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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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The text https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm

Some consider this text a founding document of Anarchism in the United States.

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty both to avoid doing injustice directly and to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. 

No Kings, No Masters! A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations

The statement and links on practical steps and activism can be found online at https://crimethinc.com/2025/10/09/no-kings-no-masters-a-call-for-anti-authoritarian-blocs-at-the-october-18-no-kings-demonstrations

This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on October 18. If you are willing to do this, skip directly to the how section.

 

    We should concern ourselves with forging a future where no single person—whether king or president—can claim the right to rule over millions. This means rejecting the increasingly authoritarian form of government we live under today and building something better—a society rooted in true self-determination, decentralized and non-hierarchical decision-making, and cooperative economics.

    -Ryan Only and Eric Laursen, “No Kings!”? How about “No Presidents!”?

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The Peer Review, Issue 01, The Anarchist's Guide to Critical Thinking

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The Peer Review is a self-published a zine dedicated to the intersection of anarchism, science, and philosophy. 
The issues can be read at https://archive.org/details/@the_peer_review

This issue is a guide to critical thinking written from an anarchist's perspective.

Alfredo M Bonanno Die anarchistische Spannung

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https://anarchistischebibliothek.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-die-anarchistische-spannung
Am 28. Januar 1995 hielt Alfredo M. Bonanno ein Referat bei einer Konferenz zu "Anarchie und Demokratie" in Cúneo. In diesem Text geht es um das Spannungsverhältnis und vor allem das Gefühl der Spannung zwischen anarchistischer Theorie und Aktion, zwischen Praxis und den Gedanken. Bonanno nennt es "eine extreme Liebes- und Wuterklärung

La anarquía sin adjetivos - Fernando Tarrida del Mármol

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https://es.anarchistlibraries.net/library/fernando-tarrida-del-marmol-la-anarquia-sin-adjetivos

Carta enviada por el anarquista Fernando Tarrida del Mármol al periódico francés La Révolte con fecha de 7 de agosto de 1890. Traducida del francés por Vladimiro Muñoz.

Manifesto of the International Working Peoples' Association aka The Pittsburgh Manifesto

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Full text of the Manifesto https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Manifesto

"To the Workingmen of America", known as the "Pittsburgh Manifesto" or "Pittsburgh Proclamation", is an anarchist manifesto issued at the October 1883 Pittsburgh Congress of the International Working People's Association.
Its themes use the founding documents of the United States of America to expose how hollow its libertarian sentiments are in the American reality.

The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State by Mikhail Bakunin

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The text can be read at https://libcom.org/article/paris-commune-and-idea-state-mikhail-bakunin

Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin on the Paris Commune and the idea of government and the state.

Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde

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Text can be read at https://libcom.org/article/soul-man-under-socialism-oscar-wilde

“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”

Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the Individual. Socialism having deployed technology to liberate the whole of humanity from soul-destroying labour, the State obligingly withers away to allow the free development of a joyful, anarchic hedonism...

“Is this Utopian? A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”

Far from abandoning the epigram in favour of the slogan, Wilde wittily assails several of his favourite targets: the misguided purveyors of philanthropy; life-denying ascetics of various kinds; the army of the half-educated who constitute themselves the enemies of Art - and those venal popular journalists who cater to them...

“Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle?” (Introduction by Martin Geeson)

The Paris Commune by Peter Kropotkin

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The essay can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-commune-of-paris

Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin's analysis of the Paris Commune, a defining moment in revolutionary history which inspired both marxist and anarchist revolutionaries for many years afterwards, and warrants continued attention today.

Feminist Class Struggle by Bell Hooks

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The text can be read at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bell-hooks-feminist-class-struggle

 Published in The Northeastern Anarchist Issue #4, Spring/Summer 2002.