First Published: unsigned article in Ratekorrespondenz, June 1934; Translated: by Adam Buick in Capital and Class, Spring 1977; HTML Markup: Andy Blunden.
The idea that capitalism was in a final, its mortal, crisis dominated the
first years after the Russian revolution. When the revolutionary workers’
movement in Western Europe abated, the Third International gave up this theory,
but it was maintained by the opposition movement, the KAPD, which adopted the
theory of the mortal crisis of capitalism as the distinguishing feature between
the revolutionary and reformist points of view. The question of the necessity
and the inevitability of the collapse of capitalism, and the way in which this
is to be understood, is the most impo... (From: Marxists.org.)
We have no idea, in Europe, of the diversity of philosophical theories which have already been formulated in China. The idea that Confucius encapsulates all of the thought of the yellow world has taken hold among us and, readily, judging the Chinese through the discourses of this Master, we believe them irremediably devoted to the “happy medium” and incapable of any extreme attitudes. This isn’t the case.
The Celestial Empire, shaking off the ancient torpor to which it had given in and forced by Western nations to leave behind its antique ideals of peace and tranquility, is seeking to shore up, on new foundations, its life and activities. A large number of Chinese, one cannot ignore, in their haste to transform them... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Introduction
My reading of Stirner as philosopher of the Unique and the direct itinerary of reconstructing a “theory of the individual”, in a manner that varies through the other writings of mine presented here, at least seems to me to demonstrate a coherence of purpose that legitimates giving them a new life together here.
In the current frozen panorama of anarchist readings, turning to the sources of The Ego and Its Own is always a radical shock. If nothing else, this explains the persistent fortune of a strange book that would not have obliged itself to relieve any worries in the watchful forecasts of power or taken any interest, or at least very little, in the few readers it was likely to have. No prediction wa... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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Mine is a strange and wonderful lot! The chances are that there is not a
single wretched beggar suffering under the luxury and oppression of the
rich who feels anything like as keenly as I do either the injustice, the
cruelty, and the horror of their oppression of and contempt for the poor;
or the grinding humiliation and misery which befall the great majority of
the workers, the real producers of all that makes life possible. I have
felt this for a long time, and as the years have passed by the feeling has
grown and grown, until recently it reached its climax. Although I feel all
this so vividly, I still live on amid the depravity and sins of rich
society; ... (From: Wikisource.org.)
Source: Le Socialisme, November 7, 1908; Translated: for Marxists.org by Mitch Abidor.
The question of the relationship between reform and revolution
has played a preponderant role in all debates these last few years. We saw this
at the congresses of Nuremberg and Toulouse.
People seek to oppose reform to revolution. Intransigent comrades, always
preoccupied with revolution, are accused of neglecting reform. Opposed to them
is the concept that says that reforms systematically and methodically realized
in current society lead to socialism without a violent rupture being
necessary.
Contempt for reform is more anarchist than socialist. It is just as little
justified as the reformist concept. In fact revolution cannot be opposed ... (From: Marxists.org.)
Whatever medical science may profess, there is a difference between Life and survival. There is more to being alive than just having a heartbeat and brain activity. Being alive, really alive, is something much subtler and more magnificent. Their instruments measure blood pressure and temperature, but overlook joy, passion, love, all the things that make life really matter. To make our lives matter again, to really get the most out of them, we will have to redefine life itself. We have to dispense with their merely clinical definitions, in favor of ones which have more to do with what we actually feel.
As it stands, how much living do we have in our lives? How many mornings do you wake up feeling truly free, thrilled to be alive, breathless... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
This world, the so-called “real world,” is just a front. Pull back the curtain and you’ll see the libraries are all filled with runaways writing novels, the highways are humming with escapees and sympathizers, all the receptionists and sensible mothers are straining at the leash for a chance to show how alive they still are… and all that talk of practicality and responsibility is just threats and bluffing to keep us from reaching out our hands to find that heaven lies in reach before us.
You can taste it in the shock and roar of a first, unexpected kiss, or in the blood in your mouth that instant after an accident when you realize you’re still alive. It blows in the wind you feel on the rooftops of a really r... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
“All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.” — J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
“Having realized that we can depend on no outside authority in bringing about a total revolution within the structure of our own psyche, there is the immensely greater difficulty of rejecting our own inward authority, the authority of our own particular little experiences and accumulated opinions, knowledge, ideas and ideals. You had an experienc... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Editor’s Note: As fans of Dr. Bones on twitter and facebook might know our resident Conjurer was recently blown out of his mind on what Gods & Radicals can only assume to be highly illegal substances. This draft was sent to us with almost an hour and a half of audio, several hand drawn images, and a series of photographs in what we assume to be Dr. Bones…well, we aren’t exactly sure what’s going on but have serious doubts the alligator skulls were ethically sourced. Gods & Radicals in no way endorses buying high-powered hallucinogens off the Dark Web and patently refuses Bones’ calls to “send him $400 to help get some things going down here. If the rednecks get a taste of this stuff they’ll... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
There Is No Communism in Russia
By Emma Goldman
Communism is now on everybody's lips. Some talk of it with the
exaggerated enthusiasm of a new convert, others fear and condemn it as
a social menace. But I venture to say that neither its
admirers—the great majority of them—nor those who denounce
it have a very clear idea of what Bolshevik Communism really is.
Speaking generally, Communism is the ideal of human equality and
brotherhood. It considers the exploitation of man by man as the source
of all slavery and oppression. It holds that economic inequality leads
to social injustice and is the enemy of moral and intellectual
progress. Communism aims at a society where classes have been
abolished as a result of co... (From: hartford-hwp.com.)
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