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Chapter 3 "Isolation"

Para no sentirme solo por los siglos de los siglos All we have in common is the illusion of being together. And beyond the illusion of permitted anodynes there is only the collective desire to destroy isolation (1). -- Impersonal relationships are the no-man's land of isolation. By producing isolation, contemporary social organization signs its own death-sentence (2).

Chapter 2 "Humiliation"

The economy of everyday life is based on a continuous exchange of humiliations and aggressive attitudes. It conceals a technique of wear and tear (usure), which is itself prey to the gift of destruction which it invites contradictorily (1). Today, the more man is a social being the more he is an object (2). Decolonisation has not yet begun (3). It will have to give a new value to the old principle of sovereignty (4)…

Chapter 1 -"The Insignificant Signified"

Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation (1). No illusion, sacred or deconsecrated (2), collective or individual, can hide the poverty of our daily actions any longer (3). The enrichment of life calls inexorably for the analysis of the new forms taken by poverty, and the perfection of the old weapons of refusal (4).

Introduction

Introduction to The Revolution of Everyday Life.
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The revolution of everyday life - Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem was one of the most important thinkers within the Situationist International as well as frequent editor of their journal…

The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation

Socialism, anarchism and feminism - Carol Ehrlich

Socialism, anarchism and feminism - Carol Ehrlich

Carol Ehrlich's 1977 anarchist feminist text.

The tyranny of tyranny - Cathy Devine

A critical response by Cathy Devine to The tyranny of structurelessness by Jo Freeman.

Untying the knot

Untying the Knot was a pamphlet which republished the Jo Freeman text Tyranny of Structuralessness and included a response by Cathy Devine, on how we organise radical groups and how we act as radicals so as to avoid a disordered political movement. Since being written in the early 1970s, both these essays have had a profound influence on both the feminist and anarchist movements world-wide.

Searchlight and the State - "Sniper"

From issue 36 of Anarchy (second series) from summer 1983. Reprinted by Kate Sharpley Library in 2001. The article where "anti-fascist" magazine…

References

Part Two: The 1980's and Beyond

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