Beauty in the apertures of pain

1. The Conquest of Bread (Pyotr Kropotkin, 1892)
2. The Capitalist System (Mikhail Bakunin, 1872)
3. Programme of Anarcho-Syndicalism (Grigori Maximov, 1927)
4. Marx’s Economics for Anarchists: An Anarchist’s Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy (Wayne Price, 2012)
5. What is Anarchism? (Alexander Berkman, 1929)
6. Fighting for Ourselves: Anarchosyndicalism & the Class Struggle (Solidarity Federation, 2012)
7. Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism & Syndicalism (Lucien Van Der Walt, Michael Schmidt, 2009)
8. The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action (Edward Conlon, 2009)
9. We, the Anarchists! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), 1927-1937 (Stuart Christie, 1996)
10. The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution (Sam Dolgoff, editor, 1974)

30th Annual Banned Books Week | September 30th - October 6th, 2012

“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”                                                          - Lyndon B. Johnson

Arm yourself!

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his daughter Scottie at college:

“Once one is caught up into the material world, not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

By this I mean the thing that lies behind all great careers, from Shakespeare’s to Abraham Lincoln’s, and as far back as there are books to read—the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not “happiness and pleasure” but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. Having learned this in theory from the lives and conclusions of great men, you can get a hell of a lot more enjoyment out of whatever bright things come your way.”

(by artistƒriendship)