‘I must Create a System or be enslaved by another Man’s.
I will not Reason & Compare:
my business is to Create’
(William Blake)
During the 19th century, anarchism has developed as a result of a social current which aims for freedom and happiness.
A number of factors since World War I have made this movement, and its ideas, disappear little by little under the dust of history.
After the classical anarchism — of which the Spanish Revolution was one of the last representatives—a ‘new’ kind of resistance was founded in the sixties which claimed to be based (at least partly) on this anarchism.
However this resistance is often limited to a few (and even then partly misunderstood) slogans such as ‘Anarchy is order’, ‘Property is theft’,...
Information about anarchism is often hard to come by, monopolised and intellectual; and therefore visibly disapearing.
The ‘anarchive’ or ‘anarchist archive’ Anarchy is Order ( in short A.O) is an attempt to make the ‘principles, propositions and discussions’ of this tradition available again for anyone it concerns.
We believe that these texts are part of our own heritage.
They don’t belong to publishers, institutes or specialists.
These texts thus have to be available for all anarchists an other people interested.
That is one of the conditions to give anarchism a new impulse, to let the ‘new anarchism’ outgrow the slogans.
This is what makes this project relevant for us: we must find our roots to be able to renew ourselves.
We have to learn from the mistakes of our socialist past.
History has shown that a large number of the anarchist ideas remain standing, even during the most recent social-economic developments.
‘Anarchy Is Order’ does not make profits, everything is spread at the price of printing- and papercosts.
This of course creates some limitations for these archives.
Everyone is invited to spread along the information we give.
This can be done by copying our leaflets, printing texts from the CD (collecting all available texts at a given moment) that is available or copying it, e-mailing the texts to friends and new ones to us,...
Become your own anarchive!!!
(Be aware though of copyright restrictions.
We also want to make sure that the anarchist or non-commercial printers, publishers and authors are not being harmed.
Our priority on the other hand remains to spread the ideas, not the ownership of them.)
The anarchive offers these texts hoping that values like freedom, solidarity and direct action get a new meaning and will be lived again; so that the struggle continues against the
“...demons of flesh and blood, that sway scepters down here; and the dirty microbes that send us dark diseases and wish to squash us like horseflies; and the will-‘o-the-wisp of the saddest ignorance.”
(L-P. Boon)
The rest depends as much on you as it depends on us.
Don’t mourn, Organise!
Comments, questions, criticism, cooperation can be sent to [email protected].
A complete list and updates are available on this address, new texts are always
This series of posts will insure that these free thinkers' works live on in living memory.
If only a few.
There is a reason these books are not taught in the modern skools.
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