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Required Reading For Anarchism

Here is a list of mandatory texts for all anarchists.

revolutionary letter #27 - diane di prima

text:

How much can we afford to lose, before we win, can we cut hair, or give up drugs, take jobs, join Minute Men, marry, wear their clothes, play bingo, what can we stomach, how soon does it leave its mark, can we living straight in a straight part of town still see our people, can we live if we don't see our people? 'It is better to lose & win, than win & be defeated' sd Gertrude Stein, which wd you choose?

amingledyarn

“The Only Witness to a Vanished World”, crochet sculpture by Caitlin McCormack.

"From humble, crocheted thread emerges Caitlin McCormack’s alternate reality featuring tiny carcasses, encased objects, and mysterious figures."

copperbadge

Absolutely lost in the sauce of the "Specimens" section of her website.

#textile

triplemj

This literally feels like a Black Mirror episode

the1920sinpictures

1920 c. Cubist teapot, silver plated with a black bakelite handle and ornament on top-lifter. Height is 5 inches. From Art Deco 1920, FB.

milksockets

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society - Antonin Artaud

explodingarrow

acerby

You think robots can’t get pregnant? Well explain vending machines, you dumb ass.

ollieopossums-revenge

onenicebugperday

Winged Arkys spider, Arkys alatus, Arkyidae (Triangular spiders and allies)

Found in eastern Australia

Photos 1-3 by doggy48, 4 by tjeales, 5-6 by benjc, 7-8 by michaeldoe, and 9 (for scale) by nicklambert

tearsofrefugees

Witnesses say guards choked Geraldo Lunas Campos to death. Now a government report says evidence is missing.

#fuck ice

workingclasshistory

On this day, 27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois. One of the first multiracial unions in the US, the IWW advocated that all workers unite into one big union, taking control of society and abolishing capitalism. Its founding conference lasted from June 27 to July 8, and was attended by over 200 workers, including legendary labour organisers like Mother Jones, 'Big' Bill Haywood and leading Black anarchist, Lucy Parsons. It organised large swathes of previously unorganised workers in the US, and pioneered many innovative new types of industrial action like slowdowns and sabotage. Parsons, at its founding convention, delivered a speech arguing for sit-in strikes, which would sweep the US 30 years later, declaring: "My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out and starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production." The IWW won big improvements for hundreds of thousands of workers, and for its troubles faced brutal repression from employers, with many organisers beaten, jailed and murdered. It also spread to other countries, including Chile, Australia and South Africa. The union still exists today, although much smaller than it was, and its members are active in many organising projects. Learn more in our podcast series about the union: https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww

max1461

If you're arguing with a Marxist-Leninist, I think it's a bit silly to claim that the USSR was imperialist—there is a particular understanding of that term within Leninism, and while there's no reason to give Lenin's definition precedence over any other, it remains the case that on a practical level if you accuse the Soviet Union of imperialism you will quickly find yourself enmeshed in pointless semantics. This is a waste of everyone's time, and the solution is to re-phrase your fact claims in less fraught language.

So let me say it this way: the Soviet Union maintained the territory conquered by the Russian Empire in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and elsewhere. The Soviet Union continued the forced settlement of nomadic groups, the Russification of minority peoples, and the environmental exploitation of land in conquered areas. They drained the Aral Sea to grow fucking cotton in Uzbekistan. And the USSR engaged in settler colonialism, continuing the displacement of indigenous populations in Siberia and Central Asia that started under the Russian Empire, and continuing the build up of largely ethnically-Russian industrial and population centers in the greater Russian east.

But, of course, none of this was lead by finance capital, you see. Can't be an empire if the empirializing isn't lead by finance capital. Obviously. Rookie mistake.