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Readings?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Marzz, Feb 15, 2012.

  1. Marzz

    Marzz Experienced Member Experienced member


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    I could not find a topic on this in the search function. I am interested in some good anarchist readings...specific books/works i might check out to better educate myself? Perferably something I may find at my local library but if its online that's ok (I just love having a book in my hands!).
     

  2. butcher

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    Umm, I don't know what yr local library is like, but there's no anarchist stuff at mine! If you've got access to a university library they usually stock at least some Bakunin and Kropotkin.

    Here's a recent thread about the same thing:
    viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8054
    I'd still recommend Black Flame, but I believe its been taken down from libcom.
    Every couple of months someone asks the same questions as you have, but I can never find them again. I really should save the lists I provide or put them up somewhere for quick referencing. Anywayz...

    So yeah, internetz, libcom is a great resource but maybe i can give you some of my suggestions:
    http://libcom.org/tags/errico-malatesta
    http://libcom.org/tags/peter-kropotkin
    http://libcom.org/tags/mikhail-bakunin
    http://libcom.org/tags/nestor-makhno
    http://libcom.org/tags/lucy-parsons
    http://libcom.org/tags/rudolf-rocker

    I've also got a bit of a soft spot for 'ultra-left' commie stuff, so i'll mention a few of the ones i like here or think are worth a read here too:
    Communique From An Absent Future
    Eclipse & Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
    Storming heaven: class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
    Society of the Spectacle
    Riff Raff
    Sic

    And of course you can probably get a copy of Capital (maybe even The Grundrisse) from yr local library, which if you can, you should.
     
  3. slother

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    I recently found a copy of Capital on the free shelf at my local community college. I haven't read it yet but I know it was a good find.
     
  4. crustybeckham

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    Try Ian Bone's biography called "Bash the rich". He is the founder of Class War. It is serously hilarious and a good testimony of a direct action anarchist.

    If you like novels I'd suggest Ursula Le Guin's "Dispossessed" and Leslie Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the dead".
     
  5. Bentheanarchist

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    Works by Alexander Berkman such as ABC's of Anarchism, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, The Bolshevik Myth, and the Blast.
     
  6. silkie45

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    Berkman is boring as fuck, although he did nicely with the critic of reformers social and communists. Have you read Kristian Williams zine about Miami model or Galleanist sheezy. All unrelated to eachother but equally interesting. 325 No State, The Sternerists, and Nihilists. Nietzsche's hammer of the gods was really great. Foucult has his moments and dunks on Chompsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dM6j7pzQA
     
  7. Bentheanarchist

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    I think Berkman is interesting and gaeleani is interesting; his revolutionary theory seems like the most realistic to me. I am a little be like a Galleanist.
     
  8. Bentheanarchist

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    The Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is a interesting book; Recommened reading and the blast.
     
  9. Bentheanarchist

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    I Reccomend reading Ross Winn; pretty hard to find though.
     
  10. butcher

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    He may be boring but at least he's not shit like Stirner or Nietzsche (and, i guess with the except of 'Fathers and Sons', nihilists).
     
  11. Bentheanarchist

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    Berkman's my favorite anarchist philosopher.
     
  12. Bentheanarchist

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    I reccomend reading what you can find about ross winn because Ross Winn was a southern anarchist which was and still is pretty conservative.
     
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