Review of Freedom or Death
by Wayne Price
Original title: "Bakunin’s Anarchism Reconsidered Review of Freedom or Death: The Theory and Practice of Mikhail Bakunin by Felipe Correa"
by Wayne Price
Original title: "Bakunin’s Anarchism Reconsidered Review of Freedom or Death: The Theory and Practice of Mikhail Bakunin by Felipe Correa"
by Wayne Price
Bill Beech has continued his polemics against those who support the Ukrainians in the Ukrainian-Russian war. In his view, anarchists should oppose both sides in the war, especially the Ukrainian side. Aside from name-calling, his arguments usually amount to showing that the Ukrainian capitalist state acts like a capitalist state, and that U.S. imperialism acts imperialist. I will discuss a couple of topics which I think are at the center of our dispute. They may be of interest even to those who have not read Beech’s paper.
From CrimethInc.
...the Bakunin Family Estate and Museum
May 30, 2023
Karachi: Activists of Workers Solidarity Federation today celebrated the 208th birth anniversary of great Anarchist Alexander Mikhail Bakunin first time in Karachi, Pakistan.
From Anarkismo by Wayne Price
Alex Alder wrote an article, “British Anarchism Succumbs to War Fever.” (Alder 2023) He was unhappy that many British, Eastern European, and other anarchists were supporting the Ukrainian people against the imperialist Russian invasion. I argued against his view in, “Are Anarchists Giving in to War Fever? In Defense of Anarchists Who Support the Ukrainian People.” (Price 2023)
My article was republished on the website of the Czech Anarchist Federation. Then Tridni Valka (Class War), another Czech anarchist grouping, wrote an angry response, denouncing my (and the Anarchist Federation’s) support for the Ukrainian people’s resistance. (Tridni Valka 2023) “The delay in our brief response can only be explained by the fact that it took us a long time to recover from [Wayne Price’s] text…” This is my response, in which I will try to cover key aspects of their argument.
From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
Margaret talks with Io about the science hippies of the 1860s who wore sunglasses at night and invented modern terrorism.
From time to time, listeners submit what they have written to Immediatism for feedback or just conversation. The individualist anarchist author of the following three essays says that their pseudonym has taken a pseudonym -- Sir Josephine Deathscythe. Their writing is from a particularly personal point of view. "Individualism" is a discussion of Stirnerian egoism and specifically what motivates an egoist, as well as how an egoist will tend to differ from leftists and libertarians.
From H-Socialisms by Wayne Price
'All Things Are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner'
Max Stirner was the pen name of Johann Kasper Schmidt (1806-56). He was part of a milieu of young philosophers who sought to develop further the philosophy of the great German thinker Georg W. F. Hegel, who had died in 1831. This milieu has been referred to as the Young Hegelians or Left Hegelians. While Hegel’s system had solidified into a reactionary form, they mainly tried to rework it in more humanistic, naturalistic, and democratic directions. The most well-known of these young men today (there were women in the grouping, but their names have dropped out of history) are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. (Engels had been a personal friend of Stirner’s for a time.) Michael Bakunin—later a founder of revolutionary socialist-anarchism—also studied Hegel and was in contact with this milieu.
from The Bates Student via Center for a Stateless Society
Zaheer in The Legend of Korra (voiced by punk rock legend Henry Rollins) who seeks to bring down all governments, prompting the protagonist Korra at one point: “The idea of having nations and governments is as foolish as keeping the human and spirit realms separate [a reference to a previous season’s plot]. You’ve had to deal with a moronic president and a tyrannical queen. Don’t you think the world would be better off if leaders like them were eliminated?”
From Immediatism.com
As an Anarcho-Satanist, I envision a reversal of the polarity of biblical mythological symbolism -- seeing Satan as the "good," liberated rebel, and seeing God as an "evil," authoritarian fascistic dictator.