-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2016 03:00 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
I asked Steve some suggestions in private, but it's better to ask publicly, so more people can profit the clues. Oh, you know, he loves books, uses cute emoticons and makes oink oink. He's a good reference for me, hahaha!! ;)
When dredging the Internet for information, I am sure you won't have much trouble picking out the State sponsored anarchist literature and pseudo-radical propaganda fronts: Rebel As You Are Told is one of the oldest and most powerful political warfare strategies in the opposition's playbook. Anarchists don't worry much about labeling sources and concepts as, for instance, Left or Right. The relevant question is, Useful or Not? In addition to State directed wannabe anarchists who rebel as they are told, we also have a bumper crop of people who believe that adding the prefix an- or anarcho- to the name of any archaic, failed or outright delusional "political philosophy" makes it hip and relevant. A lot of anarchist literature does not appear to be political. Anarchists also make a point of reading and exploiting the opposition's textbooks; there are such things as laws of physics, natural processes, principles of strategy, etc. that hold constant no matter who studies them. "It's a piss poor pitiful Anarchist, who refuses to use the State's resources against the State's interests." Just now I am reading this: http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf It's an in depth survey of political warfare theory and practice in the context of politically motivated popular uprisings. There's not a bit of Anarchy in it, except that everything in it is of potential use to anarchists. While reading just substitute self rule or autonomy for "Democracy," and anarchist or radical for "democrat," and viola: Radical literature fit to be suppressed by any self respecting sovereign State. (The U.S. Federal government tolerates and even funds this kind of literature, because it is intended for distribution in "unfriendly regimes" overseas.) All of these titles are relevant to practical anarchy: http://pilobilus.net/strategic_conflict_docs_intro.html The Tao Te Ching can rightly be called an anarchist classic. I quote it more often than any other source, both in correspondence and to myself. I like the D.C. Lau translation: http://terebess.hu/english/tao/lau.html Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is very popular with the anarchist crowd. Handle with care, this is highly refined weapons grade pacifist material: https://tinyurl.com/rosenberg-nvc (PDF, 241 pages) Here's a fun movie: It's a biography of Emma Goldman, one of the most famous Anarchists of the 20th century. She was a Russian Jew who moved to America as soon as she was old enough and raised hell non-stop from then on. At the height of her career she was the most popular political speaker in the U.S. of A. https://archive.org/details/EmmaGoldman-AnExceedinglyDangerousWoman :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXo53kAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqaS0H/iEXppzx2Yf9I10b7P6OQqFS unRhQXCg831LQoxsmE4AwiibD2GDy28xCyoBn2glTaQHF53eiiyW69VNDJiD5lP1 gcnHebVDupyF7oUviZ+PAqjviZNEK4EsiNrRZBvFVVGXhIYL0+I/d8B591vgjUQi WbzMUKxytToNboiO3Ct36tlulETcGggLEKWuieMeqUZ3CzMLMZxIjsNcNJHfDHge 4IpfWKmVoNZ7XhSrWSo5uE7I7jj+98jwFsGK+cLOtkj3QxzpygFG/3rUfL9A3+sc curbZOyp12zBabYOglOLAHw1ngZIcf2nS8HioiKk4hAeobMuq1X8yFI2ae2bv48= =9NLI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----