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“Do be do be dooo.”

— Frank Sinatra

Scholar warriors. Warrior priests and poets. That’s what they were called in feudal Japan — Zen practitioners of learning and warfare. Cultured destroyers, enlightened fighters. Can it be any different with us?

Postmodern jargon-junkies call ideologies (aka, “isms”) like anarchism “emancipatory metanarratives” — can you believe that? What the fuck does that mean, anyway? I’ll tell you: it means systems of belief no different from what came before:

Believe in X, and You Will be Free. You Will Reach Paradise.

Most isms are full of it, and some would say anarchism is, too. Can’t be done. Impossible. Utopian. A crack-pipe dream. Pie-inna-sky. Fuck that. Fuck Paradise. Make your own damned Paradise, or make none at all. Anarchism’s bigger than that. Read More

“My social and political thought was based upon ‘Mr. Constitution’, the Republican Revolution, Socialism, and Anarchism. As I read works such as Zhang Taiyan’s “On Establishing Religion”, “On the Five Negatives”, and “On Evolution”, I came to see Anarchism and Buddhism as close companions, and as a possible advancement from Democratic Socialism” read more…

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“My social and political thought was based upon ‘Mr. Constitution’, the Republican Revolution, Socialism, and Anarchism. As I read works such as Zhang Taiyan’s “On Establishing Religion”, “On the Five Negatives”, and “On Evolution”, I came to see Anarchism and Buddhism as close companions, and as a possible advancement from Democratic Socialism.”