raddle reading list
anarchism ness
from new anarchist faq last page:
What Are Some Important Texts to Read?
See https://raddle.me/wiki/reading for a comprehensive list. Each category has the texts arranged by their significance to each subject, so you can only read the texts most related to the topic at hand if you prefer. The list blends both classical and modern texts so you get a diverse perspective and it covers various schools of anarchy as well as related principles.
whole list with links so i can check off as i look thru:
- ANARCHY
- START HERE
- WHAT ANARCHY IS
- WHAT ANARCHY ISN’T
- BEING AN ANARCHIST
- ANTI-WORK ANARCHY
- ANARCHIST FEMINISM
- GREEN ANARCHY, ANTI-CIV ANARCHY & ANARCHIST NIHILISM
- INSURRECTIONIST & ILLEGALIST ANARCHY
- ANTI-LEFT ANARCHY, POST-ANARCHISM & EGOISM
- INDIGENOUS ANARCHY, BLACK ANARCHY & DECOLONIZATION
- QUEER & TRANS ANARCHY
- EARTH-ANIMAL LIBERATION & VEGAN ANARCHY
- SYNDICALISM
- ANTI-WAR & NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE
- COMMUNISM
- HISTORY THROUGH THE ANARCHIST LENS
- NOTABLE ANARCHISTS
- ANARCHIST PROSE
- COMMUNIZATION
- SITUATIONIST
- SOCIALISM
- ANTI-FASCISM
ANARCHY
START HERE
- “To Change Everything” – CrimethInc
- A New Anarchist FAQ: An Introduction to Anarchy in the 21st Century
WHAT ANARCHY IS
Introductory
- “Life Without Law” – Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness (Introduction from 2013)
- “Anarchy” – Errico Malatesta | PDF | Audiobook (Brilliant introduction to anarchy written in 1891)
- “Anarchy Works” – Peter Gelderloos | PDF (Long-form modern exploration of anarchy and its utility. 2010)
- “Anarchy is” – ziq | PDF | Audiobook (Quickly lists things anarchy is for and against. 2021)
- “The Principles of Anarchism” – Lucy Parsons (A vivacious lecture given sometime between 1905-1910)
- “Anarchy 101” – Bob Black | PDF (Short explainer from the 1990s)
- “What is an Anarchist?” – Émile Armand | PDF (1925)
- “The Anarchist Tension” – Alfredo M. Bonanno | PDF – Audiobook (1996)
- “Anarchism and Other Essays” – Emma Goldman | PDF – Audiobook (Best introduction from the early 20th century – written in 1911)
- “Anarchy: The Life and Joy of Insubordination” – Flower Bomb (2018)
- “Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction” – Colin Ward | PDF (Not really very short, 2004)
- “Anarchism” – Voltairine de Cleyre | PDF (Introduction to “anarchism without adjectives” written in 1901)
- “What is Communist Anarchism?” – Alexander Berkman | PDF | Audiobook (Well-regarded introduction to the communist strain of anarchy written in 1929)
- “Anarchism” – Peter Kropotkin | PDF (Kropotkin’s article on anarchism for the 1910 Encyclopædia Britannica)
- “Your Freedom Is My Freedom: The Premise Of Anarchism” – William Gillis
- “Anarchism Vs. Civilization” – Margaret Killjoy (Argues all anarchists are opposed to civilization: “To argue in favor of civilization is as absurd as to argue in favor of the state”. 2010.)
- “Anarchy in Action” – Colin Ward | PDF (1996)
- “Anarchism: A Beginner’s Guide” – Ruth Kinna | PDF (2005)
- “Anarchism and Its Aspirations” – Cindy Milstein | PDF (2010)
- “The Negativity of Anarchism” – David Wieck | PDF (Good basic analysis of what ties all variations of anarchism together, 1975)
Anarchist Economics
- “Anarchism Applied to Economics” – Laurance Labadie (Brief explainer of truly free exchange, 1933)
- “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – David Graeber (History of debt explaining how it is interwoven with issues of morality, power, and civilization and leads to exploitation and inequality, 2011)
- “The Accumulation of Freedom” – Various Authors (A collection outlining various anarchist economic theories and presenting anarchist critiques of capitalism, 2012)
- “The Economics of Anarchy” – Dyer D. Lum (Explores the dynamics of industrial economics, free labor, free land, and the principles of voluntary cooperation that define an anarchistic society. Outlines the transition from militant rule to industrial liberty, advocating for the complete eradication of political authority to achieve a harmonious and equitable society, 1890)
- “Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon” (Collection of Proudhon’s writings which together form the basis for anarchist mutualism, 1840)
- “Markets, Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty – Gary Chartier” | PDF (Explains how liberating market exchange from state capitalist privilege can abolish structural poverty, help working people take control over the conditions of their labor, and redistribute wealth and social power, 2011)
- “Decentralized Economic Coordination: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom” – Kevin Carson (Answers the calculation problem, 2020)
- “The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1939” – Various Authors (1974)
- “Studies in Mutualist Political Economy” – Kevin Carson (2007)
- “Parecon: Life After Capitalism” – Michael Albert (1947)
- “Action Is Sometimes Clearer Than Talk: Why We Will Always Need Trade” – William GIllis (2020)
- “Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective” – Kevin Carson | PDF (2008)
- “Mutual Banking” – William Batchelder (1850)
- “Against Economics” – David Graeber (2019)
- “Collectives in the Spanish Revolution” – Gaston Leval (1975)
WHAT ANARCHY ISN’T
Authority / Hierarchy / Archy
- “What is Authority” – Mikhail Bakunin (One of the first explanations of what anarchy is against, 1870)
- “Anarchy Vs. Archy: No Justified Authority” – ziq | PDF – (Modern explanation of why anarchy rejects all hierarchy and authority, 2018) Audiobook
- “Toward the Creative Nothing” – Renzo Novatore (Fiery criticism of religion, democracy, war, fascism, socialism, and – indeed, society, 1924)
- “A Schematic Anarchism (Introduction)” – Shawn P. Wilbur (Brief exploration of archy and the consequences of anarchy in an archic society, 2022)
- “Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed” – James C. Scott (Deep dive into the failures of “high modernism” and statism, 1998)
- “The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism” – Fredy Perlman | (PDF) (Audiobook) (An excellent analysis revealing the enduring appeal of nationalism & statism, 1984)
- “Neither Lord Nor Subject” – Bao Jingyan (A Taoist perspective written some time between 400 and 200AD)
Democracy
- “From Democracy to Freedom,” CrimethInc. (Introduction to the problems with democracy and how anarchy is different, 2012)
- “Anarchists Against Democracy: In Their Own Words” – Various authors (A long list of quotes from anarchists both living and dead – explaining the various failures of democracy)
- “Voting vs. Direct Action” – CrimethInc (Arguments against voting and electoral politics in favor of direct action, 2004)
- “Democracy vs Desire: Beyond the Politics of Measure” – Andy Robinson (2005)
- “Debunking Democracy” – Bob Black (2011)
Prisons / Police
- “Why Fuck the Police?” – CrimethInc. (2006)
- “What the Prison Abolition Movement Wants” – Kim Kelly (2019)
- “Origins of the Police” – David Whitehouse (2014)
- “Delusions of Progress: Tracing the Origins of the Police in the Slave Patrols of the Old South” – ItsGoingDown (2016)
- “3 Positions Against Prisons” – Anti-Prison Vancouver (2011)
- “Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America” – Kristian Williams (2015) Audiobook
- Alternatives to Police – Rose City Copwatch | PDF (2008)
- “The Justice Trap: Law and the Disempowerment of Society” – Peter Gelderloos (2010)
- “What About the Rapists?” – Dysophia (2020?)
- “Alternatives to the Police” – Evan Dent, Molly Korab, and Farid Rener (2013?)
- “Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists” – Prison Research Education Action Project (1976)
- “Are Prisons Necessary?” – Peter Kropotkin (1887)
- “An Anarchist Response to ‘An Anarchist Response to Crime'” – Bob Black (a critique of a paper calling for “anarcho”-prisons) (2011)
Rights
- “The Myth of Human Rights” – Bob Black (Long-form exploration of the concept of “rights” and how it conflicts with anarchy, 2021)
- “But the Government Said I Have Rights” – ziq (Short introduction to the limitations of human rights discourse, 2022)
- “Do Anarchists Support Free Speech?” – ziq (2018)
- “The Abolition of Law” – Nevada | PDF (Contains an account of the George Floyd uprising as well as a critique of law, 2022)
Religion
- “Anarchism and Christianity” – Jacques Ellul (1980)
- “Against Missionaries” – Various authors (2003)
- “The Misery of Islam” – Al-Djouhall (1989)
- “God and the State” – Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin’s atheist text setting out the anarchist critique of religion as bound up in legitimizing the state. 1871) (Audiobook)
- “Anarchy & Religion” – ziq (Makes a case against mixing organized religion and anarchy. 2019)
Marxism and its Offshoots
- “Marxism – Freedom and the State” – Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin’s case against the dictatorship of the proletariat. 1867)
- “There is no Communism in Russia” – Emma Goldman (Emma Goldman’s argument as to why the USSR was state capitalist, 1935)
- “After Marx – Autonomy” Alfredo M. Bonanno (1975)
- “Always Against the Tanks” – Darya Rustamova & Mike Harman (2019)
- “State Socialism and Anarchism” – Benjamin R. Tucker (1888) (Audiobook)
- “Anarchy and ‘Scientific’ Communism” – Luigi Fabbri (Fabbri’s response to Nikolai Bukharin’s critique of anarchism, 1922)
- “Listen – Marxist!” – Murray Bookchin (Aimed predominantly at students influenced by the Maoist Progressive Labor Party which was active in 1960s and 70s USA. 1971)
- “Tankies and the Left-Unity Scam” – ziq (Exploration of the atrocities committed by Marxists through history. 2018)
- “The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism” – Otto Rühle | PDF (Audiobook) (1939)
- “Eradicate Left Unity” – ziq (Rejection of the idea that anarchists should have anything to do with Marxists. 2021)
- “Nightmares of Reason” – Bob Black (a very long critique of Murray Bookchin and communalism: a fusion of anarchism and Marxism that Bookchin invented, 2010)
- “Anarchy Vs. Communalism” – ziq (a shorter critique of communalism, 2018)
Capitalism
- “An Anarchist Critique of Anarcho-Statism” – Iain McKay (Critique of anarcho-capitalism) (2008)
- “So why call it Anarchism?” – Iain McKay (Critique of conservatives who attempt to appropriate anarchy) (2008)
- “Anarcho-Capitalism?” – ziq (Another critique of anarcho-capitalism) (2018)
- “The “Stirner Wasn’t A Capitalist You Fucking Idiot” Cheat Sheet” – Dr. Bones (2016)
- “What is Property?: An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Shawn P. Wilbur’s notes provide some interesting insights into this classic) (1840)
- “The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand” – Kevin Carson (Analyzes the state’s role in the formation of capitalism) | PDF (2015)
- “Debt: The First Five Thousand Years” – David Graeber (2009)
BEING AN ANARCHIST
Life as an Anarchist
- “Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!” – David Graeber (2009)
- “Living My Life” – Emma Goldman (Emma Goldman’s Autobiography) (1931)
- “Walden: Life in the Woods” – Henry David Thoreau (A reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. Part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance) (1854)
- “There Is a Secret World Concealed Within This One” – CrimethInc (2000)
- “Anarchist Individualism as a Life and Activity” – Emile Armand (1907)
- “My Anarchist Life” – Christopher Scott Thompson (2021)
- “Repress This! Ways to be your own Anti-Repression Committee” (Provides basic actions and precautions for engaging in anti-repression work) (2021?)
- “Revolution and Restorative Justice: An Anarchist Perspective” – Peter Kletsan (2017)
- “Anarchism: From Theory to Practice” – Daniel Guerin (1965)
- “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist” – Alexander Berkman (1912) | (PDF) (audiobook)
- “We Are an Image From the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008,” | PDF – Void Network (PDF) (2010)
- “Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla” – Ann Hansen (2013)
- “Has My Life Been Worth-While?” – Emma Goldman (1933)
Anti-Authority
- “Against the Logic of the Guillotine” – CrimethInc (2019)
- “Really Though, Not All “Black” People Give a Fuck About “White” Dreads” – Flower Bomb (2017)
- “The Futility of Struggle” – ziq (2021)
Mutual Aid
- “What is Mutual Aid?” – sub.media (2016) (Audiobook)
- “Instituting the Gift Economy” – CrimethInc (2007)
- “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” – Dean Spade (Provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid; offers concrete tools for organizing) (2020)
- “Seven steps to organizing a Food Not Bombs chapter in your community” – Food Not Bombs (1996?)
- “Insurrectionary Mutual Aid” – Curious George Brigade | PDF (2007)
- “Words Mean Things” – Anathema (Very short and straightforward definition of Mutual Aid) (2021)
- “Starting An Anarchist Black Cross: A Guide” – Anonymous (PDF) (2018)
Occupation, Blockading & Squatting
- “Basic Blockading” – Sprout Distro
- “Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide” – Sprout Distro (Guide to squatting)
- “Occupation: A Do-it-Yourself Guide” – The Imaginary Committee
- “It’s Vacant – Take It!” – Sprout Distro (Tips on finding friends to squat with, finding a building, securing a squat, dealing with the law and/or property owners)
- “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone – Ontological Anarchy – Poetic Terrorism” – Hakim Bey
- “Worker-Student Action Committees: France May ’68” – Roger Gregoire & Fredy Perlman | PDF
- “10 Steps for Setting Up A Blockade” – Sprout Distro
Self-Defense
Privacy & Security
- “What is Security Culture?” – CrimethInc (2004) (Audiobook)
- “Deserting the Digital Utopia” – CrimethInc. (Important reality check in this digital age, 2013)
- “Mask Up: How & Why” – Sprout Distro
- “Cover Your Forehead!” (How to dress when doing direct action)
- “Who are you Streaming For? Three Critiques of Livestreaming” (The dangers presented by live-streaming and the enabling of citizen snitches)
- “Doxcare: Prevention and Aftercare for Those Targeted by Doxxing and Political Harassment” (How to protect yourself from online stalkers)
- “In Defense of Smashing Cameras” – Sprout Distro (Argument for smashing cameras to inhibit photographing demonstrations)
Mental Health
- “Activist Trauma & Recovery” – Sprout Distro (Explores post-traumatic stress and how to recover from it)
- “Class Struggle & Mental Health” – Sprout Distro (explores the prevalence of depression – mental illness – and emotional stress within radical spaces)
- “Navigating Trauma” – Sprout Distro
- “5 Ways to Help Someone in a Mental Health Emergency Without Calling the Police” – The Body is Not An Apology
Demonstration
- “Blocing Up” – Sprout Distro (Comic covering the history and basics of the black bloc tactic, and recent lessons from the streets)
- “Resistance in the Street” (Guide for remaining free from law enforcement while still keeping an offensive posture in the streets)
- “Hong Kong Protest Tactics & Roles” (Outlines a variety of different roles in a protest and shows how to effectively take on the police in a street demonstration)
- “Fight the Man and Get Away Safely” – Sprout Distro (How to safely survive situations created by police violence and confrontation)
- “A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions” – CrimethInc
- “Bodyhammer: Tactics and Self-Defense for the Modern Protestor” – Sprout Distro (Details the use of body armor to neutralize the so-called “less lethal” weapons used by police to stop protests)
- “Riot/Control” – Research and Destroy New York City (Information about crowd control tactics and rioting)
First Aid
- “An Activist’s Guide to Basic First Aid” – Black Cross
- “A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds” – Sprout Distro
Art
- “Art & Science of Billboard Improvement” – Sprout Distro
- “Banner Drops – Stencils – Wheatpaste – and Distributing Information” – Sprout Distro
- “The Walls are Alive” – CrimethInc. (A How-To Graffiti Guide For Those Who Scheme and Those Who Dream)
Direct Action General
- “A Step-by-Step Guide to Direct Action” – CrimethInc (2017) (Audiobook)
- “Direct Action” – Voltairine de Cleyre | PDF
- “Recipies for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook” – CrimethInc | PDF
- “Earth First! Direct Action Manual” (3rd edn.) | PDF
- “Basic Recon Skills” – Sprout Distro
- “Direct Action Survival Guide” – Sprout Distro
- “Direct Action Tactics” – Sprout Distro
- “Don’t Back Down” – Sprout Distro
Freedom of Association, Solidarity & Confederation
- “Against Community Building, Towards Friendship” – ziq (An exploration of the anarchist principle of freedom of association and a re-imagining of the community ideal, 2021)
- “The Union of Egoists” – Castanea Dentata (Brief explanation of Stirner’s union of egoists, 2018)
- “Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex” – Indigenous Action (2014)
ANTI-WORK ANARCHY
- “The Abolition of Work”- Bob Black | PDF Audiobook (The essay that started the modern anarchist anti-work movement, 1985)
- In Praise of Idleness – Bertrand Russell (Russell notes the ‘belief in the virtue of labour causes great evils in the modern world, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies instead in a diminution of labour’ and that work “is by no means one of the purposes of human life”. 1932)
- “The Mythology of Work” – CrimethInc. (The pamphlet dispels eight myths which hold on to work. 2018)
- “Kill The God of Work & All His Clergy” – ziq (An exploration of the anti-work movement around the world and through history and an appeal to not lose sight of its radical intentions, 2022)
- “Bullshit Jobs” – David Graeber (Contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth) 2018)
- “No Future for the Workplace” – Bob Black (Critiques workplace reforms, arguing that they merely perpetuate existing systems of labor exploitation rather than addressing the root issues of why work exists and its inherent disenchantment. Advocates for a “zerowork movement”, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from abolishing compulsory labor in favor of intrinsic, enjoyable activities and distributing goods through gifts rather than traditional economic transactions. 1992)
- “Beyond Workerism Beyond Syndicalism ” – Alfredo M. Bonanno (Argues that the decline of syndicalism and trade unionism signals a shift away from traditional workerism, advocating for new methods of revolutionary actions that embrace affinity-based organization rather than hierarchical structures, as society transitions towards more diverse and automated forms of labor. 1988)
- “Anti-Work: From “I Quit” to “We Revolt”” – CrimethInc. (Argues “anti-work” isn’t merely a critique of jobs, but a call to dismantle profit-driven systems that perpetuate inequality and force individuals into labor, ultimately advocating for a society where work is not a necessity for survival or fulfillment. 2022)
- “Life Without Principle” – Henry David Thoreau (Challenges the idea that work is life’s most critical aspect. He argues that work often conflicts with poetry and genuine living, emphasizing the need for fulfillment in work. Feeling guilty watching a neighbor labor early in the morning, his perspective shifts upon seeing the result: a piece of meaningless yard art. Thoreau concludes that he needs no guidance from the “police of meaningless labor” to determine how to spend his time. 1863)
ANARCHIST FEMINISM
- “Anarcha-Feminist Manifesto” – The Ongoing Collective (2020)
- “Feminism is for Everybody” – Bell Hooks (2000)
- Why Misogynists Make Great Informants (2010)
- “Understanding Patriarchy” – Bell Hooks | PDF (2004)
- “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism” – bell hooks (PDF) (2015)
- “Socialism – Anarchism And Feminism” – Carol Ehrlich (1977)
- “Feminism and Anarchy” – Commission des femmes | PDF (2011)
- “Marriage and Love” – Emma Goldman (1914)
- “Anarchy and the Sex Question” – Emma Goldman (1896)
- “Sex Slavery” – Voltairine de Cleyre (1890)
- ““Separate and equal”?: Mujeres Libres and anarchist strategy for women’s emancipation” (2011)
- “Anarchism and Feminism: Toward a Happy Marriage?” – Chiara Bottici (2014)
- “With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism” – Common Cause Ottawa (2014)
- “Anarchism – Feminism and the Individual” – Colin Wright (1994)
GREEN ANARCHY, ANTI-CIV ANARCHY & ANARCHIST NIHILISM
- “Desert” – anonymous (Audiobook) (2011)
- “Blessed is the Flame” – Serafinski (2016)
- “A Primitivist Primer” – John Moore (2001?)
- “Against His-story – Against Leviathan!” – Fredy Perlman (Illustrated PDF) (1983)
- “An Invitation to Desertion” – Bellamy Fitzpatrick (2018)
- “Baedan” – Baedan (Analyzing the concepts of history, the relationship to time and to the child, civilization, negativity, action, queerness, 2012)
- “Burn the Bread Book” – ziq (An argument against communism and other modes of production due to the effects of industrial life on the climate, 2019)
- “What is Green Anarchy” – anonymous (Brief primer on various green anarchist ideas)
- “Agents of Change: Primal War and the Collapse of Global Civilization” – Kevin Tucker (Exploring the consequences of civilization and its impending collapse and coming to terms with the effect our lifestyles have on all species on the planet) (2010?)
- “Cooperative Scavenging” – Margaret Killjoy (2010)
- “Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century” – Aragorn! (2009?)
- “A Dialogue on Primitivism” – Various authors
- “Post-Civ!: A Deeper Exploration” – Usul of the Blackfoot (2008)
- “Symbiogenetic Desire: An Egoist Conception of Ecology” – Bellamy Fitzpatrick | Audiobook
- “Agriculture” – John Zerzan (2003?)
- “Tools of Anarchism” – Elany (A point by point exploration of post-colonial primal anarchy) (2021)
- “Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism” – Alejandro de Acosta (2013)
- “Scorched Earth, Sick Bodies” – Elany (2021)
- “Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto” – Alyson Escalante (2015)
- “Why Nihilism?” – Flower Bomb (2019)
- “Some Nihilists I Have Met” – Voltairine de Cleyre (1893)
- “On Behalf of the Barbarians” – Bleu Marin (2002)
- “Survival in the Endtimes: A Wildpunk “Manifesto”” – Elany, Samuel B (2021)
- “Take What You Need And Compost The Rest: An Introduction to Post-Civilized Theory” – Margaret Killjoy (2010)
- “Land and Freedom” – Seaweed (Outlining the battle between society and ecology) ( 2013)
- “The Primitivist Critique of Civilization” – Richard Heinberg (1995)
- “The False Promise of Green Technology” (2012)
- “Uncivilizing Permaculture: An Anti-Civilization And Anti-Colonial Critique Of “Sustainable Agriculture”” – Tanday Lupalupa” (2014)
- “Against the Megamachine” – David Watson (1997)
- “Subsistence Gardening as Resistance” – Renzo Connors (2021)
- “Permanent Subsistence Zones” – Seaweed | Audiobook
- “Memento Mori: We Endlings (A Message from Toughie, Last of the Rabbs’ Fringe-Limbed Treefrogs)” – CrimethInc (A brief analysis of extinction and what it means to be the last of your kind, 2017)
- “The Rotting Carcass Behind The Green-Scare: How Anti-Civ Anarchy Became the Most Controversial Position” – ziq (An introduction to anti-civ, a history of green anarchy more broadly, and a fierce deconstruction of the left’s demonizing of anti-civs, 2022)
INSURRECTIONIST & ILLEGALIST ANARCHY
- “Armed Joy” – Alfredo Bonanno (Audiobook) (1977)
- “At Daggers Drawn with the Existent – its Defenders and its False Critics” – Anonymous (Audiobook) (Compelling introduction to insurrectionism) (2006?)
- “The Anarchist Ethic in the Age of the Anti-Globalization Movement” – Anonymous (Insurrectionist classic, 2001)
- “I Saw Fire: Reflections on Riots – Revolt & The Black Block” – Doug Gilbert (Audiobook) (2014)
- “Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism” – Sasha K (Audiobook) (2009)
- “Why Insurrection?” Alfredo M. Bonanno (1982)
- “No Selves to Abolish” – K. Aarons | PDF (2016)
- “Fire At Midnight Destruction At Dawn” – Kasimere Bran (Audiobook) (2015?)
- “Call” – Anonymous
ANTI-LEFT ANARCHY, POST-ANARCHISM & EGOISM
- “Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck” – CrimethInc. (1997)
- “Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind” – Jason McQuinn (2005?)
- “Against the Logic of Submission” – Wolfi Landstreicher (2005)
- “Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs” – Curious George Brigade (A tactical guide to anarchy covering everything from anarchist shanty-towns, the French Resistance in WWII, to the destruction of dinosaurs – focusing on how decentralization and DIY serve catalysts for revolution, 2003)
- “Anarchy After Leftism” – Bob Black, Jason McQuinn (1997)
- “Notes on Post-Left Anarchism” – Bob Black (2015)
- “Egoist-Communism: What It Is and What It Isn’t” – Dr. Bones (2017)
- “The Unique & Its Property” – Max Stirner (Audiobook (Old Translation)) (1845)
- “Days of War, Nights of Love”, CrimethInc. | PDF 1-page view | PDF 2-page view
- “Mutual Utilization: Relationship and Revolt in Max Stirner” – Massimo Passamani
- “Nihilism as Egoism” – Keiji Nishitani (1990)
- “Whatever You Do – Get Away with It” – Jason McQuinn (1998)
- “Leftism 101” – Lawrence Jarach (2005?)
- “Anarchists – Don’t let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite” – Lawrence Jarach (1999)
- “Critical Analysis of the Left: Lets Clean House” – Joaquin Cienfuegos (2009)
- “A Dagger of Feral Anarchy” – Flower Bomb (2021)
- “Critical Thinking as an Anarchist Weapon” – Wolfi Landstreicher & Jason McQuinn (2007?)
- “Against Organizationalism: Anarchism as both Theory & Critique of Organization” – Jason McQuinn
- “Demoralizing Moralism: The Futility of Fetishized Values” – Jason McQuinn (2010)
- “From Politics to Life: Ridding anarchy of the leftist millstone” – Wolfi Landstreicher (heavily critiqued by Lilith in “Gender Disobedience: Antifeminism & Insurrectionist Non-dialogue” (2009)
- “Radical Theory: A Wrecking Ball for Ivory Towers” – Wolfi Landstreicher (1993)
- “Against Identity Politics” – Lupus Dragonowl (2015)
- “Against Mass Society” – Chris Wilson (2001)
- “On Organization” – Jacques Camatte (1972?)
- “Pilsen: Chicago’s Revolution of Everyday Life” – Silas Crane (2009)
- “Postanarchism in a Nutshell” – Jason Adams (2003)
- “A Collective Trauma” – ziq (A brutal put down of the reader for wasting their potential to placate the collective, 2022)
INDIGENOUS ANARCHY, BLACK ANARCHY & DECOLONIZATION
- “Black Anarchism: A Reader” – Multiple authors
- “Anarcho-Blackness” – Marquis Bey
- “Locating an Indigenous Anarchism” – Aragorn!
- “Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory” – Klee Benally
- “Indigenous Anarchy & The Need for a Rejection of the Colonizer’s “Civilization”” – ziq
- “Voting is Not Harm Reduction – An Indigenous Perspective” – indigenousaction.org
- “Defend the Territory: Tactics and Techniques for Countering Police Assaults on Indigenous Communities” – Warrior Publications (Thorough overview of the types of repression that are frequently used against indigenous blockades)
- “Anarchism and the Black Revolution” – Lorenzo Kom Boa Ervin
- “Not Fox – Not Wolf – But the Wildcat” – Nsambu Za Suekama
- “Return Fire V3 On Colonisation” – Return Fire
QUEER & TRANS ANARCHY
- “Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto” – Alyson Escalante
- “Not Your Mom’s Trans 101” – Asher
- “Baedan” – Baedan
- “Queering anarchism: Addressing and undressing power and desire” – C.B. Daring – J. Rogue – Deric Shannon – and Abbey Volcano
- “The History of Sexuality: Volume 1” – Michel Foucault (PDF)
- “Free comrades: Anarchism and homosexuality in the United States 1895-1917” – Terence Kissack
- “Queer – An Anarchist Deconstruction” – Anfed
- “Dismantling Hierarchy – Queering Society” – Andrea Smith
EARTH-ANIMAL LIBERATION & VEGAN ANARCHY
- “Vegan Means Attack” – Flower Bomb (2018)
- “Veganism” – CrimethInc (An argument for freeganism, 2000)
- “Fuck Your Red Revolution” – ziq (Argument for adopting ethical ways of life including veganism, 2019)
- “Earth First! Wolf Hunt Sabotage Manual” – Sprout Distro (Explains the how and why of hunt sabotage aimed at saving wolves)
- “Veganarchy: Anti-Speciest Warfare & Direct Action” – the veganarchist underground (2014)
- “What Savages We Must Be: Vegans Without Morality” – Flower Bomb (2019)
Critiques:
- “Veganism: Why Not” – Peter Gelderloos (2011)
- “Veganism is a consumer activity” – Peter Gelderloos (2008)
SYNDICALISM
- “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice” – Rudolf Rocker (1938)
- “Fighting for Ourselves: Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Class Struggle” – Solidarity Federation (A more contemporary introduction to anarcho-syndicalism) (2012)
ANTI-WAR & NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE
- “Direct Action and the New Pacifism” Nicolas Walter (1962) | PDF
- “Civil Disobedience” – Henry David Thoreau | Audiobook (Asks we don’t let governments overrule or atrophy our conscience, 1849)
- “The Kingdom of God is Within You” – Leo Tolstoy (A christian anarchist perspective, 1893)
Critiques:
- “How Nonviolence Protects the State” – Peter Gelderloos (Audiobook) (Critiques the effectiveness of nonviolent protest, arguing that it often aligns with state interests and can undermine more radical forms of activism, 2007)
- “In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action” – Vicky Osterweil | PDF (2020)
- “10 Points on the Black Bloc” – Harsha Walia (2010)
COMMUNISM
- “Bolo’bolo” – Hans Widmer (A plan for building utopia, 1983)
- “An Anarchist Programme” | [audiobook] Errico Malatesta (1920)
- “The Reproduction of Everyday Life” – Fredy Perlman (Audiobook) (Good intro to some Marxist concepts such as alienation – commodity fetishism and so on, 1969)
- “Communism” – David Graeber (2010)
- “ABC of the Revolutionary Anarchist” – Nestor Mahkno (1932)
- “Between Peasants (Fra Contadini)” – Errico Malatesta [PDF] (1884)
- “Now and After: The ABC’s of Communist Anarchism” – Alexander Berkman [PDF] [audiobook] (1929)
- “The Conquest of Bread” – Petr Kropotkin [audiobook] (1892)
- “Mutual Aid” – Peter Kropotkin (Audiobook) (1902)
- “Introduction to Anarchist Communism” – Anarchist Federation (2010)
- “At the cafe” – Errico Malatesta (1922)
- “The Relevance of Max Stirner to Anarcho-Communists” – Matty Thomas (2017)
- “Fields – Factories and Workshops” – Pëtr Kropotkin (1912)
- “Capitalism and Communism” – Gilles Dauvé (1972, 1997, 2015)
- “An Anarchist Solution to Global Warming” – Peter Gelderloos (Audiobook) (Despite its name, gives some suggestions (but not blueprints) on how an anarchist society might look like post collapse/revolution) (2010)
- “Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists” – Dielo Truda (Workers’ Cause) (Historical importance; platformism, 1926)
- “The Anarchist Synthesis” – Sébastien Faure (Historical importance; synthesis anarchism, 1927)
HISTORY THROUGH THE ANARCHIST LENS
- “A Short History of May Day” – anarkismo.net (2006)
- “The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control: The State and Counter-Revolution” – Maurice Brinton (2005)
- “The Great French Revolution” – Peter Kropotkin (1927)
- “The Russian Counterrevolution” – CrimethInc | PDF (Best intro to the Russian revolution from an anarchist POV) (2018)
- “My Disillusionment in Russia” – Emma Goldman (1923)
- “My Further Disillusionment in Russia” – Emma Goldman (1924)
- “The Russian Tragedy” – Alexander Berkman (1922)
- “The Bolshevik Myth” – Alexander Berkman
- “The Kronstadt Rebellion” – Alexander Berkman (1922)
- “The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921” – Ida Mett (2022)
- “The Unknown Revolution” – Voline (Volin’s extensive work on the Russian Revolution – its usurping by the Bolsheviks and on workers’ rebellions against the new dictatorship) (1947)
- “The Tragedy of Spain” – Rudolf Rocker (German anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker’s history of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution.) (1937)
- “A People’s History of the United States” – Howard Zinn (1980)
- “Obsolete communism: The left wing alternative” – Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit (An account of the May ’68 uprising) (2013)
- “The End of Anarchism?” – Luigi Galleani (A response by Luigi Galleani in 1907 to Francisco Saverio Merlino’s declaration that Anarchism was dead.) (1925)
- “Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy” – Gabriel Kuhn (Study of proto-anarchist pirate societies, 2010)
- “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism” – Peter Marshall (2011)
- “Homage to Catalonia” – George Orwell (audiobook) (Orwell’s account of anarchist Catalonia & the anarchists betrayal by Stalinists) (1938)
- “Cuba and the Demonization of Anarchists: A Lesson for Our Times” – Rafael Uzcategui (2017)
NOTABLE ANARCHISTS
- “Lucy Parsons: ‘More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters'” – Keith Rosenthal
- “An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre” – Paul Avrich
- “Emma Goldman, One of History’s Best-Known Anarchists, Left an Outsized Legacy” – Kim Kelly
- “Anarchism in Germany: Max Stirner” – Andrew Carlson
- “Kropotkin: The Anarchist Formerly Known as Prince” – Iain McKay
- “Pierre-Joseph Proudhon” – George Woodcock
- “In Defense of Bob Black” – Aragorn!
- “Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years” – Lorraine Perlman
- “The Warrior” – Max Nomad
- “Anarchist Portraits” – Paul Avrich
- “Life of Malatesta” – Luigi Fabbri
- “Chomsky on the Nod” – Bob Black
- “Bakunin” – Guy Aldred
ANARCHIST PROSE
- “The Dispossessed” – Ursula K. Le Guin (Exploration of themes such as anarchism, revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, individualism and collectivism, 1974)
- “To the Desertmaker” – ziq (Very short story about the end of the world, 2019)
- “The Death Ship” – B. Traven
- “The Left Hand of Darkness” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Caleb Williams” – William Godwin
- “Bartleby – The Scrivener” – Herman Melville
- “The Day Before the Revolution” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Resurrection” – Leo Tolstoy
- “The Book of Merlyn” – T.H. White
- “Someone Comes to Town – Someone Leaves Town” – Cory Doctorow
- “The Survivors of the ‘Jonathan'” – Jules Verne (French)
COMMUNIZATION
- “Communization and its Discontents” – Benjamin Noys
- “The Coming Insurrection” – Comité invisible
- “Theory of Bloom” – Tiqqun
- “Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl” – Tiqqun
- “Bring Out Your Dead”
- “When Insurrections Die” – Gilles Dauvé (Audiobook) (Brilliant critique from communisation tendency.)
- “Eclipse and reemergence of the communist movement” – Gilles Dauvé and François Martin
- “Endnotes – issue 1” (a debate between GD and TC over the basis for the failure of the old workers movement) (PDF)
- “Insurrection and Production” – Angry Workers World
Critiques:
SITUATIONIST
- “An Introduction to the Situationists” – Jan D. Matthews
- “On the Poverty of Student Life” – U.N.E.F. Strasbourg
- “The Revolution of Everyday Life” – Raoul Vaneigem
- “The Society of the Spectacle” – Guy Debord (Foundational situ text)
- “Theory of the Dérive” – Guy Debord
- “It’s Crazy How Many Things Don’t Exist” – Jean-Pierre Voyer
- “Formulary For a New Urbanism” – Ivan Chtcheglov
- “Ways In and Ways Out of the Situationist Labyrinth” – Alejandro de Acosta
SOCIALISM
- “The Communist Manifesto” – Karl Marx & Frederick Engels (Audiobook)
- “The Principles of Communism” – Frederick Engels (Audiobook)
- “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific” – Frederick Engels (Audiobook)
- “The Soul of Man under Socialism” – Oscar Wilde (Audiobook) (The artists – and individualists – case for libertarian socialism)
- “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” – Étienne De La Boétie
- “The Capitalist System” – Mikhail Bakunin (Audiobook)
ANTI-FASCISM
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