Audible Anarchism

Recorded by Librivox Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for...

Read the full essays here: http://nestormakhno.info/english/revdisc.htm http://nestormakhno.info/english/struggle.htm http://nestormakhno.info/english/newplatform/introduction.htm   Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) was a Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist, military leader, and writer. He led the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian Revolution, which helped defeat the tsarist fo...

Full text here:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-advice-to-my-anarchist-comrades “In a word, commercial competition, under the paternal aegis of the law, allows the great majority of merchants-— and this fact is attested to in countless medical inquests-— adulterate provisions and drink, sell pernicious substances as wholesome food, and kill by slow poisoning… Let people say wh...

Full text  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-army-of-altruists David Graeber (1961- ) is an anarchist, anthropologist, and activist who currently holds a professorship in anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber has written extensively on theories of value, social theory, direct action, and ethnographic theory. He participated in the Occupy movement and is a memb...

Full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-syndicalism-the-modern-menace-to-capitalism   This recording is a mirror of a recording by our comrade and fellow youtuber TheAnarchistSpectacle: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjdp1zvCaLOR4VOrpGz6mA

Read the full text:  https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/writings/ch04.htm Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) was a revolutionary anarchist who became one of history's most influential anarchist thinkers. He founded the collectivist anarchist tradition and helped bring social anarchism to prominence in Europe. He also participated directly in numerous struggles and revolutions during...

Full text available here:  http://libcom.org/library/power-corrupts-the-best-mikhail-bakunin Reading Courtesy of fellow youtuber Reddebrek: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyhoKI98zPwE5RkfPq8vh1A   "From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots." - Mikhail Bakunin

Full text:  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/neither-lord-nor-subject Pao Ching-yen (zh:鮑敬言) (also transliterated as Bao Jingyan) was a Chinese Taoist libertarian philosopher who lived 405-466 AD. A successor of Laozi and Zhuang Zhou in the politically-ethically libertarian strain of Taoism, Pao Ching-yen was, according to Etienne Balazs “China’s first political anarchist.” He extended t...

Full Text  http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/josh-anarchism-and-taoism Anarchism is usually considered a recent, Western phenomenon, but its roots reach deep in the ancient civilizations of the East. The first clear expression of an anarchist sensibility may be traced back to the Taoists in ancient China from about the sixth century BC. Indeed, the principal Taoist work, the Tao te Ching, may...

Full text here  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/carlo-cafiero-anarchy-and-communism "My friends, let us hurry on the Revolution as quickly as we can, since, as you see, our enemies are letting us die like this - in prison or in exile, or crazed with sorrow" - Spoken by Cafiero at Giuseppe Fanelli's funeral."The common wealth being scattered right across the planet, while belonging to the w...

Read the full text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs-a-work-rant David Graeber (1961- ) is an anarchist, anthropologist, and activist who currently holds a professorship in anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber has written extensively on theories of value, social theory, direct action, and ethnographic theory. He participated...

Full text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sonia-munoz-llort-anarcha-feminism-against-institutionalized-misogyny-homophobia-and-transphobi "White middle-class privileges are a reality we white feminists must acknowledge in order to change all the oppressive systems that surrounds us. Historically speaking, we like to see ourselves as pioneers in fighting for women’s rights giving this...

Full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-toward-the-queerest-insurrection Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT”. This reading falls short. While those who would fit within the constructions of “L”, “G”, “B” or “T” could fall with - in the discursive limits of queer, queer is not a stable area to inhabit. Queer is not merely another i...

Full text  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-bookchin-ecology-and-revolutionary-thought   Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was an anarchist and libertarian socialist political theorist, historian, and author. He is perhaps best remembered as a thinker who fused critical ecology with anarchist thought, but his conceptions of democratic confederalism have influenced numerous soc...

Read the Full text  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-bookchin-ecology-and-revolutionary-thought Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was an anarchist and libertarian socialist political theorist, historian, and author. He is perhaps best remembered as a thinker who fused critical ecology with anarchist thought, but his conceptions of democratic confederalism have influenced numer...

Read the full text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-bookchin-ecology-and-revolutionary-thought Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was an anarchist and libertarian socialist political theorist, historian, and author. He is perhaps best remembered as a thinker who fused critical ecology with anarchist thought, but his conceptions of democratic confederalism have influenced numer...

The full text: https://libcom.org/library/idea-thing-berkman Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is diffucult to dislodge. If you believe that America is entering the war "to make democracy safe," then be a man and volunteer. But if you know anything at all, then you should know that the cry of democracy is a lie and a snare for the unthinking. You should k...

Full text https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-mutual-aid-an-essay Since it is a fact that man is a social animal whose existence depends on the continued physical and spiritual relations between human beings, these relations must be based either on affinity, solidarity and love, or on hostility and struggle. If each individual thinks only of his well being, or perhaps that of...

Émile Pouget (1860-1931) was a French anarcho-communist, who adopted tactics close to those of anarcho-syndicalism. He was vice-secretary of the General Confederation of Labour from 1901 to 1908. Text version:  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-pouget-revolutionary-bread

The Bully's Pulpit: On the Elementary Structure of Domination Full text here  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-bully-s-pulpit David Graeber (1961- ) is an anarchist, anthropologist, and activist who currently holds a professorship in anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber has written extensively on theories of value, social theory, direct action, and ethno...

Full text here   Real equality, final goal of social art -Condorcet   Gracchus Babeuf was a French radical during the days of the French Revolution. He was an early advocate for political, social and economic equality and was opposed to the increasingly corrupt ruling Directory. The group dubbed the Conspiracy of Equals was exposed in December 1796, resulting in the execution of Babeuf and many of...

Full essay  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism In this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the promising opportunities of a “post-scarcity” era. Technological advances during the 20th century have expanded production in the pursuit of corporate profit at the expense of human need and ecological sustainabil...

The essay in text form:  http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/osugi-sakae-the-chain-factory Osugi Sakae biography:  https://libcom.org/library/osugi-sakae-biography Ōsugi Sakae was a Japanese Anarchist born in 1885. In addition to study socialism and the works of Bakunin and Kropotkin-whose autobiography he translated into Japanese- he taught himself several langauges including Italian, Esperant...

Full text of this essay:  https://books.google.co.uk/books? Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was an American historian, anarchist, and activist. He authored 20 books, including "A People's History of the United States," one of the most influential and controversial books of the twentieth century. Zinn had the audacity to write about historically marginalized peoples, and he took great pains to write about...

Read the full text here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-fascists-are-the-tools-of-the-state   This reading is dedicated to Heather Heyer, an antifascist activist whose life was cut short by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017. This audio is also dedicated to all the people who have ever been killed or injured in the struggle against fascism. We stand...