Recommended Reading
This is my personal list of texts and videos that I recommend for people to read. These texts and videos are not only ones I enjoy, but I have learned something from and each one has contributed to my Critical Self-Theory.
Introduction
Each of these are a text or video that I recommend for anyone who is a beginner to anarchism to read, though many of them do, not all of them are exactly set out to introduce you to anarchism
- Text: Basic Principles of Anarchism by Morpheus
- Video: How Anarchy Works by Andrewism
- Text: What is Prefigurative Politics? by Prefigurative Action
- Text: anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future by maia arson crimew
- Text: Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck by Nadia C. (CrimethInc.)
- Text: If you want a revolution, learn to write, communicate and nourish your creative expression by loismac_, feminist and maiaben
Praxis (Taking Action)
- Text: The Sky is Falling; We’ve Got This by Margaret Killjoy
- Text: Against the Language of Militancy by Wolfi Landstreicher
Prefiguration
Mutual Aid
Organising
- Video: Behaviours That Destroy Organizing. Part 1 by aaronflarin_
- Video: the art of getting your organizing group to do more and lurk less by aaronflarin_
Decision Making
Collective Decision Making
Care
Confrontation
Labour, Syndicalism, and Taking Action at Work
Anti-Fascism
- Video Playlist: The Alt-Right Playbook by Innuendo Studios
- Text: László Molnárfi is Wrong About Antifascism by Alexander Rakhmetov
Protests
- Text: How To Prepare Before A Protest Or Action by Across Frontlines
- Text: How To Prepare After A During Or Action by Across Frontlines
Know Your Rights
- Text: Know Your Human Rights At A Protest Or Action by Across Frontlines
- Note: This is made for protesting in the USA
Technology
Hacking
Digital Piracy
Action For Palestine
Theory and Philosophy
Critical Self-Theory
Queerness, Gender and Relationships
Queer
- Text: Make The Golf Course A Public Sex Forest by Anonymous
- Text: “Straight Ally” is an Oxymoron by RAD Content Library
Self-Relationship (The Relationship We Have With Ourself)
Interpersonal and Intimate Relationships
Relationship Anarchy
Race
Indigenous Americans
- Text: Our veins run with water, not oil by Seb Bonet
- Text: Towards An Indigenous Egoism by Cante Waste (Good Heart)
Decolonisation and Anti-Imperialism
- Text: The ‘anti-imperialism’ of idiots by Leila Al Shami
- Text: Decolonization as a Prefigurative Praxis by Prefigurative Action
Egoism
Egoist Communism
Alternative and Radical Economics
Academic Disciplines
Sociology
- Text: Chapter 1 of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
Social Analysis
Media, Social Media and Social Engineering
Education
Universities, Academia and Scholarship
- Text: Against Anarchism’s Academisation by Anarchist Pedagogies Collective
- Video: Academic Vs. Scholar by reece_thinks
Geopolitics and History
- Text: The Dawn of Anarchism by Conor Kostick (Irish Anarchist Network)
- Text: Why I Joined the Industrial Workers of the World by Margaret Killjoy
Ireland
Housing
Palestine, Israel and Zionism
Eastern Europe/Post-Soviet
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
- Text: A conversation with anarchists from Ecoplatform fighting in Ukraine by Prameń
- Text: Interview with an anti-militarist from Odessa by Vadym Yakovlev, Československé anarchistické sdružení, and Martin (ČAS)
Turtle Island (North America)
Save Weelaynee/Stop Cop City/Defend The Atlanta Forest
Miscellaneous
- Video Playlist: Why Are You So Angry? by Innuendo Studios
Solarpunk
Interesting
This is a small section of texts and videos that I found interesting and/or fun to read, but only contributed very little or nothing to my Critical Self-Theory