enkidu - The Anarchist Library Bookshelf

Some of my favorites by topic

Theory and the role of universities and science

Communique from an Absent Future by Research and Destroy. Best analysis of the University system I've seen.
The Anarchist Tension by Alfredo Bonanno. "...for anarchism, for the anarchist, there is no difference between what we do and what we think, but there is a continual reversal of theory into action and action into theory."
Radical Theory: A Wrecking Ball for Ivory Towers by Feral Faun
Neither Intellectualism Nor Stupidity by Wolfi Landstreicher
A Balanced Account of the World: A Critical Look at the Scientific World View by Wolfi Landstreicher. Science is more or less the official ideology of our time. Anarchists generally uncritically approve of science. This essay is the tip of the iceberg of possible critiques of science from anti-authoritarian perspectives.

Thinking Critically about Civilization

Feminism

Articulating Anarcha-Feminisms

Blood Of The Flower by Red Rosia and Black Maria. "We believe that each woman is the only legitimate articulator of her own oppression... [she] can and must define what form her liberation will take."
The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation by Emma Goldman. Aside from the fetishization of motherhood, this essay is relevant as it was a century ago.
Only a Tsunami Will Do: For a Post-Feminist Anarchy by Rita Katrina-Andrews. A no-holds-barred rant against Left feminism.
Less Within, More Between by Dot Matrix. Details the differences between liberal feminism and anarcha-feminism.
The Tyranny of Tyranny by Cathy Levine and An organizationalist repudiation of anarchism by Jason McQuinn. Two exposes of "The Tyranny of Structurelessness," an anti-anarchist second-wave document that still circulates in Anarchist circles.
Beyond Feminism, Beyond Gender by Wolfi Landstreicher
Gender Disobedience: Antifeminism and Insurrectionist Non-dialogue by Lilith
An anarcha-feminists' subjective perspective of anarcha-feminism by Sofia Hildsdotter. Some thoughts on power and other topics.
The Precarious Union of Anarchism and Feminism by Red Sonja. Analysis of the matrix of oppressions with specific reference to women and people of color. Also includes a brief critique of radical feminism.
Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality by Deric Shannon and J. Rogue

Action

Love without borders? Intimacy, identity and the state of compulsory monogamy by Jamie Heckert
Life as She is Lived by Jane Meyerding. Explores how gender and other power relations can be undermined.
Feminist Domestic Violence Shelters: From the Battered Women’s Movement to the Battle Against Bureaucracy by Anna Lee Preyapongpisan
This Is Not A Love Story: Armed Struggle Against The Institutions Of Patriarchy by Ann Hansen and Julie Belmas
Notes towards an (anarchist? feminist?) critique of (anarchism? feminism?) by Caitlin Hewitt-White|
Domestic Violence and Social Work from an Anarchist Perspective by C. Inza DeBoise
Moon Time by Sky. Rewilding menstruation.
Interview with Julieta Paredes of Mujeres Creando Anarcha-feminism in Bolivia.

Projectuality

A Few Words: On Projectuality
Revolutionary Self-Theory by Larry Law
Letters of Insurgents by Fredy Perlman. Among other topics, this books of fiction deals with the projects which one takes on, and to what degree these are one's own projects.

Decolonizing North America

For America To Live Europe Must Die by Russell Means. Lakota elder and veteran of the battle of Pine Ridge calls into question all Western ideologies.
“Civilization from Savagery”: Amerika’s Indian Schools and cultural genocide by John Connor. Native culture and society were systematically and unremorsefully crushed. This was a principle method.
The Question of Kennewick Man by Chris Kortright. Think science is objective? This article details the colonial mentalities underlying archaeology.
Dancing with Ghosts: A Memoir of Tribal War An account of anarchist-native solidarity.
On Rumors Gossip, Lies, and Snitch-Jacketing of Native Warriorz Strategy for native youth.
Building a “Canadian” Decolonization Movement by Devin Burke. Strategy for non-natives.
Locating An Indigenous Anarchism by Aragorn!
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
The Stone Age Revisited by M. Annette Jaimes

Technology, Climate Change and "Resource" Depletion

Anarchism and the Politics of Technology by Uri Gordon. Reassess the issue by taking a step back from the polarized anarchist approaches.
Why “Green Technology” is Not Sustainable Because the requisite mining is extremely toxic.
Green Anarchism and Oil Depletion: How close is the Collapse? by Richard Heinberg
Anarchism and the Peak oil argument by Terry S
Alternative Energy Technology?
Do you want Geoengineering with your climate change? by Andrew Flood
Bombing the Sky, and Other Solutions for Global Warming by Max Lieberman
Six Arguments against Alternative Industrialism by Mikko Virtanen
Research and Development: Articles on Surveillance Technologies
Technophilia, An Infantile Disorder by Bob Black
Is that a singularity in your pocket or are you just happy to see me enslaved?: Transhumanism's class problem

Individual and Collective

I find the tendency to split the focus of analysis to primarily individual or collective at least a bit unipolar. Whichever their "-ism," these texts critically evaluate individuals and their social compositions.

Anarchism — Socialism by Gustav Landauer.
For Community: The Communitarian Anarchism Of Gustav Landauer by Larry Gambone
The Individual, Society and the State by Emma Goldman.
Liberation, not Organization
Anarchy after Leftism by Bob Black.
Theses on Anarchism After Post-Modernism by Bob Black.
Mini-Manual of Individualist Anarchism by Émile Armand
Our Rule of Ideological Conduct by Émile Armand
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Robert Anton Wilson

Relatively unknown among anarchists, "RAW" is probably best known as a novelist, author of Illuminatus! and Schroedinger's Cat, but his non-fiction works show the erudition of an autodidactic iconoclast, a true free-thinker. Though Wilson's political & economic anarchism I find uninteresting (he was a mutualist in the vein of Benjamin Tucker) and his techno-utopianism downright appalling, his works are among the most liberatory written in the 20th Century, especially Prometheus Rising. For a summary of his life and work see his obituary. Some of his works are available, including: