This page is a collection and curation of my ongoing series of blog posts on various topics within, perspectives on, and concepts related to anarchism as a political ideology. Sometimes I use the term “anarchism” in writing about these ideas because the specific history of and discourse on these ideas is valuable. Sometimes I eschew the term because I think these ideas have a much broader appeal than only self-identified anarchists would find relevant.

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• Anarchist Unionism: A Forgotten but Glorious History
  • Here I introduce the core concepts of anarchist unionism and give a summary history of it as a international social movement from 1868 – 1939. At its peak in the 1910s and 20s, anarchism was the dominant wing of both the global left union movement and the global revolutionary left.
• The Unbearable Emptiness of Voting
  • In this post I lay out a comprehensive critique of voting and campaigning for politicians as a political strategy for radical grassroots social movements.
• “Don’t run for executive board”: How to Take Over Your Union from the Bottom Up
  • Here I argue that the best way to create strong unions is to make them more democratic. The best way to make unions more democratic is to take over and exercise power through the grassroots structures of the union (like the member meetings, the steward networks, the Contract Action Teams) instead of taking over the formal authority of top executive positions.
• Baseline Anarchism
  • I pose the question, “Would you ever want to have less influence over the things in your life that you care about most?” I argue that everybody has a visceral reaction to this question and would say no. Any vision of equality in a society has to give everyone equal ability to say no to this question. Anarchism as based in communal and direct democracy is the only ideology that can ground such a vision.