Beating Hearts Press: Philosophy/Critical Analysis Titles

PHILOSOPHY / CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Armed Joy. By Alfredo Bonanno. $2
A5 zine. 36 pages.
Legendary insurrectional anarchist tract. This has inspired many an anarchist over the years, and been plagiarised by some - the text on the reverse of the well-known CrimethInc 'Resistance is Fertile' flyer is actually the last page of Armed Joy. The author is presently serving 6 years in an Italian prison on charges of belonging to an "Armed Band" and "Subversive Association".

"People are tired of meetings, the classics, pointless marches, theoretical discussions that split hairs in four, infinite delays, the monotony and poverty of certain political analyses. They prefer to make love, smoke, listen to music, go for walks, sleep, laugh, play, kill policemen, lame journalists, blow up barracks. Hurry to attack capital, before a new ideology makes it sacred to you. Hurry to refuse work before some new sophist tells you yet again that 'work makes you free.'
Hurry to play. Hurry to arm yourself."

At Daggers Drawn. $2
A5 zine. 40 pages.
Subtitled "...with the existent, its defenders and its false critics", this is a beautifully poetic and uncompromisingly fierce insurrectionalist tract. At Daggers Drawn convincingly demonstrates that our dreams can only be realized through revolutionary struggle and that revolutionary struggle itself is already the realization of many of our goals.

"One part of this society has every interest in its continuing to rule, the other in everything collapsing as soon as possible. Deciding which side one is on is the first step. But resignation, the basis of the agreement between the sides... is everywhere, even in our own lives - the authentic place of the social war - in our desires and resoluteness as well as in our little daily submission.
It is necessary to come to daggers with all that, to finally come to daggers with life."

"To act when everyone advises waiting, when it is not possible to count on great followings, when you do not know beforehand whether you will get results or not, means one is already affirming what one is fighting for: a society without measure. This, then, is how action in small groups of people with affinity contains the most important qualities - it is not mere tactical contrivance, but already contains the realisation of one's goal. Liquidating the lie of the transitional period (dictatorship before communism, power before freedom, wages before taking the lot, certainty of the results before taking action, requests for financing before expropriation, 'ethical banks' before anarchy, etc.) means making the revolt itself a different way of conceiving relations... Anyone who starts screaming that it is no longer - or not yet - time for rebellion, is revealing the kind of society they want in advance."

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. By Jared Diamond. $20
Paperback book. 575 pages. ISBN 0-7139-9862-8.
Best-selling exploration of what led to the collapse of past civilizations, and how these lessons apply to present-day industrial civilization.

Pacifism As Pathology. By Ward Churchill. $16
Paperback book. 162 pages. ISBN 978-1904859185.
A new edition - complete with an introduction from Derrick Jensen - of this absolutely crucial text. Ever had the sneaking suspicion that perhaps the avenues with which those in power allow us to pursue change are somehow also completely ineffective? Ever thought that perhaps supporting armed struggle by others elsewhere in the world but refusing resolutely to dirty our hands ourselves with such 'violence' is a little convenient, cowardly and perhaps even faintly racist? Ever wanted to read something that cut through the bullshit around an issue like 'violence vs. non-violence' and presented a clear case for struggle that simply works? Read this. Please.

"This extraordinarily important book cuts to the heart of one of the central reasons movements to bring about social and environmental change always fail. The fundamental question here is: is violence ever an acceptable tool to bring about social change? This is probably the most important question of our time, yet so often discussions around it fall into clichés and magical thinking: that somehow if we are merely good and nice enough people, the state will stop using its violence to exploit us all. Would that this were true."—Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame, from the Introduction

The Reproduction of Daily Life. By Fredy Perlman. $1
A5 zine. 20 pages.
Situ-inspired anti-capitalist rant from a legendary troublemaker.

"...Capital is not a natural force. It is a set of activities performed by people everyday. It is a form of daily life. Its continued existence and expansion presuppose only one essential condition: the disposition of people to continue to alienate their working lives and thus reproduce the capitalist form of daily life."

(NOTE: Check out the Anti-Civilization section for Fredy Perlman's magnum opus Against His-story, Against Leviathan!)

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