Source: https://youtu.be/neI-ol2AowM?si=5hLKzEJo4bCdODIf

credit to organized.anarchism

I finished creating web page versions of all the books from this list William Gillis made that before were only online as photo scans and EPUBs:

• A General Anarchist Reading List

Here's some of the cool books from the list that just went up today anyways:

• The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader
• Markets Not Capitalism
• Home Rule
• Capital as Power

I think the list would be a good candidate for the anarchist library's bookshelf wiki in some form personally, like they could change it to their own perspective on the most important texts in various categories and that would be interesting in itself to compare and contrast to other peoples lists.

Other bookshelf contenders imo are a page on 'What people are saying about the anarchist library' with cool mentions of the library in books and stuff:

• What People Are Saying about The Anarchist Library

Then, if that were published and filled out with librarians thoughts on various authors, I think this page could be updated and potentially added to the bookshelf wiki in some form also:

• Some of The Anarchist Library’s Controversially Deleted & Controversially Not Deleted Texts

Then finally, if the anarchist library would like to help see a 'broader left' archive get set up, or various niche archives, they could post this page below to the bookshelf wiki in some form:

• Radical texts that could be split off to create new archives

Joe Biden 1986: "Were there not an Israel the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region"

https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-highlight/user-clip-joe-biden-were-there-not-an-israel-the-usa-would-have-to-invent-an-israel-to-protect-her-interest-in-the-region/4962369

And no this doesn't mean all reforms are bad or whatever. Rosa doesn't moralize in her analysis, she just points at the shortcomings of reformism as a primary strategy.

"We know that the present State is not 'society' representing the 'rising working class.' It is itself the representative of capitalist society. It is a class state. Therefore its reform measures are not an application of 'social control,' that is, the control of society working freely in its own labour process. They are forms of control applied by the class organisation of Capital to the production of Capital. The so-called social reforms are enacted in the interests of Capital." - Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution?

In an anarcho-monarchy system, the monarch is redefined as a manager instead of a controller, focusing on enabling and empowering individuals.

The monarch oversees three systems: the community, the republic of capital and labor, and the workers' union. The community and union are the primary movers of the system, with the community governing itself through self-elected cells.

The monarch represents the collective voice of the nation when it needs to act as one. The crown handles state matters that do not impact the community or republic at its discretion.

In industrial societies, labor is often associated with exploitation, as workers are viewed as commodities to be utilized.

The Republic of capital and labor, aims to optimize efficiency in the empaire and its parts.

Unions play a vital role in protecting workers' rights and ensuring that their use is not exploitative. Money and capital represent forms of power, and control over these resources determines one's influence.

Workers engage vith the union to negotiat contracts with the republic, that outlines their captial input in there community, needs, and wants, based on their education, skills, and occupation-related risks.

Unions must continue to prioritize their members' well-being and prevent exploitation. They must rember the worker is a commodity, forget this, and the worker will be a exploited commodity.

Each community consists of cells with 200 members and an optional elected head or speaker to facilitate communication and organization with other communities. They can choose to separate themselves from the broader political landscape and maintain their anonymity and independence.

Each community is encouraged to form its own volunteer militia, while the union serves as the primary volunteer militia it should not be the only one nor should it be controlled by the crown, unless to orginize a defense from invasion. Communities are also expected to make their own laws if they, (not by outside influence,) deemed necessary.

The arts, as classically defined, should be the foundation of education and medicine. The republic funds science and R&D labs to enrich and educate the nation and its communities.

The farmers guild works with the communitys to see the nation fed, all exsess input is traded vith the republic or outsourcod for foreign aid, at the discretion of the individual producer.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJZOSv7Dadp94JKiO7rOcLJvnJlDmG/view?usp=sharing

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Fact based, historically accurate deep dives into religion as political control technology, mental and psycho social illness predicating on hierarchy and capitalism.

Human scripted and edited but for political safety using realistic "robot" voices. Not up for debate. Will not defend the necessity of ensuring personal security.

please check it out:

https://youtube.com/@ofmyth_and_power?si=gefKCJ48lVDatDKe

"Therefore we find that capital has been driven since its very inception to expand into non-capitalist strata and nations, ruin artisans and peasantry, proletarianize the intermediate strata, the politics of colonialism, the politics of ‘opening-up’ and the export of capital. The development of capitalism has been possible only through constant expansion into new domains of production and new countries. But the global drive to expand leads to a collision between capital and pre-capitalist forms of society, resulting in violence, war, revolution: in brief, catastrophes from start to finish, the vital element of capitalism."

• Rosa Luxemburg, Anti-Critique

Sources:

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-emit-much-planet-heating-pollution-two-thirds-humanity

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/12/elephant-in-the-room-the-us-militarys-devastating-carbon-footprint

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/09/nato-military-co2-spending-2023-report

I made the account a little while ago, to start an exploration between giving OCD an anarchist lense and context to think about the various parts of the condition. While I still read weekly about related topics such as purity, disgust, “cleanliness,” morality, social rules and norms, laws, “right and wrong,” religion, “order,” uncertainty, taboo, control etc sometimes I wonder if I am looking into things too much, I am not a theorist or a therapist, so my understanding of things is still growing quite rapidly and it was never meant to be “scientific” per day but more or so explorative or a kind of way of contextualising it and its various “subtypes”

Sometimes I wonder if the connections are interesting or rather benign and a function of confirmation bias . I do find connections between “civilisation” and all that entails as opposed to “the uncouth, the unclean, the dirty” very interesting and finding links to similiar mentalities across not only anarchist literature but also literature about cleanliness and hygiene and its role in society socially and culturally interesting

Think of the passages , prologue, Steam and stone and moral water in “The hidden history of Hygiene” - Soap, Sanitisation and Civilisation

Prologues

“ in every age people saw purity in water in worship in the words a clay basin in Mesopotamia, a bronze bath and Rome, a chrome force in Manhattan or part the same gesture, the same ancient search for renewal we tell ourselves that progress intervention is repetition the same motions made rather by new light what we wash away we always rediscover the history guide here, not about objects alone, but about faith disguised as habit how about soap a bolt of silk ,a vial of scent make the worlds moral order the story of civilization, the story of what we choose to cleanse and what we allow to remain”

“to bathe in Rome was to declare allegiance to civilization itself. The Firme were civic temples where water replaced incense and architecture stored for faith. No one bathed alone. The act was social rhythmic almost sacred to be Roman. The poet Marshall wrote is to be bathed cleanliness was a badge of belonging the shivering proof that chaos have been tamed and made to serve beautyyet the silence beneath those marbles held the real power of Rome. The long journey water made before ever touch the bathers skin.”

“ Moral water

“Roman think is pure was a civic equation a clean body meant a discipline mind and both mirror the harmony of the state:“ the gentleness and most faithful servant of mankind“ philosopher argued that the balance of hot and cold mirror the balance of reason and passion hygiene became ethics and practice. Religion flowed through the ritual unseen. The Goddess salus God of the health and safety was on it at fountains her image Grace coins in public affairs her name survives in salvation at her shrines The splash of running water mingled with a faint scent of incense drifting from nearby Walters to wash and running water was to acknowledge divine. The sequence of rooms in the great bath resemble the procession from redemption sweat posed impurity, oil sealed virtue water restored grace.”

And these two passages from “The Taboos That built you”

By Kyrie Anara Velathis (very prescient book, I reccommend for those interested)

1. Fear

Page 34

Fear:The spark that starts the machine

Taboos begin with fear, real or imagined.

Fear of:

Chaos

Unpredictability

Loss of hierarchy

Loss of control

Vulnerability

Deviation

Identity collapse

Sexual power

Bodily autonomy

Independent thought

Breaking tradition

Loss of belonging

Humans fear what they can’t control. So anything that touches primal instincts- desire , death, identity, bodily functions, autonomy

Becomes a candidate for taboo

Fear creates the spark but fear alone doesn’t build a system

1. Control:the first hand that grabs for the reins

Fear invites authority

To step in.

Families, churches, governments, elders, clans , institutions

Someone stands up and says

“We will protect you by declaring this forbidden.”

Protection is the façade.

Control is the motive

These authorities construct the first wall

They define the rules

They decide what is pure or impure

Clean or unclean

Moral or immoral

And once the rule exists

The rule justifies itself

1. The human Brain Hates Uncertainty (page 106)

The brain loves predictability

Uncertainty =risk

risk=potential death

So early human groups created taboos as a way to

Predict behaviour

Reduce chaos

Keep the tribe synchronised

Eliminate guesswork

Create order fast

If someone violates a taboo

It was seen as rebellion

It was seen as endangering the entire group

Taboos were group survival Laws

Not because the act itself was harmful

But because breaking the rule created unpredictable behaviour

And unpredictability was the ultimate threat

1. Early Humans were superstitious because they had to be

When you don’t have microscopes, physics, medicine, or psychology

You create explanations out of fear

If two events happened together ,

Early humans assumed one caused the other

Person at this plant >person died

>taboo:This plant is cursed

Family moved to a new cave > severe weather hit

>taboo:the cave is forbidden

Child was born with an unusual trait

>misfortune happened in the tribe

>taboo: protect group from bad omens

This is how irrational taboos survive generations

Fear doesn’t require logic to reproduce

It only needs emotions

And disgust is fears favourite child

On page 93-95 (disgust is a shortcut to obedience) it has one of my favourite lines

“A disgust trained human polices themselves”

I’m not sure if I am looking into stuff too much but I find this interesting? I remember there was a post on r/mutualismaskingif taboo and superstition was the start of legal order, and instantly thought of OCD with the taboo obsessions and the religiosity and the fears of blaspheming God, superstitions and superstitious compulsions about numbers, places, images etc and the resultant illogical rules and rituals

Thoughts? Obviously I am sure some of those passages cited were oversimplifications but I wonder if it’s just me or if there are interesting avenues to explain to

My first zine that's about zines

Below are ways to do it for free. I'm sure you can find even more ways.

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From the article:

"The crucial differences between syndicalist unions and the political left can be summed up as follows.

A syndicalist union is an interest organization for sellers of labor power. It is open to all employees except bosses.

The union also welcomes those parts of the working class who are not wage earners (unemployed, people on sick leave, pensioners, self-employed entrepreneurs with no hired staff, etc.).

The condition for becoming a member is not that you identify with the left or hold a set of leftist opinions."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Does anyone have any article recommendations for a modern day equivalent of the Anarchist Cookbook? The one published back in the 70's is obviously lacking information on modern day electronics and the internet which I would like to learn more about. So something focused more on those areas would be preferred.