Few people can envision a society that can function without force, monopoly and government. Our job, as anarchists, however, is to talk about, and, when possible, to show how free people could get things done fairly, equitably, and without coercion. …
“Liberated desire is an expansive energy—an opening of possibilities—and wants to share projects and actions, joys and pleasures, love and revolt. Insurrection of one may indeed be possible. I would even argue that it is the necessary first step towards a shared …
Recently I’ve found myself wishing—when I hear the word “sustainability”—that I had a revolver to reach for. “Sustainability” has become a coded mask for a cause I detest—the salvation of Capitalism. Obviously, Too-Late Kapital is running down the road to “global” …
There are certainly frustrations associated with being an anarchist and working as a nurse. The entire health care system, like the rest of society, is riddled with authoritarian relationships, corporate penny-pinching and profit-taking, and intrusive government regulations. The state believes that individuals …
Kline wrote a very interesting book called The Individualist Anarchists and it does have some useful information that can improve understanding of the philosophy of the 19th century Individualist Anarchists. He mentions Stephen Pearl Andrews, Lysander Spooner, William Greene, Benjamin …
This essay was first published in Bulletin de SIA (Toulouse), 1957; this translation by Richard DeHaan first appeared in Views and Comments, Number 25, New York.
The anarchist individualists do not present themselves as proletarians, absorbed only in the …
Jesus of Nazareth presents himself as a very obliging figure; he’s prepared to be whatever you want him to be. World teacher and avatar; anarcho-Zealot revolutionary or proto-anticapitalist rebel (“Jerusalem Slim” the IWW hobo “Wanted for Sedition”); Apollo or maybe …
My project is oriented towards decontrol. I write and theorize on the nature of control, as well as hopefully implement tactics in resistance to control machines. Control is the collective totality of structures, institutions, and practices which interlock to form …
In the articles Benjamin Tucker American Mutualist, Parts 1 & 2, it was suggested that voting by both employers and employees in a business could be one way to retain the labor theory of value within the Capitalist system. It …
Against the intelligentsia and skilled craftsmen of the proletariat, there lurks an invisible hand. This hand sorts men, and in doing so, lifts some up whilst holding others down, not according to their knowledge, nor their abilities, but to the …