Submitted by desolatesolarity in Anarchism
Hello,
I've been invited to join a reading club and we're looking for what I describe in the title. Any recommendations would be great to have. Ideally, they will be in english, or available in so form via a translation to english, as that is our main common language between the current participants.
Thanks, desolatesolarity
PS lost the password to my old account, desolarity no longer is able to be used and can be recycled for another user.
Great, thanks for the suggestion. Will consider this and others and relay to my groop.
The Insurrectional Project, a 3 piece zine of texts by Bonanno, hosted by sprout distro with an audio version.
There are also a couple good pieces on the topic in their theory section.
Great thanks
Thanks homie
Nothing new here, but I’ll pile on with those recommending Bonanno and would say Armed Joy is the ideal entry point.
Bonanno tends to be a bit all over the map in terms of his influences and interpretations, but his idiosyncratic approach also keeps him out of the weeds of ideological technicalities that can suck the joy out of anarchist texts.
I’d also second IC and Tiqqun in general, but only for folks that have some background and a fair understanding of their personal politics. I still enjoy their works all these years later, but I don’t think the world needs more communizing autonomist death cultists.
Cool I think Armed Joy fits the bill.
Maybe, additionally: I like CrimethInc.'s Say You Want an Insurrection, which can be read as a complemantary critique of insurrectionary anarchism. It pushed me towards a "anarchism(s) as a toolbox" kind of approach.
To Our Friends by Invisible Committee, might be a good mid-level text for later on.
What do vampires do with fresh blood? Beware the undead! Get the hell out while there's blood in your veins.
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The club promotion will have lofty goals. Which the leadership ignore. Their written claim that they welcome newcomers, will turn out in practice to be "Shut up, sit still and do as you're told."! After a while, you'll realise why there are so few members.
I recommend no texts. I just read through "illegalism," and it appears to be an ignorant philosophy.
First off, one cannot ever commit a crime. All crimes are ALLEGED. No person ever fulfills the elements of a crime. And if you think you have, then you've been brainwashed. Philosophies, such as deconstructionism, show that you linguistically can't even statutorily manage to commit a crime. Deconstructionism argues that you cannot make sense of the meaning of words. You thinking that you have made sense of words would be a faulty generalization and perhaps best written off as an epiphenomenon.
If you can't make sense of what words in a criminal statute mean, then nor should an accuser.
As an anarchist, I've taken to heart a saying by Abraham Lincoln that I will paraphrase, "It is never reasonable to break the law."
From years of reflection, that means to be prepared to deny that you have committed a crime in the situation some accuser wants to prosecute you.
Fact is, though, no one ever breaks the law. Proving innocence may be difficult in court, though, especially with prosecution making the false claim that somehow you've fulfilled elements that linguistically no one but an absolute authority should be able to make sense of.
Does that change anything about illegalism as a practice? Does that change anything about insurrectionary anarchist theory?
As long as there is legal order, there is crime. It is as much a fiction as it is a reality.
Yes, for illegalism. They are ignorant if they think they have done something illegal. Even with deconstructionist thought, one could argue it isn't worthwhile to read an insurrectionary text. I have increasingly come to believe one of the most anarchic things you can do is do nothing.
They are also ignorant if they think they have not done something illegal.
I have increasingly come to believe one of the most anarchic things you can do is do nothing.
No, that's just doing nothing.
You can't use an adjective to accurately define or describe nothingness. It's literally impossible, and this is just the fetishization of inaction and passivity, a hallmark of liberalism.
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