Hey everyone came here after reddit started censoring everyone and anything.
I’ll put down some suggestions and whatever folks are interested in I’ll do weekly/bi-weekly posts talking about the chapter with folks.
Please comment if you are interested and/or have a suggestion
these are all a bit longer and I’ve read 2/3 (Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin and Anarchism by Goldman) the third is a fascinating one but I’m also open to other suggestions for what to read together.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
I’ll also include a really short essay in the comments and short story for personal reading here.
https://files.libcom.org/files/ursula-k-le-guin-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas.pdf
Huh, I hadn’t really thought about Omelas as an anarchist story (especially with other of LeGuin’s work like The Dispossessed being more explicitly anarchist), but now that you mention it I can see it. Perhaps also The Word for World is Forest, in that vein, it’s about colonialism, resistance, etc.
yea i really relate it to the dangers of authoritarianism that plague a faction of modern leftist movement. I haven’t read the word for world is forest and sounds amazing. Would be interesting to reread “Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching” after that
Just as a fun side note, in one collection of her short stories (the wind’s twelve quarters), she has a story about the beginnings the Odonians. In her author notes regarding that short story she says:
I think reading both short stories back to back helped me contextualize better what Omelas means to me and, possibly, to her.
Ooh, interesting, I didn’t know about that. I definitely want to read more, I started reading her a few years ago and have fallen in love with it.