Audible Anarchism

What the Prison Abolition Movement Wants by Kim Kelly

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Kim Kelly's short primer on the prison abolition movement.

Introduction to Mutual Aid by Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber

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Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber wrote this introductory essay to a new edition of Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. The essay summarises and explains the importance of the work the context of its original publication and the importance of Kropotkin in current times.

The Relevance of Max Stirner to Anarcho-Communists by Matty Thomas

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An essay on the relevance of Max Stirner to the Anarcho-communist movement.

 

Recommended Reading The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner. Stirner’s only book and magnum opus. Unfortunately, there is still only one English translation available, Stephen T. Byington’s. Wolfi Landstreicher is currently working on a new one, slated to appear in the near future. Stirner’s Critics by Max Stirner. In this essay, Stirner (speaking in the third person throughout) clarifies some misinterpretations of his philosophy. The False Principle of Our Education by Max Stirner. In this article, which predates the publication of The Ego and its Own, Stirner critiques both the humanism of the aristocratic style of education, which aimed to produce disinterested scholars, and the realism of the democratic school of thought, which aimed to produce useful citizens. Stirner, while tending to favor the latter, argues that the goal of education should instead be the cultivation of free, self-creating individuals. “The Individual, Society, and the State” by Emma Goldman. Goldman’s most “Stirnerian” essay. “Victims of Morality” by Emma Goldman. In this essay Goldman attacks the spook of morality as a lie “detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people.” The Right to be Greedy: Theses on the Practical Necessity of Demanding Absolutely Everything by For Ourselves. An inspired fusion of Stirner and Marx by this short-lived Situationist-influenced group. For Ourselves argue that “greed in its fullest sense is the only possible basis of communist society. The present forms of greed lose out, in the end, because they turn out to be not greedy enough.” The Minimum Definition of Intelligence by For Ourselves. A critique of ideology and fixed thought coupled with theses concerning the construction of one’s own critical self-theory. The Soul of Man [sic] Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde. This beautiful essay is one of the most eloquent egoist defenses of libertarian communism ever penned. It is not known for certain whether Wilde actually read Stirner; however, he could read German and similarities in style between this text and The Ego make it seem likely that he did. In any case, this anarcho-dandy’s writing is invaluable to the serious student of egoism. Max Stirner’s Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation by John F. Welsh. The most thorough and coherent exploration of Stirner’s thought available in English. An exploration of Stirner’s philosophy, his influence on the thinkers Benjamin Tucker, James L. Walker, and Dora Marsden, and an investigation of the relationship between Stirner and Nietzsche.

The Right to Live by Max Baginski

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Short article written for Mother Earth by Max Baginski on how all rights in capitalist society are secondary at best, when compared to the right to property. Including the right to live.

Anarchy and the Sex Question by Emma Goldman

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Essay by Emma Goldman tackling sex and marriage in capitalist society, written in 1896.

Your Honor a Poem by Kuwasi Balagoon

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Kuwasi Balagoon was a New Afrikan anarchist and a member of the Black Liberation Army. After serving in the U.S. Army., his experiences of racism within the army led him to tenant organizing in New York City, where he joined the Black Panther Party as it formed, becoming a defendant in the Panther 21 case.

 

Sentenced to a term of between 23 to 29 years, he escaped from Rahway State Prison in New Jersey and went underground with the BLA in 1978. In January 1982, He was captured and charged with participating in an armored truck robbery, known as the Brinks robbery (1981). Convicted of murder and other charges and sentenced to life imprisonment, he died in prison of pneumocystis pneumonia, an AIDS-related illness, on December 13, 1986, aged 39. Balagoon authored several texts while in prison, writings that have become influential among black and other anarchists since first being published and distributed by anarchist prisoner support networks in the 1980s and 1990s

Post-Civ!: A Deeper Exploration by Usul of the Black Foot

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Usul of the Black Foot responds to an develops the thinking in the Post Civ zine by the group Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.

Post-Civ! A Brief Philosophical And Political Introduction To The Concept Of Post Civilization

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A short but influential zine introducing the concepts behind post civilisation (Post-Civ) Anarchism by the group Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.

Reparations As A Verb by the Salish Sea Black Autonomists

Essay can be read here https://blackautonomynetwork.noblogs.org/post/2019/03/20/reparations-as-a-verb/

Short piece by the Salish Sea Black Autonomists criticising the limited scope of mainstream civil rights activism.

The Conspiracy of Law by Howard Zinn

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Conspiracy of Law is Howard Zinn's examination of the role of the legal system in enforcing class distinctions and criminalising alternative politics and opposition to the system whilst pretending to be a neutral force in society.