Some history on the anarchist tradition of abstention candidates
"As to the anarchist position that universal suffrage did not legitimize authority, it is worth taking seriously. ... Even if we disagree that authority is never legitimate and Dewey’s self-aware public has been achieved, not all uses of authority — especially when it comes to state violence — can be justified by the vote. To do so would be to treat suffrage as a mythical unquestioned good rather than a reasonable choice."
The only consistent market anarchist position: dynamic price signals coupled with looting.
And really, the only way markets could ever even approximate their claims of efficient distribution in societies with poverty is if some people get things for free.
The 1A radio program on NPR gave anarchism a fair spot.
On the whole I thought several of the questions and answers were good, and it was nice that they got actual anarchist writers to go on. Though I think I disagree with William C.'s first answer. He implies that revulsion to anarchism is based on a misconception that mistakes the anarchist terrorists from a hundred years ago as the entirety of anarchism. But I don't think there is any level of peacefulness that would make anarchism palatable to those who can't see beyond their present society. If the Galleanists had never set off any bombs, Trump would still be seeking to demonize anarchism, because it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a someone who is rich to enter an anarchist society.
This American Life did an episode about Brandon Darby
Maybe too focused on Preston specifically, but I think this 2011 article is a good reminder for libertarians that not all decentralism is liberating.
Preston's (2-part) response is here: https://attackthesystem.com/2011/06/28/a-reply-to-matthew-lyons-part-two-the-subjectivity-of-authoritarianism-and-special-pleading-as-ideology/
This friendly criticism of "insurrectionary anarchism" from a 2010 issue of Rolling Thunder is good and I think can almost act as an introduction to anarchism in general. So far my favorite CrimethInc thing I've read.
Good article in the Austin Chronicle from 2009 on Brandon Darby
The Anarch101 subreddit's recommended reading list
David Graeber's essay in which he presents a triadic model of bullying.
"We should imagine instead a three-way relation of aggressor, victim, and witness, one in which both contending parties are appealing for recognition (validation, sympathy, etc.) from someone else. The Hegelian battle for supremacy, after all, is just an abstraction. A just-so story. Few of us have witnessed two grown men duel to the death in order to get the other to recognize him as truly human. The three-way scenario, in which one party pummels another while both appeal to those around them to recognize their humanity, we’ve all witnessed and participated in, taking one role or the other, a thousand times since grade school."
Vicky Osterweil is the author of an essay I liked in the New Inquiry called "In Defense of Looting," which she has expanded into a book that was recently published.
"[Looting] also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that's unjust."
Malatesta argues that democracy is a false freedom, but at least it provides more room for political movement than open tyranny.
"We are not democrats for, among other reasons, democracy sooner or later leads to war and dictatorship. Just as we are not supporters of dictatorships, among other things, because dictatorship arouses a desire for democracy, provokes a return to democracy, and thus tends to perpetuate a vicious circle in which human society oscillates between open and brutal tyranny and a the and lying freedom."
An excerpt from an upcoming book by Robert Graham on the history of anarchism.
"Prior to the rise of anarchism as an anti-authoritarian political philosophy in the 19th century, both individuals and groups expressed some principles of anarchism in their lives and writings."
"Jak Kerley tells us his personal story of meeting and befriending Erik Petersen, and instantly falling in love with Mischief Brew's music. Rest in peace, Erik!"
"Anna Montgomery Campbell (1991 – 15 March 2018), also known as Hêlîn Qereçox, was a British feminist, anarchist and prison abolition activist who fought with the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in Rojava during the Syrian civil war."
Read transcribed issues of Benjamin Tucker's Liberty online
Kim Kelly got a nice op ed about anarchism published in the Washington Post
Found this Wikipedia list of (notable) books about anarchism.
A christian critique of authoritarian revolution.
"For radicals, fetishizing the guillotine is just like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us."
