Anarchism

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Tendencies

• Collectivist/Communist Anarchism
• Market Anarchism/Mutualism
• Egoist/Individualist Anarchism
• Post-Left Anarchism
• Communalism
• Post-/Anti-Civilization
• Anarcho-Primitivism
• Nihilist Anarchism
• Post-Modern Anarchism
• Insurrectionary Anarchism
• Situationism
• Illegalism

Affinities

• Anarcha-Feminism
• Green Anarchism
• Veganarchism
• Lifestylism
• Anarcho-Punk
• Religious/Spiritualist Anarchism
• Liberation Theology
• Anarcho-Pacifism
• Anarchism Without Adjectives
• Neurodiverse currents

Books

If a link is unreachable — say, blocked by your ISP — ask around on ChapoChat and someone will be happy to fetch a copy for you.

Overview

• Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
• Anarchism and other Essays by Emma Goldman
• The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
• Anarchism and Its Aspirations by Cindy Milstein
• Anarchy In Action by Colin Ward
• Anarchy by Errico Malatesta

Anti-Capitalism

• What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Capital by Karl Marx
• Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver
• The State: Its Historic Role by Pyotr Kroptokin
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
• Hegemony Or Survival by Noam Chomsky
• Debt: The First Five Thousand Years by David Graeber
• The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand by Kevin Carson
• Days of War, Nights of Love by CrimethInc.
• Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance by Peter Linebaugh
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Anti-Leninism

• My Disillusionment In Russia by Emma Goldman
• Trotsky Protests Too Much by Emma Goldman
• The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman
• Leninism Or Marxism? by Rosa Luxemburg
• The Guillotine At Work, Vol. 1: The Leninist Counter-Revolution by Grigori Petrovitch Maximov
• Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
• Listen, Marxist! by Murray Bookchin

Tendencies

Anarcho-Capitalism

• Intro to Anarcho-Capitalism

Collectivist and Communist Anarchism

• Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin
• The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin
• Fields, Factories and Workshops by Pyotr Kropotkin
• What Is Communist Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
• Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker
• On Syndicalism by Errico Malatesta
• Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists by Dielo Truda (Workers' Cause)
• About the Platform by Errico Malatesta & Nestor Makhno
• The Political Economy of Participatory Economics by Michael Albert & Robin Hahnel

Market Anarchism and Mutualism

Egoist/Individualist Anarchism

• The Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner
• Stirner's Critics by Max Stirner

Communalism

• The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
• Deomcratic Confederalism by Abdullah Öcalan

Post-Left

• Your Politics are Boring as Fuck! by Nadia C. of CrimethInc.
• I Don't Bash Back I Shoot First
• Queer Revenge

Post-/anti-civilisation

• Drop Out! by Crimethinc.
• Against His-story, Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman
• Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin
• A Critique, Not a Program: For a Non-Primitivist Anti-Civilization Critique by Wolfi Landstreicher

Anarcho-Primitivism

• Broadly related to post/anti-civ

Nihilist Anarchism

• Desert
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Post-Modern Anarchism

Insurrectionary Anarchism

• The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
• Spread Anarchy, Live Communism by The Invisible Committee
• To Our Friends by The Invisible Committee
• Now by The Invisible Committee

Situationism

• Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Illegalism

General Anarchist Theory

• Black Anarchism: A Reader

Zapatistas

• Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds
• The fourth world war has begun
• A Zapatista Response to "The EZLN is NOT Anarchist"

Syndicalist Praxis Corner

• No Shortcuts
  • Same, but shorter (kinda ironic)
• Beautiful Trouble
• Literally a Chapo episode

Praxis

• Guerilla Grafting
• Guerilla Gardening Tips
• Riot Medicine

Human Rights

• The Devil's Highway
• Orientalism by Edward Said
  Analysis of colonial social science and its impact from the 17th-20th century

Fiction

• The Disposessed by Ursula le Guin
  Communist Anarchism
• Always Coming Home by Ursula le Guin
• The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula le Guin
  Post-Civilization, Green Anarchism
• Use of Weapons (and all of his Culture novels) by Iain M. Banks
  Unironic Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
• Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler
  Post-Civilization, Anarcho-Primitivism, colonialism with aliens
• Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
  General leftism, on Mars
  • Red Mars
  • Green Mars
  • Blue Mars
• Distress by Greg Egan
  Gender abolitionism, stateless society

Books We're Looking For

• Anarchist Voices: an Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich

Videos

• Intro to Anarchy: Power & Violence by Philosophy Tube
• How Anarchism Works by NonCompete

Podcasts

• Channel Zero Network – big ol' pile of anarchist podcasts
• Srsly Wrong – Utopian anarchism and sketch comedy
• From Embers – Anarchist news/interviews from Canada, focus on First Nations/indigenous issues

Organizations

• Industrial Workers of the World
• Animal Liberation Front/Earth Liberation Front
• Black & Pink
• Food Not Bombs

Websites

• The Anarchist Library
• The Kate Sharpley Library
• Ill Will
• Audible Anarchist – Audiobook readings of anarchist writings
• Crimethinc.
• It's Going Down