General discussion
A general discussion of texts from The Anarchist Library.
How would the various public agencies be replaced under anarchy?
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Hi. I was wondering how public agencies such as the ones responsible for providing weather forecasts and warnings of natural disasters would be replaced under anarchy. These agencies are huge and involve hundreds of thousands of people and they are (ideally) responsible for saving uncountable lives by providing warnings or relief aid during hazardous weather. I am aware that in marginalized communities, the people are the ones saving each other's lives, but ideally, these agencies should indiscriminately help save lives and avoid disasters.
Inside Front: International Journal of Hardcore Punk and Anarchist Action (1994–2003)
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I created a rough ABBYY conversion of all the available old 'Inside Front' issues. So, they can be word searched and some of the essays republished.
Anarchism sounds great, but...
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okay, so anarchism sounds really cool.
But...how does anarchism deal with hate?
I'm going to use antisemitism as an example, since a) there's a fair bit of data and b) I'm Jewish. Jews are 0.2% of the world population.
egoism - anarchism vs archism
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hey. has anyone come across any articles from an "egoist" standpoint arguing why one has no reason to dominate others (or that dominating others leads to bad consequences, etc)? i'm asking this because i recently read sidney parker's "archists, anarchists, and egoists" - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sidney-e-parker-archists-anarch… - where sidney lays out that any egoist has a good reason to dominate if they perceive it to be advantageous.
How do I setup an Italian version of the site
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Basically the subject. Im interested in creating a version that's accessible to italian people that dont speak english to the degree required to understand political and philosophical texts
Why are there pro capitalist texts on here?
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A text by and for libertarian capitalists? Wtf, how is this anarchist?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/casey-waterman-pseudo-libertari…
Speciest text on the site
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I am very confused by the inclusion of the following text on the site: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/johann-most-the-vegetarian?v=17…
Certainly speciesm is one of the forms of hierarchy/oppression we should be fighting.
Without context or a discussion, this text could convince people new to the ideology that veganism really is bad for workers, which is complete nonsense.
The arguments in the text are both weak and outdated. So why even post it?
Anarchist Recommendations?
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Me and some comrades are squatting a building and we want to make an anarchist library for people to learn about anarchist theory and methods of direct action, any recommendations?
If you had my background and interests, how would you pursue my goals differently?
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Considering my interests include archiving books for T@L, I thought going into detail about some of my interests broadly might spark an interesting discussion on here.
criticism of mutual aid culture?
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I struggled to find more than a few examples of this, and wondered if anyone had recommendations or search ideas or other things related to mutual aid problems?