The Malaria of Consciousness: Wilhelm Reich and the Pathology of Ideology

From Bangladesh AnarchoSyndicalist Federation

— A Psychoanalytic Reading of Repression, Ideology, and Human Liberation

In modern thought, ideology is often seen as a set of ideas, beliefs, or political doctrines. But Wilhelm Reich — the radical psychoanalyst, Marxist, and revolutionary thinker — understood ideology not merely as thought, but as a disease of feeling, a psychic infection that spreads like malaria through the body of society.

Anarchism & Egoism

from Center for a Stateless Society by Cory Massimino

Anarchism and egoism are, ironically, kindred spirits. Both share roots in 19th century radical philosophic and political thought — though the ideas and practices associated with each surely predate their first explicit articulations. Both have been considered, at best, taboo and, at worst, dangerous. Both have been misunderstood, but also mischaracterized. Both ultimately found refuge during the 20th and 21st centuries within broader libertarian undercurrents, where their adherents were fractured and ideas were sharpened. Most importantly, both consider themselves on the side of life and freedom.

Our Position On Elections

from Anarchist Communists Meanjin

Anarchists are often characterized as being opposed to elections or the vote. Yet anyone that has spent any time in an anarchist or anarchist inspired organisation will tell you that voting is our favorite pastime, one which we take almost any opportunity to undertake. Rather than being opposed to elections we would love nothing more than to see them expanded throughout all levels of society. In fact anarchists should be considered as the most strident proponents of elections and the vote.

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