Some important books and essays about what an anarchist society would look like and how we can build it.

in anarchy •  7 years ago  (edited)

Rather than having me knock about trying to explain, let's take a look at what some anarchists already wrote about forming anarchist communities and how our lives might be organized in an anarchist society. These are all classics that should be read by everyone whether you are an anarchist or not. Let me not as they say 'reinvent the wheel'.

Essay about the major flaws in how society creates and enforces laws and how we could do this much better. Are laws required, even in an anarchist society? Short and sweet, right to the point. The best anarchist writers are not ivory tower thinkers covering their thoughts in archaic flowery language, this essay sounds like it could have been written today using the language of the common man. That this was written over 100 years ago by a foreign self taught English speaker and writer shows the power of keeping things simple and to the point so everyone can understand. Kropotkin at his best tearing down one of the pillars of the ruling class: Laws.
LAW AND AUTHORITY: AN ANARCHIST ESSAY
BY PETER KROPOTKIN
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/lawauthority.html

This pamphlet by Bakunin lays out his ideas on anarchist society and how we should accomplish it.
Revolutionary Catechism
by Michael Bakunin
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bakunin/catechism.html
or
https://archive.org/details/al_Michail_Bakunin_Revolutionary_Catechism_a4

A more modern interpretation of anarchism based on the ideas of Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin.
ANARCHISM AS A THEORY OF ORGANIZATION
BY COLIN WARD
https://www.panarchy.org/ward/organization.1966.html

This is like the bible of anarcho-syndicalism and lays out the society and organizational structure of anarcho syndicalism for example how it was done by the CNT-FAI in Catalonia.
ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
BY RUDOLF ROCKER
https://libcom.org/files/Rocker%20-%20Anarcho-Syndicalism%20Theory%20and%20Practice.pdf

This is a very modern take on anarchism but it does a very good job of reinterpreting the classics and placing the theory into practice in modern life. I liked this book a lot.
The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism
By John P. Clark
Can download here: http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=325020284813A7CE1B7216BAC2140F59
Can read here (sometimes takes a LONG time to load entire book if it doesn't work and you need to read online a trick is to download the PDF and then upload to Google Docs. You can then read the book online via Google Docs: http://b-ok.org/ireader/2271788

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I have to watch 8wonderland again, i hope i can find it online somewhere..

http://www.argn.com/2010/05/8th_wonderland_a_virtual_nation_up_in_arms/
http://www.8wonderland.org/ thats not smart to let that website die...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060234/

I was wondering if there is there room for sovereign living in an anarchist society.
I don't think that i'm an anarchist even though in the past people have told me they think that i would qualify for it.
I dislike about everything that comes from the government. Is that enough to be an anarchist?

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