Anarchism

[Cryotank Screams]

I have been reading Kropotkin quite extensively, and am getting very interested in Anarchism (as ironic as that may sound), so my question to the forum is, where are some good sites, and good books, that would contain good information on Anarchism, (mainly what I am looking for is theory).

Thanks to all that contribute.

[lvleph]

Anarchist Library (http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/index.html)

[YSR]

Good thread:

http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=6421

Also good:

http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=58033

[which doctor]

http://flag.blackened.net/index.shtml
http://infoshop.org/library/index.php/Main_Page

[Delirium]

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/index.html

http://www.audioanarchy.org/index.php

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/links.cfm#anarchism

http://www.nestormakhno.info/index.htm

http://www.spunk.org/

http://www.autonome.org/en/

http://question-everything.mahost.org/

:) hope these help

[Cryotank Screams]

Thanks to you all, I like what I'm reading, keep it coming! :D

[AlwaysAnarchy]

Hooray! Another anarchist to welcome to the mix! Welcome friend!!! :)

[Cryotank Screams]

Originally posted by [email protected] 01, 2006 09:58 pm
Hooray! Another anarchist to welcome to the mix! Welcome friend!!! :)
I hope I will be welcomed as a serious Anarchist by others as well regardless of my political past; thanks, :) .

[YSR]

Don't worry about your "political past," mate. Fairly confident we all made mistakes. I fancied myself a Leninist for about a week.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Young Stupid [email protected] 01, 2006 09:46 pm
Don't worry about your "political past," mate. Fairly confident we all made mistakes. I fancied myself a Leninist for about a week.
I was once a castroist.

[Organic Revolution]

read no gods no masters... amazing book. its by daniel guerin.

[Delta]

Originally posted by Scarlet [email protected] 01, 2006 07:34 pm
I hope I will be welcomed as a serious Anarchist by others as well regardless of my political past; thanks, :) .
Before I had what I call my "political/social awakening", I voted for Bush. Beat that.

And welcome comrade :D

[RevMARKSman]

http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/

Anarchism FAQ


http://freewebs.com/humanitybeyondcontrol/

FuckAuthority.org

[lvleph]

Originally posted by Delta+November 02, 2006 06:46 am--> (Delta @ November 02, 2006 06:46 am)
Scarlet [email protected] 01, 2006 07:34 pm
I hope I will be welcomed as a serious Anarchist by others as well regardless of my political past; thanks, :) .
Before I had what I call my "political/social awakening", I voted for Bush. Beat that.

And welcome comrade :D [/b]
Man, I am speachless. I voted Nader the first time around and Kerry this last time, although I wanted Kucinich. The first time I could vote I was in boot camp and didn't get an absentee ballot.

I know some of you are saying, "hey aren't you an anarchist, why are you voting?" Well, yes that is true, and I understand that by voting I lend legitimacy to the current establishment, but hey while it is still here I can at least try to shape it.

[Hiero]

Originally posted by Young Stupid [email protected] 02, 2006 01:46 pm
Don't worry about your "political past," mate. Fairly confident we all made mistakes. I fancied myself a Leninist for about a week.
How could anyone be a Leninist for a week? Political ideology is not an identity, well at least not any real political ideology.

[An archist]

heh, I considered myself a state communist for a while, that was before I read up on it and realised the end stage was good, but the state just messed things up.

[u.u]

Don't put any label on yourself. Thats anarchist.

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by Hiero+November 02, 2006 10:54 pm--> (Hiero @ November 02, 2006 10:54 pm)
Young Stupid [email protected] 02, 2006 01:46 pm
Don't worry about your "political past," mate. Fairly confident we all made mistakes. I fancied myself a Leninist for about a week.
How could anyone be a Leninist for a week? Political ideology is not an identity, well at least not any real political ideology. [/b]
Semantics, you have 'Marxist-Leninist' as your custom title, because you identify as a Marxist-Leninist, you identify with the ideology of M-L, you are a Marxist-Leninist. You're not born into Marxist-Leninism, you acquire this knowledge and choose to either accept it as valid, or reject it. When you choose to accept this ideology as valid you ipso facto are identifying with it politically, it is becoming your identity or at least your political identity - it is what defines your politics, the lense through which you view and interpret the world.

[freakazoid]

This site has a list of books:
http://www.kingdomnow.org/books.html

Here are some great books online by Leo Tolstoy:

A confession - http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/...confession.html (http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tolstoy/confession.html)

The Kingdom of God is Within You - http://www.kingdomnow.org/withinyou.html

[The Feral Underclass]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2006 03:13 pm
Don't put any label on yourself. Thats anarchist.
Oh shut up!

[Hiero]

Originally posted by Black Dagger+November 03, 2006 01:41 am--> (Black Dagger @ November 03, 2006 01:41 am)
Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2006 10:54 pm

Young Stupid [email protected] 02, 2006 01:46 pm
Don't worry about your "political past," mate. Fairly confident we all made mistakes. I fancied myself a Leninist for about a week.
How could anyone be a Leninist for a week? Political ideology is not an identity, well at least not any real political ideology.
Semantics, you have 'Marxist-Leninist' as your custom title, because you identify as a Marxist-Leninist, you identify with the ideology of M-L, you are a Marxist-Leninist. You're not born into Marxist-Leninism, you acquire this knowledge and choose to either accept it as valid, or reject it. When you choose to accept this ideology as valid you ipso facto are identifying with it politically, it is becoming your identity or at least your political identity - it is what defines your politics, the lense through which you view and interpret the world. [/b]
How could anyone identify with Marxism-Leninism for one week? It is impossible.

Edit: I left out a "for one week".

[Black Dagger]

For fuck's sake, don't be so obtuse, discuss what i've said in response to that very question, don't just repeat your contention.

[Hiero]

I fixed my post.

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by Hiero
Edit: I left out a "for one week".

He didn't say 'one week', he said 'I fancied myself a Leninist for about a week'.

I.E. he thought of himself as a Leninist for a SHORT period of time, which may or may not literally be a week, i'd wage he was being rhetorical, and not literal when he said 'about a week', as in, for not very long.

Regardless, why do you insist on contending this?

What point are you trying to make? (I suspect you did not expect someone to take issue with your statement and actually respond, your statement wass meant as a snide attack, yes?)

How could someone identify with M-L for 'about a week'? Simple.

Non-Leninist marxist/socialist/anarchist types engages with works of Lenin seriously for the first time, finds said texts appealing, they make sense, and agrees largely with the ideas/analysis contained therein. Then person reads more of Lenin and finds points of disagreement, or perhaps reads up on the history of leninist practice in the 20th century and finds the practice of M-L does not correspond with their ideas, or reads non-Leninist marxist/anarchist or texts criticial of Lenin/Leninism and agrees with these ideas/analysis more than the M-L texts. etc.

Now i'm bored, happy?

[YSR]

Hiero, you really care about me! That's so cute.

And clearly, I wasn't being literal in my "a week" phrase. It was a short period of my life before I discovered :o anarchist theory! and substantial critiques of Lenin and Marx, then finally got it.

Satisfied? Sheesh, how did this thread turn into the "me show"?

[Pink TnT]

Meh, I was once a liberal.

There are all kinds of great authors to read on anarchism, or relating to workers' struggles: Zinn, Chomsky (must read, even if you think he's a reformist, his critique of Leninism and capitalism are both compelling), Bakunin, and Proudhon.

[renegade_Storey]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2006 12:50 pm
I know some of you are saying, "hey aren't you an anarchist, why are you voting?"
best way to destroy an establishment is from within.
watch SLC punk.

[renegade_Storey]

i was once a republican.
kind of hard not to be when your an innocent child being raised by republicans. so don't be worried about your political past's.
i can only thank my brother-in-law for freeing me from the wool over my eye's.

[sav]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11, 2006 11:51 pm
best way to destroy an establishment is from within.
watch SLC punk.
Voting does nothing but legitimise the establishment and let them do whatever they feel like because hey, they have your 'mandate'.

[renegade_Storey]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11, 2006 11:56 pm
Voting does nothing but legitimise the establishment and let them do whatever they feel like because hey, they have your 'mandate'.
yeah good point but you get what i mean, yeah? if we get enough people to choose something different (like say not vote) maybe we can change it. all it takes is a little balls, and an eye for the truth. that's destroying it from the inside