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international / anarchist movement / review Sunday May 13, 2018 14:41 by Wayne Price   image 1 image
Reviewing Lundstrom's "Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy" leads to a discussion of what "radical democracy" could mean and whether anarchists should support it. Some anarchists oppose "democracy" of any sort because they regard "majority rule" as inherently oppressive and un-anarchist. This view is criticized and rejected in favor of a view of anarchism as democracy without a state. read full story / add a comment
international / anarchist movement / review Thursday April 21, 2016 07:08 by Wayne Price   text 7 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2016 22:13)
Within the anarchist movement there are conflicting trends. Laurence Davis has written an essay which defends the reformist “exodus” trend in anarchism against the revolutionary "class-struggle” trend. In large part, he does this by defending Uri Gordon’s and David Graeber’s views against my criticisms. This is my response.
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international / anarchist movement / opinion / analysis Thursday November 19, 2015 18:38 by Argyris Argyriadis   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 21, 2015 00:38)   image 1 image
This pamphlet by the “enigmatic” title “Alpha below zero - Nemesis and new anarchy”, appeared online almost a year ago in Greek language by Anarpsy project. Anarpsy is a project about speech, theory and analysis in the context of social psychology, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic approach and psychiatry through Antiauthoritarian - Anarchist perspective, in order to analyse the reality of social and political phenomena. “Alpha below zero” is the second Anarpsy’s pamphlet. (The first was the “ELthnikismos (ΗELlenicNATIONALISM), - A contribution to the understanding of Greek nationalism”). “Alpha below zero” reflects a shift towards nihilism that exists into so-called neo-anarchists. read full story / add a comment
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internaţional / anarchist circulaţie / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 30, 2013 11:27 by Andrew Flood   image 2 images
În ultimul deceniu, o critică generalizată a civilizației a fost formulată de către un număr de autori, predominant din SUA. Unii dintre aceștia au ales să se identifice drept anarhiști, deși auto-indentificarea generală este de primitivist (sau din păcate “anarho”-primitivism). Argumentul lor general este că “civilizația” în sine este problema care duce la incapacitatea noastră de a trăi o viață plină de satisfacții. Astfel, lupta pentru schimbare este o luptă împotriva civilizației și pentru un pământ unde tehnologia a fost eliminată.
Critica primitivistă a anarhismului se bazează în jurul susţinerii că ar fi descoperit o contradicție între libertate și societatea de masă. În alte cuvinte, ei văd ca o imposibilitate orice societate care implică grupuri mult mai mari decât un sat să fie o societate liberă. Dacă acest lucru ar fi fost adevărat, atunci ar face propunerea anarhistă a unei lumi a “federațiilor libere formate din municipii, orașe și sate o imposibilitate. Astfel de federații și centre de populație sunt în mod evident o formă de societate de masă/civilizație. [English] read full story / add a comment
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international / anarchist movement / opinion / analysis Wednesday October 24, 2012 03:36 by Alfonso López Rojo   image 1 image
Eseo pri la verko de Murray Bookchin fare de Alfonso López Rojo kaj publikigita je la hispana de la gazeto "Libre Pensamiento", n-ro 62 (2009) pĝoj 64-75. Esperantigita de Jurgo Alkasaro read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / press release Monday November 14, 2011 21:56 by Zabalaza Books   image 1 image
All publications from Zabalaza Books for the month of September read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday November 04, 2010 19:58 by Griffin   image 1 image
New additions to the Zabalaza Books site as of November 2010 read full story / add a comment
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international / anarchist movement / press release Thursday August 26, 2010 04:23 by Wayne Price   image 1 image
Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?
by Wayne Price

From the Foreword by Andrew Flood (Workers Solidarity Movement--Ireland):

"This collection of essays by Wayne Price…will hopefully play a significant part in helping us build the movement we need…..This volume represents a good foundation to this process. It revisits many of the essential basic questions and lays down a coherent position in regard to them. Wayne's insights are important to us because they are based not just on a theoretical study of revolution but on five decades of practical experience in the North American left and the anarchist movement" read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / link to pdf Tuesday June 22, 2010 10:22 by Griffin
Latest Updates to the Zabalaza Books website read full story / add a comment
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international / anarchist movement / feature Thursday June 25, 2009 20:16 by Wayne Price   text 10 comments (last - friday december 25, 2009 20:42)   image 1 image
There are two main trends in anarchism, which agree on antistatism and anticapitalism and opposition to all oppression, but disagree on revolution, democracy, prefigurative politics, and class struggle. [Italiano] [Türkçe] read full story / add a comment
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international / education / opinion / analysis Sunday August 17, 2008 05:18 by Dr. Charles Thorpe and Dr. Ian Welsh   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 30, 2008 00:40)   image 1 image
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The authoritarian and ecologically destructive juggernaut of state-supported big science and technology in the twentieth century understandably fostered a deep pessimism and suspicion towards science and technology among many in the green, anarchist, and libertarian left milieu. This reaction has been crystallized in the “anti-civilization” primitivist anarchism of John Zerzan. In opposition to this drift towards primitivism, this paper argues that a vision of a liberatory and participative science and technology was an essential element of classical anarchism and that this vision remains vital to the development of liberatory political theory and praxis today. The paper suggests that an anarchist model of science and technology is implicit in the knowledge-producing and organizing activities of new social movements and is exemplified in recent developments in world, regional, and local social forums.
(reposted from illvox.org)
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international / anarchist movement / debate Tuesday July 31, 2007 21:42 by W.   text 9 comments (last - saturday august 04, 2007 00:42)
In a recent article published on the ‘Socialist Democracy’ website Mick Armstrong presents a brief overview of the spectrum of thought within the anarchist movement, focussing his argument against strawmen including anarchist-capitalists and lifestylists.
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international / anarchist movement / debate Monday September 04, 2006 03:03 by W.   text 177 comments (last - sunday february 06, 2022 13:36)   image 1 image
There are two ways out of capitalism, revolution or death. Anybody who tells you otherwise is simply wrong. The US based sub-cultural cult "Crimethinc" (CWC) who mix anarchism with bohemian drop-out lifestyles and vague anti-civilisation sentiment would have you believe that capitalism is something from which you can merely remove yourself by quitting work, eating from bins and doing whatever "feels good". They carry on the legacy of prize-idiot Abbie Hoffman, printing books and zines which fetishise scams, petty crime and useless activist/punk sub-cultural activity like food not bombs, squatting, etc. They are anarchists by name only with little relevance to the rest of the anarchist milieu and no class analysis, let's venture into their secret underground "anarchy club". read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / link to pdf Wednesday April 05, 2006 22:52 by Andrew   image 1 image
A PDF pamphlet is now available of Andrew Flood's two published critiques of primitivism. You can now download, print out and distribute this pamphlet whose essays provoked some fury when first published. read full story / add a comment
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international / anarchist movement / feature Thursday December 01, 2005 22:15 by Andrew Flood   text 38 comments (last - thursday june 11, 2015 01:07)   image 5 images
One of the major confusions in the anarchist movement in the USA and parts of Europe arises out of primitivism and its claim to be part of the anarchist movement. But primitivism is not a realistic strategy for social revolution and it opposes the basic purpose of anarchism - the creation of a free mass society. Primitivists have attempted to reply to these criticisms but these replies are easily exposed as more to do with faith then reality. read full story / add a comment
international / history of anarchism / opinion / analysis Thursday November 10, 2005 19:36 by Michael Schmidt
The fourth wave of anarchist insurgencies were crushed by neo-fascist repression in Latin America in the mid-1970s, with the USA funding death-squads into the 1980s, and by the increasingly right-wing regimes of Western Europe and North America in the same period, but revolutionary syndicalism steadily rebuilt, as did anarchist political organisation. read full story / add a comment
internazionale / movimento anarchico / opinione / analisi Friday October 21, 2005 20:38 by Andrew Flood   text 1 comment (last - friday october 21, 2005 20:41)
Nell'ultimo decennio si è fatta strada una critica generalizzata alla civiltà da parte di alcuni autori statunitensi. Alcuni di loro hanno scelto di dichiararsi anarchici, sebbene essi si percepiscano più in generale come primitivisti... read full story / add a comment
Leaving the last of technology behind
international / anarchist movement / feature Thursday October 06, 2005 19:10 by Andrew   text 32 comments (last - saturday august 13, 2011 04:07)   image 1 image
The primitivist critique of anarchism is based around the claim to have discovered a contradiction between liberty and mass society. In other words they see it as impossible for any society that involves groups much larger than a village to be a free society. If this was true it would make the anarchist proposal of a world of 'free federations of towns, cities and countryside' impossible. Such federations and population centers are obviously a form of mass society/civilisation. read full story / add a comment
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