In Defence of Associative Specificity – Concerning (Inherently) Anarchist “Sectarianism” Part I.
Consulting the dictionary: concepts and definitions of “sectarianism”part ii

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Part III: “The marxian church against anarchist “sectarianism””.

Anti-sectarian grammar achieved preeminence amidst the entanglements of the First International between 1864 and 1872. While during its first years the conceptual discrepancies between Proudhonians, Blanquists, Lassalleans and Marxists had been resolved without major tantrums within the International Workingmen’s Association (IWA), in 1868 tensions increased with the incorporation of Bakunin and a large group of like-minded people. The anarchists went so far as to demolish all the economistic onanism of Saint Charlie and his acolytes, placing in their sights the “gravest evil”. That is to say, the State (in particular) and all authority (in general). Thus, they erected their strongest theoretical specificity on the assumption that property or, generically, the relationship with the means of production, was not the only and excluding factor of “class” domination, but that the very instances of domination – and the State in particular – were also mechanisms that generated social groups that could be considered privileged.

On top of all that, the anarchists defended the full autonomy of the different sections of the IWA against the statutory centralism of the General Council tooth and nail. This position provoked the definitive rupture with the Marxists during the celebration of the V Congress of the Association in 1872. The theoretical-practical positions were irreconcilable and markedly antagonistic. For Saint Charlie, the International had to be the centralizing and guiding organ of the “movement”; while for the Russian anarchist and his comrades, it had to be a planetary conspiracy lacking a directing organ, centred on the concrete individual and his freedom; capable of eradicating all authority from the face of the earth, even that which was instituted in the name of the proletariat. By placing individual freedom and voluntary and autonomous association “before the historical development of society”, they received the eternal condemnation of the marxian Church and were accused of being “sectarians”; becoming the target of the wrath of Saint Charlie and his fervent sacristans. Continue reading Part III: “The marxian church against anarchist “sectarianism””. by Gustavo Rodriguez →

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” Au fil des guerres qui ont parsemé le siècle dernier, et dans
lesquelles ont été pris les compagnons, c’est aussi envers et contre
elles que bon nombre d’interventions subversives ont pu être mises en pratique en fonction de l’endroit où ils se trouvaient, comme celle de constituer des groupes de combat autonomes (généralement décentralisés et coordonnés), de bâtir des réseaux d’aide aux déserteurs des deux camps, de mener des sabotages de l’appareil militaro-industriel à l’arrière des fronts, de saper la mobilisation des esprits et de miner l’unité nationale, d’exacerber le mécontentement et le défaitisme en tentant de transformer ces guerres pour la patrie en insurrections pour
la liberté. On nous dira peut-être que les conditions ont bien changé depuis ces expérimentations, mais certainement pas au point de ne pas pouvoir puiser dans cet arsenal-là si on souhaite intervenir dans les hostilités, c’est-à-dire en partant d’abord de nos propres idées et projectualités, plutôt que du moindre mal consistant à soutenir le camp
et les intérêts d’un Etat contre un autre. Car si nous sommes contre la paix des marchés, contre la paix de l’autorité, contre la paix de
l’abrutissement et de la servitude, nous sommes évidemment aussi contre la guerre. Parce que paix et guerre sont en réalité deux termes qui recouvrent une même continuité de l’exploitation capitaliste et de la domination étatique.”

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AGAINST SPECIESISM, CIVILISATION AND THE REIGN OF IDEAS

“There are paths that can be followed, and there is a path that cannot – it is not a path, it is the wilderness.”

Call for submissions for a new publishing project:

At the forefront of this call is a wish to deepen the conversation between anti-spe and anti-civ anarchists. Whereas these currents are normally kept separate, this doesn’t resonate with us at all – we want to better understand their shared potential. We also want to explore more deeply the topic which, for lack of a better term, might be described as “nihilism”, along with the critiques of ideology, rationalism and in general the civilised obsession with surrendering our lives to daydreams.

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Announcing a new multilingual anarchist book distribution

Rupture – Multilingual anarchist book distro

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The passion for freedom, as well as the firmness to refuse any attempt to commercialise it, has led us to create this space to host a catalogue of books by different anarchist publishers. Written or translated, edited, and printed autonomously, these publications aim to give a concrete and coherent reference to the analyses, history, struggles, and experiences that have – and continue to – nourish our anarchist projectuality.

Our selection will not be exhaustive but will gradually increase. One will not find every title from the anarchist heritage, as it is not our intention here to create a supermarket of anarchist ideas, theories, or perspectives – not necessarily because we are not interested in all the forms this can take, but because we are in love with the idea, proposal, and practice of subverting the world of authority without delay. The freedom that we stubbornly seek is against any political strategy, suspicious of democratic consensus, and refractory to submission. So, this selection, available to all, carries the explicit intention of proposing, deepening, and refining anarchist practice that aims for
social revolt, without mediation, without compromise, without anything to offer to the reform of this world.

At a time when perspectives of social revolution seem frozen in a sea of deliberate confusion, resigned fear, calculated catastrophes,
technological colonization, and authoritarian hysteria, we relaunch, even more obstinately, the words in these books about and for struggle, to invite their readers to sail towards new and unknown horizons of freedom, autonomy, solidarity, conflict, joy.

This book distribution offers publications in English, Dutch, and
German, available for single orders and for other distributions.

For anarchy!