There are two ways of studying and trying to solve the problem of the inexistence of God. One way is that of eliminating the hypothesis God from the field of plausible and necessary conjectures by a clear precise explanation through the exposition of a positive system of the universe, its origin, its successive evolutions and its final scope. But such an exposition would make the idea of God useless and would destroy beforehand the whole metaphysical edifice upon which it has been placed by spiritual philosophers and theologians.
However, taking in consideration the present status of human knowledge and duly confining ourselves to that which is demonstrable and has been demonstrated, verifiable and has been verified, we have to admit that ... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
How should we understand the impending presidency of Donald Trump? What should we be prepared for? While some have framed Trump’s victory as a sign of resurgent fascism, our guest contributor argues that we should see it as the latest development in a much older phenomenon, which is not an interruption of democracy but intimately interlinked with it.
There are many ways to conceptualize the relationship between democracy and fascism, and this is a dangerous time to take anything for granted; we will be publishing more on this subject shortly. In the meantime, this is a useful contribution towards analyzing the dangers ahead and how to ready ourselves for them.
Fascism is Obsolete, Whiteness is Here to Stay
Long before Donald Tru... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Translated from the French by Robert Helms
"La Mort du Chien" originally appeared in the monarchist paper Le Galois under the pen name Henry Lys on August 23, 1884, about a year before the author's conversion to anarchism. Although most of Mirbeau's work remains untranslated, he is now regarded by French critics as one of the most important writers of his period, and his 1903 play Business is Business made a triumphant return to the Paris stage in 1995. He is best known to anglophone posterity for his novels The Torture Garden (1898) and Diary of a Chambermaid (1900).
His master called him Turk. He was thin, yellow, and sad, with a
pointed snout, a small build, and short, badly cropped ears that were always bleeding. The tail h... (From: Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.)
Although he does not suspect it, the Anarchist usually lives in the ideal world, the world of reflexes. He battles against an abstraction called “Authority,” and imagines it to be the creator of the real world, the world of production and industrial exploitation. Too often he becomes crankish and endeavors to isolate himself from his fellows. He buries his head in the sand, leads the “simple life," and imagines that he has escaped from the evils of capitalism, and that everyone else can follow his example. He applauds his own mental greatness, and forgets that it is a parasite growth. He puts his own shoulder in the limelight, and forgets the amount of social labor-power necessary to produce his mental vigor.
This perso... (From: Marxists.org & RevoltLib.com.)
Published: The Workers' Dreadnought, Volume VII, no. 18. July 24, 1920. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017
The Example of Holland.
In the first article we showed why, theoretically, the use of Parliament in a
country like Germany, where the revolution has broken out, is harmful to the
proletariat. In the second article we proved the same, from a practical point of
view. We will see how dangerous the use of Parliamentarism may be in a country
where the revolution has not yet broken out.
There is a country where a radical revolutionary Socialist movement has
existed these five-and-twenty years, where a Communist Party has succeeded in
getting seats in Parliament, and where, therefore, we can study the results of
practica... (From: Marxists.org.)
Written: An illegal leaflet from May 1916. [1] Source: https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/luxemburg/1916/05/hundepol.htm. German original: Institute for Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the SED, Central Party Archive, D.F. V/14. Translated from German: Schummelpilz, Amadanny. Redaction, Editing and Formatting: Luka, Schummelpilz. Markup: Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
Editors’ Note: As the member of the Reichstag, Liebknecht had parliamentary immunity from prosecution. When the military judicial authorities demanded that this immunity be removed for organizing an anti-war demonstration on May the 1st (which was a huge success, with 10,000 attendants and clashes with the police)... (From: Marxists.org.)
The first coronavirus murder has been reported in the UK. A 67- year old woman was murdered by her husband when they were both in self-isolation.
This illustrates the great dangers that women face as a result of lockdown, not just here but over the world. Domestic abuse cases soared in France, with at least two murders of women. Women’s organizations there are warning of worsening situations as regards domestic abuse. Globally, one in three women face physical and sexual violence, in many cases from someone in their family. In China, local police stations reported a threefold increase in domestic violence cases in February, compared to the same time last year. In the USA, calls to some domestic abuse helplines doubled.
S... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Throughout the history of Western civilization the relationship of human beings to other animals has never been particularly “civil.” What was once an uneasy coexistence swiftly became a relationship of domination and exploitation as humankind became more organized and technologically developed. In recent years, animal rights activists have brought international attention to the treatment and living conditions of animals in factory farms, zoos, circuses, and laboratories, but a serious discussion has yet to begin about the lives of the animals that exist in an environment that strikes much closer to home–the lives of domesticated animals, of our own household pets. A consideration of the lives our pets must lead reveals th... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
On everything that lives, if one looks searchingly, is limned the shadow line of an idea --- an idea, dead or living, sometimes stronger when dead, with rigid, unswerving lines that mark the living embodiment with the stern immobile cast of the non-living. Daily we move among these unyielding shadows, less pierceable, more enduring than granite, with the blackness of ages in them, dominating living, changing bodies, with dead, unchanging souls. And we meet, also, living souls dominating dying bodies-living ideas regnant over decay and death. Do not imagine that I speak of human life alone. The stamp of persistent or of shifting Will is visible in the grass-blade rooted in its clod of earth, as in the gossamer web of being that floats and sw... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
On 18 May, enrolled voters in Australia will decide which members of the capitalist class will represent us in Parliament and crush us in government for the neXt three years. This election occurs at a time when the world has been informed that it has, at most, until 2030 to take effective action to stop and begin reversing climate change, or risk crossing tipping points into runaway temperature rises that would kill billions and endanger industrial civilization. So you’d think the major players would be presenting plans to fiX it. But no, this is Australian capitalist democracy and we get something different.
The incumbent government is a coalition of the Liberal Party, the open representatives of Big Business, and the National Party... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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