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A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

"5 past half-7"

P.-J. Proudhon, “Solution of the Social Problem” - The Libertarian Labyrinth The Republic is the organization by which, all opinions and all activities remaining free, the People, by the very divergence of opinions and will, think and act as a single man. In the Republic, ever...

I am working on an expanded edition of "Solution of the Social Problem," which collected Proudhon's work on mutual credit. That project involves collecting writings by his collaborators—a significant selection of which are now linked at the page below:
www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-tran...

"But in that case I cannot see why *capital* punishment should be singled out for emphatic and exceptional denunciation. The same objection applies as clearly to punishment that simply takes away liberty as to punishment that takes away life."

"It is reciprocal liberty, and not the liberty which restricts; liberty, not the daughter of order, but the mother of order."

In Defense of Emma Goldmann and the Right of Expropriation Voltairine de Cleyre In Defense of Emma Goldmann and the Right of Expropriation 1894 This pamphlet is reproduced from the original, including errors....

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/volt...

And soaking them is suboptimal compared to eliminating the extractive mechanisms that allowed them to become that rich in the first place. I cringe every time I hear the "their fair share" talking point out of a liberal's mouth, because what's a "fair share" of wealth that's 100% stolen loot?

Amand Bazard - Wikipedia

guy died from arguing with fellow socialists

didn't know you still had them :P

…rights. We cannot be distinguished from each other so easily. Yawning and laughter are contagious; so are enthusiasm and despair. I am composed of the clichés that roll off my tongue, the songs that catch in my head, the moods I contract from my companions. When I drive a car, it releases pollution into the atmosphere you breathe; when you use pharmaceuticals, they filter into the water everyone drinks. The system everyone else accepts is the one you have to live under-but when other people challenge it, you get a chance to renegotiate your reality as well. Your freedom begins where mine begins, and ends where mine ends. We are not discrete individuals. Our bodies are comprised of thousands of different species living in symbiosis: rather than closed fortresses, they are ongoing processes through which nutrients and microbes ceaselessly pass. We live in symbiosis with thousands more species, cornfields inhaling what we exhale. A swarming pack of wolves or an evening murmuring with frogs is as individual, as unitary, as any one of our bodies. We do not act in a vacuum, self-propelled by reason; the tides of the cosmos surge through us.

This piece from @crimethinc.com’s To Change Everything keeps running through my brain lately 🧠

I’m not going to lie, I think Bezos and Musk view the idea of helping people as “weak” or “lame”. The moon is an empty abstract concept they can project their illiterate-to-theme sci-fi aesthetic-addled fantasies onto.

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anarchic synonymy of anarchism and anarchisms

geht zur lohn arbeit - es lohnt sich über haupt nicht bild von hausgeists katze

More surprised at people who are not anarchists these days tbh

Remembering Aragorn! today - Six years ago on February 13, 2020 Aragorn! walked on.

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On February 8, 1921, Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin died. A lifelong anarchist militant, Kropotkin escaped from a Moscow prison in 1876, which you can read about in our illustrated book Kropotkin Escapes.

detritusbooks.com/kropotkin

Doing art badly is good and sacred

If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.

Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024 Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. A retrospective.

On August 12, 2017, Nazis and klansmen rallied in Charlottesville in support of Donald Trump and fascism. One of them murdered Heather Heyer.

What distinguishes that killing from the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti?

Only this: in 2026, fascists can murder on government payroll.

Abolish ICE.

communists are being gemein to me

Time is a spiral.

We might not want to 'take control' of workplaces, any sites of capitalist exploitation, nor negotiate with anyone claiming to own them. Is why I'm not a syndicalist. But there's at least some substance compared to the "call your representatives" strategy.

“Occupy the factories” is the new “don't siege Stalingrad, just take it immediately.” I'm tired of phrasemongering. Why won't and why can't we occupy the factories? Should we even? Let's start with that.

I think of this meme every day

it’s always ‘call your representatives’ and never ‘let’s do a year long general strike’