Banks Not Tanks: How to Take Over a Government 2.0
A Review of Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), by George Katsiaficas On July 5, 2015, with their government bankrupt and every bank closed, the people of Greece voted overwhelmingly … Read more
Anarchism’s Possibilities
The Perspectives collective is committed to making anarchist ideas accessible and widely understood. As part of this we aspire to include a brief “What is Anarchism?” type essay in future print issues. We approached Kim Stanley Robinson about writing one for us, and he referred us to … Read more
(“All about New York” by Eric Drooker) by Alexander Riccio Revolutions happen alongside massive escalations of collective imagination.(1) Thankfully, a number of leftist thinkers are doing their part to inspire revolutionary imaginations. Among them, Walidah Imarisha recognizes every effort to build a better world as an … Read more
(Solidaridad Con La Minga image by Roger Peet) In 2020, thanks to the US Presidential election, we’re all going to be thinking about power. Who has it? What is it? How does it work? How do we, as antiauthoritarians, relate to the established political system during a … Read more
By María Castro and Javier Sethness Castro Introduction: The Ring as Anarchist Social Imaginary? Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung (1874), based on medieval German and Scandinavian sources (The Nibelungenlied and The Völsunga Saga, respectively), explores the confrontation and mutual destruction of two distinct ideologies: that of Wotan, king of the gods, the archetype … Read more
This discussion is with Linda and Miro, German comrades who did a speaking tour in the US in the fall of 2018. They have been antifascist activists for over 10 years and are part of the …ums Ganze! alliance. Both are involved in the campaign … Read more
The Horror of Imagination: A Review of Ration (Apex, 2019), by Cody T Luff
In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of essays on the spectrum of conditions she calls The Collected Schizophrenias (Graywolf Press, 2019), she wonders at the evolutionary purpose of madness. Since so few of the traits of madness are on the list of generally desirable reproductive elements, why hasn’t … Read more
(art by N.o. Bonzo) Contents Perspectives: Anarcha-Feminisms Second Printing! IAS at the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination Conference David Ranney on Living and Dying on the Factory Floor We Heart Mutual Aid Perspectives: Anarcha-Feminisms Second Printing! Back by popular demand, a second printing of the Anarcha-Feminisms issue of … Read more
The Institute for Anarchist Studies is proud to announce a second printing of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory’s Anarcha-Feminisms issue (No. 29) is now available from AK Press and Powell’s Books! This issue, our most popular ever which quickly sold out, contains essays on the history … Read more
The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS), together with the Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU), presents David Ranney, author of the new book Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From Outside In and the Inside Out (PM Press, 2019). David will be speaking at the AFSCME … Read more
