Leftist Politics/Anarchism
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From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out. This is not the least of its virtues. From those who seek hope above all, it tears away every firm ground.
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May 27, 1959: G. Clifford Prout of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals appears on the Today Show to condemn animal nudity. (See News Trolls for more of Alan Abel’s pranks)
The following text is an excerpt from a talk given by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to the International Civil Commission of Human Rights Observation in La Realidad, Chiapas on November 20, 1999. The outline for the talk was published in Letters 5.1 and 5.2 in November of the same year, with the titles "Chiapas: the War: 1, Between the Satellite and the Microscope, the Other's Gaze," and 2, "The Machinery of Ethnocide." Any similarity to the conditions of the current war is purely coincidental.
The Fourth World War by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos / Autonomy: Chiapas - California / In Motion Magazine
This thesis explores contemporary anarchism, in its re-emergence as a social movement and political theory over the past decade. The methodology used combines participatory research and philosophical argumentation. The first part, “Explaining Anarchism”, argues that it should be addressed primarily as a political culture, with distinct forms of organisation, campaigning and direct action repertoires, and political discourse and ideology.
Anarchism and Political Theory: Contemporary Problems | zinelibrary.info
Anarchism in America
Made in 1983, this film explores anarchist thought in America, and prominently features interviews from such anarchists as Murray Bookchin and Karl Hess.
But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
Society of the Spectacle