“From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
– Franz Kafka.
For us anarchists the questions of how to act and how to organise are intimately linked. And it is these two questions, not the question of the desired form of a future society, that provide us with the most useful method for understanding the various forms of anarchism that exist.
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by Patrizia
Yet another rape. But today violence against a woman is more amusing if it takes place in a group: of at leas 14. This is what happened in a village in Sicily, Militello. A fifteen year old girl was raped by boys between 11 and 18 years old all looking for adventure. An adventure with a girl whose parents had just returned to Sicily after years of emigration.
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FERAL FAUN
In my travels over the past several months, I have talked with many anarchists who conceive of anarchy as a moral principle. Some go so far as to speak of anarchy as though it were a deity to whom they had given themselves–reinforcing my feeling that those who really want to experience anarchy may need to divorce themselves from anarchism.
Continue reading The Cops In Our Heads: Some thoughts on anarchy and morality (en/es)
A platformist interpretation of the history of anarchist organization
Review by Jason McQuinn
Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organization from Proudhon to May 1968 by Alexandre Skirda, translated by Paul Sharkey (AK Press, POB 40682, San Francisco, CA 94140-0682, USA; AK Press, POB 12766, Edinburgh, EH8 9YE, Scotland; & Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London, WC1 3XX, England; 2002) 292 pp., $17.95 paper.
(Killing King Abacus)
Ma da ogni altro punto di vista che non sia quello del facilitare il controllo poliziesco, la Parigi di Haussmann è una città costruita da un idiota, piena di rumore e violenza, che non significa nulla.
G. Debord
Haussmann non ha inventato la progettazione della città; già i romani e i cinesi antichi pianificavano le città. Quelle moderne vennero progettate e costruite nelle colonie britanniche e francesi prima che in Europa. Washington DC venne progettata e costruita su di un’area vuota decenni prima che Haussmann rimodellasse Parigi. La differenza è che Haussmann costruì la sua nuova capitale sopra la vecchia Parigi, una città preindustriale.
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Translated from: Neither their war nor their peace, June 1999.
The pacifist abhors war and blesses the state. In times of peace, he has been taught–and he has believed–that society is a vast system of communication where all controls itself by means of dialogue, in a nonviolent manner. It follows from this that only one who, living on the periphery of these communicating vessels, mocks the hopeless cornerstone of vain democratic chattering with blows is candidate to suffer brute force.
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Insurrectionary anarchism is not an ideological solution to all social problems, a commodity on the capitalist market of ideologies and opinions, but an on-going praxis aimed at putting an end to the domination of the state and the continuance of capitalism, which requires analysis and discussion to advance. We don’t look to some ideal society or offer an image of utopia for public consumption. Throughout history, most anarchists, except those who believed that society would evolve to the point that it would leave the state behind, have been insurrectionary anarchists.
Continue reading Some notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism
Spring 2000
Continue reading Killing King Abacus No. 1(introduction-spring 2000)
