{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#111: Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace","description":" This episode offers an audio version of \u201cBecome an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace,\u201d arguing that neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis\u2014in other words, to become anarchists. -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents Introduction {0:36} Tyranny Is the Opposite of Anarchism {1:12} A Three-Sided Conflict {3:45} No Law Will Give You Freedom {8:32} Remember How We Got Here {12:02} Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace {15:50} This episode offers an audio version of \u201cBecome an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace,\u201d published by CrimethInc. on February 21, 2025. The article version includes a variety of hyperlinks offering documentation confirming the claims therein. If you\u2019re interested in learning more about anarchist ideas, you could start with To Change Everything, our introduction to anarchism, or with \u201cThe Secret Is to Begin,\u201d which offers further points of departure. To learn about direct action, start with this guide. You can read our argument that it was na\u00efve for Democrats to invest so much hope in Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation of Donald Trump here. We published it well before that investigation ended in a complete washout. Along similar lines, our text \u201cTake Your Pick: Law or Freedom\u201d has proved prescient, accurately predicting some of the quandaries that fetishizing legality has created for Democrats as Donald Trump and his cronies gain control of more and more aspects of the government and judicial system. You can read our critical analysis of democracy in full in our book From Democracy to Freedom. We offer it in print or as a free PDF. For more background on the neoliberal nightmare that has unfolded in Argentina since the victory of Javier Milei, read this. For background on the damage that the Trump regime is doing to public health, consult this text. For background on the damage that the Trump regime is doing to medical research, consult this one. You can learn about how the cuts to USAID have impacted people around the world here. Elon Musk is even trying to make it impossible to keep up with the weather. Whatever you\u2019re imagining, what\u2019s happening is worse. For further discussion of how to resist rising authoritarianism, you could start with \u201cThe Case for Resistance: What We\u2019re Up Against\u2014and What It Could Look Like to Fight,\u201d also available in audio form here. You could also listen to the previous episode of this podcast, \u201cIt\u2019s Safer in the Front,\u201d which picks up some of the same themes.   ","author_name":"The Ex-Worker","author_url":"http:\/\/crimethinc.com\/podcast","html":"