Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed is an English anarchist magazine, which is one of the most popular publications of anarchism in North America. The quarterly published magazine is moved to different locations in the U.S. since 1980. The orientation of the journal within the anarchism can be described as nichtideologisch and critical; it is aimed at the wider public and is not intended as a theoretical journal.
"Toward a society based on mutual aid, voluntary cooperation & the liberation of desire -. For a society based on mutual aid, voluntary cooperation and liberation of desire "
History
The magazine was founded in 1980 by members of the Columbia Anarchist League from Columbia ( MO) and appeared there almost 15 years. Jason McQuinn, who is one of the founders of Anarchy and initially wrote under the pseudonym Lev Chernyi, the end of this time was the sole editor. McQuinn moved in 1995 to New York, where the journal has been published together with members of the Autonomedia collective. With the decline of the independent wholesalers FinePrint Anarchy would have to be almost set. Therefore, the magazine returned to only two issues from New York to Columbia ( MO), and there was re-released by Columbia Anarchist League, which was to remain so until 2006. As of 2008 Anarchy is published by a collective in Berkeley ( CA).
The magazine is free of advertising. By Anarchy two books have been published: The Papalagi, the new edition of the translation of a book by Erich Scheurmann, and The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem, appeared on German under the title Handbook of the Art of Living for the young generations.
Orientation and authors
The publications in Anarchy are regarded as pioneers of the post -left anarchy, a recent current in anarchist who wants to emancipate itself from left ideologies, in particular a left authoritarianism. Post -left anarchy has developed especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union and entities controlled by the states, and is Anarchy authors like Aragorn! and Lawrence Jarach ( both part of the Berkeley - collective ), John Zerzan, Bob Black, and Wolfi tramp (the latter also under the pseudonyms Feral Faun and Feral Ranter ) coined.
John Zerzan is considered the best-known representative of anarcho - primitivism. As in the magazine have published repeatedly primitivist authors Anarchy was described by left-wing critics like Ruth Kinna as " primitivist ". However, it also appeared reviews of primitivism of McQuinn, Jarach and others.
Bob Black is best known for his book The Abolition of Work, which has been translated into several languages and appeared in different places. The first major distribution reached the essay as a side dish in Anarchy 1986. Black has published in the journal next to criticism of the left and left- anarchists such as Ward Churchill, Fred Woodworth, Chaz Bufe and Murray Bookchin.
Wolfi tramp writes now are rejected with a firm political program from the perspective of insurrectionary anarchism ( Insurrektionalismus ), a flow of anarchism, in the formal organizations such as trade unions or groups. Instead, direct action and informal organization are propagated with the inclusion of non-anarchists. The insurrectionary anarchism was coined by Renzo Novatore and Alfredo Bonanno, whose work has translated Wolfi tramp, and combine the sympathy for the general, spontaneous and sudden uprising with the egoism of Max Stirner.