Against Patriarchy, to Achieve the Foundations of the Negating Paths of Anarchy

Via Abolition Media By: Mónica Caballero

The economic system that currently governs the territory dominated by the Chilean State and practically all Western states, is capitalism. Capitalism, in simple words, was based on the fact that trade and industry (means of production) are organized and controlled by their owners, that is: entrepreneurs.

Welcome the Darkness

From Freedom News UK

As the earth’s life systems become destabilised, it seems the human social world too is entering a new phase, marked by dramatic global events, ruptures, new formations appearing as old structures dissolve. Instead of succumbing to misanthropic myths and self fulfilling prophecies of doom, we need to believe in our potential as a species, to have the courage to step into the darkness.

Adventure Capitalism with Raymond Craib

This week on The Final Straw, Professor Raymond Craib talks about his book, “Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age” out recently from PM Press. We talk about capitalist fundamentalists attempting to create free market utopias, right wing so-called Libertarians, Ayn Rand, neoliberalism and the oxymoronic tendency known as “anarcho-capitalism” at the center of the recent HBO Max series called “The Anarchists”.

The Modern Urban Form as a Capitalist Construct

Understanding it as a specific structural process of capitalism and not a historical inevitability allows an exercise of counterfactual imagination in which we ask concerning urban form, if not the actual history of capitalism, then what can be imagined in its place? This exercise provides at every turn a grounded default projection, a human pattern with a wide application and a long history, rooted in the realities of human stride and stamina: not “anyone’s guess.” It is wholly baseless to assume as a default, absent specific design to the contrary, the persistence of the capitalist city in an anarchist future.

Misconceptions about imperialism, and anarchist collective traumas

from avtonom Submitted by Антти Раутиайнен on 26 May, 2022 - 14:33

Ever since the beginning of the Russian invasion against Ukraine, we have seen statements by anarchists, communists and leftists not from Ukraine, on how Ukrainian anarchists, communists and leftists should not defend themselves against attack of Putin, but lay down their arms and flee instead.

Beer punks and anarchist cafes: politics for profit

from Freedom News UK

Many could be forgiven for thinking it was a belated April Fools prank when, at the beginning of the month, Freedom Press released a statement reading that close to their premises in Whitechapel and out with their knowledge, the colossal Hilton hotel group had opened an upmarket cocktail bar bearing the name ‘Freedom Café’. Marketed towards “independent thinkers and coffee drinkers”, in true anti-consumerist fashion, the bar sells £14 cocktails named after book titles from the publishing house. Their menu comes in the style of an old pamphlet titled “Anarchist Weekly” and references the historic founding of the publishing house. Readers are enticed inside to find “anarchy, coffee, drinks, and comfort food”. Believe it or not, this appears not to be a joke.

Capitalism & Electrification

From Return Fire by Anonymous

For at least thirty years the dominant narrative has fobbed us with “the end of ideologies”. According to the “thinkers” of the palace, the collapse of countries under State Capitalism would have inaugurated a new era, the one that the philosopher Francis Fukuyama (1992) calls “the end of history”. Therefore history would be to be intended as a linear development where the democratic and liberal State represents its telos, the ultimate Goal of evolution beyond which it is impossible to go. It is the principles of liberalism that dictate evolution, marked and pushed by the force of rationality.

An Individualist, on Immediatism Podcast

From time to time, listeners submit what they have written to Immediatism for feedback or just conversation. The individualist anarchist author of the following three essays says that their pseudonym has taken a pseudonym -- Sir Josephine Deathscythe. Their writing is from a particularly personal point of view. "Individualism" is a discussion of Stirnerian egoism and specifically what motivates an egoist, as well as how an egoist will tend to differ from leftists and libertarians.

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