Category Archives: Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian

Toward Terra Incognita: A Critical Look at Cultural Essentialism, Nationalism, and Body Policing

“I feel nationalism has escaped the grave long enough. With this text I seek to instigate and encourage an anti-authoritarian flame that once and for all sets fire to its anarcho-confused, stumbling corpse. I also encourage anarchists to question the … Continue reading →

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The Match Consumed: A Condensed Reading of “Blessed is the Flame”

“A few months ago a comrade and I decided to take on the task of creating a condensed version of blessed is the flame. This was in response to a vast misunderstanding and fash-jacketing of those who post content on … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

From back cover: “The state will use machine learning to filter surveillance footage for criminals and potential criminals; capitalism will use machine learning to identify ways to appropriate resources and maximize profits…This doesn’t mean, though, that anarchists could appropriate machine … Continue reading →

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A Nihilist Understanding of “Social War”: On Autonomy, Domination, Representation, Class War and Identity

From back cover: “Social war is all around us. It is present in the cop cars that patrol our streets, in our schools, in the design of our cities and suburbs, and in the boundaries of what it means to … Continue reading →

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Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought

From back cover: “I suggest that the recognition of animals as colonial subjects has been absent from Indigenous Studies. That is, contemporary decolonial thought has yet to engage with a politics of animality that not only recalls “traditional” and/or “ceremonial” … Continue reading →

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Veganism and Mi’kmaw Legends

From back cover: “This text proposes a postcolonial ecofeminist reading of Mi’kmaw legends as the basis for a vegan diet rooted in Indigenous culture. I refer primarily to veganism throughout this work because unlike vegetarianism, it is not only a … Continue reading →

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Veganism as Anti-Colonial Praxis: A Collection of Indigenous Vegan Perspectives

From back cover: “Despite the absorption of veganism by the capitalist market – a process that admittingly reinforces pre-existing divisions across class and racial lines – a vegan lifestyle taken to its logical conclusion is fundamentally anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. By … Continue reading →

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Of Diets & Morality: A Vegan Egoist Perspective

From back cover: “…But I am also a vegan, not because I wish to limit my consumption of animals but because I desire to expand it! I still consume animals, but not as food, not as mere commodities alienated from … Continue reading →

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Kaimangatanga: Māori Perspectives on Veganism and Plant-based Kai

From back cover: ““To adopt a form of veganism – a plant-based lifestyle and ethics – that acknowledges, is based upon, and celebrates Te Ao Māori, is a break from the dominant and from the status quo and but also … Continue reading →

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DISSENT FROM WITHIN: The Hidden Story of the Anti-Whaling Members of the Makah Tribe

From back cover: “This zine was put together not only to honor the memory of Mahak whale protector Alberta Nora Thomspson, but also to commemorate the story of resistance surrounding the Makah anti-whaling warriors whose very existence has been (intentionally) … Continue reading →

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Anarchy & Animal Liberation: A Journal of Wild Attack

From back cover: “The anti-authoritarian relationship with non-human animals (and the earth) combined with clandestine attack against industrial society can be seen throughout history. Past and present, many anarchists not only maintain a vegan lifestyle as a rejection of hierarchy … Continue reading →

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The Intersections Between Anti-Speciesism, Anti-Civilization, & Individualist Anarchy

From back cover: “Veganism, like anarchy, isn’t a system; it’s an individual praxis of abstention and individual resistance against consumerist violence and civilization-induced destruction. Veganism is the individual anti-speciesist refusal to take part in all forms of exploitation and systematic … Continue reading →

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The Conditioned Dysthymia of Civilization

From back cover: “…And eventually, I came to believe that the problem had never been with my brain – at least, not in the way I had been taught. Without the pills, I was not ‘chemically imbalanced’. I was traumatized, … Continue reading →

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On Self-Love and Gun Powder

From back cover: “I remain an embodiment of insubordination, the fluidity of unbridled emotions, the nihilist poetry of a tsunami in flux. I do not sympathize with conforming to behavorial servitude in order to preserve the general peace of subordinating … Continue reading →

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Morality vs. Ethics

From back cover: “Moral systems are designed to oppress and marginalise anyone the system deems undesirable. They are based on transcendent rules that are forcibly applied to all people from all backgrounds, in all situations; regardless of each individual’s desires … Continue reading →

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KEEP SABOTAGING SHIT: Relating to the words of Winston “Boogie” Smith

From back cover: “Y’all telling motherfuckers to come with they hands up and peacefully assemble? For what? Nah, fuck that, fuck that, fuck you, fuck them, fuck anybody who’s peaceful right now. Cuz when Martin Luther King was here we … Continue reading →

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Jodidamente Hostil

This zine contains various thoughts and ideas related to anti­-speciesism, nihilist pessimism, and anti-­left anarchy, expressed by Morgan Taylor, a vegan straight edge anarchist writer. Jodidamente Hostil pdf 

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Handful of Objections: A Response to a Proposal for Desertion

From back cover: “An insurrectionary moment is a qualitative leap, a negation of existing social relations on a whole other level. From there ugly things can happen, beautiful things also. What has changed is our power to make things happen… … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Destroy Race Destroy Society: Another Diary of Mayhem and Race Nihilism

From back cover: “I am sure there will be some who will find this text redundant – another critique of identity. Fair enough. But allow me to be clear: I write this with the intent of further agitating identity politics … Continue reading →

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Cultural Appropriation is a Toxic Concept

From back cover: “I have faced racism — it is a fact of my life as a woman of colour. But I refuse to be on the cultural appropriation bandwagon — I find it nearly insulting that while I deal … Continue reading →

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Cult of Resentment: How Identity Politics Fails Everyone

From back cover: “Individuals are nearly as unique as their fingerprints might suggest. Attempts to lump large swathes of people together is often based on ones own limited ability, or willingness, to know and genuinely understand other unique individuals on … Continue reading →

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A Dagger of Feral Anarchy

From back cover: “For me, post-left anarchy is synonymous with anti-left anarchy. The “post” in post-left anarchy does not represent a ‘new’ or evolved form of leftism – as some would claim with various contemporary anti-state communist and socialist projects. … Continue reading →

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Wildpunk: Black Against Civilization

Originally published by 1312 Press, “Wildpunk: Black Against Civilization” is the first English-language translation of writings by Elany, a Black anti-civ anarchist from Switzerland. Her 2021 book Schwarze Saat collected first-time German translations of 85 diverse Black and Indigenous anarchist … Continue reading →

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Why Nihilism? A Response to John Zerzans “Why Hope? (Critique of the Nihilist tendency in Anarchism)”

From back cover: “The electioneering of hope and countless other political promises may captivate some, but not all. In the case of this text, I’m pointing out that some discover freedom in the total abandonment of positive politics ­ including … Continue reading →

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Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism

From back cover: “Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart. Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.Blessed is the match … Continue reading →

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Confronting a Silent Assassin: Intoxication Culture in Resistance Movements

From back: “From an anarchist perspective, intoxication remains a source of contention. Many radical anti-capitalist anti-statists remain unaware of the ways intoxicants, stimulants, and depressants have been deployed by ruling classes throughout history as mechanisms for diminishing the self-defense capacities … Continue reading →

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3 Essays Against Work and the Deprivation of Life

Texts from back cover: “It is work that keeps the whole miserabilist system going. Without work, the death ­dealing juggernaut that proclaims itself the “free market” would grind to a halt. “Free market” means freedom for Capital, and unfreedom for … Continue reading →

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3 Short Essays on Insurrectionary Anarchy, Illegalism & Post-Leftism

These essays were originally published in the zine produced by comrades from Dark Matter Publications & 325 ‘Anarchy – Civil or Subversive?’ : A Collection of Texts against Civil Anarchism Text from the zine: “Theorization of abstract social systems – … Continue reading →

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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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Ten Blows Against Politics

A short but thorough breakdown and critique of “politics”. 10 Blows Against Politics pdf

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10 Points on The Black Bloc

Text from back cover: “It is true that the State is not a window, but neither is it just an abstract concept. Breaking windows is not a revolutionary act and neither is any other act if taken out of context … Continue reading →

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20 Reasons to Abandon Christianity

Text from the zine: “This pamphlet briefly looks at many of the reasons that Christianity is undesirable from both a personal and a social point of view. All of the matters discussed here have been dealt with elsewhere at greater … Continue reading →

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A is for Nihilism

This zine does not represent any “official” definition, nor a new program or political ideology. Instead it merely presents some common anarchist-nihilist ideas which encourage an anti-political critique of all social control and order, in favor of individual empowerment, anarchy … Continue reading →

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Abolish Whiteness

Text from the zine: “Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture – the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch … Continue reading →

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A Conversation Between Anarchists: A discussion about tactics, theory and practice between the imprisoned members of CCF and a few anarchists in Mexico

From the text: “As nihilist anarchists we hate both the hand that holds the whip and the back that endures it and passively accepts flagellation without reacting. We dismantle and destroy all the values of civilization, annihilate the dictatorship of … Continue reading →

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Accomplices Not Allies: Abolish The Ally Industrial Complex

This zine presents a strong critique of the political identity of “ally” and the activists who have built an “ally industrial complex” based on their anti-oppression credentials. Written from the context of indigenous struggles, this zine criticizes and explains several … Continue reading →

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Against Assemblies: Organisation, Democracy & the Left

A zine critical of the Left and formal organizations. Advocates post-left anarchy through informal organizing and affinity group based attacks. Text from back cover: “Informal self-organisation is particularly powerful in war. Modern states can easily crush weaker opposing armies, but … Continue reading →

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Against Identity Politics: Spectres, Joylessness & The Contours of Ressentiment

Texts from back cover: “What is being criticized here is a particular political style, rather than a theoretical orientation – a style which labels as oppressive any deviation from a particular political line, which resorts almost immediately to public denunciation … Continue reading →

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Against Innocence: Gender, Race & The Politics of Safety

Text from back cover: “Ultimately, our appeals to innocence demarcate who is killable and rapable, even if we are trying to strategically use such appeals to protest violence committed against one of our comrades. […] When we rely on appeals … Continue reading →

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