Ideas and Hystory
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Us here at defenestrator don't adhere to a strictly defined ideology, but we generally derive our ideas from an anarchist or autonomist tradition, which proposes a revolutionary transformation of society, the abolition of property and of all hierarchies and coercive power. To replace it we want a network of federated autonomous communities, organizations and individuals who act on principles of solidarity and mutual aid. The current anti-corporate globalization movement may reflect some of these ideas in their horizontal forms of organizing, but less is said about the origins of our ideas. The following is a very limited list of links, articles and books which have influenced us or explain where we're coming from.
Links
Proudflesh A New African Journal of Culture and Politics
prole.info - pamphlets and online texts for the angry wage worker
Unwelcome Guests radio show
Antagonism
Hot Tide
Anarchist People of Colour : Knowledge , Books
Institute for Social Ecology
Aufheben
autonomedia
Free Society Collective
Recommended Reading on the net:
Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill (send us this link!)
Moving, Building, Growing: Reflections on the burgeoning anarchist movement
by Solstice
Collective Liberation on my Mind by Chris Crass:
from Cindy Milstein:
Democracy is Direct
Going Public
Another World is Possible
Disentangling the Anti-War Movement from the American Flag
Revolutionary Solidarity by Pierleone Porcu
Armed Joy by A. Bonnano
Myth and Implications of the Kwangju People's Uprising by George Katsiaficas
Kuwasi Balagoon:
Anarchy Can't Fight Alone
Brinks Trial Statement
Continuing Appeal of Anti Imperialism
other
Some Recommended Books:
Bolo Bolo by PM
Emma Goldman: Living My Life
Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
The Revolution Of Everyday Life By Raul Vaneigem
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucalt
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
How it All Began by Bommi Baumann
Subversion of Politics by George Katsiaficas
Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
If you're in Philly, get your books at Wooden Shoe Books, Philly's anarchist all volunteer collective run and owned bookstore. 508 S. 5th just north of South St.
Classical Anarchism
famous anarchists
Emma Goldman
Buenaventura Durruti
Alexander Berkman
Voltairine Decleyre
Autonomy
Autonomia and the Origin of the Black Bloc
Texas Archives of Autonomist Marxism
Toni Negri
Revolutionary Self Theory (on developing a living theory that fights against all ideology)
People's Global Action
People's Global Action site
PGA North America
Delete the Border
We Are Everywhere
Squatting
The squatting movement (mainly) in Europe brought autonomous and anarchist ideas to reality for many people by seizing abandoned buildings and space to create living spaces and cultural/ economic centers run on the principles of autonomy and self rule.
CRASS
a band who made an enormous impact in making anarchy popular among the punks and counterculture in general.
The Paris Commune
an article by Bronwyn Leopore
Spain on art for change site
