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		<title>How to Catch A Fire</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/09/how-to-catch-a-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“White youth must choose sides now. They must either fight on the side of the oppressed, or be on the side of the oppressor.” -Bernardine Dohrn (member of the Weathermen)
The People of the World are starving. The masters of racist empire (the politicians and corporate ceo&#8217;s of amerika) are murdering, maiming, and raping the People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchism and the Struggle to Move Forward</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/09/anarchism-and-the-struggle-to-move-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kim Fyke &#38; Gabriel Sayegh
The Dispossessed, a well-known novel by Ursula LeGuin, details a functioning society built upon anarchist principles.(1) Anarchists are often adept at imagining a new and different world, and, inevitably, we must ask ourselves: how are we going to achieve this? Visions such as LeGuin’s are often borne from rigorous anti-authoritarian, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchism Articulated: Who We Are, What We Want, What We Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By m(A)tt
Introduction
Every election year, and this one in particular, I feel the urgency of articulating an alternative narrative and different ideas about how to make sense of the increasingly-chaotic world around us. With so many of my friends and comrades jumping on the Obama bandwagon, with admirable hope and ambition, I feel at the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Primitivism: Toward a 21st Century Anarchist Theory &amp; Praxis for Science</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/08/beyond-primitivism-toward-a-21st-century-anarchist-theory-praxis-for-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Charles Thorpe and Dr. Ian Welsh
From Anarchist Studies Volume 16, Number 1 2008
ABSTRACT
The authoritarian and ecologically destructive juggernaut of state-supported big science and technology in the twentieth century understandably fostered a deep pessimism and suspicion towards science and technology among many in the green, anarchist, and libertarian left milieu. This reaction has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Anarchism and Resistance in Bogotá</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 11, 2007, downtown Bogotá was filled with soldiers, snipers, undercover cops, and riot police on account of George Bush’s visit to Colombia. Nevertheless, hundreds gathered at the police barricades to burn flags and express their opposition to neoliberal capitalism. When the police turned water cannons, tear gas, and batons upon the crowd, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchist-Communism and Elections</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/08/anarchist-communism-and-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was written back in 2003 and was part of the Chilean discussion on the coming local elections at the time and the way many comrades wanted to dedicate the bulk of our resources (both financial and human) to anti-electoralism. As well, there was a debate as we were starting to run into elections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Anarchists Believe in Freedom?</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/07/do-anarchists-believe-in-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wayne Price
Central to anarchism is the belief that people can organize themselves to efficiently meet their needs, without top-down hierarchies, coercion, or rewards and punishments. People will make mistakes, because we are imperfect, but we can learn from our mistakes and improve over time. This is the belief in freedom. Anarchism is usually presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy &amp; Anarchists: Who We Are And What We Want</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/07/anarchy-anarchists-who-we-are-and-what-we-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anarchism is the word we use to express our passionate desire for a world on our own terms. Everyone from capitalists to communists uses the word “freedom” as some catch all term that their way of running the world can bring you. When we use it here, we don’t intend to use the same empty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Political Economy of Anarchism, Short and Loose</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/06/the-political-economy-of-anarchism-short-and-loose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We might define the economic goal of anarchism as the progressive reduction of intermediary steps between the experience of creative, social desire and the expression of that desire into material (social, aesthetic, technical, organic) form.
Thus, the most appropriate anarchist economic projects are those that most readily shift a singular instant of desire into a concrete, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toward an Anarchist Understanding of Class</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/06/toward-an-anarchist-understanding-of-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Willful Disobedience Vol. 2, No. 12
The social relationships of class and exploitation are not simple. Workerist conceptions, which are based on the idea of an objectively revolutionary class that is defined in terms of its relationship to the means of production, ignore the mass of those world-wide whose lives are stolen from them by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebels Against Tyranny: An Interview with Howard Zinn on Anarchism</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/05/rebels-against-tyranny-an-interview-with-howard-zinn-on-anarchism/</link>
		<comments>http://illvox.org/2008/05/rebels-against-tyranny-an-interview-with-howard-zinn-on-anarchism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ZIGA VODOVNIK
Howard Zinn, 85, is a Professor Emeritus of political science at Boston University. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1922 to a poor immigrant family. He realized early in his youth that the promise of the &#8220;American Dream“, that will come true to all hard-working and diligent people, is just that – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Racism, White Supremacy, White Privilege and the Social Construction of Race</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/05/white-racism-white-supremacy-white-privilege-and-the-social-construction-of-race/</link>
		<comments>http://illvox.org/2008/05/white-racism-white-supremacy-white-privilege-and-the-social-construction-of-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 05:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Omowale Akintunde, Multicultural Education v. 7 no. 2 (Winter 1999)
Racism is a systemic, societal, institutional, omnipresent, and epistemologically embedded phenomenon that pervades every vestige of our reality. For most whites, however, racism is like murder: the concept exists but someone has to commit it in order for it to happen. This limited view of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergent Complexity Theory and the Anarchist Approach</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/05/emergent-complexity-theory-and-the-anarchist-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://illvox.org/2008/05/emergent-complexity-theory-and-the-anarchist-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Kvenvolden
Ants are not the deft little erectors, foragers, and soldiers people think they are. Actually they are quite inept at all of the skills people laud over them. Ants are not clever and quick, but ant colonies are.
Ant colonies solve problems that would be impossible for an individual ant to solve. Finding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Reasons Why People of Color Need Anarchism</title>
		<link>http://illvox.org/2008/04/six-reasons-why-people-of-color-need-anarchism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From illvox.org
Anarchy isn&#8217;t just for skater kids and grad students any more.
All over the world, oppressed people are talking about grassroots solutions. They are talking about depending on the community instead of governments, corporations and cops. They are in rebellion against the powers that be, their version of history, and their institutions. Sometimes that rebellion [...]]]></description>
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