Articles by: SearchingForSanity
A left-leaning market anarchist/left-libertarian currently living out of Grafton NH and is working hard to build the left-libertarian community in the New England area through the Alliance of the Libertarian Left of NE (ALL-oNE).

Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 4, Education (External and Self)

September 22, 2011 9:30 pm0 comments
Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 4, Education (External and Self)

(Fransisco Ferrer) What does it Mean to “Educate” Someone or Yourself? Education as a device in the struggle against oppression means better informing other people or yourself about what’s going on in the world. This can be about a multitude of different things and in a multitude of different ways. [...]

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Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 3, Dual/Counter-Power

September 15, 2011 2:31 pm5 comments
Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 3, Dual/Counter-Power

    Comparisons and Introductions   Agorism vs. Dual Power   In many ways the ideas of dual power are like the ideas behind agorism. It’s about building alternative structures to the current one to promote more autonomy within society against unjust authority. However similar these two things may be [...]

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Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 2, Direct Action

September 8, 2011 5:35 pm0 comments
Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 2, Direct Action

    If Not Politics, what?: A Mini-Introduction to Direct Action Most people that support the political system in any fashion (and even some who don’t) will tell you (even as an anarchist) that voting or working within the system is the way to go. Whether it’s the tired old [...]

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Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 1, Agorism

August 31, 2011 10:56 pm17 comments
Strategies for the Struggle: Strategy 1, Agorism

Introducing Agorism Agorism for those wondering is both a philosophy and a tactic and so when I refer to agorism in this article I am using it as such. It can both be a tactic in the struggle and an entire philosophy depending on how you use the ideas within [...]

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Strategies for the Struggle: A Brief Introduction

August 17, 2011 8:47 pm0 comments
Strategies for the Struggle: A Brief Introduction

In my last post I briefly talked about what strategies for the struggle I think are best. Now, I’d like to take the time to dedicate four separate full length articles to all of my preferred strategies. In addition I shall have one more after that to bring them all [...]

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What’s the Enemy? (Part 2)

August 11, 2011 10:10 pm0 comments
What’s the Enemy? (Part 2)

A Re-Introduction:   In my previous post I analyzed why I thought the concept of calling people your enemy or a statist, either in frame of mind, or in discussion is not a good tactic at best and at worst, a damaging one. Why? Well, the concept of regarding people as [...]

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What’s the Enemy? (Part 1)

August 10, 2011 9:46 pm6 comments
What’s the Enemy? (Part 1)

Introduction There’s been a lot of talk lately about who’s the enemy. From this post, which, in my opinion,started it all and then to George’s follow up post, to a response on GT, another response on GT, and finally George’s last post on the subject. So the talk about who is the enemy of the [...]

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Getting Past Anarcho-Party-lines

August 3, 2011 9:42 pm0 comments
Getting Past Anarcho-Party-lines

Written by Nick Ford Originally written: 8/3/11 Revised: 8/3 and 8/4/11 I figured I’d do one more follow up article to my Across Anarcho-Party-lines. I’d like to clarify some of my positions that weren’t addressed properly and bring more light on why the division among anarchists is a real problem. [...]

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Across Anarcho-Party-lines

July 27, 2011 5:19 pm0 comments
Across Anarcho-Party-lines

Written by Nick Ford Originally written: 7/20/11 Revised 7/21/11 and 7/23/11 In my previous post I briefly mentioned the idea of “anarcho-party-lines” and in this article I want to explore this idea more.  Often times the difficulty of Anarchism and Its Divides is to get across many different points to many different [...]

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A Quest for Sanity

July 13, 2011 8:29 pm0 comments
A Quest for Sanity

A Quest for Sanity By Nick Ford Originally written: 7//9/11   I always like to have a different username wherever I go. I’m not sure exactly sure why per se’ except that I like the feeling that there are many different sides of my personality that I’d like to show [...]

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