Title: Some of The Anarchist Library’s Controversially Published, Deleted & Rejected Texts
Author: Various Authors
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    Published

      Abdullah Öcalan

      Bob Black

      Eco-Extremism

      Edward Abbey

      Friedrich Nietzsche

      Georges Palante

      Hakim Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson

      John Jacobi

      Max Stirner

      Michael Schmidt

      Murray Bookchin

      Noam Chomsky

      Samuel Edward Konkin III

      Ted Kaczynski

      Último Reducto

      Wolfi Landstreicher / Apio Ludd / Feral Faun

    Deleted

      Finbar Cafferkey: The life and death of an Irish fighter ‘who put his money where his mouth is’ in Ukraine

      The Virtual Fatory

      Armenia doesn’t need another political party — it needs a MOVEMENT!

      Communization and the abolition of gender

      Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

      Economic Battle

      Child Molestation vs. Child Love (Critically Annotated)

      A Tyranny Of Editors

      All Days Matter!

      Anarchism Before Labels

      Identity Poltics Are Boring As Fuck

      Insurrectional Nihilism

      Second Wave “Feminism” Is Feminism...

      The Fox Knows the Hen

      The Ones Who Came Back to Omelas

      White Supremacy Is a Disease

      A Tranarchist Manifesto

      ‘Human Rights’ and the Discontinuous Mind

      Chile: Anatomy of an economic miracle, 1970–1986

      The IWW in Canada

      Ableism at the Anarchy Fair

      Chinese Anarchism for the 21th Century

      Capitalist Education and Learned Helplessness

      Think for Yourself, Question Authority

      Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation

      The Anarchistic Devil

      The Devil and Karl Marx

      The Left-Overs

      Where did all the tankies come from?

      Thirty Years Ago Today I Shot My First Fascist

      Towards a New Oceania

      Anarchism and Immigration

      Anarchists Hate Racism

      Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free

      Epistemelogical Anarchism

      Against Anarcho-Putinism

      Insurrection and Production

      A way propounded to make the poor in these and other nations happy

      The Problem with Nonprofits

      Whoring Out Our Trauma

      Imagination and the Carceral State

      A Half Revolution: Making Sense of EDSA ’86 and Its Failures

      Life After Patriarchy

      Pushed by the Violence of Our Desires

      Black liberal, your time is up

      Politics at the End of History

      From Urumqi to Shanghai: Demands from Chinese and Hong Kong Socialists

      Burning Bridges

      A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments

      Rethinking cities, from the ground up

      What Women Should Know About Communism

      Community Control, Workers’ Control, and the Cooperative Commonwealth

      And The War Drags On

      Fathers and Children

      Basic Politics of Movement Security

      Beginner’s Kata

      A Case of Mutual Aid

      The Evolution of the Language Faculty

      Exiting The Vampire Castle

      Workers Launch Wave Of Wildcat Strikes As Trump Pushes For ‘Return To Work’ Amidst Exploding Coronavirus

      What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?

      Liberation Theology for Quakers

      Outlaw Kings and Rebellion Chic

      Think of the (queer) children

      A Planned and Coordinated Anarchy

      Revisiting the Model

      You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Be Alive

      Imagining an optimistic cyber-future

      The Shape of Things to Come

      International Council Correspondence, Volume 1, Issue 1

      The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy

      Democratic Nation

      DIY Template for Horizontal Bylaws

      Strike Strategy

      The Authoritarians

      Leaves of Grass

      The Life and Writings of Severine

      Intellectual Property

      Christian Theology of the Homosexual Reaction

      The Coworker

      Eclipse and Re Emergence of the Communist Movement

      Esperanto and Anarchism

      What’s Wrong With Postanarchism

      Antonio Tellez Sola Anarchist International Octavio

      Cornelius 168precisely

      Rick Astley a Left Nrx Manifesto

      Aldo Perego Alfredo M

      Beforeactivate Change

      Bob Blek Uprazdnenie Raboty

      De Ric Shannon and J

      Janeaddamscollective

      Nomadicnegativist

      The Dialectical Delinquents

    Rejected

      Michel Foucault Books

      Unbreakable

      Does the Unabomber have any relevance to anarchism?

      Disrupting The Purist Anarchist Pipeline


For anyone curious about various library crew’s archiving ethoses.


Published

Abdullah Öcalan

Argument for deleting: During the early years of his leadership of the PKK, the group professed to hold to 'marxist-leninist’ ideology and were accused of numerous human rights abuses including civilian massacres, summary executions, plus the use of suicide bombers and child soldiers. The organization is historically to blame for the burning of schools and killing of teachers who they accused of "destroying Kurdish identity", attacks on hospitals which resulted in the death of doctors and nurses, and allegedly the kidnapping of foreign tourists for ransom.

Counter argument: He has inspired big world developments such as the council systems in Rojava which has lead to anarchist internationalists supporting grassroots projects on the ground there and the diverse militias at war with ISIS and Turkey.

Read the texts here:


Bob Black

Argument for deleting: The author snitched to the police that an ex-friend was manufacturing opium which lead to the person's house being raided. Also, he is a sexist and anti-feminist, having published polemics such as “If You Can't Stand the Heat, Stay in the Kitchen" and “Feminism as Fascism". Finally, he harassed and attacked anarchist collective Processed World with death threats and destruction of possessions, as well as filing a complaint with the San Francisco Planning Commission over alleged zoning violations that led to the eviction of Processed World from its office.

Counter argument:

Read the texts here:


Eco-Extremism

Publishing reason given:

ITS came out of the anarchist space and how far from it they’ve found (or removed) themselves from it is of interest to some anarchists. It is part of our history and is completely appropriate for it to appear on an archival project documenting anarchist and related texts.

Reading things by people we disagree with (or making such readings accessible to other people) is not condoning the things we disagree with, much less supporting them. Anyone who insists on banning particular texts from the library because they personally disagree with the content is acting to indoctrinate, not allowing people to make up their own minds.

Argument for deleting:

  1. Anti-tech terrorist ramblings & terrorism apologia has no place in an anarchist library.

  2. The texts can easily be found elsewhere.

  3. ITS never claimed to be anarchists and rejected any identification with anarchy as early as their 4th communique:[7]

“Why do we not consider ourselves anarchists? Precisely because we do not share the anarchists’ vision about the “destruction” of this world to create a “new,” “self-managed” one within the clichés of mutual aid (to strangers) and (promiscuous) solidarity, which as we stated before is not natural.”

Put simply:

Framing matters. When you put Ted K in an “anarchist library” you’re declaring “Ted K is inside anarchism”. If you put a unnoticeable “non-anarchist” tag on it you’re declaring “still within the circle of texts we think are anarchist-adjacent, in-group and respectable enough”

There are, after all, infinite “anarchist-adjacent” things. Mao came from anarchism, but if your “anarchist” library contains every maoist text you’re normalizing maoism.

Counter argument:

Read the texts here:


Edward Abbey

Argument for deleting: He’s a socially conservative author.

Counter argument: There are only 2 texts on the library and he’s relevant to the history of Earth First!

Read the texts here:


Friedrich Nietzsche

Argument for deleting: Nietzsche never claimed to be an anarchist.

Counter argument: I don’t know of anyone who truly minds this being on the website, it’s just often argued that it’s a contradiction to host multiple books by this author who’s clearly not an anarchist and yet not host multiple books by Foucault. Which may be a fair point, but obviously the desired way of solving that perceived hypocrisy would not be to delete these texts.

Read the texts here:


Georges Palante

Argument for deleting: The author rejected any identification as an anarchist and his misanthropy came from a snobbish perspective of looking down on the lower classes.

Counter argument:

Read the text here: Misanthropic Pessimism


Hakim Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson

Argument for deleting: Author wrote lots of pedo apologia.

Counter argument:

Read the texts here:


John Jacobi

Argument for deleting: The author is an ex-anarchist who began to see himself in common cause with eco-extremists, then later regretted some of his apologia for terrorism.

Counter argument: Only the one text and it’s mostly just a critique of dogmatism.

Read the text here: A Critique of the Nomadic Hunter / Gatherer Ideal


Max Stirner

Argument for deleting: Some of his ideas can be read as proto-right-libertarian-ish.

Counter argument: Jokes idea.

Read the texts here:


Michael Schmidt

Argument for deleting: Schmidt was outed as a racist engaged in a poor one man attempt at entryism.

Counter argument: His texts were on the library before the outing and what he did wasn't as heinous as Mao level crimes to merit removing.

Read the texts here:


Murray Bookchin

Argument for deleting: Author became an anti-ish-anarchist curmudgeon.

Counter argument: He has inspired big world developments such as the council systems in Rojava which has lead to anarchist internationalists supporting grassroots projects on the ground there and the diverse militias at war with ISIS and Turkey.

Read the texts here:


Noam Chomsky

Argument for deleting: Liberal-ish.

Counter argument: In terms of authors he’s potentially been the largest recruiter of people towards anarchist philosophy and action for decades.

Read the texts here:


Samuel Edward Konkin III

Argument for deleting: Anarcho-capitalist-ish, plus support for a Holocaust revisionist journal and positive review of a book that endorsed holocaust denial.

Counter argument:

Read the texts here:


Ted Kaczynski

Publishing reason given:

rocinante: The library was founded by anti-civ anarchists, nihilist anarchists, and a handful of other modifers. I’m one of these people and back then I would have called myself and did “anti-civ”. There were post-anarchists, anarchists without adjectives, and whatever. I think from the very start the library made a point as being a place to publish every single anarchist text every written (well kind of).

lucian: idk why ted k and ITS are always conflated. ted k said he was an anarchist. prior to his arrest he was in correspondence with LWOD. his first prison interview was with the EF! journal. he’s had letters in green anarchist magazine, green anarchy magazine, and AJODA

like it or not, he’s anarchist.

magsalin: Personally I disagree with hosting Ted K and ITS texts

eris: yea, a lot do

hence me raising this

magsalin: But not only do I support keeping it up, when I see people uploading new Ted K. texts I approve it

The Anarchist Library was founded by anticiv nihilists

TEd K and ITS belong to this tradition

eris: hmm, fair

magsalin: However, because ITS turned anti-anarchist, there’s a sort of informal moratorium on new eco-extremist texts, especially eco-extremist texts that are explicitly hostile to anarchism

Eco-extremist texts are published on a case to case basis

Argument for deleting:

Ted’s period of identification with anarchism was very opportunistic and shallow in that he simply thought it would be advantageous to have some recognized political identity when writing about the terrorist violence he hoped to incentivize in others:[1]

In 1995 I described FC as ‘anarchist’ because I thought it would be advantageous to have some recognized political identity. At that time I knew very little about anarchism. Since then I’ve learned that anarchists, at least those of the U.S. and the U.K., are nothing but a lot of hopelessly ineffectual bunglers and dreamers, useless for any purpose. Needless to say, I now disavow any identification as an anarchist.

Ted’s politics mostly just amounted to thinking it would be nice if we could click our fingers and all go back to the stone age where men had a lot of negative liberty to leave their tribe to live a solitary existence hunting and gathering and hardly ever have to meet another person. But, unlike anarcho-primitivists, he didn’t hold the view that life in primitive society would be one of egalitarian freedom, which though true, it is the false belief motivating anarcho-primitivists that make their desires still anarchist, which Ted Kaczynski and many of his followers explicitly renounce:[2]

[M]y hope, is that certain inconvenient aspects of hunter-gatherer societies (e.g., male dominance, hard work) would turn off the leftists, the neurotics, and the lazies but that such societies, depicted realistically, would remain attractive to the kind of people who could be effective revolutionaries.

But, even if you were to grant this ideal end goal is still anarchist, it is as empty and illusory an end goal as when Stalinists claim to have the same ideal end goal as anarchists because Ted and his followers advocate a ‘means of getting there’ that has very little difference to setting up a cult like vanguard party[3]:

(ii) If a member of the anti-tech organization can find a place on the editorial board of a radical environmentalist periodical (for instance, the Earth First! journal), he will be able to influence the content of the periodical. If a majority of anti-tech people can be placed on the editorial board, they will be able in effect to take the periodical over, minimize its leftist content, and use it systematically for the propagation of anti-tech ideas....

How can anti-tech revolutionaries get themselves into positions of power and infuence in radical environmentalist groups? The most important way will be through the moral authority of hard work. In every organization which they seek to capture, the communists are the readiest volunteers, the most devoted committee workers, the most alert and active participants. In many groups, this is in itself sufficient to gain the leadership; it is almost always enough to justify candidacy [for leadership].

The [Communists] in penetrating an organization... become the ‘best workers’ for whatever goals the organization seeks to attain....

This writer has had no opportunity to study more than a few of the works of history, political science, sociology, and revolutionary theory that may be relevant to the anti-tech enterprise. Worthy of careful attention are the works of Alinsky, Selznick, Smelser, and Trotsky that appear in our List of Works Cited. But there is a vast amount of other relevant literature that deserves to be explored; for example, the literature of the academic field known as “Organizational Behavior,” and the works of Lenin to the extent that they deal with revolutionary strategy and tactics (his ideological hokum is merely of historical interest). Thorough library research will reveal an unending series of other relevant works. It is worth repeating that this literature will provide no recipes for action that can be applied mechanically. It will provide ideas, some of which can be applied, with suitable modifications, to the purposes of an anti-tech organization....

List of Works Cited ...

Alinsky, Saul D., Rules far Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals ...

Selznick, Philip, The Organizational Weapon: A Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics ...

Smelser, Neill., Theory of Collective Behavior ...

Trotsky, Leon, History of the Russian Revolution ...

Bowditch, James L., Anthony F. Buono, and Marcus M. Stewart, A Primer on Organizational Behavior ...

Christman, Henry M. (ed.), Essential Works of Lenin ...

Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, Lenin on Organization ...

Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, Collected Works ...

Historical Materialism (Marx, Engels, Lenin) ...

Stalin, J., Foundations of Leninism ...”

Ted first publicly broke with anarchism when a vegan primitivist from Turkey wrote to Ted in 2006 with a long list of questions. Ted responded with a detailed critique of how many primitivists idealize primitive life, arguing that the hierarchical relationships found between many tribal members is natural and therefore neutral or good.[4]

Finally, it’s important to understand that Ted’s political foundations were built on being a young self-radicalized library loner who inherited a lot of the elitist aristocratic intuitions of the anti-modernist middle & upper classes in the 50s. He cycled through a bunch of reactionary dispositions starting with fascism and ending on a kind of anti-tech vanguardism. In his final years he advocated an organizational strategy similar to Maoism and suggested seeing if alliances could be made with jihadists like Bin Laden.[5][6]

Counter argument: Ted said he was an anarchist prior to his arrest in his correspondence with LWOD. His first prison interview was with an editor of the EF! journal. He’s had letters in Green Anarchist magazine, Green Anarchy magazine and AJODA.

Read the texts here:


Último Reducto

Argument for deleting: The author is anti-anarchist and simply commenting on a group of anti-tech terrorists.

Counter argument:

Read the text here: Comments on the communiques from Individualists Tending toward the Wild


Wolfi Landstreicher / Apio Ludd / Feral Faun

Argument for deleting: Author has engaged in pedo apologia and anti-tech terrorism apologia.

Counter argument:

Read the texts here:



Deleted

Finbar Cafferkey: The life and death of an Irish fighter ‘who put his money where his mouth is’ in Ukraine

Deleted reason given: not anarchist, only mentions they were helped by anarchists

Author: Conor Gallagher and Daniel McLaughlin

Argument for deleting: The story is about someone who wasn’t an anarchist who it only mentions was helped by anarchists.

Counter argument: The network of internationalist and anarchist support for the Ukranian people is an important and inspiring subject.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc4>


The Virtual Fatory

Deleted reason given: as per yea.

Author: Anton Freinen

Argument for deleting: It's situationist, but not necessarily anarchist. Plus, no source that can be checked.

Counter argument: If the uploader put effort into translating this text then it might be worth publishing in the hope that it will lead to more information coming out on the source text and the situationist history that included many anarchists.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc5>


Armenia doesn’t need another political party — it needs a MOVEMENT!

Deleted reason given: deleted

Author: Armenian Libertarian-Socialist Movement

Argument for deleting:

Counter argument: It’s useful to know what grassroots efforts anarchists are potentially involved in internationally.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc6>


Communization and the abolition of gender

Deleted reason given: deleted

Author: Maya Andrea Gonzalez

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc7>


Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Deleted reason given: I can see the light, but not taking me there

Author: Aaron Swartz

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc10>


Economic Battle

Deleted reason given: accidentally published, pending review

Author: Andrew Klemenčič

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc11>


Child Molestation vs. Child Love (Critically Annotated)

Deleted reason given: deleted for now pending further conversation

elias: it's not available on t@l. not because the library censored it, but because the author didn't want it up (the library presumed)
we don't know. wolfi doesn't use the internet
but we can presume that, because he left it out of every reprint of that collection, he didn't want it out there

Author: Feral Faun

Argument for deleting: Likely the author's preference.

Counter argument: Wolfi’s philosophy and creative writing style has been the subject of popular discussions among anarchists, so it would be valuable to see a critique of how Wolfi marshalled his particular political philosophy in defense of child sexual abuse. Also, so that people can feel better prepared to be able to notice and critique this kind of apologia for abuse if it’s ever taken up by other people in one’s own life.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc12>


A Tyranny Of Editors

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc19>


All Days Matter!

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc20>


Anarchism Before Labels

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Identity Poltics Are Boring As Fuck

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc22>


Insurrectional Nihilism

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc23>


Second Wave “Feminism” Is Feminism...

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc24>


The Fox Knows the Hen

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc25>


The Ones Who Came Back to Omelas

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc26>


White Supremacy Is a Disease

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc27>


A Tranarchist Manifesto

Deleted reason given: deleted, pending further review

Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl

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‘Human Rights’ and the Discontinuous Mind

Deleted reason given: Discussion pending

Author: Anonymous

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Chile: Anatomy of an economic miracle, 1970–1986

Deleted reason given: discussion pending

Author: Black Flag

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc30>


The IWW in Canada

Deleted reason given: pending

Author: G. Jewell

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc35>


Ableism at the Anarchy Fair

Deleted reason given: pending conversation

Author: Anonymous

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc46>


Chinese Anarchism for the 21th Century

Deleted reason given: pending discussion

Author: Li Meiyi

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Capitalist Education and Learned Helplessness

Deleted reason given: Pending discussion...

Author: Shaun Riley

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc57>


Think for Yourself, Question Authority

Deleted reason given: to the bin for now, pending further review

Author: Arno Ruthofer

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc58>


Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation

Deleted reason given: unpublished pending further conversation

Author: Angela Y. Davis

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc111>


The Anarchistic Devil

Deleted reason given: unpublished, need to research author and txt a bit more

Author: Stephen Edred Flowers

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc112>


The Devil and Karl Marx

Deleted reason given: unpublished, need to research author and txt a bit more

Author: Stephen Edred Flowers

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc113>


The Left-Overs

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Alexander Reid Ross

Argument for deleting:

Counter argument: It’s a cool critique of a small post-left to fascist pipeline.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc114>


Where did all the tankies come from?

Deleted reason given: transphobia. can discuss. removing for now. see comment.

Author: William Gillis

Argument for deleting:

Counter argument: I don’t know if there exists conclusive evidence for this, but if there did exist evidence of a real phenomenon of trans people feeling alienated and existing in reactionairy online groups at higher rates than cis people per person, then I don’t think it would be transphobic to simply mention that as part of a larger argument. I read it as a critique of how reactionaries prey upon alienated people and having a high turn over rate for not seeking to work with people in a stable situation in life.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc120>


Thirty Years Ago Today I Shot My First Fascist

Deleted reason given: is this by an anarchist? doesn’t use the word, couldn’t find info about it online

Author: Ali Al-Aswad

Argument for deleting:

Counter argument: Anarchist internationalists often write under local names given to them during their service. It feels very relevant to the current bombing of Gaza and anarchist participation in protests against the bombings. The author is anonymous, but it was posted at the same time as a public PLO volunteer with a similar life story and lots of other anonymous texts exist on the website.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc121>


Towards a New Oceania

Deleted reason given: author not anarchist

Author: Albert Wendt

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc122>


Anarchism and Immigration

Deleted reason given: author supports prison, see “The Anarchist Response to Crime”

Author: Scott of the Insurgency Culture Collective

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Anarchists Hate Racism

Deleted reason given: author supports prison, see “The Anarchist Response to Crime”

Author: Scott of the Insurgency Culture Collective

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc130>


Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free

Deleted reason given: deleted no mention of anarchist word

Author: Che Gossett

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc135>


Epistemelogical Anarchism

Deleted reason given: Doesn’t seem to be anarchist in orientation.

Author: Danielle Bolelli

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Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc136>


Against Anarcho-Putinism

Deleted reason given: fascist-apologetic (specifically Azov regiment, etc.) and cop-jacketing

Author: Dark Night

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Insurrection and Production

Deleted reason given: I read this. It’s about seizing state power, establishing a ‘transition period’ etc. ‘Insurrection’ does not refer to Bonnanno, Weir etc. References include Group of International Communists, Paul Mason (UK Labour party), Trotsky, ‘Bolchevik foreign policy,’ etc.

Author: Angry Workers of the World

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A way propounded to make the poor in these and other nations happy

Deleted reason given: It was decided that this utopian text is not proto-anarchist or anarchistic.

Author: Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy

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The Problem with Nonprofits

Deleted reason given: no anarchist word

Author: Another Slice

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Whoring Out Our Trauma

Deleted reason given: no anarchist word, anarchy, anarchism. looks interesting, but not specifically anarchist it seems

Author: Jack Parker

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Imagination and the Carceral State

Deleted reason given: none of the four texts mention anarchist word

Author: Joshua Bennett

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A Half Revolution: Making Sense of EDSA ’86 and Its Failures

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Allen Severino

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Life After Patriarchy

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Alnoor Ladha

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Pushed by the Violence of Our Desires

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Author: Anonymous

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Black liberal, your time is up

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Yannick Giovanni Marshall

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Politics at the End of History

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Cam Cannon

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From Urumqi to Shanghai: Demands from Chinese and Hong Kong Socialists

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Chinese and Hong Kong socialists

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Burning Bridges

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Curtis Fields and Brooke Harter

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A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: David Wengrow

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Rethinking cities, from the ground up

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Author: David Wengrow

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What Women Should Know About Communism

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: He Yin Zhen

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Community Control, Workers’ Control, and the Cooperative Commonwealth

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Howard “Howie” Hawkins

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And The War Drags On

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Internationalist Perspective

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Fathers and Children

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Ivan Turgenev

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Counter argument: I think it would be a good not-anarchist literature exception since it’s relevant to Emma Goldman’s life tragectory, etc.

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Basic Politics of Movement Security

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: J. Sakai, Mandy Hiscocks

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Beginner’s Kata

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: J. Sakai

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A Case of Mutual Aid

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Joseph M. Reagle Jr.

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The Evolution of the Language Faculty

Deleted reason given: not anarchist

Author: Marc D.Hauser, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch

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Counter argument: I know it risks modern day anarchism being seen as a chomsky cult, but I think it’s possibly good to see one text on Chomsky’s academic chops. It’s a useful part of the equation of whether he has anything useful to say, since his motivation behind studying language is also connected to his desire to see massive societal change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXwdlzvkwRA

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/dumpster-diving-the-anarchist-library-text-bin#toc357>


Exiting The Vampire Castle

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist

Author: Mark Fisher, (k-punk)

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Workers Launch Wave Of Wildcat Strikes As Trump Pushes For ‘Return To Work’ Amidst Exploding Coronavirus

Deleted reason given: not anarchist enough

Author: It’s Going Down

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What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?

Deleted reason given: not anarchist, but open for more discussion on this one

Author: Dadaist Revolutionary Central Council

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Liberation Theology for Quakers

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist.

Author: Alice & Staughton Lynd

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Outlaw Kings and Rebellion Chic

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist.

Author: Alister MacQuarrie

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Think of the (queer) children

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist.

Author: Ava Gardener

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A Planned and Coordinated Anarchy

Deleted reason given: not anarchist.

Author: Joseph Scalice

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Revisiting the Model

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist.

Author: Kim Moody

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Be Alive

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist.

Author: Lavra Tamutus

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Imagining an optimistic cyber-future

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist.

Author: Tech Learning Collective

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The Shape of Things to Come

Deleted reason given: Not anarchist. If I recall correctly, we mean to exclude J. Sakai from the library.

Author: J. Sakai

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International Council Correspondence, Volume 1, Issue 1

Deleted reason given: Not specifically anti-statist.

Author: International Council Correspondence

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The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy

Deleted reason given: Not sure if this is anarchist.

Author: Kravitz M.

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Democratic Nation

Deleted reason given: this text is literally about state formation. not anarchist.

Author: Abdullah Öcalan

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DIY Template for Horizontal Bylaws

Deleted reason given: Usufruct Collective is libertarian socialist but not all of their texts ought be on the library

Author: Usufruct Collective

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Strike Strategy

Deleted reason given: writer is not anarchist

Author: John Steuben

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The Authoritarians

Deleted reason given: “‘The mid-term elections of 2006 give hope that the best values and traditions of the country will ultimately prevail.’ can we not? deleted pending discussion.”

Author: Bob Altemeyer

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Leaves of Grass

Deleted reason given: for now, published by accident.

Author: Walt Whitman

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The Life and Writings of Severine

Author: Severine

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Text not archived or possibly a scraping error and the text never existed: <web.archive.org/web/theanarchistlibrary.org/library/severine-the-life-and-writings-of-severine>


Intellectual Property

Author: The Anarchist Library

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Text not archived or possibly a scraping error and the text never existed: <web.archive.org/web/theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-library-intellectual-property>


Christian Theology of the Homosexual Reaction

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The Coworker

Author: David Graeber

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Text not archived or possibly a scraping error and the text never existed: <web.archive.org/web/theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-coworker>


Eclipse and Re Emergence of the Communist Movement

Author: Francois Martin and Jean Barrot Aka Gilles Dauve

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Text not archived or possibly a scraping error and the text never existed: <web.archive.org/web/theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francois_martin_and_jean_barrot__aka_gilles_dauve___eclipse_and_re-emergence_of_the_communist_movement>


Esperanto and Anarchism

Author: Will Firth

Text not archived or possibly a scraping error and the text never existed:

Update: It was a scraping error, the text can be found here: <theanarchistlibrary.org/library/will-firth-esperanto-and-anarchism>


What’s Wrong With Postanarchism

Author: Jesse Cohnand & Shawn Wilbur

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Text not archived or possibly a scraping error and the text never existed: <web.archive.org/web/theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jesse-cohnand-shawn-wilbur-what-s-wrong-with-postanarchism>


Antonio Tellez Sola Anarchist International Octavio

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Cornelius 168precisely

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Text not archived or possibly a scraping error and the text never existed: <web.archive.org/web/theanarchistlibrary.org/library/cornelius-168precisely>


Rick Astley a Left Nrx Manifesto

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Aldo Perego Alfredo M

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Beforeactivate Change

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Bob Blek Uprazdnenie Raboty

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De Ric Shannon and J

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Janeaddamscollective

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Nomadicnegativist

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The Dialectical Delinquents

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Rejected

Michel Foucault Books

Argument for rejecting: Liberal-ish.

Counter argument: Only one book exists on the library, yet he’s been a stepping stone for many people towards anarchist philosophy and action for decades. Plus, many anarchists relate to his philosophy as a foundational building block of their politics.

Read the texts here:


Unbreakable

Deleted reason given: not anarchist, no mention of anarchist word, unknown author

Author: Ali Al-Asfa

Argument for deleting: No mention of anarchist word and unknown author.

Counter argument: Anarchist internationalists often write under local names given to them during their service. It feels very relevant to the current bombing of Gaza and anarchist participation in protests against the bombings. The author is anonymous, but it was posted at the same time as a public PLO volunteer with a similar life story and lots of other anonymous texts exist on the website.

Read the text here: <thelul.org/library/ali-al-asfa-unbreakable>


Does the Unabomber have any relevance to anarchism?

Deleted reason given: El says we should not upload things from Theo Slade. (from Elin — to be more specific, until Slade’s Ted K Archive starts citing t@l for the hundreds of texts they’ve copied and pasted from us, I don’t think we should publish them. They have their own archive to publish their own (usually very low-quality) texts)

Author: Theo Slade

Argument for rejecting: The author copied over texts without credit.

Counter argument: The Ted K Archive definitely forked off a chunk of The Anarchist Library with the aim of publishing many of the texts in a more responsible way and then archiving tangentially related side reading to show the context various books and essays are written in.

One goal in creating the website was to build an easily searchable website people could use to research socially conservative primitivists and eco-fascists attempts to appeal to anarchists. Also crucially, a website that was very openly highly critical of these attempts.

So, our middle ground suggestion for libraries, publishing houses, social centres, etc. who want to explore the emergence of some reactionary ideas, is just not to confuse a primary role the project serves in being ‘a place people can find anarchist texts’, but to spin off a separate research project, and advertise it as such.

The anarchist library has published 50 or so texts that were first archived on TKA, and there was a questionnaire created in order to make the process of copying over a 100 or so more texts more efficient.

Finally, it would be great if someone with the knowhow and time happened to desire to write code to create share links to the anarchist library mirror for every text that has a duplicate there. So that people randomly researching Ted K who want to share a text for reasons unrelated to ‘the technology question’ can have an anarchist library link to share.

Read the text here: <thetedkarchive.com/library/does-the-unabomber-have-any-relevance-to-anarchism>


Disrupting The Purist Anarchist Pipeline

Deleted reason given:

magsalin: You uploaded it on the wrong library. The bookshelf is our meta wiki, not the main library

Also, some peeps told us you said kinda mean things about the library? Something about us having low standards?

Ishkah: I think that was a misunderstanding, I was being self-deprecating, like ‘hey I got my writing on this platform that I like, I know it’s not the most popular site in the world, but it makes me happy’

lucian: this one is a no from me
it includes a dox
ie. the real name of someone who was trying to hide their real name
ishkah this who EE conversation was tired in 2011
i’m dead against this one tbh. you include jullian langer in your section ‘Eco-Extremist Nature Worshipers’, even though julian has wrote against eco-extremism countless times
including aragorn! in that section probably isn’t smart either

magsalin: Hey Aragron! literally founded the site

Ishkah: Julian Langer and Aragorn explaining or critiquing eco-extremism, I didn’t say they were eco-extremists.

Author: Theo Slade

Argument for rejecting: Too critical of Aragorn and other post-left anarchists.

Counter argument: I censored the quoted critique that included private details, plus I added more disclaimers and footnotes to make clearer that I wasn’t denouncing everyone whose writing I quoted who were describing various ideologies.

Read the text here: <thetedkarchive.com/library/theo-slade-disrupting-the-purist-anarchist-pipeline>


[1] Industrial Society and Its Future (Latest Edition)

[2] Ted Kaczynski’s Letter Correspondence With David Skrbina

[3] Strategic Guidelines for an Anti-Tech Movement

[4] Ted Kaczynski’s Interview with a Turkish Primitivist

[5] Ted Kaczynski’s Various Ethical & Political Flirtations

[6] Dangerous Reading

[7] A text dump on eco-extremism