{"id":5063,"date":"2009-07-26T01:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2009-07-26T04:20:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:20:27","slug":"anarchist-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=5063","title":{"rendered":"anarchist notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

o n e<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Ely (Kasama) has re-published Christopher Day’s essay ‘The Historical Failure of Anarchism’ [PDF<\/a>]:<\/p>\n

‘The Historical Failure of Anarchism’ was written for a conference on anarchist strategy in 1996 and subsequently became the object of controversy within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation where it was seen as a break with anarchism. The resulting debates precipitated the breakup of Love and Rage in 1998. Members of Love and Rage went on to work in the Fire By Night organizing committee, Bring the Ruckus and the North East Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC) among other projects. For further background on the history of Love and Rage people can read \u201cAfter Winter Must Come Spring,\u201d a summation of Love and Rage\u2019s experience by the Fire By Night Organizing Committee published by Freedom Road Socialist Organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(‘Fire by Night’ disappeared shortly after forming; the FRSO is to be confused with the FRSO<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

t w o<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Judy Greenway<\/a> writes on anarchism, feminism, utopianism, the politics of gender and sexuality, and more… Current research interests include the history of anarchism, gender and sexual politics in Britain from the 1880s, and biographical research on poet, socialist and feminist, Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne.”<\/p>\n

t h r e e<\/strong><\/p>\n

A historical failure known as Noam Chomsky has some thoughts on \u201cCrisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours\u201d<\/a> (Democracy Now, July 3, 2009).<\/p>\n

f o u r<\/strong><\/p>\n

A loser named “Sean is a writer, an anarcho-communist, a vegan, a freethinker, and a feminist ally. He eats. He sleeps. He drinks a lot of coffee and tea. On occasion, Sean will listen to music, not just play it in the background. Has been known to \u201cthink too much\u201d. He can be found at several other places online. Here\u2019s [his blog<\/a>].”<\/p>\n

f i v e<\/strong><\/p>\n

From The Country Formerly Known As Bolshevik & Then Communist Russia<\/em>, a small group of artistic also-rans, deadbeats, down-and-outers, duds, flops, flunkees and has-beens are still daubing paint onto canvas:<\/p>\n

Local Artists Take Work Outside in Political Protest<\/a>
\nSergey Chernov
\nThe St. Petersburg Times<\/em>
\nJuly 24, 2009<\/p>\n

A group of local artists is taking its art into the street to make a statement, turning exhibitions into political protests and supplementing protests with its artwork.<\/p>\n

Having held two street shows in St. Petersburg late last month, they took their exhibition to Moscow at the weekend, where it was part of a demonstration in support of a young man persecuted by the police on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Called \u201cManaged Democracy: Horror from Nature,\u201d the series of paintings was created during a 14-day open-air hunger strike, in which several artists sat in a park near Smolny Institute, home to City Hall, creating paintings protesting police arbitrariness in May and June.<\/p>\n

They demanded an investigation into and punishment of the bureaucrats and police officers responsible for dispersing a 300-strong crowd who came to hold an authorized anarchist Pirate Street Party as part of the May Day demonstrations (over 130 were detained, officially for \u201ccrossing the road in the wrong place.\u201d) They also demanded the release of artist Artyom Loskutov, who was arrested on drug charges in Novosibirsk in mid-May, and an investigation into the activities of the \u201cE\u201d (anti-extremism) Center that was reported to be behind Loskutov\u2019s case…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/em> : \u201cUranium is ace!\u201d (On Angarsk) \/\/ antifa notes : russia<\/a> (May 27, 2009).<\/p>\n

s i x<\/strong><\/p>\n

@ndy (slackbastard) has replied to Christopher Day’s essay ‘The Historical Failure of Anarchism’ below:<\/p>\n

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I’m sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea
\nI’ve got to be free, free to face the life that’s ahead of me
\nOn board, I’m the captain, so climb aboard
\nWe’ll search for tomorrow on every shore
\nAnd I’ll try, oh Lord, I’ll try to carry on<\/p>\n

I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory
\nSome happy, some sad
\nI think of childhood friends and the dreams we had
\nWe live happily forever, so the story goes
\nBut somehow we missed out, on that pot of gold
\nBut we’ll try best that we can to carry on<\/p>\n

A gathering of angels appeared above my head
\nThey sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they did
\nThey said come sail away, come sail away
\nCome sail away with me
\n*you guys*
\nCome sail away, come sail away
\nCome sail away with me
\nCome sail away, come sail away
\nCome sail away with me
\n*ya guys had it*
\nCome sail away, come sail away
\nCome sail away with me…<\/em><\/p>\n

Bonus!<\/h2>\n

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Either you repeat what everybody else is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound as though you just came down from Neptune.<\/p>\n

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.<\/p>\n

We can be sure that either there will be a world without war or no world at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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