Tag Archives: Anarchism

terrorism: worshiping dynamite

…While counting on the strategy of the Big Bang to disorganize bourgeois society, anarchist publications of the period also offered their readers practical hints for furthering the cause at the village or household level. “Burn down or blow up churches,” … Continue reading

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terrorism: getting to the verbal convention

…A comparison of two famous acts of terrorism underscores the difference, and at the same time illuminates its nature. The first case is that of Vera Zasulich, an idealistic young Russian socialist who, in January, 1878, shot and seriously wounded … Continue reading

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VENTRILOQUIST ITCHING FOR REVOLUTION: STEPPE BY STEPPE

Been away so long I hardly knew the place Gee, it’s good to be back home Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case Honey disconnect the phone I’m back in the USSR You don’t know how lucky you are, … Continue reading

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BOMB SQUAD: IDEOLOGICAL DETONATION ON A CONVERGING PATH

”As anarchist and convicted terrorist Emile Henry put it (quite ironically, in light of the argument of this paper) on the way to the guillotine, Beware of believing anarchy to be a dogma, a doctrine above question or debate, to be venerated by … Continue reading

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PINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''

At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of existing, and backlogged promises to spend, these … Continue reading

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THEATRE OF THE BLACK FARCE: FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME

”Are we who live in the present doomed never to experience autonomy, never to stand for one moment on a bit of land ruled only by freedom? Are we reduced either to nostalgia for the past or nostalgia for the … Continue reading

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PROPAGANDA OF THE DEEDS AND DON'TS

”According to an apocryphal story, Henry Kissinger/André Malraux/an unidentified journalist once asked Chinese premier Zhou Enlai about the significance of the French Revolution. Zhou reportedly replied that it was still too early to tell. Taking this story in its intended spirit, one might … Continue reading

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ANARCHIST PAVING COMPANY

When I die let the black rag fly raven falling from the sky. Let the black flag lie on bones and skin that long last night as I enter in. For out of black soul’s night have stirred dawn’s cold … Continue reading

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REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT: ON THE CUSP OF UTOPIA

Anarchism has always been grounded in the spirit of alienation, to the point where alienation has become the aesthetic and distinguishing characteristic of the culture. The minority position in the battle of the utopias.  Anarchism has produced a number of … Continue reading

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ANARCH-ISTAN: DRAMA, DYNAMICS & DYNAMITE

I spent my whole life making somebody rich I busted my ass for that son of a bitch He left me to die like a dog in a ditch And told me I’m all used up He used up my … Continue reading

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