How violence protects the state: a critical reading

From Hermes Trismegistus

This is a critical reading to “How nonviolence protects the State” by Peter Gelderloos. To go through Gelderloos’ takes i will expand on what i find are argumentative failures on his part. Even so, i will try and give in to his points anyway, accepting his analysis and requirements as correct, and see if nonviolence can be saved regardless. My take is that yes: nonviolence can survive Gelderloos’ critique, by means of accepting or rejecting his opinions the same.

Who Can Still Cultivate the Uncomfortable? - Scrutiny #2: An Anarch Journal of Review

Scrutiny is a lucidity pact. Not an ideology, but a form which we take towards all things. To our own ideas. To the past. To the numb future. In these pages the rampant contradictions and divergences have a thin veil of warfare. Even at the smallest level there must be violence against the culture, against the image, against the robot, against its knowledge and its material. Who are the last agents who can still summon this near-exterminated, irrational violence? Who can still cultivate the uncomfortable? Scrutiny is the engine, powering us towards the receding cliffs of rupture.

About This Issue – ARB #11 Winter/Spring 2026

From The Anarchist Review of Books

Welcome to the 11th issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Baltimore, Belfast, Brussels, Chicago, Detroit, Dublin, Exarchia, London, New York, Oakland, and Richmond. We bring you this issue at the heart of a bitter cold winter as U.S. federal troops hunt, detain, deport and murder human beings in the name of the law.

Reinventing Green Anarchy

From Free Range Egghead by Andrew McLaverty-Robinson

Anarchism, degrowth, and food sovereignty: exploring overlaps and tensions, by Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Degrowth Journal 3, 2025.

This article tries to show the ways in which anarchism is both useful and not useful for the two related fields of degrowth and food sovereignty. These are both broadly speaking ecological movements/issues.

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