Bedtime Theory

There is an old argument amongst anarchists. The argument starts with the nature of unions, and ends with the conclusion that revolutionaries shouldn’t attempt to build libertarian alternatives outside the unions, and instead should enter into the established unions and agitate for anarchism there. Though the argument doesn’t derive from Malatesta, he wrote it most succintly and is an inspiration for many. Looking at the argument we can see the missing pieces, and why this orientation towards unions is mistaken. (more…)

This is my comments on an STO paper, towards the revolutionary party (more…)

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This is my article which tries to reply to councilists, syndicalists, and boring-from-within anarchists. I wrote this about a year ago. It is written wrong, but i’m going to work on it here. 

i’ve been working on this article for a while, but am not satisfied with it. I think i’m trying to incorporate too much, and am making it muddled. any thoughts on how to improve it?

I’m going to start using this again since I’m reading and writing a lot. This is all schematic since it’s all over the place, but if anyone is down to discuss it, bust out. Here’s an overview of that business
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here is my reply to nate’s post on his blog
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So my thinking has changed on the issue since I first sketched it. In studying the modern day organizational dualists I realized there’s more than one way to cash this distinction. (more…)

I wrote this in reply to an analysis by a radical. Edits appreciated. (more…)

Couldn’t sleep last night. These are rough and need serious editing. I don’t like the ‘it isn’t/won’t work’ aspect of the one below. I need to edit that out, because that’s not what its about, but wanted to put something up anyway lest I let it sit on my desktop too long. (more…)