February 2nd, 2012
Product DescriptionThe Anarchist Cookbook will shock, it will disturb, it will provoke. It places in historical perspective an era when “Turn on, Burn down, Blow up” are revolutionary slogans of the day. Says the author” “This book… is not written for the members of fringe political groups, such as the Weatherman, or The Minutemen. Those radical groups don’t need this book. They already know everything that’s in here. If the real people of America, the silent majority, are going to survive, they must educate themselves. That is the purpose of this book.” In what the author considers a survival guide, there is explicit information on the uses and effects of drugs, ranging from pot to heroin to peanuts. There i detailed advice concerning electronics, sabotage, and surveillance, with data on everything from bugs to scramblers. There is a comprehensive chapter on natural, non-lethal, and lethal weapons, running the gamut from cattle prods to submachine guns to bows and arrows. The section on explosives and booby traps ranges from TNT to whistle traps. One hundred and eleven drawings supplement the recipes. “This book is for anarchists,” says William Powell, “Those who feel able to discipline themselves on all the subjects from drugs, to weapons, to explosives) that are currently illegal in this country.” Techniques, disciplines, precautions, and warnings pervade what may be the most disquieting “how-to” book of contemporary times. — from book’s back cover
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February 1st, 2012
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This book asks—and tries to answer—several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the existing society?
In an era of privatism, kicks, introversion, and post-modernist nihilism, Murray Bookchin forcefully examines the growing nihilistic trends that threaten to undermine the revolutionary tradition of anarchism and co-opt its fragments into a harmless personalistic, yuppie ideology of social accommodation that presents no threat to the existing powers that be. Includes the essay, “The Left That Was.”
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January 31st, 2012
They both have a lot to do with equality http://rhizomecourtship.blogspot.com/
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January 27th, 2012
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political creed of Anarchism. With Peter Marshall, John Keane and Ruth Kinna.
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January 21st, 2012
Product DescriptionON the day of the bomb outrage in the French Parliament I gave an impromptu discourse upon Anarchism to an intelligent audience, anxious to know more about it, touching upon its intellectual ancestry, its doctrines, propaganda, the lines of demarcation that separate it from Socialism and Radicalism, and so forth. The impression, which my explanations of it made upon my audience, was at the same time flattering and yet painful to me. I felt almost ashamed that I had told these men, who represented the pick of the middle class political electorate, something entirely new to them in speaking of matters which, considering their reality and the importance of the question, ought to be familiar to every citizen. Having thus had my attention drawn to this lacuna in the public mind, I was induced to make a survey of the most diverse circles of the political and social world, both of readers and writers, and ‘the result was the resolve to extend my previous studies of Anarchism (which had not extended much beyond the earliest theorists), and to develop my lecture into a book. This book I now present to my readers.
The accomplishment of my resolve has been far from easy. What little literature exists upon the subject of Anarchism is almost exclusively hostile to it, which is a great drawback for one who is seeking not the objects of a partisan, but simply and solely the truth. One had constantly to gaze, so to speak, through a forest of prejudices and errors in order to discover the truth like a little spot of blue sky above. In this respect I found it mattered little whether I applied to the press or to the so-called scientific socialists, or to fluent pamphleteers.
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January 19th, 2012
Occupy Oakland citywide General Strike is infiltrated by anarchists who vandalize Whole Foods and other businesses. The rest of the 99% intervene to stop the violence and chaos ensues.
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January 19th, 2012
If people will riot over their favorite sports team losing a game, they’ll riot over the remains of Jesus having been discovered and it all being a sham. I envision Christians, although perhaps not the majority of them, basically going on a non-stop looting/rioting/killing spree. Or worse.
That will never happen. Jesus rose bodily and ascended to heaven in His physical body. We know this because He was seen after this walking about and talking and eating with people for 50 days before His actual ascension to heaven for good. We know it was Jesus because of the scars in His hands, feet and side. He left Thomas feel them.
January 14th, 2012
posted with text and links: http://postscarcityorbust.tumblr.com/post/14140538622/episode-3-anarchism-anarchism-is-a-political
post scarcity anarchism: http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/PostScarcityAnarchism/PostScarcityAnarchism.pdf
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January 12th, 2012
Say when you get married you don’t fully believe in anarchy and you’re head over heels in love with the person. Then you start researching and discover that you want to be an anarchist but anarchism doesn’t really believe in the institution of marriage. What do you do?
You and I apparently have different definitions of anarchy, because the anarchism I’m familiar with is only concerned with governmental matters. The whole point of anarchism is that people should not have governments restraining their actions. Anarchism says nothing about what kind of personal relationships you have. At most, anarchism says you shouldn’t have to apply to gov’t for a marriage license.
Marriage itself is a private relationship that predates formal governments by many centuries. You can get married by a justice of the peace, by a clergy, or if you are both anarchist and non-religious, by a private marriage provider like Las Vegas is famous for (among other things).
Whenever an ideology causes you to live and act in ways that cause you to give up things (or people) you value, it is time to reasses that ideology and either give it up or at least discard those parts of it that don’t make sense or which are bad for you.
Anarchism is an ideology–an abstract concept. Your spouse is real. Don’t give up the real for the abstract.
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