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Tag Archives: anti-politics
Why We Refuse to Vote: An Anarchist Response to Critics
From back cover: “Though there are some political distinctions between the two prominent parties in the so called U.S., they all pledge their allegiance to the same flag. Red or blue, they’re both still stripes on a rag waving over … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-colonization, anti-oppression, anti-politics, anti-statism, anti-voting, democracy, direct democracy, voting
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Against Community Building, Towards Friendship
From back cover: “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. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-civ, anti-politics, anti-voting, community, democracy, direct democracy, individualism, individualist anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-left individualism, post-leftism, Ziq
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Egoist Vegan: Some Thoughts on an Individualist Animal Liberation
From back cover: “If I am thoroughly an egoist, then I recognize the ego of others and the desire of that ego to not be controlled or dominated. I own nobody, and nobody owns me. This social relationship does not … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Animal Liberation & Earth Liberation
Tagged anti-civ, anti-politics, egoism, egoist anarchy, Flower Bomb, individualism, individualist anarchy, vegan anarchy, veganism
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Against All Odds: Abolishing Gender, Abolishing Poetry
Text from the zine: “Because of our misplaced desire to find ourselves within societies society, poets become absurdly competitive. Invoking abstract concepts of authenticity to either validate or invalidate writing. There is no valid or authentic poetics because the individual … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-identity, anti-politics, gender abolition, gender nihilism, poetry, post-left anarchy, queer
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Against Gender Against Society
Text from the zine: “We must turn against society itself. Gender is a war against all of us, and for those who desire freedom, nothing short of the total eradication of gender will suffice. To those of us who wish … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, armed self-defense, Attack, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, queer
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An Insurrectional Practice Against Gender: Considerations on Resonance, Memory, and Attack
Text from back cover: “There are certain practices that exist in the ways in which self-proclaimed “radical trans” people and “anarcha-feminists” of certain activist subcultures have set into motion in response to the question of gender. These include consent zines/workshops, … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, anti-sexism, armed self-defense, Attack, Dangerous Spaces, gender nihilism, insurrectionary anarchy, queer, trans insurrection, transgender
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Criminal Intimacy
Text from back cover: “We do not offer ‘criminal’ or ‘queer’ as identities, nor as categories. Criminality. Queerness. These are tools for revolt against identity and category. These are our lines of flight out of all restraint. We are in … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-civ, anti-politics, armed self-defense, gender nihilism, insurrectionary anarchy, post-left anarchy, queer, queer nihilism
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Only A Tsunami Will Do: For A Post-Feminist Anarchy
Text from back cover: “Men, women, …fighting for the elusive HappilyEver AfterPlus$’More. This powerful enemy includes a mindset requiring controlled, predictable (despite acknowledging its impossibility), identifiable order according to a Masster plan. But it is perhaps, first and foremost, the … Continue reading
Posted in Gender Anarchy/Relationships
Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, armed self-defense, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-feminist anarchy, post-left anarchy, queer nihilism
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To Destroy Sexuality
Text from the zine: “Of course, we realize how many obstacles we have to overcome to make our aspirations into something more than the dreams of a small and marginal minority. We are keenly aware that liberating the body for … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-capitalism, anti-civ, anti-politics, anti-sexism, gender nihilism, individualism, post-left anarchy, queer, sexuality, transsexual
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3 Positions Against Prison
Text from back cover: “One and a half centuries ago, slavery was abolished by the United States government. This followed an enormous social struggle over abolition–wars were fought between pro-slavery elements and abolitionist elements. There were slave revolts and armed … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-politics, post-left anarchy, prison abolition, prisoner support
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Against Prisons, Politics, Society
Text from the zine: “There appears to be a trend in radical circles of distinguishing prisoners based on their so-called ‘crimes’, with the intent (conscious or not) to identify ‘political prisoners’ who, by virtue of their actions, are more deserving … Continue reading
Posted in The Prison Industrial Complex
Tagged anti-politics, post-left anarchy, prison abolition, prisoner solidarity
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9 Thesis on Insurgency: Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare
Text from the zine: “To be an insurgent means re-evaluating our relationship to so-called social movements, and also our role outside of them. For example, liberals are not allies, even though there is often confusion on this question. Fundamentally, their … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-politics, individualism, insurgency, insurrectionary anarchy, post-left anarchy, Social War
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Ten Blows Against Politics
A short but thorough breakdown and critique of “politics”. 10 Blows Against Politics pdf
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Tagged anti-politics, individualism, post-left anarchy
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Anarchy Against Civilization
Text from back cover: “As radicals (from the latin radixroot) we seek to examine and challenge root causes. The anarchist tradition has historically identified capitalism as a root cause. Fortunately, we as anarchists are not bound to tradition. Certainly capitalism … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-civ, anti-politics, bobby whittenberg-james, green anarchy, individualism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism
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Collectives: Anarchy Against the Mass
Text from back cover: “Collectives are small efficient means of organizing that provide practical examples of counter – institutions that are egalitarian, voluntary, and anti – authoritarian. Collectives work and they prove that anarchy works, and that’s one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged affinity groups, anarchy, anti-civ, anti-politics, individualism, post-left anarchy
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Communization: The Senile Decay of Anarchy by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire Imprisoned Members
Text from back cover: “Anarchy, however, demands the organization of the new anarchist urban guerrilla, if we don’t want it to degenerate into a meaningless poetic chatter, doomed to be followed by the alternative integration in the system. Concepts that … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti-civ, anti-politics, Attack, communisation theory, conspiracy of cells of fire, direct action, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, Social War, tiqqun
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Dangerous Foundations: An Argument Against the “Identity” in Identity Politics
A well-written, thorough critique of identity and a proposal for its total abandonment. Dangerous Foundations Anti-Identity pdf
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Desire Armed: Anarchy and the Creative Impulse
Text from back cover: “My freedom is not a promise for the future, but a way to continuously confront the world where I exist now, taking possession of my life with all my might, in conflict with everything that stands … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Essentialism and The Problem of Identity Politics
Text from the zine: “Essentialism is the idea that there exists some detectible and objective core quality of particular groups of people that is inherent, eternal, and unalterable; groupings can be categorized according to these qualities of essence, which are … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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In Defense of Smoke and Fire
Originally published in Wild Fire no. 4, an anarchist prison solidarity newsletter. This essay is part of an ongoing conversation between anarchist prisoners on tactics. wildfire.noblogs.org Sean Swain is an anarchist held captive in the Ohio prison system. For more … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Insurrection Anarchist Magazine Issue #4
An insurrectionary anarchist periodical which provides essays and clandestine actions, critical of leftism and formal organizing. Insurrection Anarchist Magazine pdf
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Tagged anarchy, anti-politics, Attack, green anarchy, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Leftism 101
This zine collects two excellent essays by Lawrence Jarach: “Leftism 101” from Back to Basics: The Problem of the Left put out by the Green Anarchy collective and “Anarchists, Don’t let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite” from Anarchy: A Journal … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Let’s Become Dangerous: For the Diffusion of the Black International by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
Text from the zine: “No, our burned banks are not a way of protest or a token of friendship and solidarity with the “poor person” who does nothing and sits on his couch. It is a way to express our … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-politics, Attack, conspiracy of cells of fire, FAI, individualism, informal organization, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Mapping the Fire: International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
Text from the zine: “The following texts were translated and edited by the imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and by the comrades of Contra Info. We warmly thank them therefore, as well as the comrades A,M … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti-capitalism, anti-civ, anti-politics, Attack, conspiracy of cells of fire, direct action, green anarchy, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, prisoner support, Social War
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Negate Politics, Affirm Cuteness
A zine against “growing up”, politics and workerism. Negate Politics pdf
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, General
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-work, anti-workerism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, play, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Never Work!
Text from back cover: “When Guy Debord of the Situationist International graffi tied the slogan “Never Work!” onto the walls of a Parisian street in 1953, he struck a blow in solidarity with the radical current of left communism which … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-work, anti-workerism, individualism, nihilism, play, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Off The Leash
Text from back cover: “Feeling the need for revolt in their bodies, those of an individualist nihilistic bent never needed to justify their insurrection in terms of ‘the Will of the People’, ‘History’ or ‘Justice’; and have always been quite … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind
Text from back cover: “Post-left anarchists reject all ideologies in favor of the individual and communal construction of self-theory. Individual self-theory is theory in which the integral individual in context (in all her or his relationships, with all her or … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-work, anti-workerism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Post-Left Anarchy (Short Intro)
Text from the zine: “Why has there been such a long history of conflict and enmity between anarchists and the left? It is because there are two fundamentally different visions of social change embodied in the range of their respective … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-work, anti-workerism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Reclaim Your Mind
Text from back cover: “As far as we know, we only have one life on this planet. Why should we waste it trying to adapt ourselves to the always more demanding expectations of this insane society when there is so … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti-essentialism, anti-medication, anti-politics, anti-psychiatry, anti-work, anti-workerism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, medication, mental health, nihilism, pharmaceutical industrial complex, play, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, psychiatry, Social War
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Revolutionary Solidarity: A Critical Reader for Accomplices
A collection of essays that thoroughly critique identity politics, ally politics and other forms of liberalism found in anarchist circles. Revolutionary Solidarity pdf
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Anti-Racism/Anti-Fascism
Tagged allyship, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, anti-racism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, post-left anarchy, post-leftism
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Sabotage As One of the Fine Arts
Text from back cover: “Sabotage is thus an action that serves as a propellant against the unreality that oppresses us. A practice that has not gone unnoticed by ideological recuperation, which has transformed it into “terrorism” (the professionalization of sabotage … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, play, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, property destruction, sabotage, Social War
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Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism
This zine lays out the basic principles of insurrectionary anarchism: attack, autonomous self-organization, rejection of management, illegality, informality, the synthesis of individualism and communism, and immediacy. Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism pdf
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Total Destroy #3 A Milwaukee Anarchist Periodical
Text from back cover: “In a police report describing a black bloc at the Republican National Convention, one ever-so eloquent officer claimed that he observed a group of over one hundred anarchists “doing being totally out of control”. While we … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-civ, anti-politics, Attack, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Terror Incognita
Terror Incognita challenges conventional notions about consent, violence, sexuality, desire, and freedom, in hopes of pushing the discourse about these subjects far out of familiar territory. Terror_Incognita pdf
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, General
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti- identity politics, anti-essentialism, anti-politics, Attack, gender nihilism, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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The Reproduction of Daily Life
Text from the zine: “The everyday activity of slaves reproduces slavery. Through their daily activities, slaves do not merely reproduce themselves and their masters physically; they also reproduce the instruments with which the master represses them, and their own habits … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-politics, anti-workerism, consumerism, domestication, industrial society, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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Towards the Destruction of Schooling
Text from back cover: “As students go hazily from class to class, box to box, schooling as a technique of social control perpetuates itself. And as leftists drone on about better education for the people, for the masses of people, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, anti-civ, anti-politics, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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War Against The Machines! By Gianluca Iacovacci
Gianluca Iacovacci is an eco-anarchist, who served 4 years for a string of sabotages. Text from back: “The technological race is financed by hitech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Samsung, Sony etc., which unscrupulously feed the market with computers, biocomputers … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, animal liberation, anti-civ, anti-politics, Attack, direct action, eco-defense, Gianluca Iacovacci, green anarchy, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, sabotage, Social War, technological industrial complex
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Why Anti-Civilization?
Text from the zine:: “We are often told that our dreams are unrealistic, our demands impossible, that we are basically out of our fuckin’ minds to even propose such a ridiculous concept as the “destruction of civilization”. So, we hope … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Animal Liberation & Earth Liberation
Tagged anarchy, anti-civ, anti-politics, Attack, green anarchy, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, Social War
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What is Green Anarchy?
“The green anarchist perspective is diverse and open, yet it does contain some continuity and primary elements. It has been influenced by anarchists, primitivists, Luddites, insurrectionalists, Situationists, surrealists, queer and trans eco-defenders, nihilists, deep ecologists, bioregionalists, eco-feminists, various indigenous cultures, … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Animal Liberation & Earth Liberation
Tagged anarchy, anti-civ, anti-politics, anti-speciesism, Attack, eco-defense, green anarchy, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, radical sobriety, Social War, straight edge, veganism
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