Even anarchists get homesick.

I'm guessing this is the Scenes From Rojava photo blog Guy talked about starting in the article: https://www.facebook.com/scenesfromrojava/

How some Danish squatters in the 80's defended their home against hundreds of police for several days, and then escaped without being apprehended.

Fetzer recounts Tolstoy's few encounters with Mormonism. He discounts some of the claims Tolstoy is rumored to have made about the Mormon religion (like "If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation,it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known"), and it is easy to see why, but his skepticism that an anti-capitalist like Tolstoy would admire the post-war church seems odd to me... the Mormon cooperative movement had died out by the 1890s, but surely its memory was not completely forgotten?

See also Susan McCloud's article in the Deseret News (21 September 2014), "Leo Tolstoy's view of Mormons as teaching 'The American Religion'":
https://web.archive.org/web/www.deseretnews.com/article/865611356/

I should read this again, more carefully, before I write too much about it.

A look at the schism that developed between two factions of American anarchism -- the Boston Individualist and Chicago Communists -- in the 19th century (with reverberations to today and beyond).

I want to read this book.

Though it looks like some years after writing it, ts author followed his historical revisionism into holocaust denial:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Martin

Also, the third season of BoJack Horseman was released on Netflix today!

"What is PC but a verbal form of gentrification?"

An interpretation of South Park (season 19) as a commentary on the connection between neoliberalism and identity politics.

A brief overview of various theories of imperialism.

Here's an illustrative case from this weeks' news. According to the article there are around 1,200 homeless people living in Fairfax County. When one of them was caught constructing a shelter and educating himself he was charged with destruction of property and held without bond. That says almost everything that needs saying about capitalist property and justice.

"More power to him. He did something that most people don't do. He actually took a step to change his life and made his own little home where he could study."

An incomplete list of authoritarian (by some definition) regimes historically and currently supported (by some definition) by the United States.

Here's an interview with a French fighter with the YPG in Syria. He contradicts himself twice (Amnesty is wrong about villages being razed by YPG... they are only razed for strategic reasons; we don't need imperialist help to defeat IS... NATO air strikes are key to our offensive), but that helps it sound less like a pure propaganda piece.

I've read interviews with a few other fighters, and this guy is definitely the most political (and optimistic). He's fighting in a communist unit, but I wonder how many of the Kurdish fighters overall hold communism to be such an important aspect of the struggle for Rojava.

Denver Homeless Out Loud's attempt at a tiny home village was (temporarily?) ended on Saturday when the Denver Police Department, including a SWAT team, raided the park, arrested ten activists, and dismantled the structures. Here is Google's aggregation of news coverage of the raid.

Just a reminder that the liberal's confused notion of property is actually the dispossession of most people, and the market of capitalism (which prides itself on the price system as an elegant way to match supply to demand) cannot seem to provide the most necessary supplies to the most desperate needs.

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society." -- M&E, 1848

An entire article about how somebody edited the Wikipedia entry on "Labor Day" to add a link to a Jacobin article.

A Fistful Of Vinyl on KXLU​ recorded Pat The Bunny​ singing some songs and put them on youtube! The whole set is good. I think my favorite is the one after this one. But this one is pretty good too.

An interview with Dave Strano on anarchist gun clubs and reaching the American white working class.

"If rednecks turned their guns on politicians and not migrants, if Crips turned their guns on CEOs and not Bloods, if poor folks turned their guns that they currently point at each other against our common class enemy, we may not have to live in a world of capitalist, statist, and racist exploitation and oppression."

A summer reading list.

A nice documentary by a guy who walked from Oregon to New Hampshire to join the Free State Project.

Humorous image, but also the story of the martyrdom of Fr. Luis Espinal Camps.