Up now on Listen Left is all three volumes of Voline’s The Unknown Revolution. The Unknown Revolution is a history of the Russian Revolution and the often violent and repressive relationship between the anarchists and the Bolsheviks.
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Up now on Listen Left is Max Stirner’s The Ego and His Own. It is considered a major influence on the development of anarchism, existentialism, nihilism, and postmodernism.
☽ recluse 🏴🌲Abusers have 100 different tools, including weapon using the cops. Please, y'all. Get this Black mom out of jail, out of her situation, just a little bit helps.
Riot Turtle (Auswander Era)"Will these surrender their “rights” peaceably? Never! And they who answer that they will are ignoramuses and idiots and have read history to no purpose." Lucy E. Parsons: Rumblings of the Coming Storm -> https://enoughisenough14.org/2021/02/06/lucy-e-parsons-rumblings-of-the-coming-storm/ #anarchism #lucyparsons
“There are no demands to be made, no utopic visions to be upheld, no political programs to be followed — the path of resistance is one of pure negation. In short, 'that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility.'”
Up today on Listen Left is Blessed is the Flame. "An introduction to concentration camp resistance and anarcho-nihilism.
The anarcho-nihilist position is essentially that we are fucked. That the current manifestation of human society (civilization, leviathan, industrial society, global capitalism, whatever) is beyond salvation, and so our response to it should be one of unmitigated hostility...”
The anarcho-nihilist position is essentially that we are fucked. That the current manifestation of human society (civilization, leviathan, industrial society, global capitalism, whatever) is beyond salvation, and so our response to it should be one of unmitigated hostility...”
Firestorm Books1/ When folks tell us they don't think they like history books, we recommend biographies! Good biography (especially autobiography) presents dates, events, and characters in a format that conveys ephemeral details often missing from more detached approaches. Best of all, personal histories can offer an impactful view of social, political, and artistic movements with the allure of a riveting novel. #BlackHistoryMonth
Tom NomadThe New York Times released an article today which outlines some of the connections and circumstances which formed the post-election strategy of the Trump campaign, and led to the January 6th coup attempt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html
This is a dense article, with a lot of information in it. I am not going to summarize it all here (please give the article a read), but will be talking about some of the takeaways and lessons we can extract from this information.
KermodeGRAPHIC WARNING - Rochester, N.Y., police officers suspended after allegedly using pepper spray on a child
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1851366979768
"allegedly"?
They must be using a definition of the word that I wasn't previously familiar with...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1851366979768
"allegedly"?
They must be using a definition of the word that I wasn't previously familiar with...
Andrea PhillipsWhat if we just extended the eviction moratorium forever?
What if inability to pay never cost anyone their home?
Why do we need a landlord class who extract rents without providing society their labor anyway?