизм #АвтономноеДействие #Грузия

Анархистский марш протеста в Тбилиси: фото и видео

Вчера, 28 декабря, в #Тбилиси прошел анархистский марш протеста, который был анонсирован на странице #AnarchistLibrary. Как сообщают наши подписчики, ранее в грузинской столице прошли шествия врачей, учителей, пенсионеров, жителей различных районов, электронщиков и веганов.
В анархистском марше участвовали местные анархисты, релоканты из #Беларусь, #Украина и #Россия, а также сочувствующие анархизму местные феминистки. Кричалки были исключительно на грузинском языке: против полицейского и прочего государственного насилия, "свободу нам всем", "#Грузия, восстань, проснись", "свободу политзаключенным".

https://avtonom.org/news/anarhistskiy-marsh-protesta-v-tbilisi-foto-i-video
#анархизм #АвтономноеДействие

#BlackRoseAnarchistFederation

In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little can be found on black militants in the Spanish revolution, like the one featured in the powerful photo on the cover of this reader — a member of the Bakunin Barracks in Barcelona, Spain 1936, and a symbol of both the profound presence and absence of Black anarchism internationally.

For more than 150 years, black anarchists have played a critical role in shaping various struggles around the globe, including mass strikes, national liberation movements, tenant organizing, prisoner solidarity, queer liberation, the formation of autonomous black liberation organizations, and more.

Our current political moment is one characterized by a global resurgence of Black rebellion in response to racialized state violence, criminalization, and dispossession. Black and Afro-diasporic communities in places like Britain, South Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Colombia and the US have initiated popular social movements to resist conditions of social death and forge paths toward liberation on their own terms. Given the anti-authoritarian spirit of these struggles, the time is ripe to take a closer look at anarchism more broadly, and Black anarchism in particular.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-black-anarchism-a-reader

#AnarchistLibrary #RecommendedReading #Educational #BlackAnarchists #BlackActivists #Anarchists #Anarchism #AnarchistHistory #BlackMastodon #POCAnarchists #decolonization

Nohara Shiro, until his death in 1981, was a #Marxist #historian specializing in Chinese history and #ChinesePolitics who had also become strongly involved in the movement to eradicate pre-war feudal and fascist influences from #Japanese education and learning. The essay translated here originally appeared in his 1960 collection, History and Ideology in #Asia (Ajia no rekishi to shisb). Despite his personal preference for #Marxism over anarchism, Nohara’s approach to the subject is quite open-minded. The strengths of his essay are its focus upon practical organizing attempts rather than intellectual activities, and its revelation of the considerable #anarchist influence upon Li Dazhao, whom the #Communist Party has long claimed as its own. Whilst most of the early intellectual exponents of the anarchist idea either drifted away into obscurity, were converted to Marxism, or joined the bandwagon of the nationalist movement (some even becoming outright fascists), the organizing activities described here often became the building blocks for the subsequent communist movement. Nohara’s work is thus invaluable not only for shedding light on the role of anarchism as an intellectual stimulus for the Chinese #revolutionary movement as a whole, but also for making clear the political debt owed the anarchists in terms of practical activities.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nohara-shiro-anarchists-and-the-may-4-movement-in-china

#AsianMastodon #ChineseHistory #ChineseAnarchists #ChineseRevolution #AnarchistLibrary #AsianAnarchism #essay #RecommendedReading #educational #AntiFascist #AsianAnarchyHistory

Recommended #FreeEBook 👇

Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution - Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik’s offering is a #revisionist perspective on #Chinese #radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of #anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the #SocialistMovement in #China.

Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the #anarchist contribution to #revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the #ChineseRevolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide.

Arif Dirlik is #Professor of #History at #DukeUniversity. He is the author of Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–1937 (California, 1978) and The Origins of Chinese Communism (1989).

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/arif-dirlik-anarchism-in-the-chinese-revolution

#AsianMastodon #AnarchistLibrary

"Why the Black Flag?" | The Anarchist Library via #DOPE issue 26
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/howard-j-ehrlich-why-the-black-flag
#anarchist #anarchism
#TheAnarchistLibrary #AnarchistLibrary

This morning @theceoofanarchism linked to an excellent essay on the Anarchist Library by Ziq. I hadn't heard of them before and wanted to read more so I used the library's book creation tool to make an epub of all the essays the library has by them, which I thought I'd share if anyone else can use it

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c1nbz98v870ye55qm9l44/Selected-Essays-by-Ziq.epub?rlkey=w8m5h6y4opi7r0etrmfu51rnv&dl=0

#Anarchy #Anarchism #AnarchistLibrary #Ziq #Ebooks #Distroism

IN OTHER OTHER NEWS

just noticed a lot of questions about #DavidGraeber's #Debt. give me a day or two and i'll answer them all.

i mean, i just came out of surgery. not even sure if i should be typing.

so keep piling up the questions here
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111050213602964215

because i will be answering them all.

and here's a #Bonus tract: #AnarchistLibrary has almost all his books.

i still buy paper books, but use ePubs for a lot of my perambulating note-taking.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/david-graeber

I want to write #Theory or at least an essay on some radical topics but fuck if I don't know what to write about.

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchism

I just deployed my revamped #Gemini mirror of The Anarchist Library. It now has a search feature and is much faster and more reliable.

This rendition uses #dotnet7 and #mariadb

gemini://library.inu.red
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/library.inu.red

#anarchistlibrary #anarchism

There’s A Problem with Anarchist Media – by Nerd Teacher

“Perhaps it starts with the fact that these anarchist media organisations are often established as formal businesses and nonprofits (even if they call themselves worker-run collectives). Infuriating though it might be, they have to be established in some way because they’re aware that they have to exist within a capitalist system. If they sell things and generate any kind of revenue, they’re required to submit taxes so that they can continue to provide their products for our “intellectual self-defense,” a term that feels a bit holier-than-thou for what buying a book or listening to a podcast is.

And honestly, I’m not here to say that all of the work they publish and share is meaningless because it isn’t. I have found numerous texts that have shifted my own ideas or helped me build upon or articulate others, and I’ve listened to people who have improved my understanding of different topics or sent me down rabbit holes I never expected to follow.

But it is telling that, though they claim to hold anti-capitalist values, they persist in using capitalist strategies and fail to recognise how that impacts them, the way they organise, and their customers. And that third category is customers because it’s not really comradeship to sell stuff. It can be seen in the ways they talk about their work and what they do, and it can be understood in the gaps they create because they’re too focused on competing in a capitalist system against traditional media (whether they recognise it or not).

It’s a bit perplexing that we’ve bought into this model so thoroughly, they’ve actively chosen to use these strategies. They recognise that traditional media is their competition, but they’re choosing to compete with them using their tools.

Should we be there? Yes. Should it be our primary focus? I really don’t think so..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nerd-teacher-there-s-a-problem-with-anarchist-media

#AnarchistLibrary #AnarchistMedia #Critique #NerdTeacher

The Black Flag Catalyst Revolt Guide – by The Black Flag Catalyst.

“The following resource is intended to be a guide for those who wish to carry out concerted political action and includes tactics for both militant and pacifistic direct action, organizing, creating assemblies, and even some introductory aspects of being a street medic. The goal of this guide is to compile the knowledge from the various insurrections across the planet and turn them into a single resource which can be given to anyone and to inform that person on their place in the broader schema.

For this reason, we will include both peaceful and non-peaceful tactics within this guide. If we are to learn from the successful movements of the past, we can see that all successful pressure has been the collusion of the peaceful and non-peaceful aspects of the movement, such that the peaceful party can lobby the state to concede, saying to them “now see? Wouldn’t you rather deal with me than them? Sit down and make some concessions to those suffering people.”

Meanwhile, the non-peaceful protesters escalate the aggression of their actions such as to put a clock on the state. Direct action should therefore not be seen as a chaotic by-product to be avoided. It should instead be seen as a necessity to extract outcomes for the movement. Ultimately, if the demands of the protests are not met, revolution should be the threat. In this way, we are to transform the state to our whims, not vice versa. And if it does not concede, we will have built the bodies of prefiguration that will be prepared to replace it..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bfc-revolt-guide

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchy #Introductory #Organizing #Protest #HowTo #StreetMedicine

Anarchy Not Anarchism – by Anarqxista Goldman.

“ANARCHY, I am coming to believe, matters a lot more than ANARCHISM. The latter all too often becomes a dogma or, worse, a party — which is the opposite of ANARCHY. ANARCHY is nothing to do with organisations, dogmas, parties, rules, or any of the far too many anarchist cops that exist in the world today. The danger of any ISM, in fact, is that it becomes dogma or doctrine or a measure of people’s purity or of their activity. These are anti-anarchistic endeavours I do not support and, in fact, condemn. Anarchism is NOT accountability, as some insist, because in a world of free association, which is very anarchist, you simply DISASSOCIATE from those you dislike or despise. [Graeber and Wengrow detail such realities anthropologically and historically, with apparent favour, in The Dawn of Everything, in fact, and refer to the ability to simply “leave town” as a freedom which puts the brakes on societies ever “getting stuck” to begin with.]

There is then no need for cops. You just avoid, or otherwise move away from, those to whom you do not give the privilege of your company or solidarity. There is also then no need for dogma or doctrine since all it would be policing is the freely given association of comrades or associates anyway. If you have the social, political and economic freedom not to “get stuck”, if you can just move away or go elsewhere without further consequence, then lots of things now thought necessary, such as police, punishments, prisons, etc., fall away as a result. We need to think anarchy through a lot more thoroughly than almost anybody actually does, it seems to me. Often this thinking is NOT done exactly because people are too busy conjuring up dogmatic forms of anarchism, new forms of coercion and control, by which to gerrymander the whole. No, my friends. We need a functioning anarchy not dogmatic anarchisms..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarqxista-goldman-anarchy-not-anarchism

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchy #Anarchism #Insurrection #Illegalism #AnarqxistaGoldman

Armed Joy – by Alfredo M. Bonanno

“This book has become topical again, but in a different way. Not as a critique of a heavy monopolising structure that no longer exists, but because it can point out the potent capabilities of the individual on his or her road, with joy, to the destruction of all that oppresses and regulates them.

Before ending I should mention that this book was ordered to be destroyed in Italy. The Italian Supreme Court ordered it to be burned. All the libraries that had a copy received a circular from the Home Ministry ordering its incineration. More than one librarian refused to burn the book, considering such a practice to be worthy of the Nazis or the Inquisition, but by law the volume cannot be consulted. For the same reason the book cannot be distributed legally in Italy and many comrades had copies confiscated during the vast wave of raids carried out for that purpose.

I was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for writing this book..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchy #Insurrection #AntiWork #AlfredoMBonanno

There Never Was a West – by David Graeber.

“What follows emerges largely from my own experience of the alternative globalization movement, where issues of democracy have been very much at the center of debate.

Anarchists in Europe or North America and indigenous organizations in the Global South have found themselves locked in remarkably similar arguments. Is “democracy” an inherently Western concept? Does it refer a form of governance (a mode of communal self-organization), or a form of govern ment (one particular way of organizing a state apparatus) ? Does democracy necessarily imply majority rule?

Is representative democracy really democracy at all? Is the word permanently tainted by its origins in Athens, a militaristic, slave-owning society founded on the systematic repression of women?

Or does what we now call “democracy” have any real historical connection to Athenian democracy in the first place? Is it possible for those trying to develop decentralized forms of consensus-based direct democracy to reclaim the word?

If so, how will we ever convince the majority of people in the world that “democracy” has nothing to do with electing representatives? If not, if we instead accept the standard definition and start calling direct democracy something else, how can we say we’re against democracy—a word with such universally positive associations?”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-there-never-was-a-west

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchism #Democracy #History #DavidGraeber

Tankies and the Left-Unity Scam.

“Lenin was an oppressor of the peasants and working classes, a despot, and, by 1918, the victorious enemy of the Russian revolution. A true counter-revolutionary. Which isn't too surprising, considering his bourgeois background and trade as a lawyer. He perfectly met the Marxist definition of a reactionary, yet tankies hold him up as the father of their "Marxist-Leninist" ideology and praise him as a great communist.

Lenin's acts later inspired further dictators in the 20th century who also misused the word "communism" to describe their brutal state-capitalist regimes. He effectively destroyed any chance humanity had to achieve communism in that century, and the damage he did to revolutionary action is still being felt today as the word "communism" has become synonymous with "totalitarian state" in the public consciousness..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-tankies-and-the-left-unity-scam

#AnarchistLibrary #LeftUnity #Tankies #Communism #Ziq