Fredy Perlman';s anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s revi... more Fredy Perlman';s anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s revival, quite apart from his later and better-known critiques of domestication. Perlman's long-neglected books, pamphlets and parodies from 1968-1972 show him championing an anti-vanguardist ethos of direct action and practical de-alienation, while working towards an original and distinctly anarchist social theory of domination. This article traces the influences of Isaak Rubin, C. Wright Mills, and possibly Henri Lefebvre and Peter Kropotkin, on Perlman's thought. Perlman's originality was to generalise a heterodox Marxian critique of social reproduction, including but exceeding productive relations. Thus, he explicitly sets the state in analytical parity with capital, theorising authority as a fetish distinct from exchange value. Implicitly, he points to other containers for alienated powers, including the family, religion and scholarship. Perlman's account of selfa...
Fredy Perlman's anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s reviv... more Fredy Perlman's anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s revival, quite apart from his later and better-known critiques of domestication. Perlman's long-neglected books, pamphlets and parodies from 1968-1972 show him championing an anti-vanguardist ethos of direct action and practical de-alienation, while working towards an original and distinctly anarchist social theory of domination. This article traces the influences of Isaak Rubin, C. Wright Mills, and possibly Henri Lefebvre and Peter Kropotkin, on Perlman's thought. Perlman's originality was to generalise a heterodox Marxian critique of social reproduction, including but exceeding productive relations. Thus, he explicitly sets the state in analytical parity with capital, theorising authority as a fetish distinct from exchange value. Implicitly, he points to other containers for alienated powers, including the family, religion and scholarship. Perlman's account of self-and community powers remains incomplete, however, eliding constitutive violence and inviting engagement with current intersectional approaches.
Anarchism is strongly opposed to racism and bigotry, and celebrates cultural pluralism and the en... more Anarchism is strongly opposed to racism and bigotry, and celebrates cultural pluralism and the endless diversity of the human race. At the same time, anarchists are very critical of modern “multiculturalism” as a state-driven population and immigration management agenda. The chapter examines this critique, while offering an account of original anarchist approaches to identity and community conceived on an ethno-cultural basis. The anarchist critique of multiculturalism has several dimensions, including its continued reliance on the state, and its obviation of social antagonism in favour of competing demands for status and resources within existing arrangements of power. On this reading, multiculturalism dissolves the potential for solidarities that would challenge the given society by redefining which identities enjoy first-order relevance (namely, ethnic or religious ones) and allowing the state, and its technocratic machinations of coercive urban governance, to engage with groups ...
The watchword on the streets was: 'The landlord's gone crazy'. The goal of the operat... more The watchword on the streets was: 'The landlord's gone crazy'. The goal of the operation: 'To fuck their mothers' mother'. Calls to erase Gaza rode lighdy off people's lips. Hamas arc armed and dangerous. Destroy their buildings, their personnel. Anyone around them is as good as dead. Since the end of the 2006 Lebanon War, the expectation of a future 'big operation in Gaza' that would restore the mudthed honour of the Israeli army has been periodically floated in the media, and normalised in Israelis' consciousness. On the day after the US elections, Israel was the first to break the elapsed ceasefire with Hamas, which in response renewed its own rocket attacks. In truth, Israel had never kept its side of the Egyptian-brokered bargain over the ceasefire, in failing to end the harsh economic blockade. A Russian joke: 'They told me, 'Relax, it could be worse'. So I relaxed, and indeed it got worse.' As Qassam attacks by Hamas or ...
Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, 2018
Anonymous 1970 Superficially, anarchism is a movement of the Left but this is not strictly so, si... more Anonymous 1970 Superficially, anarchism is a movement of the Left but this is not strictly so, since it implies being part of the political spectrum. Anarchists reject this, asserting that there is more in common between Right and Left political parties (like the struggle for power) than between even extreme Left political groups and the anarchists. History has shown us that no matter how 'Left' a party is when it starts off, the achievement of power brings it round to the Right, for every government wants to maintain the status quo; wants to extend the control it has over the people, and isn't this what the Right really means? Certain right-wing attitudes are specifically rejected by leftwing parties-until they become useful in the power game. 'Divide and Rule', for example, can be played with many variations, from wage differentials to religious and colour prejudice, and although nationalism is intellectually rejected by the political Left, they quite shamelessly use what are quaintly called 'National Liberation Movements' when it suits their political ambitionsand a 'Left' party in power knows very well the usefulness of nationalism and indeed patriotism as a weapon of government. Even if this were not deliberate cunning on the part of a so-called
Fredy Perlman';s anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s revi... more Fredy Perlman';s anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s revival, quite apart from his later and better-known critiques of domestication. Perlman's long-neglected books, pamphlets and parodies from 1968-1972 show him championing an anti-vanguardist ethos of direct action and practical de-alienation, while working towards an original and distinctly anarchist social theory of domination. This article traces the influences of Isaak Rubin, C. Wright Mills, and possibly Henri Lefebvre and Peter Kropotkin, on Perlman's thought. Perlman's originality was to generalise a heterodox Marxian critique of social reproduction, including but exceeding productive relations. Thus, he explicitly sets the state in analytical parity with capital, theorising authority as a fetish distinct from exchange value. Implicitly, he points to other containers for alienated powers, including the family, religion and scholarship. Perlman's account of selfa...
Fredy Perlman's anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s reviv... more Fredy Perlman's anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on the movement's post-1960s revival, quite apart from his later and better-known critiques of domestication. Perlman's long-neglected books, pamphlets and parodies from 1968-1972 show him championing an anti-vanguardist ethos of direct action and practical de-alienation, while working towards an original and distinctly anarchist social theory of domination. This article traces the influences of Isaak Rubin, C. Wright Mills, and possibly Henri Lefebvre and Peter Kropotkin, on Perlman's thought. Perlman's originality was to generalise a heterodox Marxian critique of social reproduction, including but exceeding productive relations. Thus, he explicitly sets the state in analytical parity with capital, theorising authority as a fetish distinct from exchange value. Implicitly, he points to other containers for alienated powers, including the family, religion and scholarship. Perlman's account of self-and community powers remains incomplete, however, eliding constitutive violence and inviting engagement with current intersectional approaches.
Anarchism is strongly opposed to racism and bigotry, and celebrates cultural pluralism and the en... more Anarchism is strongly opposed to racism and bigotry, and celebrates cultural pluralism and the endless diversity of the human race. At the same time, anarchists are very critical of modern “multiculturalism” as a state-driven population and immigration management agenda. The chapter examines this critique, while offering an account of original anarchist approaches to identity and community conceived on an ethno-cultural basis. The anarchist critique of multiculturalism has several dimensions, including its continued reliance on the state, and its obviation of social antagonism in favour of competing demands for status and resources within existing arrangements of power. On this reading, multiculturalism dissolves the potential for solidarities that would challenge the given society by redefining which identities enjoy first-order relevance (namely, ethnic or religious ones) and allowing the state, and its technocratic machinations of coercive urban governance, to engage with groups ...
The watchword on the streets was: 'The landlord's gone crazy'. The goal of the operat... more The watchword on the streets was: 'The landlord's gone crazy'. The goal of the operation: 'To fuck their mothers' mother'. Calls to erase Gaza rode lighdy off people's lips. Hamas arc armed and dangerous. Destroy their buildings, their personnel. Anyone around them is as good as dead. Since the end of the 2006 Lebanon War, the expectation of a future 'big operation in Gaza' that would restore the mudthed honour of the Israeli army has been periodically floated in the media, and normalised in Israelis' consciousness. On the day after the US elections, Israel was the first to break the elapsed ceasefire with Hamas, which in response renewed its own rocket attacks. In truth, Israel had never kept its side of the Egyptian-brokered bargain over the ceasefire, in failing to end the harsh economic blockade. A Russian joke: 'They told me, 'Relax, it could be worse'. So I relaxed, and indeed it got worse.' As Qassam attacks by Hamas or ...
Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, 2018
Anonymous 1970 Superficially, anarchism is a movement of the Left but this is not strictly so, si... more Anonymous 1970 Superficially, anarchism is a movement of the Left but this is not strictly so, since it implies being part of the political spectrum. Anarchists reject this, asserting that there is more in common between Right and Left political parties (like the struggle for power) than between even extreme Left political groups and the anarchists. History has shown us that no matter how 'Left' a party is when it starts off, the achievement of power brings it round to the Right, for every government wants to maintain the status quo; wants to extend the control it has over the people, and isn't this what the Right really means? Certain right-wing attitudes are specifically rejected by leftwing parties-until they become useful in the power game. 'Divide and Rule', for example, can be played with many variations, from wage differentials to religious and colour prejudice, and although nationalism is intellectually rejected by the political Left, they quite shamelessly use what are quaintly called 'National Liberation Movements' when it suits their political ambitionsand a 'Left' party in power knows very well the usefulness of nationalism and indeed patriotism as a weapon of government. Even if this were not deliberate cunning on the part of a so-called
Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have be... more Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and generalized violence against occupied Palestine. The reflections herein offer a window into some of the most dynamic direct action activism today.
DRAFT 24.4.13 -PLEASE DO NOT CITE Anarchist practices have had an unquestionable presence in the ... more DRAFT 24.4.13 -PLEASE DO NOT CITE Anarchist practices have had an unquestionable presence in the cycle of resistance that recently swept from Tunis to Madrid to New York. Far from a novelty, the political toolbox of seizing public space, nonviolent disruption and anti-authoritarian organizing arrived on the scene practically ready-made, having been synthesized over the previous decade of anticapitalist resistance out of the legacies of yet earlier convergences between radical forms of feminism, anti-militarism, environmentalism and anti-fascism, to name a few. Perhaps the most evident anarchist influence that has carried over from the alter-globalization movement is the commitment to horizontal organizing. While during the latter protest wave anarchists had to constantly resist attempts by NGOs and Leninst groups to squeeze the emergent grassroots militancy into formal top-down structures (with whatever semblance of electoral democracy), in the recent wave non-hierarchical organizing was the widely-accepted default.
This guide is pitched for A-level teachers looking to keep up with modern developments, and/or to... more This guide is pitched for A-level teachers looking to keep up with modern developments, and/or to provide material to more advanced students who may be able to go beyond the basics to grasp more difficult approaches to the study of anarchism, probe core concepts or read further on the topic. This guide outlines some key themes in recent literature, it examines some core and advanced topics and provides some new case studies.
This volume shows how the current social and ecological crises can be helped by anarchist praxis,... more This volume shows how the current social and ecological crises can be helped by anarchist praxis, such as community organizing.
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