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Tag Archives: post-left anarchy
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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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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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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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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Tagged ally politics, anti- identity politics, call-out culture, essentialism, gender nihilism, identity, individualism, post-left anarchy, race
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Against The Logic of Submission: The Subversion of Existence
From “Willful Disobedience Volume 2, number 12” Text from back cover: “On the basis of these relationships of affinity, real projects that reflect the desires and aims of the individuals involved, rather than simply a feeling that one must do … Continue reading
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An Eco-Pessimist Revolt Against Fascism
From back cover: “I am convinced that Tarrant is not an eco-fascist, because eco-fascism is impossible, as fascism is civilisation epitomised and ultimately hates what is ecological and wild, which resists being tamed. Tarrant is undoubtedly a fascist, and perhaps … Continue reading
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Anarchism: What it is and What it Aint
This zine is a short introduction to the anarchist principles of direct action, voluntary cooperation, and mutual aid. It differentiates anarchism from the political philosophies of “the left” and argues for the separation of anarchist strategies and thought from “the … Continue reading
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Anarchy: Civil or Subversive?
This zine critically examines “anarcho-liberalism”, highlighting the civilized formations of leftist anarchism as non-threatening to the established order, and advocates for subversive insurrection beyond leftism. Text from the zine: “In this pamphlet I wrote about the fundamental divide between those … Continue reading
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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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Anarchy: The Life and Joy of Insubordination
From back cover: “Wage-slavery is the enemy of play, individuality, and freedom. Social systems require the subjugation of individuality to either homogenized membership or fixed group-identities in order to maintain their existence. With all social systems the formula is similar: … Continue reading
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Anti-Left Anarchy: Hunting Leftism With Intent to Kill
Text from zine: “Now one would think that anarchists, of all people, would be hostile to the inherently totalistic and collectivizing nature of leftist ideologies—like communism and socialism—yet to this day, a large number of socalled anarchists continue to express … Continue reading
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An Obituary for Identity Politics
From back cover: “Rather than taking aim at identity itself and the apparatus maintaining this paradigm, energy is spent tearing one another down, ignoring the complexity of individual uniqueness, and playing the State’s role of defining each other based on … Continue reading
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Armed Joy
Text from back cover: “DO IT YOURSELF Don’t break up the global aspect of play by reducing it to roles. Defend your right to enjoy life. Obstruct capital’s death project. The latter can only enter the world of creativity and … Continue reading
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A Sales Pitch for the Insurrection: A Critical Look at The Coming Insurrection
From back cover: “The Coming Insurrection is selling a feel good ideology that rids us of any responsibility for our lives or our rebellion. It is an empty book, with no more content than any other sales pitch. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, commune, communisation theory, individualist anarchy, post-left anarchy, the coming insurrection, tiqqun
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Beyond Right and Wrong (Conspiracy of Cells of Fire)
Text from the zine: “We want to create the possibilities of acting with people who feel stifled in the social cages imposed on them by authority and want to rebel… Our joy is great in any such new meeting with … Continue reading
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Becoming Animal: My Feral Individualism
From back cover: “Caught in this schismatic abyss, I find myself compelled towards a practice of individualism. Why individualism, rather than collectivism? My body is often found within the machinery of Leviathan which is that collective known as society. The … Continue reading
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Beyond the “Movement” – Anarchy!
Text from back cover: “The collectivist message of The Coming Insurrection has little in common with insurrectional anarchy: the revolutionary theory flowing from the individual’s passionate uprising to appropriate the fullness of life for themselves, attacking all that controls and … Continue reading
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Civilisation & Collapse
Text from back cover: “This is not a suggestion to flee to civilisation and cower in isolation, tending vegetable patches and practising primitive skills in “peace” – it is a proposal to take the initiative to better position ourselves tactically, … Continue reading
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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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Communes & Land Projects: A Nomadic Critique of Communization
From back cover: “…what is unappetizing about the call for attack by the communisateurs and Tiqqunists is exactly that they are communisateurs — they are Marxists — they want the communes so they can have spaces to build their Party, … Continue reading
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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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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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Decomposing the Masses: Towards Armed Individuality
From back cover: ““The strategy of creating a mass society or system of order is a strategy of discouraging individuality, chaos, and uniqueness. This strategy includes presenting a one-dimensional view of individualism that is defined by capitalism. But for individualism … Continue reading
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Descending into Madness: An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry
From back cover: “Like all governments, presidents, and authority, psychiatry never gave me freedom. Assigned psychiatric labels didn’t help me – they only filled me with an internalized sense of victimhood and inferiority. Medication didn’t ‘cure’ or ‘fix’ me – … Continue reading
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Deserting the Digital Utopia: Computers Against Computing
Text from back cover: “The Internet has often been compared to the Wild West: a largely unregulated space rich in opportunities, in which people may experiment with new relations. Most commentators miss the full implications of this metaphor. The Wild … Continue reading
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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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Drawing First Blood
From back cover: “Every attempt to free humanity en masse is bound to fail because collective self-determination is a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing as the common good, for there is no good that is common to … Continue reading
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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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Fragment: Violence
From back cover: “Outside of the UK many of the comrades have a much closer relationship to “violence” and “criminality” through bank robberies, organising attacks, fierce demos, stealing, fraud, counterfeiting etc. and added to that possibility the experience of clandestinity … Continue reading
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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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Fuck Your Red Revolution: Against Ecocide, Towards Anarchy
From back cover: “Collectivism, whether it be communist, fascist or capitalist ideologically isn’t something that serves my interests as an indigenous subsistence farmer and forager living in these remote mountains. Whatever industrial dogma I’m ordered to live my life by … Continue reading
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I Am Also A Nihilist
Text from back cover: “I don’t care whether it is Nordic or Oriental, nor whether or not is has a historical, political, practical tradition, or a theoretical, philosophical, spiritual, intellectual one. I call myself a nihilist because I know that … Continue reading
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In Praise of Chaos
From back cover: Anarchists are opposed to authority both from below and from above. They do not demand power for the masses, but seek to destroy all power and to decompose these masses into individuals who are masters of their … Continue reading
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Insurrectionary Anarchism
Text from back cover: “It is the accumulation of “petty” acts of defiance and refusal that make critical upsurges possible. They are not a substitute for revolution but a necessary condition for it. That is why the insurrectionary moment invariably … Continue reading
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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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Insurgent Ferocity: The Playful Violence of Rebellion
From back cover: “Rebellion is the aggressive, dangerous, playful attack by freespirited individuals against society. Refusing a system of violence, refusing an organized, militarized form of armed struggle, allows the violence of insurgents to retain a high level of invisibility. … Continue reading
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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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