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Tag: anti-civ
Collectives: Anarchy Against The Mass
This short zine provides a basic introduction to collectives and how they challenge the dominant notions of “mass” based politics and society. It argues that the goal of a collective is replication of its form—encouraging others to start their own collectively-run efforts—rather than persuading everyone to join one big collective. It’s a good read for people starting an anarchist collective.
Zine via Sprout Distro
Wildpunk: Black against Civilization
Quote from back cover:
“What white anarchists have often only theorized was and remains practice for Black and Indigenous peoples.
Colonialism, historically and presently, has a strong technological component. Today’s entire framework of fundamental technologies stems from military research. It is based not only on the exploitation of people in the Global South and their lands, but has always been unleashed against the “enemy” or tested in the colonies, until it finally makes its way into the empire itself.
Anarchists who only struggle to free industry from capitalism must finally face the brutal reality.
Down with industry, down with work.”
Zine via 1312 Press
Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory
“We do not seek that our ways of knowing, being, and acting ever be wrapped up into a fixed belief and presented as a pitiful rag. We do not wish that Indigenous anarchism ever be a flag that is planted anywhere on Mother Earth. The calcification of an Indigenous anarchist theory would precipitate all the merchandizing that relegates other political theories to banal dramaturgy, and we fanatically reject these conditions.
Indigenous autonomy needs no theoretical foundation to justify itself.”
Zine via Indigenous Action Media
Against the Gendered Nightmare
An excerpt from Baedan 2: a queer journal of heresy
“In the past several years, the question of gender has been taken up again and again by the anarchist milieu. And still few attempts amount to much more than a rehashing of old ideas. Most positions on gender remain within the constraints of one or more of the ideologies that have failed us already, mainly Marxist feminism, a watered down eco-feminism, or some sort of liberal “queer anarchism.” Present in all of these are the same problems we’ve howled against already: identity politics, representation, gender essentialism, reformism, and reproductive futurism. While we have no interest in offering another ideology in this discourse, we imagine that an escape route could be charted by asking the question that few will ask; by setting a course straight to the secret center of gendered life which all the ideological answers take for granted. We are speaking, of course, about Civilization itself.”
Zine via Little Mouse
The Revolt of the Unique by Renzo Novatore
“I don’t want to dictate moral maxims to my “neighbor,” or teach anyone anything… I leave this task to the missionaries of all faiths, the priests of all churches, the demagogues of all parties, the apostles of all ideas.
I only want to howl my extreme rebellion against everything that oppresses me; I only want to push far away from me everything that the religious, socialist, or libertarian priesthood wants to impose on my individuality without me having freely accepted and wanted it.”
Zine via Pandemonium Distro
Toward the Creative Nothing by Renzo Novatore
“Our epoch is an epoch of decadence. Bourgeois- christian-plebeian civilization arrived at the dead end of its evolution a long time ago.
Democracy has arrived!
But under the false splendor of democratic civilization, higher spiritual values have fallen, shattered.
Willful strength, barbarous individuality, free art, heroism, genius, poetry have been scorned, mocked, slandered.
And not in the name of “I”, but of the “collective”. Not in the name of “the unique one”, but of society.”
Zine via Pandemonium Distro
A Dagger of Feral Anarchy
“Industrial society or what I call the machine is composed of various institutions built upon oppressive ideologies all around, imposing their influence, control, and civilizing domination upon all wild beings. These institutions are first and foremost built, maintained, and upheld by individuals who have collectively surrendered their freedom to institutional power. Recently, I have decided against using the phrase “the masses” because I have come to understand how it flattens important differences between all individuals. So instead I will use commune to refer to the social continuity of industrial society- a commune of unique individuals whose majority have, either wilfully or through social indoctrination, subscribed to the vision of industrial progress. When enough individuals submit to a social system, those born into it become indoctrinated. Independent thinking becomes difficult and many individuals prefer to continue their social assimilation rather than experience the social isolation of a rebel life.”
Zine via Warzone Distro
War on Patriarchy, War on the Death Technology
“Patriarchal conquest has become an all-embracing battle of conquest over all life for the ends of greed and power for rulers and empires – to bury variety, spontaneity and vitality in a coffin of artificiality, domination and control. Male rule, womyn hating, racism, warfare, imperialism, materialism, anthropocentrism, speciesism, aggression, competition, believing humanity to be separate and superior to the natural world, psychic and emotional encasement, invulnerability, hierarchialism, objectification, exploitation, techno-rationality, lack of intuition or insight, and spiritual voidness – these are some negative attributes which are consistent with a patriarchal culture.”
Zine via Untorelli Press
Burn the Bread Book
“Anarcho-communism is an industrial ideology based around the notion of seizing the means of production and then running the factories, saw mills, oil rigs, mines and power plants democratically. Industrial civilization is an incredibly totalitarian authority that is nevertheless upheld by “anarcho”-communist theory, even though anarchists supposedly oppose all forms of authority.”
Zine via King Killer Distro