Welcome to our Summer edition with its theme of Belief/Disbelief/Unbelief.
Our essays don’t so much investigate beliefs themselves as much as belief systems, our cognitive constructions which determine our perception of reality. Beliefs can either chain us to repressive ideas or free us with visions that go beyond dominant paradigms. The entire modern era has been one of contestation as to which belief systems will rule in societies--ones that link us to submission and acquiescence to hierarchal authority, or those which rebel against them and eliminate the categories of rulers and ruled. Comments are welcome on the essays which follow.
This publication, now in its 45th year, continues to exist only because of the interest of subscribers and the generosity of our Sustainers and other contributors. Some of the latter may include a few dollars when renewing their subscriptions; others have made donations which almost make our knees quiver. But, all represent the best of mutual aid as well as expressing a desire to assure that the ideas and vision of anarchism are maintained in this small publication.
INSIDE
LESSONS FROM GREECE, page 4
A RADICALIZATION OF WILHELM REICH, page 5
REICH & THE AUTHORITARIAN FAMILY, page 6
CONSPIRACY OR ANARCHY, page 10
THE STRUGGLE FOR WATER CONTINUES, page 12
ANARCHIST RELIGION?, page 13
GOD UNPLUGGED--FICTION, page 15
NOAM CHOMSKY: CHAVEZ’S CLOWN?, page 16
SCHOOL OF TYRANNICAL INDOCTRINATION, page 17
ANARCHO-PRIMITIVISM IN ROBINSON CRUSOE, page 21
CUL DE SAC--IS IT HOPELESS?, page 22
THE POLITICS OF CARNIVAL, page 23
CUBA: ADIOS, SOCIALISMO, page 24
WOMEN IN WHITE: STATE VIOLENCE, page 26
LEGAL UPDATES: MARIE MASON & RNC8, page 30
INTERVIEW: GI RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: DAHR JAMAIL, page 31
READING ANARCHIST FICTION, page 35:
COOPTING RADICAL SYMBOLS, page 39
ARAB SURREALISM AGAINST ISLAM, page 40
REVIEW: ATHEISM & SURREALISM, page 42
MICK VRANICH-1946-2010, page 43
READING LETTERS OF INSURGENTS, page 45