Choice is a wondrous and dangerous concept. If the wrong choices are made consistently, one may find themselves in great peril. But, contained within choice is also the potential for the greatest success and satisfaction. Those who advocate a completely free and flourishing society like to underscore this latter, positive potential when discussing the importance […]

To Oppose Monopoly is to Oppose Government

Anarchist News It’s not a novel idea, for today large projects aimed to rebuild the world are in decline. In the twentieth century, the powerful movements mobilized millions of people to storm political Olympus and start “great construction projects”. But during the last century, they have gone bankrupt both ethically and practically, one after the […]

The Anarchist Mission in the Modern World

I am not, and will never be, “woke”. I don’t even really need to go into what the term means, as that’s not even really germane to the conversation. The word itself should be sufficient to not want to go anywhere near it. Without even knowing what it pertains to, it’s an arrogant word. It […]

The Unbearable Arrogance of Wokeness

Posted on May 5, 2021 by winter oak Number 65 In this issue: Humanity fights back! *** Ten things we have learned during the Covid coup *** Naomi Klein and the climate of hypocrisy *** The nature of philosophy *** William Morris: an orgrad inspiration *** ACORNINFO ********************** 1. Humanity fights back! We are not […]

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By Keith Smith “You are not an anarchist!” Probably one of the most espoused statements from within the anarchist circles. The definition of anarchism seems to be the very foundation that many within anarchists constantly argue about. Stray or disagree with on opinion? Not an anarchist. Have a faith, religion or spirituality you adhere to? […]

“You are NOT an Anarchist and I AM!”

Anarchist News From The Transmetropolitan Review Who the hell is Jack London? That’s a complicated question. If you superficially glance through the Google Search results for Jack London, it’s easy enough to find out that he was a socialist. If you dig a little bit deeper, you’ll see he also wrote horribly racist things about […]

Who The Hell Is Jack London?

Anarchist News In the non-utopic utopia of bolo’bolo, no ibu (person more or less) can be expelled from a bolo (an autonomous, autarkic collection of 300-500 ibu). Within that imagined world of interdependence, where the 300-500 people in your immediate vicinity rely on you and you them for daily survival, there is of course disagreement, […]

Conflicto-Bolo

from Center for a Stateless Society by Eric Fleischmann Thomas Malthus, in his infamous work An Essay on the Principle of Population, takes several sections to critique the ideas of arguably the first modern anarchist thinker William Godwin. In one, Malthus writes, The great error under which [Mr.] Godwin labours throughout his whole work [Enquiry […]

The End Is the Beginning: Anarchist Abolitionism as Communicative Creation