Jason McQuinn (Note: The following essay was written as an introduction to the 2012 LBC Books edition of the 1983 Donald Nicholson-Smith translation of Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations under the new title of Treatise on […]
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EDITORIAL: The Slave Syndrome
In the 1979 robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg – a square in Stockholm, Sweden – several bank employees were held hostage in the bank vault for most of a week during which time they began to increasingly identify with their […]
Continue reading »Curtains of Blood: A Peek behind the Phenomena of the Grand Guignol
by Paul Z. Simons “Eyes wide open! Eyes wide open! Do you not realize how much horror is contained in those three words.” – from “In the Darkroom” 1911, Maurice Level & Étienne Rey The images conjured by the mention […]
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Some thoughts on being an anarchist at the beginning of the 21st century A serialized book-in-progress by Wolfi Landstreicher Introduction “…we are alone, with an entire world ranged against us.” -Andrea Dorea I have been an anarchist for well over […]
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Ron Sakolsky Most of us have made a compact, saying “Let us make a convention. Let us agree to call what we are feeling not ‘pain’ but ‘neutral,’ not ‘dull unease’ but ‘well enough,’ not ‘restless dissatisfaction intermitted by […]
Continue reading »The Archimedean Point? Self-Activity
The reclamation of our own self-activity and the refusal of all forms of enslavement are the keys to changing our world.
Continue reading »A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau’s defense of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry attempting to incite a rebellion against slavery
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An Introduction to Modern Slavery
“Modern Slavery” is the general term for the collection of all the institutionalized forms of enslavement which provide foundations for each of the local regimes of Modern Civilization.
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