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I'm beginning to come around to anarchism, got any reading suggestions? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world to c/anarchism@lemmy.ml
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I'm digging anarchists' more hands on, pragmatic approach to politics. I finished The Conquest of Bread a couple of weeks ago and I'm currently working my way through Bullshit Jobs. Any suggestions about theory, praxis, mutual aid, etc. would be appreciated

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[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I haven't read any anarchist books myself yet, but I have read plenty of shorter texts I found online (mostly from The Anarchist Library).

Here are a few I found to be worth a read (in no particular order):

Since you already read The Conquest of Bread I decided to leave out most of Kropotkin's shorter texts, as I assume that you should already be familiar with his ideas and principles.

Although not anarchists, I still find many libertarian Marxists to be pretty insightful as well (some may as well be Anarchists in denial). Anton Pannekoek's and Rosa Luxemburg's works being some I really enjoy reading.

I also have What is Anarchism? (by Alexander Berkman) and Anarcho-Syndicalism (by Rudolf Rocker) standing on my bookshelf, but I haven't gotten around to reading them quite yet. If they sound interesting enough you could give them a try.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m digging anarchists’ more hands on, pragmatic approach to politics

I saw this post from /all...

But isn't the entire point of anarchy no government, how exactly do you think thats "hands on"?

Or is this one of those things where people have invented new definitions for existing terms like saying the USSR was communist?

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I think what they mean by hands on is most likely direct action. That would include going to protests and participating in projects of mutual aid.