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...Sufis have been living here for 400 years," said one (I did not ask his name, as this was a chat, not an interview), "and we never killed a single person." When I asked how many Sufis lived in the area, the anarchist side emerged. "I don't know," my interlocutor answered, with a trace of exasperation. "We don't ask. We're not a political party, you know." I wandered off, but later dropped by again to see how they were doing. With the help of a passing translator I asked them what they thought of Ansar's approach...
...cause of death remains uncertain--some say it was syphilis; others say an operation to remove a bullet from his neck damaged him. (He had been shot in 1918 by a young anarchist who was herself promptly shot.) One theory among good communists was that Lenin, who was just 53, had simply worked himself to death; he had driven himself hard, especially for a son of such a prosperous family. (One of his grandfathers had been a landowner with personal control over 40 peasant families...
...some listeners are hesitant to take Barman’s politics seriously. On Paullelujah!, “Anarchist Bookstore Part 1,” where he asks “Will Barnes & Noble harm the global? / Will Amazon com be ’round when grandma’s gone mom?,” is followed by “Burping and Farting...
...York rally included a broad mix of groups—from Ivy-League college students to organized labor, the anarchist Black Bloc to the American-flag-toting Veterans for Peace. We are glad to see Harvard students active in this new movement, leaving their insular campus to declare their opposition to war. As students in positions of extreme privilege, we should not retreat to an ivory tower but stay vocal and involved in the broader political world—if not through our government, then in the streets...
Nowhere more than in Israel does the old anarchist aphorism hold true: No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. That's because the Jewish State's proportional-representation democracy awards a parliamentary seat to any party able to muster a measly 1.5 percent of the popular vote, and that combined with the increasing "tribalization" of its electorate has made it an iron rule of Israeli politics that no party ever wins a simple majority. Instead, the leader of the party that wins the most seats then faces weeks of horse-trading with a plethora of small...