Such a beautiful and powerful book. His writing is almost like poetry.
4/24/16
- Race
- Race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy.
Category Archives: Non-Fiction
All About Love – Bell Hooks
Powerful book on love.
3/28/16
- What is love?
- Love: “The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action.
Life of an Anarchist – Alexander Berkman
A collection of excerpts and works by Berkman: Memoirs of a Anarchist, BLAST articles, The Bolshevik Myth, Letters with Emma Goldman, and the ABCs of Anarchism.
The ABCs of Anarchism is an excellent and simple explanation of Anarchism.
3/1/16
- General
- The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on the popular delusion of self-government and independence.
Expect Resistance – CrimethInc
6/1/16 (or so)
- Just beautiful passages
- It hijacks history classes and funerals, waylays secretaries on the way to the coffee machine, turn rails into slides and shopping malls into playgrounds, it sends lives spinning out of control. Movie directors endeavor to harness it, travel agents to peddle it, political parties to enlist it; but fantasy, like those who pursue it in earnest, can serve no employer.
Wobblies & Zapatistas – Staughton Lynd
10/19/15
I was pretty disappointed in this book and didn’t finish it. The introduction and first few chapters did contain some interesting ideas:
- We need Marxism to understand the structure of society and anarchism to prefigure or anticipate a new society
- This is Zapatista education not Freirean education.
Rolling Thunder 12 – CrimethInc
10/15/15
- What they mean when they say peace
- Real peace cannot be imposed; it can only emerge as a consequence of the resolution of conflict. hence the classic chant: no justice, no peace.
- That means you can’t have rich people and poor people without police to impose that unequal relation to resources.
Rolling Thunder 11 – CrimethInc
10/12/15
- After the crest
- If we presume the goal of any tactic is always to maintain the momentum of a particular movement, we will never be able to do more that react quixotically against the inexorable passing of time. Rather than struggling to stave off dissolution, we should act with an eye to the future.
Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism – Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt
8/19/15
I got a lot out of reading this book. It’s definition and understanding of Anarchism is more clear than anything I’ve read so far. A bit dense at times though.
Though now there is controversy surrounding Michael Schmidt apparently being a White Nationalist.
… Read the rest Short writings by Ursula K LeGuin
A small collection of a short story, two essays, some poetry, and an interview
- I keep hoping that the corporations will realize that publishing is not, in fact, a sane or normal business with a nice healthy relationship to capitalism. the practices of literary publishing houses are, in almost every way, by normal business standards, impractical, exotic, abnormal, and insane.
Sasha and Emma – Avrich & Avrich
Great biography of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. I love learning about Emma Goldman and this provided a lot of detail and historical context that her autobiography did not.
… Read the rest