Category Archives: Revolution

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.

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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.

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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.

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Octavia’s Brood – Collection

This is a great book. Short stories of visionary fiction from mostly activist writers. Very interesting.

In it’s essence, social justice work, which King embodied and Butler expressed so skillfully in her novels and stories, is about love – a love that has the best hopes and wishes for humanity at heart.

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The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk

This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It presented a very powerful and personal vision of how society could be. Not utopian, still with challenges, still hard, still taking work, still real. But with virtually no oppression or suffering.… Read the rest

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.

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European Socialism – William Smalldone

This is a great history written by a neighbor of my parents. He explains the history in a very easy to understand way and includes many excerpts of the original historical texts themselves.

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