my anarchist manual:help needed

[danny bohy]

im Writing an anarchist manual (like the cookbook but with more stuff). my mate thinks it needs more survival stuff, and a bit of basic physcology(how to motivate people ect). any other tips would help to. the whole books to big but heres the table of contents.
Contents:
PART 1- Basic skills
First aid
Fitness
Navigation (stars and sun)
How to start a fire with no lighter
How to tie knots
How to pick locks
PART 2- Guerrilla Warfare and fighting
Combat
Unarmed Combat
Explosives
Guerrilla warfare
Foreword
Ideals.
If you want a full copy add me on msn
[email protected]
and ill email you a copy.
cheers commrades

[Plagueround]

Be extremely careful with this kind of information on the internet. The ways they have of tracking you down if they want to is quite alarming. And of course, make sure no one is posting information about weapons and explosives here.

[griffjam]

http://zinelibrary.info/

[revolution inaction]

im Writing an anarchist manual (like the cookbook but with more stuff). my mate thinks it needs more survival stuff, and a bit of basic physcology(how to motivate people ect). any other tips would help to. the whole books to big but heres the table of contents.
Contents:
PART 1- Basic skills
First aid
Fitness
Navigation (stars and sun)
How to start a fire with no lighter
How to tie knots
How to pick locks
PART 2- Guerrilla Warfare and fighting
Combat
Unarmed Combat
Explosives
Guerrilla warfare
Foreword
Ideals.
If you want a full copy add me on msn
[email protected]
and ill email you a copy.
cheers commrades



Please don't call it a anarchist manual, most of that stuff has little or no connection to anarchism, and we don't need to encourage the popular perception of anarchism.
I wouldn't say that a book that dealt with this subject matter is a bad thing but its not exclusive to anarchism and putting the word anarchism in the title makes us look like a bunch of violent nutters.

[Sean]

Ugh. Sorry, but I really find this pretty fucking stupid. Trash please.

[Sam_b]

im Writing an anarchist manual (like the cookbook but with more stuff).

1. The anarchist cookbook isn't anarchist in any sense of the word.
2. Explosives? Weapons? Please. Not only should you not be talking about this on a forum such as this one, but it also completely negates the important principle of buidling up the class forces before this shit could happen anyway.
3. Trash this nonsense.

[cop an Attitude]

better Anarchist Manual:

Contents:
Part 1- Basic Ideology
Why Anarchism
True Freedom
On Authority
Economic Independence and the act of Sharing
You and Your Community
Networking
Equality and Free Thinking
Body and Mind
Different Ideals within Anarchism

Part 2: The Workings of the World
Brief History of Anarchism
US/ Capitalist Atrocities
Why Wars are fought
Who Has all the Chips?
The Consumer
Modern Media's Control
IMF, World Bank
Killing the Problems at the Source
Difference and Similarities between Communism, Socailsim and Anarchism
Having No Class (no pun intended)
Envisioning a New World

Part 3: Tools
Basic Tips to Live By
Free Stuff
Zeins
Bikes and Others Ways to get from Here to There
Housing
Graffiti and Wheat pasting
Activism
To Organize or not to Organize?
Travel
Random DIY
Literature
Music
Spreading the Word

Part 4: the Life
Anarchist Stigma
Anarchy and not anarchy
Oppression Towards Others and You
The First Step
Living it everyday.
Your Choice, Red pill or Blue pill?

:D

[DIzzIE]

1. The anarchist cookbook isn't anarchist in any sense of the word.

Why not? Could not the various incarnations of the Anarchist Cookbook be seen as modern-day illegalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegalism) manuals?

[danny bohy]

ill change it to guerilla handbook then.

[Sam_b]

Why not?

Because there were fuck-all politics in them, and just a high school kid telling people how to make pipe bombs and how to get high.

[DIzzIE]

Because there were fuck-all politics in them,

Here's the introduction from Powell's Anarchist Cookbook (specifically, from the 1989 Barricade Press edition):


The human race, throughout its long history, has always tried to uncover the meaning or essence of certain ideas or concepts according to their particular frames of reference. This is also true of the twentieth century, but man is traveling so fast and his frame of reference is becoming so large that it is almost impossible to keep up with it. Throughout history, persons have attempted to redefine and put dated definitions to currently prevalent questions: This also has become increasingly difficult in this age of massive technological discoveries coupled with a perpetual information and propaganda bombardment by the media. So I feel that an attempt on my part to redefine anarchy in terms of the twentieth century would be a pointless task. Such a pastime is best left to the politicians and the academicians.

This is not the age of slender men in black capes lurking in alleyways with round bombs, just as it is not the age of political discussions in a Munich beer hall. This is a truly unique age, where the individual has become the supreme agent of anarchist theory, without his even being aware of it. Anarchy can no longer be defined as freedom from oppression or lack of governmental control. It has gone further than that. It has become, especially in the young people today, a state of mind, an essence of being. It can be expressed as "doing their own thing," or maybe just simply having the choice to do or not to do.

Anarchy or anarchistic theory is the only ideology that is in the least bit optimistic. It places the full weight of responsibility where it should be--on the shoulders of all the people, not just the select few. Its basic premise relies on an unshakable faith in human nature, and the primary goodness of the human race.

Today, young people are not blind idealists. They are perhaps the most rational and practical generation this country has ever seen. There is no great movement comparable to the Russian or French revolutions. There are just a great many individuals working as entities unto themselves, to create a new world order. Today has brought forth a great revival of anarchy in all fields: politics, arts, music, education, and even to a small degree in business. Although this surge of individualism is present, you won't find too many people willing to call it anarchy. But that's just terminology.

An anarchist is not necessarily a revolutionary, although it is more common than not that a person who has attempted to rid himself of exterior controls, for the purpose of developing his own philosophy, will find himself oppressed. This oppression may lead the individual to formulate ideas of insurrection and revolution.

This book is for anarchists--those who feel able to discipline themselves--on all the subjects (from drugs, to weapons, to explosives) that are currently illegal and suppressed in this country. It is my firm belief that the only laws an individual can truly respect and obey are those he instills in himself. This is not a revolutionary book in any traditional sense, but its premise is the sanctity of human dignity. If this human individual dignity and pride cannot be attained in the existing social order, there is only one choice for a real man, and that is revolution.

There will never be a traditional revolution in this country, in the sense of the Russian or French revolutions. The revolution in this country has already started. It is a multi-faceted battle on many different fronts. It is a battle politically between the young freedom fighters in Chicago and the stagnant system, represented by arthritic old men making laws they do not understand, and making wars they have no feeling for. It is a battle between the poor blacks and the rich employers. It is a battle between the artists and the censors. It is a battle between the Black Panthers and the police. It is a battle between the welfare mother and the bureaucracy of the city, and surprisingly enough it encompasses the yearly battle between the taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service. All these battles are but part of a larger war, being fought to liberate the minds and bodies of the people who feel freedom is the most important concept in their lives.

If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.

Read this book, but keep in mind that the topics written about here are illegal and constitutes a threat. Also, more importantly, almost all the recipes are dangerous, especially to the individual who plays around with them without knowing what he is doing. Use care, caution, and common sense. This book is not for children or morons.



just a high school kid telling people how to make pipe bombs and how to get high.

Except that the instructions on munitions and drugs are frequently accompanied with rejoinders along the lines of...



"Pot is central to the revolution. It weakens social conditioning and helps create a whole new state of mind. The slogans of the revolution are going to be pot, freedom, license. The bolsheviks of the revolution will be longhaired pot smokers." A quote from Jerry Rubin, who was sentenced early in 1970 to over five years for effectively speaking his mind.

Certain drugs affect the mind and allow the individual, for the first time, to see the world freely, without enforced values and rituals. For the first time the person can see clearly the real inequities and the farcical absurdities. The antiquated drug laws and the archaic lawmakers have given us an underground. Now it is our job to make good use of it.

or


As I have stressed before, men, not weapons or equipment, make up a revolution. A revolution is made up of ideas that cannot be implemented without struggle. But struggle is no goal unto itself, nihilism is a childish answer to adult problems. When thinking about weapons, one must bear several things in mind: the availability of these weapons and ammunition, the effectiveness of the weapons, and the portability of the weapons.

Indeed the whole book is itself rife with a distinct 'political' tone which permeates the actual 'how-to' instructions. (This all of course isn't to say that the tome isn't without its flaws, both in the inaccuracy of various instructions and in occasional ideological muddling, as for instance Powell seems to regress into some sort of nationalist nostalgia at a few points...but that is beside the point, which is that the tome is far from having 'fuck all' to do with anarchy).

But really, perhaps you should actually procure a copy and peruse it at length prior to opining on it, as it seems to me like you have yet to do so.

---

Oh, and you also appear to have forgotten to answer my second question, I'll highlight it this time, lest it chances to escape your attention a second time:



1. The anarchist cookbook isn't anarchist in any sense of the word.
Why not? Could not the various incarnations of the Anarchist Cookbook be seen as modern-day illegalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegalism) manuals?

Indeed, I would go so far as to say that if the ACB is read as an illegalist text, then it does not necessitate any overtly "political" content; the description of illegalist praxis in-itself is sufficient for the text to be "anarchist" in a sense of the word. But that's all again beside the point with this particular text.

[Dóchas]

better Anarchist Manual:

Contents:
Part 1- Basic Ideology
Why Anarchism
True Freedom
On Authority
Economic Independence and the act of Sharing
You and Your Community
Networking
Equality and Free Thinking
Body and Mind
Different Ideals within Anarchism

Part 2: The Workings of the World
Brief History of Anarchism
US/ Capitalist Atrocities
Why Wars are fought
Who Has all the Chips?
The Consumer
Modern Media's Control
IMF, World Bank
Killing the Problems at the Source
Difference and Similarities between Communism, Socailsim and Anarchism
Having No Class (no pun intended)
Envisioning a New World

Part 3: Tools
Basic Tips to Live By
Free Stuff
Zeins
Bikes and Others Ways to get from Here to There
Housing
Graffiti and Wheat pasting
Activism
To Organize or not to Organize?
Travel
Random DIY
Literature
Music
Spreading the Word

Part 4: the Life
Anarchist Stigma
Anarchy and not anarchy
Oppression Towards Others and You
The First Step
Living it everyday.
Your Choice, Red pill or Blue pill?

:D

thinking of writing it? because it looks pretty sweet ;)

[Sam_b]

DiZZie, I was referring to the Anarchist cookbook of internet fame, and not the published edition.

On the point of the actual hardback, it just reads like outdated and counter-revolutionary propoganda of the deed.

[Dóchas]

ye the actual anarchist cookbook is complete bullshit, i flicked through it and it seemed like it was pretty much full of how to make explosives that apparently dont work and other random shit that you are nevr going to need. its another example of anarchism/anarchist being taken out of context

[MilitantAnarchist]

I got a great book last week, Che Guerava's - Guerrilla Warfare, you should check that out mate... Should help you out alot

[Forward Union]

NONONONONO

It should be

1) Trade Unions
2) Shop Stewarding
3) Union Law
4) Public Relations
5) Community Organising
6) Residents Assocations
7) Political Organisations
8) Why Democracy is a better option than Consensus

The end

[ls]

This thread ought to be trashed.

[Plagueround]

This thread ought to be trashed.

I agree the original post isn't great, but there has been some fairly decent discussion to come out of it. If it gets out of hand I'll kill it.

[Bilan]

NONONONONO

It should be

1) Trade Unions
2) Shop Stewarding
3) Union Law
4) Public Relations
5) Community Organising
6) Residents Assocations
7) Political Organisations
8) Why Democracy is a better option than Consensus

The end

With an interesting negation of a section dedicated to 'revolution'. ;)

[MilitantAnarchist]

I think the idea is good, but 'Anarchist Manual' isn't the best road to go down... some sort of propaganda, sabotage and a small bit of survival, is something i'd really be interested in, you'd just apply your own politics to it i guess....
Im writing a sort of book at the minute called Modern Anarchy For The Disheartened Consumer (but the title will probibly change), which im concentrating on the downfalls of capitalism, consumerism and the cons of being 'working class'. Hoping to get AK Press to roll it out, if possible...

[Communist Theory]

Idiotic thread.
All you want to do is make a cookbook and call it a manual.

[StalinFanboy]

I think it should be

1. Fucking shit up
2. Insurrection



Pretty short.

[ls]

Insurrection is basically summed up by a culmination of the above in what levellers' standard said to be honest, fucking shit up is giving the plod an excuse to knock on your door and take you away.

[Blackscare]

You keep mentioning that it could be considered illegalist, as if that would make it less stupid. :(

[StalinFanboy]

Insurrection is basically summed up by a culmination of the above in what levellers' standard said to be honest, fucking shit up is giving the plod an excuse to knock on your door and take you away.
I wasn't serious. K bye.

[Forward Union]

With an interesting negation of a section dedicated to 'revolution'. ;)

a whatnow?

[Black Sheep]

Bravo OP, be sure to sign it and attach the author's picture on the back.

You will become the media's favorite 'revolutionary' then.Fame and fortune awaits you, your epic and true work will reside shamelessly next to the masterpiece of Bakunin Kropotkin and Berkman.

Trash.