How Nonviolence Protects the State

Politics & Social Sciences

Gelderloos, Peter

Philosophy

Detritus Books

These three essays were written about a dozen years apart, from the mid-'80s to 2017. I've been intrigued by the subject and so have returned to try again. I think that it is with time-that is, our consciousness of this so-elusive object-that we first enter into a symbolic field or dimension. Our lives thus begin an estrangement that grows and grows. Time and alienation are two words that are the measure of each other. Time becomes a thing, standing pitilessly over us. Taken together maybe these pieces are strands toward solving the puzzle of time. In my view the topic is best understood historically (and pre-historically) so as to ground and be able to chart its course. Once we lived without time. Now it's all too real. But it was never a natural or inevitable development. A harbinger of symbolic culture...and look what that's brought us.

Time and Time Again

Zerzan, John

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities--even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.

"La muerte siempre está del lado de las máquinas." Con una mirada lúcida y subversiva, Fredy Perlman analiza el conjunto de civilización, patriarcado y Estado--la dominación en su totalidad--desde sus orígenes hasta el presente. Además, crítica la forma en que esta his-storia--o "la historia de él"--se nos ha enseñado, destapando el poder del mito en una sociedad racional y regalándonos otra narrativa, desde abajo, que nos habla de resistencia y libertad.

Contra el Leviatán y contra su historia (Spanish Edition)

PERLMAN, Fredy

Worker-Student Action Committees: France, May '68

Fredy Perlman

In the years since the end of the Cold War many new social movements have started peacefully, only to adopt a diversity of tactics as they grew in strength and collective experiences. The last ten years have revealed more clearly than ever the role of nonviolence. Propped up by the media, funded by the government, and managed by NGOs, nonviolent campaigns around the world have helped oppressive regimes change their masks, and have helped police to limit the growth of rebellious social movements. Repeatedly losing the debate within the movements themselves, proponents of nonviolence have increasingly turned to the mainstream media and to government and institutional funding to drown out critical voices.The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals following the Cold War to reveal the limits of nonviolence and uncover what a diverse, unruly, non-pacified movement can accomplish. Critical of how a diversity of tactics has functioned so far, this book discusses how movements for social change can win ground and open the spaces necessary to plant the seeds of a new world.

The Failure of Nonviolence

History

Military

A story of witches, anarchists, gnostics, indigenous outlaws, bandits, heretics, sunflowers, sailors, lavender, salmon, longshoremen, bank robbers, dynamiters, country farmers, alchemists, crimps, pimps, brothels, oceans, alembics, maroon colonies, mad scientists, artists, boats, depraved capitalists, grapes, cooks, vigilantes, teamsters, horses, libraries, traitors to the nation, hobos, miners, dancing, guerrilla leaders, mountains, religious movements, crumbling empires, nihilists, wagons, armed uprisings, wine, revolutionaries, peasants, military defectors, books, and the wireless transmission of electric energy.

Secolo Nuovo

Literature & Fiction

Ferrari, Fulvia

Genre Fiction

When Dase finds an old news article behind the wall panel of their module-an article from a different world-everything starts to unravel. Who's going to believe Dase, when everyone knows they're a little crazy? And who is even in charge of Hermetica? In a universe of total surveillance and parallel worlds, consensus reality isn't what you think.

Hermetica

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lea, Alan

Science Fiction

"Work or die" is a threat presented as a choice. A few people claim to own the world. When we do not permit them to reap what we sow, they send their lackeys to starve us, imprison us, even kill us. They have succeeded in convincing many people that work is freedom, that it is good for us to toil so that they may profit. Yet from the first day they levied this threat, we have resisted.\nWith contributions by: Herman J. Schuurman, André Thirion, George Woodcock, Tony Gibson, Raoul Vaneigem, Fredy Perlman, John Zerzan, Gerry Hannah, Freddie Baer, Margot Pepper, Ummfatik, Chris Carlsson, L. Susan Brown, E. Kerr, Kevin Tucker, Laurie Penny, Penelope Rosemont, Kassandra Vee, hologram, David Graeber, Gavin Mueller, Luo Huazhong, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

Never Work: Essays Against the Sale of Life

Business & Money

Economics

No Spiritual Surrender

Klee Benally

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