I’m also reading Mutual Aid and Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin and it’s marginally better but still takes me a while to get through a page. I’m baby.
I’m also reading Mutual Aid and Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin and it’s marginally better but still takes me a while to get through a page. I’m baby.
Anarchy Works by Peter Glendroos is probably the most readable intro anarchist theory, it's a lot more contemporary than Kropotkin et all
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works
The table of contents reads the the FAQ of those unfamiliar or against anarchism
Anarchy Would Never Work
What exactly is anarchism?
A note on inspiration
The tricky topic of representation
Recommended Reading
Aren’t people naturally selfish?
Aren’t people naturally competitive?
Haven’t humans always been patriarchal?
Aren’t people naturally warlike?
Aren’t domination and authority natural?
A broader sense of self
Recommended Reading
How will decisions be made?
How will decisions be enforced?
Who will settle disputes?
Meeting in the streets
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Without wages, what is the incentive to work?
Don’t people need bosses and experts?
Who will take out the trash?
Who will take care of the elderly and disabled?
How will people get healthcare?
What about education?
What about technology?
How will exchange work?
What about people who don’t want to give up a consumerist lifestyle?
What about building and organizing large, spread-out infrastructure?
How will cities work?
What about drought, famine, or other catastrophes?
Meeting our needs without keeping count
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What’s to stop someone from destroying the environment?
What about global environmental problems, like climate change?
The only way to save the planet
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Who will protect us without police?
What about gangs and bullies?
What’s to stop someone from killing people?
What about rape, domestic violence, and other forms of harm?
Beyond individual justice
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How could people organized horizontally possibly overcome the state?
How do we know revolutionaries won’t become new authorities?
How will communities decide to organize themselves at first?
How will reparations for past oppressions be worked out?
How will a common, anti-authoritarian, ecological ethos come about?
A revolution that is many revolutions
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Could an anarchist society defend itself from an authoritarian neighbor?
What will we do about societies that remain patriarchal or racist?
What will prevent constant warfare and feuding?
Networks not borders
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Won’t the state just reemerge over time?
What about other problems we can’t foresee?
Making Anarchy Work
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It Works When We Make It Work