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A Journal of Evolutionary Anarchism Vol:04 brainwashed from birth. l was there to Cullen, Brian Morris, Jean Robinson, The Voluntaryist: P O Box 1275, Gramling pay respects to the departed person, not Steve Booth, Doreen Frarnpton, SC 29348 USA. Edited by Carl \X/atner. $20.00 for six issues. to the state apparatus. which had Sigurdur Hardarson, Toby Crowe, Violet harnessed his last remains, but I was Jones, Brian Bainford, Colin Johnson, Freedom: from Freedom Press, in Angel seen as at fault. I should have gone Dennis Gould, Richard Alexander, Jon Alley, 84b \X/hitechapel High Street, London along with the ceremony anyway. l Purkis, Chris Tame, Diane Jones, Emily El 7QX. 50p per issue, should have conformed. Also - and this Johns, Dick Martin, Larry Gambone, is a good one - it was suggested l should Sam Olive,Joe Peacott, Dave Robinson, Imagine: A sceptical journal of philosophy have acquiesced, just in case the state Ed Stamm, Mike Long, NH Fisher, John and politics. $3.50 or subscription $5.00 lirom had got it right about god! Rety, Mike V., Simon Rios-Roots, John P.O. Box 8145, Reno, NV 39507 USA It is the social pressure arising out of Pilgrim, Donald Rooum, Harold Any Time Now: Anarchist decentralisl “policing” by others which is one of the Easthope, Colin Ward, Dave Dane, Dick magazine edited by Dick Martin with regular psychological weapons of the state. Frost, Desmond Gaffney, Matt Saabo, contributions i S fromi Larry Gambom-. Social ostracisation can be more cruel Kevin O’Connor, John. Atherton,. Subscription by donation to ATN, Affinity Volume 4 Number 1 Autumn / ‘Winter 2003 £1 ()0 than a prison cell and in a technological VU D Runacre, Dean Kendall, D. Place, Argenta, B.C., Canada (VOG 1B0) age where images of the state are seen l-lowarth, ‘Tracy’, Rory Bowskill, Wendy’ everywhere, it is not easy to publicise or McElroy_, Ken MacLeod, Richard The Cunningham Amendment give credibility to other ways of living. Garner, Richard Bendall, Peter Le Mare, The Journal of the East Pennine Anarcrisps. Moreover, there is the fear of the Cindy Milstein, Chaz Bufe, Takis Dedicated to revolutionary acts of joy and irreverence in a world increasingly weighed unknown. Life under state control may Fotopolous, Dave Cunliffe, Barry down by sterile bureaucracies. lead to moans, groans and criticism, but Paternan, the late Peter Neville, l<iate Send donation (suggest £1.00) to 1005 for most people the alternative is Sharpley library, Freedom Press Huddersfield Road, Bradford BDl2 8].l’ another ruling group. The idea of no Bookshop, Greenleaf Bookshop, West Yorkshire. mziigg gmap is too hard to contemplate October Books, News From Nowhere, when personal responsibility and the Wordpower, Scarthin Books, Bookstall Northern Voices abilitv to trust and work with others has Services, Page One, Housemans Diverse and interesting libertarian magazine been eroded. As Tolstoy also said “the Bookshop, the "Manchester Radical featuring a range of articles on life in strength of the government rests on the Bookfair, and the London Anarchist northern England and Wales. £1.20 (cash) Springbank, Hebden Bridge, HX7 '/AA ignorance of the people”. Bookfair This is why individuality is at stake in a l The Dandelion (individualist. Anarchist) monochrome state world. The poet Subscription-s are $9.00 to people outside the Shelley said that “the great instrument of USA. Available from Michael Coughlin Post moral good is the imagination” but for Office Box Number 205, Cornucopia, t those whose imagination is crushed W-i"'iscor1si11 54327 USA. beneath the heel of conformity,I‘; . then life widiout govemment cannot be The Individual published by the Society for imagined. llowever, as long as anarchist lndividual Freedom 6 Swan Terrace, ll" lastings TN34 3i {T writers and their work remain available, then others can extricate themselves, like The Free Press Death Ship published by rnanv of us have done, from the state a " Virilet Jones P O Box 55336, Hayward (IA machine. 94545, USA Jean Robinson \- Friends of SUBSCRIPTIONS Total Liberty Subscriptions for Total Liberty are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS available at 8.00per 4 issues (£5.tltl for low-income). Total Liberty currently As editor l would like to extend my The Match! 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For details send to thc Laurens Otter, Bill \X/’hitehead, Steve Green r‘marchist. above address. l6 tenure) of property and free exchange of value of their labour, one who works inevitable in any truly free society. superpower, and economically by a important that such journals re-examine goods and services both now and in any harder or better than another will People have varied needs, wants, and Contents range of multinational corporafions, it is ideas, and do not cling to those parts of future anarchist society. We believe that possess or have the ability to acquire mental" and physical abilities and are easy to feel disempowered and helpless the anarchist ideology which are no individuals should retain the full value of more things than someone who works therefore unequal in many ways. Some in the face of such awful accumulations longer relevant or which have been whatever they produce and should be less or is less skilled at a particular produce more, some produce less, and Editorial ......................................... .. Page 2 of political and economic might. It is shown to be based upon false principles. free to occupy and use only that land occupation. But economic inequality there is no injustice in the fact that this Individualism and Equality easy to feel it is not worth the effort, or Larry Gambone’s Ariana"/Jiir Creda, which they can put to use without would not have the same significance in would result in different amounts of by Peacott ............................... .. Page 2 that the effort is ultimately pointless. published in Total Liberty Vol. 3 employing the labour of others. Of a non-capitalist anarchist society that it wealth. A society or community that A Teenage Anarchist Speaks by That perhaps we should follow Number 4, and reproduced again in this course, being anarchists, we also does in today’s societies. Patrick MacLeod Cullen, 16......... Page 3 prohibited those who so desired from Volta.ire’s advice and cultivate our own issue, outlines some of the more maintain that individuals would be free The differences in wealth that arise in It‘s a VI/onder Anything Works retaining the full value of what they garden. While there is no choice but to important anarchist principles. For to pool their labour, property, an.d/or an individualist community would likely by Larry Gazmbone ...................... .. ii’ FD U1 produce in order to create an artificial U0 be realistic about the minuscule current Respect My Authority! example, that we reject violence as a land in order to increase their economic be relatively small. \V1thout the ability to economic levelling would infringe on the by Richard Griffin ....................... .. Page 6 level of influence of the various tactic, that genuine anarchists act with efficiency, better provide for others in profit from the labour of others, freedom of individuals and thus violate a Getting that Message Out There anarchist journals, it is important neither respect and responsibility towards need, or simply enjoy the company of generate interest from providing credit, basic anarchist principle. by Steve Booth ............................ .. Page 7 to underestimate it, nor to forget the others, that we act ethically, that we are their fellows. But these would still be or extort rent from letting out land or .As for those who produce little or Government, Society and its possible future influence we may have. resolutely against the state, that we are voluntary, private arrangements, wherein property, individuals would not be nothing because of some disability, there Critics by Dick Frost ................... .. Page 8 In some of the darkest days of the opposed to taxation, that we oppose the individuals concerned would share capable of generating the huge quantities are other means of providing for the less Wefl Fares the State Soviet Union, when few in either Russia coercion, that we accept that anarchism die products of their labour and of assets that people can in a capitalist fortunate than communal economic by John Griffin ............................... Page 10 or the West were predicting the collapse does not imply any particular economic Reviews by contribute to the joint project as long as system. Furthermore, the anarchist with arrangements. There is a long tradition of that hellish leviathan, there were system but leaves us free as individuals R.
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