Audible Anarchism

"We won this fight because everyone made themselves the hero of their own story. Everyone took it as their job to save this crucial freedom. They threw themselves into it. They did whatever they could think of to do. They didn’t stop to ask anyone for permission.

Full text Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist, known for being a prolific writer and speaker, and opposing capitalism, the state, marriage, and the domination of religion over sexuality and women's lives. These latter beliefs have led many to cite her as a major early feminist.

Imagine a world without police. Almost every social problem--from noisy neighbors to broken taillights--has become a point of police intervention. The result is an epidemic of harassment and violence. What if we found other ways to solve issues? What if we abolished the institution entirely? Published by the activist group For a World Without Police

Argues that green anarchism is the most coherent form of anarchist thought because it challenges hierarchy and exploitation in ways generally unacknowledged by social anarchism: animal liberation and social ecology. Text https://freedomnews.org.uk/green-anarchism-towards-the-abolition-of-hierarchy/

Full Essay https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf While Eco is firm in claiming “There was only one Nazism," he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features.

Full text Chances are you have already heard something about anarchists and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Anarchists believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without being forced to. It is really a simple notion. But it’s one that the powerful have always found dangerous.

Text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas On the 22nd of January 2018, Ursula K Le Guin passed away. This is a tribute made by people whose hearts have been touched by her writings. On youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL99_eb0XhJI2Fyw

Text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-the-capitalist-system In this essay, Bakunin explains how capitalism is by its very nature exploitative. By concentrating political power and economic capital in the hands of capitalists, capitalism guarantees that the workers of the world will always live in misery. The power relationship between bosses and laborers is the backbone of capitalism, and there can never be equality or freedom as long as capitalism exists.

"Are We Good Enough" by Pyotr Kropotkin is an essay written and published in june of 1888. A pdf can be found at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-are-we-good-enough

Full text https://www.iww.org/history/library/Flynn/Sabotage Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) was a union organizer, feminist, founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and leading figure in the Industrial Workers of the World. She later joined the Communist Party of the United States and became its chairwoman in 1961.

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