Anarchism and Its Aspirations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anarchism and Its Aspirations write by Cindy Milstein. This book was released on 2010. Anarchism and Its Aspirations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible and thorough overview of anarchist figures and tendencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Anarchism and Its Aspirations
Anarchism and Its Aspirations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anarchism and Its Aspirations write by Cindy Milstein. This book was released on 2010-09-08. Anarchism and Its Aspirations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the ''battle of Seattle'' and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free individuals-a world without hierarchy or domination. But what exactly would that look like, and how can we get there? Anarchism and Its Aspirations provides an accessible overview of an often-misunderstood political philosophy, highlighting its principles and practices as well as its reconstructive vision of a liberatory society.
Paths toward Utopia
Paths toward Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paths toward Utopia write by Cindy Milstein. This book was released on 2012-10-05. Paths toward Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Consisting of ten collaborative picture-essays that weave Cindy Milstein’s poetic words within Erik Ruin’s intricate yet bold paper-cut and scratch-board images, Paths toward Utopia suggests some of the here-and-now practices that prefigure, however imperfectly, the self-organization that would be commonplace in an egalitarian society. The book mines what we do in our daily lives for the already-existent gems of a freer future—premised on anarchistic ethics like cooperation and direct democracy. Its pages depict everything from seemingly ordinary activities like using parks as our commons to grandiose occupations of public space that construct do-it-ourselves communities, if only temporarily, including pieces such as “The Gift,” “Borrowing from the Library,” “Solidarity Is a Pizza,” and “Waking to Revolution.” The aim is to supply hints of what it routinely would be like to live, every day, in a world created from below, where coercion and hierarchy are largely vestiges of the past. Paths toward Utopia is not a rosy-eyed stroll, though. The book retains the tensions in present-day attempts to “model” horizontal institutions and relationships of mutual aid under increasingly vertical, exploitative, and alienated conditions. It tries to walk the line between potholes and potential. Yet if anarchist and other autonomist efforts are to serve as a clarion call to action, they must illuminate how people qualitatively, consensually, and ecologically shape their needs as well as desires. They must offer stepping-stones toward emancipation. This can only happen through experimentation, by us all, with diverse forms of self-determination and self-governance, even if riddled with contradictions in this contemporary moment. As the title piece to this book steadfastly asserts, “The precarious passage itself is our road map to a liberatory society.”
Two Cheers for Anarchism
Two Cheers for Anarchism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Cheers for Anarchism write by James C. Scott. This book was released on 2014-03-10. Two Cheers for Anarchism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing—one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Through a wide-ranging series of memorable anecdotes and examples, the book describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. The result is a kind of handbook on constructive anarchism that challenges us to radically reconsider the value of hierarchy in public and private life, from schools and workplaces to retirement homes and government itself. Beginning with what Scott calls "the law of anarchist calisthenics," an argument for law-breaking inspired by an East German pedestrian crossing, each chapter opens with a story that captures an essential anarchist truth. In the course of telling these stories, Scott touches on a wide variety of subjects: public disorder and riots, desertion, poaching, vernacular knowledge, assembly-line production, globalization, the petty bourgeoisie, school testing, playgrounds, and the practice of historical explanation. Far from a dogmatic manifesto, Two Cheers for Anarchism celebrates the anarchist confidence in the inventiveness and judgment of people who are free to exercise their creative and moral capacities.
There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart
There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart write by Cindy Milstein. This book was released on 2021-03-23. There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also pulls from ancestral resistance, strength, imagination, and humor—all qualities, and wisdom, sorely needed today. These essays, many written from feminist and queer perspectives, journey into ancestral and contemporary trauma in ways that are humanizing and healing. They build bridges from bittersweet grief to rebellion and joy. Through concrete illustrations of how Jewish anarchists imaginatively create their own ritual, cultural, and political practices, they clearly illuminate the path toward mending ourselves and the world.
