A Delicious Revolt…

I've discovered a thick bell inside of me
that elegiac poetry rings
a terribly deep booming
knell

An Interview with Heathen Chinese by Accipiter Nisus.

'The Cutting Edge' from Accipiter Nisus: "reclaiming our bodies and minds must start with intimately knowing the tools which we use and engage with in our daily lives."

From Rhyd Wildermuth, the second piece in his series on revolutionary ancestors.

"The way past the impossible usually just involves giving up some certainty that is keeping you on a snow-bound bus at the bottom of a hill"

The phrase ‘Gods & Radicals’, was something of a koan to me when I first considered submitting material to this journal. I’m wary of the term ‘radical’ which so often slips from its original meaning of ‘seeking change from the root up’ into the values-empty ‘change by whatever means necessary’. On a recent walk, however, I found the two words ‘Gods’ and ‘Radicals’ suddenly coming together very naturally…

From Accipiter Nisus: Why matching your frame to your values matters ...

A small contribution toward an animist ethics.

A fairy tale, from Rhyd Wildermuth

Sylvia Federici's "Caliban & The Witch" radically transformed our understanding of the witch burnings. Here are other books from her and the Midnight Notes Collective of deep interest to Pagan Anti-Capitalists

From James Lindenschmidt: "The world is bigger than the mechanistic, reductionist viewpoint upon which capitalism depends."

From James Lindenschmidt: "Ancestral connection to place was strong enough to withstand centuries of hardship, famine, plague, warfare, and a thousand harsh Norwegian winters, only to be destroyed by something so insidious that people have to be taught what "enclosure" means."

by James Lindenschmidt: Like Water is a story about my tribe, my comrades. The reality of police brutality, violence, and murder of civilians on the streets is foregrounded in the story, but the novel never comes across as preachy or even judgmental. The fact is, these characters must endure, each in their own way, in the aftermath of state-sanctioned murder.

While the Pope comes to many right conclusions about anthropogenic climate change and the limits of capitalism, his environmental encyclical is nevertheless plagued by a lingering anthropocentrism which he never manages to root out.

From James Lindenschmidt: " The world is seen through the lens of quantification, reduced to a mere number, and capitalist wizards work their arcane lore to manipulate these numbers to their favour, manifesting their will to profit in the real world."

From Rhyd Wildermuth: " Rootless people are easily controlled and coerced, people without the stories, myths, and spirits of a place have nowhere to turn beside the market for the creation of their meaning."

From James Lindenschmidt: "Debt underlies all aspects of class struggle. Since the destruction of the Commons, there is no other possibility for most people to subsist and reproduce their lives."

From the time I woke up until I went to bed, there was the fear. It was the fear that there is not enough.