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Tag Archives: anarchism
One Life at a Time, Please
One Life at a Time, Please© 1988 Ed Abbey204 pages Ed Abbey’s final few years were spent in obsessive work, as he knew he was dying and wanted to make provisions for his family. The Fool’s Progress and One Life … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged American Southwest, anarchism, Edward Abbey, essays, Nature, sports and outdoors, travel
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Postcards from Ed
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast© 2007 ed. David Petersen337 pages “Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.” Although I was first drawn to Ed Abbey by his nature … Continue reading
Selected quotes from Anti-Politics
“Power and authority, as substitutes for performance and rational thought, are the specters that haunt the world today. They are the ghosts of awed and superstitious yesterdays. And politics is their familiar. Politics, throughout time, has been an institutionalized denial … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, quotations, Religion and Philosophy
Tagged anarchism, quotations
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Anti-Politics
Anti-Politics: A Collection of Agorist Essays© 2021 ed. Sal Mayweather165 pages If you’re still waiting for your masters for permission to live after nearly two years of “two weeks to flatten the curve”, don’t bother reading further. This isn’t your … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged anarchism, civil disobedience, dissent, essays, Henry David Thoreau, Man vs State
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Project Hail Mary | #agora
Ryland Grace just woke up strapped to a medical bed with two dead roommates. That’s not the least of his problem, though: he’s in space, and he doesn’t know why. Eventually, he’ll figure that out; his memory will return. But … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged anarchism, Andy Weir, Germany, humor, libertarianism
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Do you Vonu?
Vonu: A Strategy for Self-Liberation© 2018 Shane Radliff127 pages In 1968, a frustrated man named Tom Marshall ventured into the woods along with his wife to conduct a living experiment. Was it possible, he wondered, to create a life for … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, dissent, libertarianism, Man vs State, praxis
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Three cheers for anarchy — three reads, anyway
While everyone else was honoring dead soldiers by buying things, shooting off fireworks (dear neighbors: why?), and grilling out, I was in bed all weekend with a case of food poisoning. Naturally, I wound up reading books about anarchism and … Continue reading
The Left, The Right, and The State
The Left, The Right, and the State © 2009 Lew Rockwell 556 pages “Society is held together not by a state but by the cooperative daily actions of its members.” Who’s up for six hundred pages of essays on politics … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, essays, libertarianism, Politics-CivicInterest
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I Must Speak Out
I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist, 1982-1999 © 1999 Carl Watner 485 pages What distinguishes the State from an organized gang? Carl Watner argues in I Must Speak Out that nothing whatsoever does, except its subjects’ belief. … Continue reading