The crisis of the statist politics that dominated working-class politics — social democracy, Marxism-Leninism, and anti-imperialist nationalism — and the rise of neoliberalism, has aided the rediscovery of society-centred, anti-capitalist forms of bottom-up change “at a distance” from the state.
Continue reading Modes of politics at a distance from the state: A critical assessment
During the late 1930s, Leon Trotsky and John Dewey, a leading U.S. liberal, wrote essays on the relation of means and ends in politics, and on whether Leninism led to Stalinism. I am going to discuss these works from an anarchist perspective.
Continue reading Wayne Price: Our Morals and Theirs – Means and Ends in Anarchist, Liberal, and Marxist Morals
There is a necessity for a liberatory politics in the Archipelago known as the Philippines and as anarchists we think Anarchism has the framework to fill this need. The dominant forms of politics we have now are insufficient for developing a liberatory politics in the archipelago. This liberatory politics becomes a necessity because politics in the Philippines is currently an alienating affair—a politics done to people rather than people doing politics. We are also dominated by domineering structures and institutions like the market, capitalism, and the state. Against these we forward the liberatory politics of anarchism for a world beyond domination.
Continue reading Towards an #Anarchism in the Philippine Archipelago
Reading Kropotkin‘s classic “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” from 1902, in times of the coronavirus.
Continue reading Peter Kropotkin – Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Continue reading Street #Anarchy pt.1 – Two Anarchisms | Theory and Analysis“Anarchism is not a romantic fable, but a hard awakening […]”
Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness [Vox Clamantis en Deserto], 1990.
This article critiques a selection of the wide range of anarchist responses to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic so far,[1] and discusses the currency of anarchist ideas in this profound crisis.[2] Different variants of anarchism hold to specific (though largely overlapping) political priorities, and these characteristics have been emphasised in the analyses of the pandemic crisis from across the anarchist spectrum. This could be interpreted as a kind of sectarian confirmation bias as people cling to their favoured ideologies like self-affirming life rafts, but anarchist ideas have, once again, gained some traction in the wider popular imagination. Anarchists of all stripes can, and should, contribute to this popularisation from their own specific perspectives, but we cannot remain confined within our comfortable echo chambers. Anarchist ideas are crucial at this moment as a bulwark against the ‘nightmare’ re-installation of ‘a savage neo-liberal system’ imposed by ‘powerful state violence’[3] – the ‘neo-liberal plague’[4] as Chomsky has recently termed it – and, as such, we must do everything we can to sustain and deepen the proliferation of anarchist thinking and organising in this moment.
Continue reading Its going to be #Anarchy: Anarchist analyses of the #coronavirus / #COVID19 pandemic crisis
A word to the 35,000 now tramping the streets of this great city, with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about you at the evidence of wealth and pleasure of which you own no part, not sufficient even to purchase yourself a bit of food with which to appease the pangs of hunger
now knawing at your vitals. It is with you and the hundreds of thousands of others similarly situated in this great land of plenty, that I wish to have a word.
Text from the UK reflecting on anarchy, “democracy”, coronavirus, and responses to the pandemic…
Continue reading #Anarchy in the #UK – The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions: #COVID19, Corbyn and ‘Crisis’
A short text and a poster in times of the cornavirus.
Continue reading We are not going back to what is called “normality”!
The main characteristic of cyberpunk is that it escapes definition. This is not only due to the wide range of choices in the ideas of its supporters, it is also a direct effect of the possibilities offered by the new methods of information technology. Nothing in this field can be neatly separated from the rest. In many narrative texts the style of the story reflects the means that make it into a transmittable object, and this same story then has consequences on the elaboration of future technology.
Continue reading Alfredo M. Bonanno: Cyberpunk and Technology
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