Organization, Continuity, Community
From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos
Over the last two to three decades, anarchist movements the world over have achieved major gains.
From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos
Over the last two to three decades, anarchist movements the world over have achieved major gains.
What do you like cooking for anarchists; what way do you like cooking (experimentation? only with recipes? some mix?); what dish is so good that you want everyone to try it?
From Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
Mutual Aid and Autonomous Infrastructure after Hurricane Ian
When we merge the extraordinary communities that arise after disaster with a revolution of everyday life, we arrive at a liminal space where nothing has changed yet everything is different.
From Freedom News UK
When last month’s Anarchist Bookfair in London implemented and shared some well-established practices designed to help neurodiverse people cope in crowd situations, the responses on Twitter were disappointing to say the least.
From Gods and Radicals by JERE KUZMANIĆ
The birth of an intimate relationship with the urban space
Is there a city where the anarchist feels good? Instead of debating with some big ideas on ideal anarchist cities, utopian federations of farms, factories and workshops, I opt to turn this text into one short opinion piece about something that we may miss in striving for radical social change. Often when talking about urban space, anarchists see only problems, materializations of capitalism and injustice, walls and fences, power asymmetries, and alienation. Anarchist authors, such as Thureau, Zisly or AbdelRahim, often advocate for a return to nature, to rural or even wild idyllic communes. Almost every visualization of anarchy in the foreground will have the cultivation of vegetables in some garden surrounded by greenery. And yet, the whole history of the modern anarchist movement took place mostly on the hot city asphalt, among the chimneys of factories and among the barricades on the boulevards.
from some maintream blog platform self-respecting anarchists wouldn't be caught dead using promptly uploaded to The Anarchist Library
The current state of organizing within leftist spaces is not federated. Many have tried to federate it, of particular note are the platformists who try to focus intensely on federation. However, to date organizing with the left is not organized. Therefore, a new approach must be taken up to combat the lack of federation and general disorganization found within leftist circles. Federationism provides this level of focus and organization necessary.
from https://raddle.me/f/Anarchism/128458/against-community-towards-supporti…
by ziq
As long as I've been around other anarchists, I've witnessed an unremitting reverence for the sanctity of community. The idea of community is held in such high regard by anarchists that it's eerily reminiscent of USA liberals paying fealty to the "sacred ground" of their nation's capitol. Community is something consecrated and unassailable to anarchists. It's the bond that binds us to our fellow true believers. It gives us belonging, direction, purpose, safety, all those good things. But does it really?
I just realized that a project I have been involved with for a while is very comfortable, and that I tend to be the one bringing tension to it, as a way to challenge myself, and as a side effect, the other people who do the project with me. How do you challenge yourself?
via Center for a Stateless Society
Appalachian Anarchism: What the Voting Record Conceals
Individualism, community, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and faith are the values of the people of Appalachia. It is in these values that we find an anarchism that has existed in the cities and rural communities for decades. However, most Appalachians don’t refer to their culture as such, but it carries many of the same attitudes and beliefs as anarchism. .This fact is further obscured by the pressure to view political beliefs through an electoral lens.
An invitation to imagine another world.