In this essay, we intend to analyze the connections between some fundamental anarchist principles — such as direct action, mutual support, self-determination, revolutionary violence — and initiatives in trans movements to depathologize transsexuality and oppose institutional violence. Far from assuming essentialisms...
This isn't any article in particular, but rather a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to research leftist theory, or improve their praxis....
Original on New Politics, Winter 2022...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18399878...
This is quite a long text, but you don’t need to read the chapters in order and each chapter is on a different urban experiment. It looks at “radical municipalism” or a communities taking back power of their city and rebuilding it into what they want to make of it. The rebel cities are:...
Simone Weil (1909 — 1943) was a French philosopher, labor activist, ascetic and mystic....
So that this potentiality becomes realized, there needs to be a surplus and this surplus would need to be more than a simple reserve (of food, notably): a useful surplus is necessary to liberate a member of society from the obligation of producing for themselves, thus allowing this member to produce for other members. Work is a...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17910073...
Oldie but goodie. A great intro to Anarchism imho.
Many prison reformists yearn for the end of imprisonment but find themselves confronted by questions which seem difficult to answer:...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18399875...
I recommended this book in another comment, but I think it's an important book, especially considering how we can often feel isolated and helpless to effect change
There weren't any videos today that I found especially interesting, so here's the full text of the public domain book "Anarchy", distributed by the Anarchist Library. It's not especially long, I'd say it's about an hour long read at most. Give it a read and feel free to discuss!
The world is infinite, and so are we—no amount of living, no number or depth of interactions with others should be “enough” for any of us, just as no amount of interactions with a person you love will ever be “enough.” (To set borders on what another person can do or feel, as a condition for them to be able to receive...
Like many contemporary anarchists, many anarchists of the 19th and 20th centuries maintained relationships with multiple romantic partners, or were involved with partners who did. Just as it does today, this often precipitated gossip, heartache, jealousy, and interminable emotional processing. A complete history of anarchist...
The Couple splits us off from ourselves and the living web of relations, restricting care, material and emotional support, affection, and intimacy to this codependent unit. What we are calling ‘The Couple’ is only mutual control, management, and governance....
archived version
Black and white drawing of a grpup of punks that looks like a book cover. The title is "Actually Stealing From Companies Is Okay" and the subtitle is "Making a case for workplace theft, shoplifting, looting, and other forms of taking stuff from businesses"
Workplace theft is the norm: your bosses are stealing from you every day. They’re living off your sweat. When you take money out of the register and put it into your pocket, that’s not workplace theft. That’s workplace justice.
