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Who will build the roads? What about the rapists? But what are you for? The following recommendations offer perspectives from anarchists as well as communities who may not identify with that term but whose ways of being with one another stand in radical opposition to unjust hierarchies and the state.
Anarchism
A Very Short Introduction
By Colin Ward
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
What do anarchists want? It seems easier to classify them by what they don't want, namely, the organizations of the State, and to identify them with rioting and protest rather than with any coherent ideology. But with demonstrations like those against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund being blamed on anarchists, it is clear that... Read more »
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us
Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more »
The Dispossessed
A Novel
Hainish Cycle
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen King
From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them.
A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated...
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A Country of Ghosts
Black Dawn Series
By Margaret Killjoy
Narrated by: Bea Flowers
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass,...
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The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
By David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 2 minutes
If you enjoyed Guns, Germs, and Steel, then you’ll love The Dawn of Everything.
“In this brilliant and sometimes funny reexamination of human history, the authors argue that we are less free than our ancestors, and that it was not inevitable "progress" that brought us here. Using evidence from the last few decades of archeology, the authors contend that the centralization of power in the hands of a few was often avoided in prehistory. This analysis is a hopeful one of a world where we could again have three basic freedoms: the freedom to disobey, the freedom to go somewhere else, and the freedom to create new social arrangements.”
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Woman On the Edge of Time
By Marge Piercy
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes
Often compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale and Naomi Alderman's The Power – Woman on the Edge of Time has been hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction. Disturbing and forward thinking, Marge Piercy’s remarkable novel will speak to a new generation of readers. Connie Ramos has been unjustly incarcerated in a mental... Read more »