The first of a multi-part series marking the upcoming 100th anniversary of the death of famed anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin, this article was among his first for Freedom, written in November 1886.
history
Human History Gets a Rewrite
The Forgotten Indian Anarchist in Europe Who Fought for True Freedom
Kronstadt as Revolutionary Utopia: 1921-2021 and Beyond - Our Recap
From thecommoner.org
Much to our benefit, members of The Commoner were able to help organise, support, and watch a wonderful conference on the Kronstadt Rebellion of red sailors against the Soviet Government. Held on March 20-21, the conference featured film screenings, readings, and panel discussions with historians, activists and journalists.
Margins and Problems: History and the Possibility of Anarchism
Let’s be clear: The history that we will be exploring will not be The Story of Anarchism—or anything particularly close to that. It will be a story about anarchism—and specifically about some margins and problems related to anarchism—designed to support our joint project of “making anarchism our own” and “constructing our own anarchism.” That means that, while we orient our exploration according to some familiar ideas about the historical development of anarchism, we’ll be subjecting it to a variety of kinds of critical operations.
Eradicate Left Unity
Anarcho-syndicalist historian Hanneke Willemse (1949-2021) passes away
From The Free
Sat, 03/27/2021 – 09:58 AM Hanneke Willemse (Amsterdam, 1949-2021)
Hanneke closed her eyes at a quarter to ten yesterday morning.
Who Were the Kronstadt Rebels?
from CrimethInc.
A Russian Anarchist Perspective on the Uprising
Recovering the anarchism of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion
from ROAR
The anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for movements today.
Kropotkin: What Revolution Means
The Father of “Self-Reliance”: Korea’s Nationalist Turned Anarchist Visionary, Sin Chae-ho
from Center for a Stateless Society
North and South Korea don’t have much in common today, after decades spent in very different political and economic systems.
However, there is one thing both sides of the DMZ have inherited: the concept of minjok, a word that translates as “people” but can refer, more broadly, to both the Korean nation and the Korean race. As such, it’s common on both sides of the Korean Peninsula to say that there is only one Korean nation, one that was divided against the will of the minjok, and that unification is inevitable.
Another commonality: the two Koreas both got the term from an early 20th-century liberal-turned-anarchist who would be appalled at how the two nations have used his idea since.
God is dead
...what struck me as wild on rereading Jakucho-san’s book was the staggering sense of passion and speed with which she moves from sex with Shusui to the plot to blow up the emperor. I could die right now, I’m doing this knowing I’ll die. That passion swells and explodes, leaving reason aside and connecting directly to terrorism. Of course, love and revolution are different things. But this book doesn’t let the reader feel that. Love makes people into bombs.
Anarchy: Action in the Face of Uncertainty
From The Libertarian Labyrinth
By Shawn P. Wilbur
These preliminary, exploratory writings are always half pleasure, half drudgery for me. You can have the right elements in hand and still require a lot of experimenting before they are anything like an elegant ensemble. With this series on “Defining Anarchy,” I’m conscious, not for the first time, that between the simplest and most abstract sorts of definitions and those that we might really apply in practical terms there are a variety of clarifications regarding present contexts and future possibilities that need to be made.
Anarchism: Plain and neo-Proudhonian
from the libertarian labyrinth
In the revised outline for Our Lost Continent and the Journey Back, the work is now clearly split into two parts:
- Our Lost Continent: Reflections on the Anarchist Past
- The Journey Back: Reconsideration of Anarchist History
And that first section includes at least the following elements:
FRR Books Podcast: On The Advantage And Disadvantage Of History For Life by Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the point of studying history? The greatest argument I have heard is that if we know history we can change the future. Nietzsche makes this argument, but this ignores the fact that history is often a weight and a burden. Despite what most liberals believe, knowledge is not always 100% positive. Sloterdijk said that "Those who first uttered the phrase that knowledge is power didn't mean only to make that equation, but to also intervene in the game of power." This is the positive of knowing history, power! But, knowledge can also be a burden. Knowledge can function as a chain which limits us. What is heavier than history?