There is no way of building up a movement, strengthening it and keeping it intact, except by a press, at least weeklies, if dailies are impossible. The press is the medium through which we exchange ideas, keep abreast of the times, take the gauge of battle and see how far the class conflict has progressed. It is by the press we educate the public mind and link the people of most distant parts together in bonds of fraternity and comradeship. We can keep track of the work and accomplishments of our comrades in no other way, except by the medium of paper. The Liberator is the only English-language anarchist propaganda paper in America; for this reason, comrades and sympathizers in all parts of the country should feel in duty bound to support t... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Source:
The Decorator and Furnisher, Vol. 13, No. 5, Feb. 1889 Transcribed: by Graham Seaman, May 2019
CARPET WEAVING is somewhat of the nature of tapestry; it also is wholly
un-mechanical, but its use as a floorcloth somewhat degrades it, especially in
our northern or western countries, where people come out of the muddy streets
into rooms without taking off their shoes. Carpet-weaving undoubtedly arose
among peoples living a tent life, and for such a dwelling as a tent, carpets
are the best possible ornaments.
Carpets form a mosaic of small squares of worsted, or hair, or silk
threads, tied into a coarse canvas, which is made as the work progresses.
Owing to the comparative coarseness of the work, the designs should ... (From: Marxists.org.)
In a time when digital media is the dominant form of communication, we remain passionately committed to print media and other forms of communication that intervene in the offline world. It is catastrophic that massive technology companies control so many of the channels through which we communicate with one another. While we acknowledge the importance of utilizing these channels, we recognize that it puts us in an extremely vulnerable position to depend on state-regulated capitalist institutions for our access to each other.
Already this year, we’ve seen several of our posts removed from social media sites on the pretext that the material violated their content policies. Across the board, these content policies are hypocritical and i... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
The Importance of Support
Building Foundations, Creating Community, Sustaining Movements
How do we develop anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist movements that are capable of maintaining and expanding over the long haul? The infrastructures we create in the course of our political work are key to unlocking the answer. If our infrastructures are to succeed and deepen our movements, we need to abandon the pervasive separation between politics and “personal” life and ground our movement activity in everyday practices of mutual aid and support—both in times of happiness and in times of hardship. This article looks at the latter of these: reflecting on how we can develop models for providing each other with compassio... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Who needs roads?
Do roads harm everyone’s interests? Liberal critics of the road and motor industry add to the list of woes above the following points:
Roads are becoming increasingly less cost effective; the cost of ‘improving’ them is going up.
And as soon as new roads are built and old ones expanded, they fill up because increased road transport is encouraged. Congestion is therefore not improved and businesses pay the cost of traffic jams.
Finally the liberal critics argue that particular car/road capitals are cutting ‘everyone’s’ throat in the long run because ‘we’ can’t carry on indefinitely using resources in this way.
But, although... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Preface
In May 1968, Ngo Van was working in a Paris factory and soon afterwards he wrote one of the few accounts of what happened by a rank-and-file industrial worker that was published close to the time. His perspective was informed by his previous political experience. He had been a Trotskyist militant in Vietnam in the 1930s and 1940s, imprisoned and tortured both by the French imperialists and Hồ chí Minh’s Stalinists. Exiled in Paris in the late 1940s, he soon broke with the French Trotskyists over their dogmatic commitment to formulas such as the ‘deformed workers’ state.’ In 1968, his political discussions were focused on a group of workers meeting with the Marxist intellectual Maximilien R... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Source: “Impressions of the Paris Congress” Commonweal, Vol 5, No. 185, 27 July 1889, p.234; Transcribed: by Ted Crawford. We delegates of the League met as agreed at London Bridge Station, and found an enormous crowd of people going our way. We got stowed into the carriages somehow, and whiled away the time in singing songs and selling a few numbers of Commonweal to divers good folk who had only a glimmering about the events that the French were going to celebrate on the morrow. Getting to the boats at Newhaven, we found that the clerk of the weather had provided us with a sell in the form of spring tides, so that the boats which were timed to start at 11 pm did not stir from the harbor till close on 3 am. And even then there w... (From: Marxists.org.)
Source: “Impressions of the Paris Congress: II” Commonweal, Vol 5, No. 186, 3 August 1889, p.242; Transcribed: by Ted Crawford. On the Wednesday, after the introduction of a delegate from the far-off country of Finland, who was received with much enthusiasm, Bebel began the reading of the reports with a history of the German movement in more recent days. This took two hours in the delivery, I should think, and of course could not be translated; a short resume was all that could be given in French and English, but even from that it was plain that the original was able and exhaustive. I should mention that most, if not all, of the reports have been handed in in writing and will be printed; so that we shall have the benefit of noti... (From: Marxists.org.)
The Impulse to Power introduction to the book
"Power" by Bertrand Russell
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Between man and other animals there are
various differences, some intellectual, some emotional. One of the chief emotional
differences is that some human desires, unlike those of- animals, are essentially
boundless and incapable of complete satisfaction. The boa constrictor, when he has had his
meal, sleeps until appetite revives; if other animals do not do likewise, it is because
their meals are less adequate or because they fear enemies. The activities of animals,
with few exceptions, are inspired by the primary needs of survival and reproduction, and
do not exceed what these needs make imperative.With men, the... (From: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2528/br_pow....)
Dear Politically Challenged,
Getting three issues at once, as I just did, impresses on me the enormity of your output — that anthology you’ve considered will have to be huge to be at all representative. I am not going to try to make up for lost time, just lash out a little here and there. Imagine my delight at a Russian anarchist invoking my name as the epitome of intra-anarchist critique! “I seem to be a verb,” as the futurist idiot Buckminster Fuller once senascently mused.
Max Anger is up to the same old scam the situationists and many others (myself included) have too often pulled, it needs a name: imputationism. Imputationism is wishful thinking dressed up as critical theory, an esoteric variant o... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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