An online discussion about Lawrence Jarach’s essay Instead of a Meeting, hosted by FORGED BOOKS, Manchester’s anarchist reading group.

Conversation will take place on the jitsi platform here: https://8x8.vc/forged/books

Anarchism derives from the philosophical premise that institutionalized power and enforcement, especially in the form of the State, is a negative method of trying to create and maintain social cohesion. The defining aspect of anarchism is a categorical rejection of the principle and practice of government. Further, anarchism entails a radical critique of the exercise of authority and power...

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lawrence-jarach-instead-of-a-meeting-by-someone-too-irritated-to-sit-through-another-one

alt. link: https://archive.org/details/InsteadOfAPrimer/

hard copy: https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/pamphlets-booklets/4612-rejecting-the-reification-of-revolt.html (similar, but not identical, essays to Jarach’s primer)

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