For the Abolition of Police

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A police force, where there are no crimes to discover and delinquents to arrest, will provoke or invent crimes…
— Malatesta
People involved in law enforcement are agents of the powerful against the weak, who readily mobilize and deploy arbitrary and unpredictable violence and destruction. The hateful and demented pro-police comments made in mass and social media in the wake of the cops’ fully exposed immunity from Ferguson to Staten Island (well, everywhere) show that better than any political treatise. The pro-police camp persists in perpetuating some of the most banal lies of authoritarian morality: The state exists to protect the weak from the whims of tyrants. The system of law and justice is impartial. Cops only arrest the guilty. The guilty deserve whatever the police do to them. Prisons are only for bad people…
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La influencia del stirnerismo en el movimiento libertario español

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Las concepciones filosóficas de Stirner, concretadas en su famoso libro El único y su propiedad, que data del 1844, llegaron con bastante retraso a España. Además de llegar tarde estas ideas se incorporaron al discurso libertario por mediación y influencia de otros autores; en contadas ocasiones de forma directa. Nietzsche y Armand son dos de los autores más destacados, los que me interesaría analizar aquí (a parte del propio Stirner, evidentemente). Ambos autores fueron claramente influenciados por la filosofía de Stirner, y la asimilaron y desarrollaron a su particular manera. Se sabe que el autor de Así habló Zaratustra admiró a Stirner en secreto, sobretodo para evitar posibles identificaciones de su filosofía con el anarquismo y el individualismo stirnerianos.
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Nikolai Pavlov aka Petrov, Petrov-Pavlov

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A short biography of Russian anarchist Nikolai Pavlov, famous for his statement “Why I Am An Anarchist”

Nikolai Ivanovich Pavlov was born in Russia in 1881. He joined the Social-Revolutionary Party in 1901. During the 1905 Revolution he took part in the armed uprising of the soldiers’ penal battalion in Bobruisk. He was subsequently arrested four times and sentenced to death, spending five years in prison. In 1910 he escaped abroad where he became an anarchist-communist.
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