diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4d11e78..77d5919 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -32,22 +32,35 @@ There are many 'missing sections' (like short intros, black anarchism, interpers (READ THESE ABSOLUTELY NO MATTER WHAT, THE REST IS JUST THEORY WANKERY) Why Misogynists Make Great Informants + How Nonviolence Protects The State + Betrayal + Come Hell Or High Water + Against The Logic Of The Guillotine + How It Might Should Be Done + 10 Points On The Black Bloc + Continuing Appeal Of Nationalism + + ### Good Intro Books The Black Bloc Papers + Anarchy Works + From Democracy To Freedom + + ### Movement Histories For now I'm skipping *history* books of anarchism, since that's the vast majority of anarchist texts and everyone's library. There are just too damn many good books to list and we'd be here all day. I always advise brand new people to read Goldman's Living My Life since it's super easy to read and captures how the radical scene in the 1890s is just like the radical punk scene today. Abel Paz' Durruti is great fun on the spanish civil war. Robert Graham does the best historical compilations of writing. We're blessed today with a ton of better books on histories of anarchists outside the west, but yeesh, would take forever. Until I have time to go through my bookcases and pick the best or most important history ones, see the histories section of the zines above. @@ -56,191 +69,311 @@ For now I'm skipping *history* books of anarchism, since that's the vast majorit ### General Classic Theory Mutual Aid - Peter Kropotkin + Ethics: Origin and Development - Peter Kropotkin + Nationalism and Culture - Peter Kropotkin + Revolution and Other Writings - Gustav Landauer + + ### General Modern Theory The Possibility Of Cooperation - Michael Taylor + Utopia Of Rules - Graeber + Debt - Graeber + The Dawn of Everything - Graeber & Wengrow + Seeing Like A State - James C Scott + Weapons Of The Weak - James C Scott + Worshipping Power - Peter Gelderloos + In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff (exclusively influential in academic political philosophy, not activist circles) + The Politics Of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism - L Susan Brown + People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy - Harold Barclay + Marx: A Radical Critique - Alan Carter + Anarchism: A Theoretical Analysis - Alan Ritter + Home Rule - Nandita Sharma + + ### Post-left Anarchy & Insurrectionary Anarchy Armed Joy + The Anarchist Tension + Anarchy In The Age Of Dinosaurs + Days Of War Nights Of Love + Insurrectional Anarchism: A Reader + Killing King Abacus (zine/mag) + The Master's Tools - Tom Nomad + The Abolition of Work - Bob Black (racist snitch) + TAZ (written by a child rape apologist) + Insurgencies (mag) + Murder Of Crows (mag) + + ### Anarchist Communism Classic ABCs of Anarchism - Berkman + What Is Anarcho-communism - Berkman + At The Cafe - Malatesta + + ### Anarcho-Syndicalism Classic Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism - Rudolf Rocker + Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice - Rudolf Rocker + + ### Anarcho-Syndicalism Modern Fighting for ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle - Solidarity Federation + An Anarchist FAQ - Iain McKay ### Platformism Clasic Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists + Manifesto of Libertarian Communism + About the Platform + Towards a Fresh Revolution + + ### Platformism Modern -Black Flame - + +Black Flame - COWRITTEN BY A FASCIST + Black Anarchism: A Reader - Black Rose + The Strategy of Especifismo -- Felipe Corrêa, Juan Carlos Mechoso + The Global Influence of Platformism Today - NEFAC + + (Black Flame was written by a fascist entryist later exposed by antifascists and every copy was pulped by its anarchist publisher, but before that was revealed there was no more influential modern platformist text and it was required reading by Black Rose. most other relevant texts are just histories or proclamations of platformist or platformist-adjacent organizations like Love & Rage, NEFAC, Black Rose, Worker's Solidarity Movement, Zabalaza, Federação Anarquista Gaúcha, etc... which NEFAC above text at least sketches) ### Mutualism / Left-Market Classic Proudhon Reader + Instead Of A Book - Benjamin Tucker + No Treason - Spooner + de Cleyre Reader + What Is Mutualism - Clarence Lee Swartz + + ### Mutualism / Left-Market Modern The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand - Kevin Carson + Studies In Mutualist Political Economy - Kevin Carson + Organization Theory - Kevin Carson + Markets Not Capitalism [compilation] + Homebrew Industrial Revolution - Kevin Carson + Exodus - Kevin Carson + + (Proudhon may have launched anarchism, but he was a disgusting anti-semite misogynist. Markets Not Capitalism was originally geared primarily to persuade right-libertarians and, as a collection of highly varying writings from a wildly disparate writers, the book includes the noxious Brad Spangler, who was later revealed to be a child rapist, the book remains historically influential and sold by AK Press & Autonomedia, but that inclusion is a sharp downside. Both de Cleyre and Carson ultimately identified as 'without adjectives', neither rejected markets. C4SS has numerous followups but not of comparable historical import, they're working on a revision named 'Markets AGAINST Capitalism' without Spangler.) ### Christian Anarchism Classic What I Believe - Leo Tolstoy + The Kingdom Of God Is Within You - Leo Tolstoy + Jesus Was An Anarchist - Elbert Hubbard + Loaves and Fishes - Dorthy Day + + ### Christian Anarchism Modern The Book Of Ammon - Ammon Hennacy + Anarchy and Christianity - Jacques Ellul ### Primitivism And General Anticiv The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul + The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey * + Against His-story, Against Leviathan - Freddy Perlman + Elements Of Refusal - John Zerzan + Future Primitive - John Zerzan + Against Civilization - ed. John Zerzan + Running On Emptiness - John Zerzan + Against The Megamachine - David Watson + Uncivilized: the best of Green Anarchy + + (Ellul is the early fork point between primitivism and christian anarchism and could be shelved in either section. Edward Abbey was a virulent reactionary racist homophobe who most would casually classify as a fascist today. Zerzan came from marxist roots and propagated the term 'primitivism' and it's impossible to overstate his influence and fame more broadly. Always pirate Green Anarchy rather than funding LBC which still publishes the project of a catholic alt-right edgelord who served as the mouthpiece of a genocidal anti-anarchist group, ITS, that tried to murder anarchists) ### Social Ecology Post-Scarcity Anarchism - Bookchin + The Ecology of Freedom - Bookchin + Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism - Bookchin + Ecofascism - Staudimire & Biehl + + (I've included nothing from Bookchin after his explicit denunciation of anarchism. Biehl also ceased identification as an anarchist. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism and the rest of his fight with Bob Black was a *massive* embarassment and painfully cringe to delve into, but also the biggest anarchist drama of the 90s. I'm putting Ocalan in the Marxism & fellow travellers section.) ### Egoism The Unique And It's Property - Stirner + Stirner's Critics - Stirner + The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century - John Henry Mackay + Toward the Creative Nothing - Renzo Novatore + The Right To Be Greedy: Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything - For Ourselves + Against The Logic Of Submission - Wolfi + Willful Disobedience - Wolfi Landstreicher + + (i've included Stirner's work here, despite Stirner never identifying as an anarchist and mocking them, because it's not like you can read the anarchist currents of the egoist tradition without him. Wolfi's recent translactions are superior but make sure you don't buy them through the fascist publisher. Also heads up that Wolfi was exposed as having defended child rape in the 80s although a minority contest the passage. Ragnar Redbeard's Might Is Right was unfortunately influential in many egoist spaces and cited/republished by some prominent ones, but is so flagrantly over-the-top fascist it would be beyond absurd to directly list it.) ### Particularly Notable Non-Anarchist Leftist Influences & Occasional Fellow Travellers Society Of The Spectacle - Guy Debord + The Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vaneigem + Caliban & The Witch - Silvia Federici + The Many Headed Hydra - Linebaugh and Rediker + Change The World Without Taking Power - John Holloway + The Coming Insurrection - Invisible Committee + Theory Of Bloom - Tiqqun + Empire - Hardt & Negri + Everything Must Go!: The Abolition of Value - Giles Dauve and someone + Nihilist Communism - Monsieur Dupont + Democratic Confederalism - Abdullah Ocalan + Capital As Power - Bichler & Nitzan + + (Because some currents in anarchism see themselves as also contigous with communalist, communist or marxist discourses this list could grow to include the rest of the wider left. The above is pruned to cover texts influential in anarchist punk or activist spaces, that is to say the movement, *not* by way of academia. The academic left has its own vast discourse and bibliography which any college will push, with certain regular figures and fixtures that operate as mere totems in different fields and rarely move beyond legitmizing stray citations or invocations, semiotext's early era being the exception.) ### "Nihilist" Anarchism * Pistols Drawn + Desert + Blessed Is The Flame + Baeden + Atentat + + (* severely misnamed current invented/redefined in the last decade stealing valor from a completely different movement of russian hypermodernist social democrats and retroactively constructing a supposed tradition from sparse disconnected uses of the term by a few egoists. The most influential texts are not about true epistemic or moral nihilism, just pretty standard postleft stuff plus some tacked-on critiques of hope that many anarchists who long used "nihilism" as an epithet already shared, a complete mess of different philosophical claims and currents held together only by a shared aesthetic, only Pistols Drawn and Attentat really cover anything like "nihilism" and are also the least influential, relevant, or tolerable. see 325 for a distinct more european current focused on standard insurrection and anti-organizationalism. When it comes to buying, see the caveat in the egoist section re the ongoing boycott of LBC by anarchists. Their texts can be pirated on archive.org tho.) ### "Anarcho"-Capitalism * The Ethics Of Liberty - Murray Rothbard + Anatomy Of The State - Murray Rothbard + THe Machinery Of Freedom - Thomas Friedman + Chaos Theory - Robert Murphy + Anarchy And The Law - Edward Stringham + THe Problem of Political Authority - Michael Huemer + An Agorist Primer -- Sam Edward Konkin III + Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities -- Timothy C May + + (* severely divergent political movement started in the 50s with only thin initial connections to Spooner, Tucker, and Goldman. rothbard bragged that he was stealing the term "anarchism" from what he thought was a dead movement. however later had surprisingly many crossovers with egoists, mutualists, and social ecologists. largely marked by supreme myopia of social conditions and power relations more obscured than a policeman's gun. that which wasn't already rabid apologia for power has almost completely devolved into reaction and crypto-fascism or otherwise tolerating nationalism, racist boogs, chuds, etc, see hans hermann hoppe and the later rothbard for the roots of the worst fascist stuff. what principled holdouts remain in academia are perpetually undermined by their right-wing cultural and social connections.)