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More fiction - if you like your historical romps through the reformation tinged with anarchist/libertarian politics then Q by Luther Blissett's great.
 
Threshers_Flail said:
Hey October_lost, id like to ask whether you became an anarchist the second you became politically aware, or were your views different beforehand? I considered myself a 'Socialist' only due to ignorance. In the last few weeks i have been a bit like "OMG - if I buy a tshirt from there a baby will die!" But unless im willing to become a hermit then i have no choice but to be called a hypocrite by every skeptic out there.
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TF, if I came across as abrupt apologises. My political trajectory was naive to begin with and Im grateful for those who made that abundantly clear to me, we carry alot of baggage due to the society were under, and changing your consuming habbits, even if it happens on a wider scale doesnt have any great effect on the nature of the system. Im not saying boycots or ethical consumerism arent important, just they dont have the impact some seem to make out. I dont anyone who doesnt have to compromise, we should just try and practice what we preach as far as humanely possible, but importantly get organised with those around us.

I hope you get involved and importantly discuss your views, unfortuantely the internet isnt the best place for that.

cheers O_L
 
Paulie Tandoori said:
Probably worth trying to get hold of The Anarchist Reader by George Woodcock, it's got essays from way back when to relatively recently and includes Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Goldman, and Kropotkin etc. In a way that i find rather amusing, you can pick up a copy off of Amazon I think.
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yeah, i found this in a second hand bookshop when i was about 19 and it made me realise that yes indeed, i was an anarchist.
 
chico enrico said:
if i was you i'd read orwell book liike homage to catalonia (spanish rev) and the road to wigan pier
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also very good, especially homage...
 
nosos said:
Peter Marshall's Demanding the Impossible made me realise I wasn't actually a liberal
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:D :p

Er it's a great book to be fair, but some of the people he claims for anarchism rather than just decent radical liberalism is pretty suspect.
 
llantwit said:
More fiction - if you like your historical romps through the reformation tinged with anarchist/libertarian politics then Q by Luther Blissett's great.
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one of the best novels i've ever read :cool:
 
biff curtains said:
Er it's a great book to be fair, but some of the people he claims for anarchism rather than just decent radical liberalism is pretty suspect.
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Precisely - I wasn't just a liberal, I was a radical liberal :cool:
 
Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible!

:cool:

I have been thinking about this thread, as the OP asked at some point about becoming politically aware.

I suggest he could maybe start a thread over in music about politically aware music? Or search for a current thread.

Because for me, It was music, especially punk when I was younger, that made me become politically conscious.

It made me start to challenge things I had been told about the way the world works, and start to ask questions that not all of us ask.
 
Dillinger4 said:
Because for me, It was music, especially punk when I was younger, that made me become politically conscious.
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Antiflag!! :cool:

Oh I miss it. Last time I saw them I was one of only about 5 people in the crowd with facial hair. :o
 
I suppose that music is some of the best anarchist literature there is.

ETA - NOFX was one of the first more political bands for me (and are still one of my all time favourites). I am going watching them in November!
 
It was probably music that made me give a damn about the world around me. Hearing a Joe Strummer/Bob Dylan lyric left more of an impression than watching £4 million a year Jonathan Ross on comic relief.

Hey thanks lantwitt, im not sure if i could make it monday because of work, but ill definitely check it out some time
 
Threshers_Flail said:
It was probably music that made me give a damn about the world around me. Hearing a Joe Strummer/Bob Dylan lyric left more of an impression than watching £4 million a year Jonathan Ross on comic relief.

Hey thanks lantwitt, im not sure if i could make it monday because of work, but ill definitely check it out some time
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:cool:

You are on the right path

:cool:
 
October_Lost no worries, i think my pathetic attempt of sarcasm (tescos) in the OP may have led you to post anyways. Probably try at The Anarchist Reader by George Woodcock first, seems a good place to start. Ill guess ill check out the library lantwitt mentioned, it would be better to see what people in there have to say in person. Anyway thanks to all that recommended stuff.
 
Threshers_Flail said:
October_Lost no worries, i think my pathetic attempt of sarcasm (tescos) in the OP may have led you to post anyways. Probably try at The Anarchist Reader by George Woodcock first, seems a good place to start. Ill guess ill check out the library lantwitt mentioned, it would be better to see what people in there have to say in person. Anyway thanks to all that recommended stuff.
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When I said 'library', what I meant was a table with lots of books on it, mind you. Don't be expecting nothing too organised.;)
 
Larry O'Hara said:
While a dense book, and not strictly anarchist as such, I found Gombin 'The Origins of Modern Leftism' to be a superb introduction to the more sophisticated Leftists/Situationists, Gramsci aside. It was probably the first political book I ever read, at age 17...
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Booked your stall at the Anarchist bookfair yet Larry?
 
Larry O'Hara said:
a little prior research on your part would have shown the answer is 'yes'...
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I did read the list earlier t'other day but I couldn't remember yours while I was on t'web last nite. I hope we're next door to each other:D :D :cool:
 
Attica said:
I did read the list earlier t'other day but I couldn't remember yours while I was on t'web last nite. I hope we're next door to each other:D :D :cool:
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"Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true"
 
I reckon for the @ bookfair they should hire one of those things you get at shitty discos where two folk get in a ring in sumo wrestler costumes or on a wall dressed as humpty dumpty and try to whack each other off with big spoons.

then all the folk who're always having a go at each other could get up and do it for real and everyone could have bets on the outcome. :)
 
Librarything lists these as the books which have been tagged 'anarchism' the most often (top 50)
  1. The dispossessed
  2. Anarchism and other essays
  3. Anarchism : a history of libertarian ideas and movements
  4. God and the state
  5. V for vendetta
  6. Anarchism; from theory to practice
  7. T.A.Z. : the temporary autonomous zone, ontological anarchy,…
  8. Mutual aid : a factor of evolution
  9. No gods no masters : an anthology of anarchism
  10. Homage to Catalonia
  11. Living My Life, Vol. 1
  12. Post-scarcity anarchism, by Murray Bookchin
  13. Anarcho-syndicalism
  14. Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners
  15. Anarchy in action
  16. Memoirs of a revolutionist
  17. Chomsky on anarchism
  18. Demanding the Impossible: History of Anarchism
  19. Living my life
  20. Anarchy, state, and utopia
  21. Living My Life, Vol. 2
  22. In defense of anarchism
  23. A.B.C. of anarchism
  24. Anarchist voices : an oral history of anarchism in America
  25. Anarchist portraits
  26. What is property?
  27. Reinventing anarchy, again
  28. Fragments of an anarchist anthropology
  29. The Spanish anarchists : the heroic years, 1868-1936
  30. My granny made me an anarchist : the cultural and political …
  31. Anarchism, arguments for and against
  32. Free women of Spain : anarchism and the struggle for the ema…
  33. Prison memoirs of an anarchist
  34. Social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism : the unbridgeable c…
  35. The ecology of freedom : the emergence and dissolution of hi…
  36. The political philosophy of poststructuralist anarchism
  37. Anarchy! : an anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother earth
  38. Anarchism : a collection of revolutionary writings
  39. The anarchists of Casas Viejas
  40. The Voltairine de Cleyre reader
  41. Native American anarchism : a study of left-wing American in…
  42. Red Emma speaks : an Emma Goldman reader
  43. The modern school movement : anarchism and education in the …
  44. The Invisibles : say you want a revolution
  45. Bakunin on anarchism
  46. What is anarchism?
  47. Rebel alliances : the means and ends of contemporary British…
  48. Anarchism : left, right, and green
  49. Breaking Free: The Adventures Of TinTin
  50. No gods, no masters: an anthology of anarchism, book one

Something for everyone there, with novels, memoires, autobiography, graphic novels/cartoons, activist agitation, theoretical analyses, histories.... Good to see that anarcho-capitalism is largely absent (except for Anarchy, State and Utopia and possibly in Defence of Anarchism), though I am sure that otherwise on the list are flawed by a persistent liberalism.
 
the button said:
Nice to see a paedo-apologist in there at number 7 as well. :rolleyes:
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T.A.Z. : the temporary autonomous zone, ontological anarchy,…

:confused:

ive never even heard of that? what's it all about. sounds a heap of utter and total shite. i dont even understand what the title is meant to mean.

isn't ontology the study of cancer or something?
 
chico enrico said:
T.A.Z. : the temporary autonomous zone, ontological anarchy,…

:confused:

ive never even heard of that? what's it all about. sounds a heap of utter and total shite. i dont even understand what the title is meant to mean.

isn't ontology the study of cancer or something?
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it's nonce sense!
 
At least he has the good grace to look like a kiddyfiddler though.

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