What Is This All About?

Free Society was an Anarchist newspaper which ran from 1895-1904, originally published in Portland, Oregon and later moved to San Francisco, California, which published articles by many import Anarchist authors and activists.

Although this newsletter probably won’t achieve the same fame, it is hoped it will maintain the same spirit of intelligent rebellion and interesting insights.

Series

There are several different series you may be interested in:

Capitalism - What Is It?

Who Deserves Our Help? (Work vs Entitlement)

What Justifies Hierarchy? Should Anyone Ruler Over Another?

Identifying Fascists & Defeating Them

Who Will Do The Dirty Jobs After The Revolution?

Radical Star Wars - Andor And Anarchism

Ursula K. Le Guin & The Dispossessed

Various articles based around positive solutions

& A Video Channel & Zines

Disclaimer

I write as part of my learning process. All my articles are to be considered drafts which may be revised and corrected as I find more information. Please let me know if you find any inaccuracies or have missed out anything important in any article.

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Series Highlights

Capitalism Series

Part of my series on Capitalism:

• What Is Capitalism

• The Father Of Capitalism

• The Real Conspiracy: Capitalism

• The Real Cost Of Capitalism

• The Real Cost Of Cars

• The Capitalist Empire Strikes Back

• How Capitalism Co-Opted Christianity

• Redefining Capitalism

• Dubious Defences Of Capitalism

• Capitalism vs Socialism

• Why Hate Capitalism

• Anti-Capitalist Memes

  • Recognising Capitalist Propaganda

  • Working For Bosses Is Stealing Your Life

  • For Love Nor Money

  • Wage Slavery

  • Class War

• Capitalist Fairy Tales

  • I, Pencil, The True Story

  • The Radical Little Red Hen

  • Capitalism’s Fairy Tales

• Private Property

  • Property Rights?

  • Property Wrongs

  • Land Hoarders - Memes

  • Are We Property?

  • Homelessness & Capitalism

  • Countries And Borders

  • Immigration & Borders - Memes

    
    Also see -

• Were We Born Evil? (Or Did Capitalism Make Us That Way?)

• The Metaphorical Pie

• Taking Back Libertarianism

• Universal Basic Illusion

• Liberals vs Leftists vs Conservatives

Entitlement Series

Look at what we are entitled to and the morality of capitalism

• The Moral Question

• Society And Shoulds

• The Myth Of Merit

• Were We Born Evil?

• Competition vs Co-operation

• Universal Basic Illusion

• How The World Became This Way

• A Better World Is Possible

• Entitled To Everything

• What About The Lazy?

• Food For Free Series

  • Capitalism vs Socialism

  • The Necessities of Life as Rights

  • From Abundance to Artificial Scarcity

  • Neither Angels Nor Demons: Cooperation vs Coercion

  • The Changes We Make Possible

  • Food For Free

Hierarchy Series

• Are You Really In Favour Of Hierarchy? Probably Not!

• Five Questions Of Power

• Justifications For Hierarchy

• The Key Keeper

• Organising Without Rulers

• Scaling Up Freedom

• Justice

  • Justice Anarchist Style

  • Justice - Legal vs Good

  • Morality & Community

  • All Cops Are Bad - Memes

• Anti-Leninist

  • Hierarchy And Revolution

  • Justifications For Hierarchy (Under Leninism)

  • Socialism vs Tankies (on Roses and Resistance)

  • Why Stateless Socialism?

You might also appreciate -

• Are You An Anarchist? (Graeber)

• Love Is Anarchist

• What Wont Change The World

Sci-Fi Anarchists Series

• The Anarchist Avengers

• The Last Of Us Town Of Jackson

• Star Wars Andor

  • Star Wars Radical Origins

  • Andor’s Political Inspiration

  • Nemik’s Anarchist Manifesto

  • Nemik’s Manifesto Origins

  • Anarchist Saw Gerrera

  • Radical Star Wars Conclusions

• Dispossessed Series

  • How Anarres Works

  • The Utopian Pravic Language

  • Odonian Hymn Of The Insurrection

  • Antillia’s Utopia (Anarres On Earth)

  • In Defence Of The Dispossessed

• V For Vendetta

  • V Speaks To Madam Justice

  • V For Poetry

Anti-Fascism Series

• How Not To Nazi

• Defeating Fascism The Easy Way

• Resisting Oppression & Making Friends

• So You Are Living In A Dystopia - What Next?

• Fighting Fascism The Hard Way

Solutions Series

• The Liberationist Island

  • Liberation or Liberty?

  • Liberation from Money and Markets?

  • Liberation from Centralisation?

  • Liberation from Work?

  • Liberation from Education?

  • Liberation from Illness?

  • Liberation from Justice?

  • Liberation from Nature?

  • Liberation from Love?

  • The Liberationist Way

• Who Will Do The Dirty Jobs?

  • Part 1 - The Supposed Problem Of Plumbers Without Capitalism

  • Part 2 - Money & Motivations

  • Part 3 - Selfishness vs Incentives

  • Part 4 - The Plumbing Revolution (how it will work story)

  • Part 5 - Plumbing The Depths

• Utopian Possibilities Articles

  • A Better World Is Possible

  • Writing In An Anarchist Utopia

  • Playing Pretend

  • How Anarres Works

  • Antillia’s Utopia

  • Building Tomorrow Today

  • A New World Within The Old

  • Choose Your Own Utopia

  • A Free Society

  • Achieving Liberation

  • AI Anarchist Manifesto

  • See - Anti-Utopianism

What’s In A Word Series

• What Is Conservatism?

• What Is Liberalism?

• What Is Socialism?

• What Is Capitalism?

• What Is Republicanism?