reading recommendations by the r/antiwork subreddit
"Ultimately, we cannot blame the Democrats for everything. We are the ones who failed to build movements powerful enough to survive their efforts to suppress us. We are the ones who are as yet unprepared to stop Trump from deporting millions of people and channeling billions of dollars more to billionaires and the security apparatus of the state."
This is a good, concise history of the legal attempts to keep anarchists out of the USA and the beginnings of the Free Speech movement that formed to defend them.
Julia Rose Kraut also has a full length book that I'd like to read called "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States"
Listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sfnwFV92XY
"Over 40 people delayed the sweeping of a South Dallas homeless encampment on Friday morning, blocking off the camp with their bodies and cars. Some were armed with rifles."
"We are abolitionists fighting for the rights of unhoused people through mutual aid and direct action."
video essay comparing EZLN to anarchist thought of Magon.
An interview with the Russian anarchists who run antijob.net
Photographs of Loukanikos, "sausage", the legendary stray "riot dog" who was present at nearly every outbreak of mass class struggle and social disorder in Athens up until 2012, when he was adopted and retired outside the city. He died peacefully in his sleep in 2014, aged around 10.
Very fair overview of [American] individualist anarchism on a libertarian website.
A review by Kristian Williams.
"Perhaps, then, Camus’ analogy may be borne out by reality: Perhaps the means of fighting pestilence will prove to be the same as those for fighting fascism."
Bakunin was right.
"To vote is to abdicate. To name one or several masters for a short or long period means renouncing one’s own sovereignty. Whether he becomes absolute monarch, constitutional prince or a simple elected representative bearing a small portion of royalty, the candidate you raise to the throne or the chair will be your superior. You name men who are above laws, since they write them and their mission is to make you obey."
Another good one from Bob Black. "If you’re not revolting against work, you’re working against revolt."
Black originally wrote this in 1982. It could have been written today.
"the immiserating orderings of society have never been voted away, but that electoralism—for all the plaintive promises that we can both rabble-rouse and ballot-box—has regularly served as a mechanism of capture for potentially transformative social movements."
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."