Fundraising Anarchy
“Put in very blunt terms, they had taken power – not by simply changing the names of existing oppressive institutions but by literally destroying those old institutions and creating radically new ones… Social revolutionaries, far from removing the problem of power from their field of … Read more
The Power of Solidarity and Mutual Aid: Decolonizing Puerto Rico
In memoriam Matilde Rodríguez Pérez (1934-2020) Qe los cuentos de la abuela de “en aqeyos tiempos de ante” son los tiempos de aqí alante disfrasaos con ropa nueba. –Joserramón Melendes1 Marcelino and the Never-ending Work Shift In 1918, tobacco represented the second most important … Read more
The Battlefield is Everywhere
“When we look back at the 60’s, one of our greatest shortcomings was, we were emulating the very people we were fighting against, our morals, values and ethics were the morals and values of the society we were struggling to change.” … Read more
Building Online Power
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, likes to claim that his company’s goal is to bring all the world’s people closer together through networking. That’s a truly astounding fiction, as Facebook – and effectively all of the firms dominating the internet today – are motivated … Read more
Perspectives’ “Power” Introduction: What Happens When the Power Goes Out
What has happened? In some ways, the answer is simple because what’s happened is the natural progression of a sick society that has forsaken collective stability and health (of all kinds) in favor of power and profit. In other ways, the answer is impossible because … Read more
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
We are living in interesting and accelerating times! As we move forward through this year, we at Perspectives on Anarchist Theory are reflecting on how the events of the past few years have been continually shifting the ground beneath our feet on a collective level. … Read more
The Making of Revolutionary Wage Struggles and Unions
Is Revolution Inherent in Wage Struggles? Endless worries and struggles about wages are part of life under capitalism. Over the last four decades the ruling classes have clamped down ferociously on the wages and conditions of workers, who resisted with limited success.1 Wage struggles tend … Read more
How to Tan a Hide
Fleshing The teacher hands me a deer hide from a 50-gallon drum. My arm strains as I hold its heavy, slimy, dripping weight out in front of me, high so that it won’t drag in the dirt. I carry it to my fleshing beam, a … Read more
Why We Fight, by Shane Burley
Why do we fight? Because fascism. Because resistance. Because surviving the apocalypse. In linking together these three themes, Shane Burley writes at a turning point in his new book, Why We Fight Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse. He presents it as a … Read more
Salvaging the Future: A Review of The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (New York: Orbit, 2020) After the basics of food and shelter that we need just as animals, first thing after that: dignity. Everyone needs and deserves this, just as part of being human. And yet this … Read more
