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<span lang="EN-GB">Writer <a href="http://paulcudenec.blogspot.fr/">Paul Cudenec</a> has given an interview
to a newspaper in England
about his latest book, The Stifled Soul of Humankind.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Paul told the West Sussex County Times,
which covers the area where he used to live, why he had chosen to go to France to
write.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I could
feel a real negative pressure building up around me in West
Sussex,” he recalled. “Not only the threat from fracking, but also
from massive house-building schemes, the possible expansion of Gatwick and so
on.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“I really needed to go away somewhere to try
and make sense of it all and place it all in some kind of historical context.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Paul insisted that despite the downbeat
title of the book, and the rather scary cover art depicting damned souls, it
contains an essentially positive message.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He explained: “On the one hand I try to
describe all the factors that have blocked the freedom and the potential of
humankind – from the megalomania of the Roman Catholic Church through the theft
of common land and the suppression of folk culture, to the lie of ‘progress’
that is still being imposed on us today and which threatens our very existence.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“On the other hand, I also show that there
is an underground stream of opposition to all of this. It takes different forms
at different moments in history, but it is obviously the same stream.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Paul said it was important to realise that
this idea of resistance was spiritual in origin – an aspect which he said had
been neglected by many contemporary radicals who were still attached to a
“scientific” or economic analysis of society.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“One of my favouriter thinkers, the
German-Jewish anarchist Gustav Landauer, was warning of this 100 years ago – he
saw dogmatic Marxist thinking as the biggest enemy of any authentic human
renaissance because it denied the very idea of a human spirit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Now that state communism is fading into
history, I think dissidents today have to go back to the original rebellions
against the machineries of power and profit to seek inspiration in ideas that
have been mostly neglected since orthodox Marxism became so dominant.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In his book, Paul traces a thread of ideas
back to the 13th century and the Brethren of the Free Spirit – rebel Christians
viciously persecuted by the Inquisition. Their anti-authoritarian heresy spread
across Europe, helping to fuel centuries of
peasant uprisings, and later inspired the radical Ranters and Diggers of the
17th century English Revolution.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Also woven into the story are the likes of
William Blake, William Morris, Richard Jefferies, Franz Kafka, René Guénon,
Herbert Read, Carl Jung and Aldous Huxley.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Paul said: “Some of the writers speaking
out against industrial civilization in the 19th century have been described as
‘anti-capitalist Romantics’. For me, that is what we have got to reclaim, that
sense of spirit, of life, against the dead hand of money which seems to rule
everything these days. And while there is life there is always hope, no matter
how bad things are looking.”</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">To arrange an interview with Paul Cudenec,
or to invite him to speak, he can be contacted directly via cudenec@riseup.net</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Deep anxiety is a common personal reaction
to the world stripped of meaning and authenticity in which we find ourselves
today. One solution proposed for this crisis of the spirit is to “live in the
Now” and thus put into some kind of distant perspective the nagging confusions
of our contemporary society, to root oneself in the physical reality of each
moment, finding a firm foundation in the sensations of looking, listening,
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<span lang="EN-GB">But, while an obsessive nostalgia for the
past is clearly unhealthy for any individual, so is the addiction to the
present moment that results from living excessively in the Now. It encourages a
drifting and passive kind of experience. Despite the intention of shedding the
ambitious and anxious ego, the Now personality can become selfish, glorying in
the irresponsible spontaneity of its own eternally present tense. It may manage
to avoid anxiety in this way, but only by ignoring the fact that anxiety is a
symptom. The root causes of the problem are simply ignored and any real
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<span lang="EN-GB">What applies to the individual also applies
to the macrocosm of society. Collectively we are also tempted to retreat into
living purely in the Now, in the face of the disorientating storm of anxieties
swirling around us. Living perpetually in the present tense of the News, we
simply respond intuitively to the stimuli it offers, find ourselves carried
along from one issue to the next. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Attempts
to reach a deeper long-term understanding of our collective predicament are
made virtually impossible by the constant white noise generated by accounts of
history serving the interests of the status quo.</b> Sometimes it’s merely the
sheer amount of irrelevant detail that makes it difficult to make out any real
shape to what’s been happening to humankind, but often these accounts are
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<span lang="EN-GB">Los Amigos de Ludd write that capitalism
imposes its own reality by “reducing History to a succession of stages in the
fulfilment of its own dogma, and the past to a skeleton of concepts and
abstractions”. Michael Löwy argues that reality has been obscured by a modern
mindset which “sees the movement of history as a continuum of constant
improvements, of irreversible evolution, of growing accumulation, of beneficial
modernisation for which scientific and technological progress provides the
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<span lang="EN-GB">In contrast to this official story of
Progress are visions such as Walter Benjamin’s famous imagining of the angel of
history, as inspired by Paul Klee’s painting Angelus Novus. “His face is turned
towards the past,” explains Benjamin. “Where we perceive a chain of events, he
sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls
it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and
make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise;
it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer
close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his
back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm
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<span lang="EN-GB">Like Benjamin, we need to be able to step
back from the frantic ever-changing detail of the Now and see that it is part
of a much broader and more significant scenario. What we will see is a humanity
dispossessed, a society in which freedom, autonomy, creativity, culture, and
the spirit of collective solidarity have been deliberately suffocated by a
ruthlessly violent and exploitative elite hiding behind the masks of Authority,
Property, Law, Progress and God.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Such enslavement of humankind should be
enough to incite the desire for change, but there is, in addition to all this,
another factor: this capitalist industrial civilization is also killing the
planet. The situation could hardly be more urgent and yet our culture barely
responds, shows no sign of changing. The core problem is perhaps that our
society is no longer alive and you can’t expect much in the way of response
from a corpse! Our so-called democracy is a sham, the people disempowered and
cowed into submission by Authority and there is therefore no obvious way that
the majority can influence the direction society takes, even on detailed
points, let alone issues of fundamental importance.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">However, it is important to remember that
this sensation of powerlessness is all part of the psychological trickery used
by the authorities to ensure our compliance with the continuing status quo.
Living collectively in the Now, we are blinded not only to the past, but to the
future. More specifically, we have become convinced that just as Progress has
inevitably brought us to where we are today, so it must continue to take us to
wherever it must lead. We are taught that the future is essentially pre-determined,
according to the historical laws which we are told have shaped our world, and
there is nothing we can do about it. This lie has even come to be accepted by
radical opponents of industrial capitalism, who insist that the best we can do
is to adapt to the grim future that will inevitably be delivered to us by the
system.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In truth, there was nothing inevitable
about the way our society has turned out. It has taken centuries of repression
to impose the will of a sociopathic elite on the population. That repression
continues today, along with the possibility that it will fail to hold us down.
Seen from our enemies’ point of view, there is nothing inevitable about the
continuation of their system at all. They live in constant fear of losing control,
of being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the lawless mob. That is why they
devote so much time and energy to feeding us lies, locking us up, acting out
the theatre of Authority, sending in riot cops and armies to put down any signs
of resistance to their global slave-labour system.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">“Now is the moment for us to explode the
ultimate lie with which we have been brainwashed - that we are powerless”</span></span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We are living in an age when many of the
illusions of Authority are falling away and many millions of people across the
world are seeing the truth behind the false constructs which prop it up.
Cynicism is rife but we seem to have stopped there, balanced on the point of no
longer believing in the system but unwilling to go any further, to take the
final step into outright resistance. Now is the moment for us to explode the
ultimate lie with which we have been brainwashed – that we are powerless.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The first step is to understand how it is
that we have been duped, how we have been reduced to a state of psychological
submission. Then we have to rediscover within ourselves the vital spirit that
makes us strong, the sense of collective belonging and empowerment that so
frightens those who would keep us and our descendants as their slaves. It
barely matters what we term this power within, so long as we do not allow it to
be overshadowed by the myth of a power outside or above us – there can be no
authority, no god, but ourselves.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">From this perspective, the situation of the
human race looks quite different. It seems impossible that it could ever bow
its head in slavery or stand idly by while its mother, the Earth, is destroyed
in the name of short-term greed. It seems unthinkable that people could ever
have forgotten that the desire for freedom lies at the heart of their very
being. Reconnected with the long-forbidden knowledge of its own power, a people
will naturally be propelled towards its innate and eternal needs. Like the
green shoots of a plant seeking out the sunlight, humanity will always have a
natural tendency to fulfil its inner organic potential.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Peter Kropotkin could be describing our own
times when he argues that “there are periods in the life of human society when
revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as
inevitable”. But, of course, revolution is only inevitable, or indeed possible,
if we take whatever action is necessary to bring it about.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is here that we must again confront the
comfortable habit of perpetually living in the Now and with it the whole
concept of time as something that sweeps us along like small twigs in a surging
river. This is Time regarded as Authority, as an obstacle to our power to shape
our own reality, to become the people we want to be. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We are not bound to travel
to any particular future, there is nothing inevitable about any outcome, no
matter how likely it may look from our present vantage point. While we recognise
the existence of circumstances that stand in the way of the future we would
like to see, there is no reason why we must therefore accept that their
influence will be decisive. It is, as Ernst Bloch says, always possible to
replace the fatalism of a “because” with the determination of a “despite
everything”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">“We have to reintroduce ourselves to
history, not as observers but as participants. The power that we can rediscover
in ourselves is, among other things, the power to create the future”</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We have to reintroduce ourselves to
history, not as observers but as participants. The power that we can rediscover
in ourselves is, among other things, the power to create the future. We have to
create our own narrative – the narrative of revolution. Like the prophesies of
rebels past, our narrative can become self-fulfilling. There is a self-feeding
circular momentum that we need to get started. The understanding of the need
for revolution, the dream of revolution, the hope of revolution, the belief in
the possibility of revolution – all of these must be fostered in turn before
revolution can ever take place.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For this task we need a powerful collective
vision and determination that can inspire, that can transform, that can
regenerate, that can sweep aside seemingly immovable obstacles and turn remote
possibilities into hard realities. Humankind needs new generations of
idealistic young revolutionaries, heretics, inspirés with a burning sense of purpose
and destiny, with the unquenchable energy to will into existence the new world
of which they dream. We need, as Kropotkin insists, “intrepid souls who know
that is necessary to dare in order to succeed”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We won’t get them by sticking to dry
dispassionate analysis of history, by being bogged down in detail, by being
waylaid into dead ends of pointless abstraction or pedantry. We won’t get them
by shying away from the truth, by compromising with the system, by regarding
passionate polemic as an embarrassment. We won’t get them by trying to regulate
and repress the spirit of our own revolt, by pouring cold water on others’
attempts to bring about change, by sneering at hope itself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There are those who reject hope as
unrealistic and those who reject it as being passive, as being reliant on
factors outside our own control. But both positions fail to see that hope is in
fact a vital factor in our ability to change reality and that, far from playing
a passive role, it is the key to inspiring active participation. “Let us
remember that if exasperation often drives men to revolt, it is always hope,
the hope of victory, which makes revolutions”, says Kropotkin and he argues
that the action it inspires will itself feed back into the positive energies of
the revolutionary spirit: “Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as
contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic”. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Prophecy brings hope, hope brings courage,
courage brings action, action brings inspiration, inspiration brings more
determination, renewed hope, deepened courage. Once this magical spiral of
revolt has started spinning, it takes on a life of its own and becomes, in
Kropotkin’s phrase, “a revolutionary whirlwind”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The authentic urge to revolution can be
destructive, but never negative, and behind it there be must always be a vision
born from the heart of humanity. There is something therefore much deeper
behind the will to genuine revolution, to anarchy, than mere opinion. It rises
from the depths of our collective soul and thus, by extension, from the natural
world of which we are part. It is the vehicle of an intangible organic need for
things to be made right, for humankind and the planet it dominates to once
again exist in harmony with the Tao. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This restoration of the state of nature, of
the Golden Age, is demanded by natural laws next to which our artificial human
laws look feeble and ephemeral. Once unleashed, the mighty strength of a global
uprising summoned by the life-force itself will have no difficulty in sweeping
away for ever the violent machineries of a tyranny which has stifled humankind
for far too long.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">“Prophecy brings hope, hope brings courage,
courage brings action, action brings inspiration, inspiration brings more
determination, renewed hope, deepened courage. Once this magical spiral of
revolt has started spinning, it takes on a life of its own”</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></b></span>Paul Cudenechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02402964162730880904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601717783012068473.post-2129949249712269902014-07-06T04:17:00.001-07:002014-07-06T04:17:53.318-07:00Paul Cudenec books in London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All three titles by <a href="http://paulcudenec.blogspot.co.uk/">Paul Cudenec</a> are now available from two radical bookshops in London.<br />
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<a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/new-title-by-paul-cudenec-stifled-soul.html">The Stifled Soul of Humankind</a>, <a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-anarchist-revelation-by-paul-cudenec.html">The Anarchist Revelation</a> and <a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/antibodies-anarchangels-and-other-essays.html">Antibodies, Anarchangels and Other Essays</a> can all be found at both Housmans and Freedom - they all retail at £7.99.<br />
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<a href="http://www.housmans.com/">Housmans</a>, at 5 Caledonian Road, King's Cross, London
N1 9DX, is a not-for-profit bookshop, specialising in <a href="http://www.shop.housmans.com/">books</a>, zines, and <a href="http://www.housmans.com/periodicals.php">periodicals</a>
of radical interest and progressive politics.<br />
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It stocks the largest range of radical newsletters, newspapers and
magazines of any shop in Britain. It opens Monday to Friday, 10am to
6.30pm, Saturday, 10am to 6pm, and Sunday, noon to 6pm. </div>
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<a href="http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/bookshop/">Freedom Bookshop</a> in<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"> </a>Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX,<span style="color: silver;">
</span>is Britain’s
largest anarchist bookshop, stocking thousands of books, newspapers and
pamphlets on history to sex, philosophy to workers’ struggles, fiction
to anti-fascism, as well as the latest magazines, periodicals and
newsletters from all the major anarchist and radical groups.<br />
<br /> It opens Monday to Saturday 12 noon to 6pm and Sunday 12 noon to 4pm<span style="color: #888888;"></span><strong><span style="color: #888888;">.</span></strong>Paul Cudenechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02402964162730880904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601717783012068473.post-52931636915590900722014-06-12T02:39:00.001-07:002014-07-03T09:33:07.893-07:00New title by Paul Cudenec: The Stifled Soul of Humankind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Winter Oak Press is delighted to
announce the publication of a new book by anarchist philosopher <a href="http://paulcudenec.blogspot.com/">Paul Cudenec</a>.</div>
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In <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stifled-Soul-Humankind-Paul-Cudenec/dp/0957656629/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402565908&sr=1-3&keywords=paul+cudenec">The Stifled Soul of Humankind</a>,</i>
Cudenec depicts a humanity dispossessed, a society in which freedom,
autonomy, creativity, culture, and the spirit of collective
solidarity have been deliberately suffocated by a ruthlessly violent
and exploitative elite hiding behind the masks of Authority,
Property, Law, Progress and God.
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But he also identifies an underground
current of heresy and resistance which resurfaces at key moments in
history and which, he argues, has the primal strength to sweep away
the prison walls of our diseased civilization and carry us forward to
a future of vitality and renewal.</div>
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Cudenec writes: “We have to
reintroduce ourselves to history, not as observers but as
participants. The power that we can rediscover in ourselves is, among
other things, the power to create the future. Prophecy brings hope,
hope brings courage, courage brings action, action brings
inspiration, inspiration brings more determination, renewed hope,
deepened courage. Once this magical spiral of revolt has started
spinning, it takes on a life of its own”.</div>
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In <i>The Stifled Soul of Humankind,</i>
Paul Cudenec delves into disparate corners of history to provide the
ammunition for his deeply radical analysis, throwing up some
intriguing questions about the way our society has become what it is
today.
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What is the connection between Sufi
mystics of the Middle East and the peasant revolts that shook Europe
in the Middle Ages? At what point did Protestantism turn from being a
revolutionary force into a reactionary one? What links the
colonization of North America with the Highland Clearances in
Scotland? What is the basis of authority? Can art retain its
authenticity in an industrial civilization? What on earth did Franz Kafka have
in common with the <i>völkisch</i> predecessors of the Nazi
movement? Is Marxism fundamentally opposed to capitalism? Why was
Aldous Huxley targeted for ideological attack by a leading figure in
MI6? And, most crucially of all, what is it that ties all these
questions together and reveals a seam through the rock of history
that can help us understand how so much has gone wrong and how we
might yet put it right?</div>
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Cudenec’s book <i>The Anarchist
Revelation</i>, published by Winter Oak in 2013, has earned some
influential praise in anarchist circles. US eco-philosopher John
Zerzan, author of <i>Future Primitive</i> and <i>Running on
Emptiness</i>, described it as “the least pessimistic book I can
recall reading. It brings anarchist resistance and the spirit
together in a very wide-ranging and powerful contribution”.
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Gabriel Kuhn, translator of Gustav
Landauer’s writing into English and author of <i>Life Under the
Jolly Roger</i> and <i>Soccer vs the State</i>, wrote: “The book
attempts no less than equipping contemporary anarchism with a footing
that is often neglected: the transfor-mation not only of society’s
structures but also of people’s souls... an inspiring read”.
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Cudenec’s essay <i>Antibodies</i>,
republished as part of a book of his collected writing in 2013, was
welcomed as<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Century Schoolbook, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span>“very readable and profoundly thoughtful” by
Peter Marshall, author of <i>Demanding the Impossible: A History of
Anarchism </i>and <i>Nature’s Web: An Exploration of Ecological
Thinking. </i>Marshall said <i>Antibodies</i> provided “many new
insights on the destructive relationship between the greater part of
humanity and the planet which tries to sustain them”.</div>
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<i>The Stifled Soul of Humankind by Paul
Cudenec (160 pages) will go on sale at £7.99 and will be available
from all major booksellers.
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<i>For more information, to request review
copies or to arrange an interview with the author, please email
winteroak@greenmail.net.
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Paul Cudenechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02402964162730880904noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601717783012068473.post-86266061523957173402014-05-13T06:03:00.002-07:002014-05-13T06:03:58.120-07:00Mind-expanding message<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>This very positive review of Paul Cudenec's The Anarchist Revelation can be found on the<a href="http://www.permaculture.co.uk/book-reviews/anarchist-revelation-being-what-we%E2%80%99re-meant-be"> Permaculture magazine website</a>.</i><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Helen
Moore reviews Paul Cudenec's book that explores why knowing ourselves
more deeply requires that we move beyond society's conditioning and
connect with the power of the transpersonal.</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Could
the twin urges in my life - to know myself deeper and, in the face of
ecocidal capitalism, an increasingly radical sensibility - actually have
their roots in the same impulse? Paul Cudenec’s passionately argued
book, <i>The Anarchist Revelation, Being What We’re Meant to Be</i>, persuades me that they do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Drawing on an impressive range of sources, Cudenec begins by showing
how much the status quo relies on our not knowing ourselves. Our
educational system, the media, TV, scientific materialism and
established religion all play their part, so that: “Being just what we
are… is the greatest challenge any of us face in a civilisation where
our compliance, our obedience, depends on us not knowing who we are.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course, individual development originally unfolded in
interconnection with the natural world, and was embedded within the
anarchist ‘organic society’, based on natural laws, co-operation and the
self-organising capacity of ecosystems. But having lost our ancient
rites of passage and with little awareness of the natural world, in
which clues to the meaning of life can be found, our modern alienation
from Nature contributes to our collective dysfunction and madness,
moving us yet further from our own authenticity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fortunately, because we have in fact been shaped through evolution
and don’t actually come into the world as “helplessly amoral blank
sheets of paper”, on which the state puts its stamp, but as “an integral
part of the collective existence”, we can still access our natural
sense of ‘love and rage’ as we witness injustice and oppression on a
global scale. Cudenec believes this “builds up in our spirits -
individually and en masse, consciously and unconsciously - and becomes
the force behind the need for revolution”; but it also sustains us by
offering a “spiritual pool”, from which we can draw.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In proclaiming ‘No Gods, No Masters’, many anarchists have, of
course, notoriously rejected religion, in particular the
authoritarianism of the church. Emma Goldman nevertheless saw anarchist
revolution as “the mental and spiritual regenerator”, while Cudenec
skilfully demonstrates how the roots of anarchism and the universal
spirituality posited by Aldous Huxley and Carl Jung, amongst others, are
deeply intertwined.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Ultimately, the author’s heartening message is not only that the
spirituality inherent in anarchism can sustain us against the deadening
effects of capitalism, but also that by transforming ourselves –
surrendering to the alchemical processes that dissolve the ‘base metals’
of our superficial ego-selves – we can serve the greater whole,
becoming “a conscious manifestation of [the] greater unity, as a
temporary representative-on-earth of the life force.” Mind-expanding and
well-written, <em>The Anarchist Revelation</em> will appeal to a wide range of readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.natures-words.co.uk/About%20Helen%20Moore.htm" target="_blank">Helen Moore </a></i><i><a href="http://www.natures-words.co.uk/About%20Helen%20Moore.htm" target="_blank">is an award winning ecopoet</a> based in Somerset. Her debut collection, </i><b><i>Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins</i></b><i>, was published in 2012 by Shearsman Books and is highly recommended.</i></span>Paul Cudenechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02402964162730880904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601717783012068473.post-54424493350901400212013-09-27T06:58:00.004-07:002013-09-27T06:58:41.428-07:00Zerzan: "The least pessimistic book I can recall reading"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>"The least
pessimistic book I can recall reading. It brings anarchist
resistance and the spirit together in a very wide-ranging and powerful
contribution”.</b><br />
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This is the comment, in a <a href="http://anarchistnews.org/content/why-hope">recent article, </a>from US anarchist writer John Zerzan on Paul Cudenec's <a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-anarchist-revelation-by-paul-cudenec.html">The Anarchist Revelation</a>, published by Winter Oak Press.<br />
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Zerzan is the influential author of Elements of Refusal, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Primitive_and_Other_Essays" title="Future Primitive and Other Essays">Future Primitive and Other Essays</a>, Running on Emptiness, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Civilization:_Readings_and_Reflections" title="Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections">Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections</a> and Twilight of the Machines. <br />
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This positive international feedback to Cudenec's work follows on from anarchist author Gabriel Kuhn's <a href="http://www.alpineanarchist.org/r_cudenec_review.html">review</a> on the Alpine Anarchist site, in which he refers to it as <b>"a daring journey through the history of ideas"</b>.<br />
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Kuhn, author of Life Under the Jolly Roger and Soccer vs the State, adds: "The book attempts no less than equipping contemporary anarchism with a
footing that is often neglected: the transformation not only of
society's structures but also of people's souls.<br /><br />
"Cudenec's
text is well-structured, consistent in its arguments, and manages to
address poetry, mysticism, and spirituality without regressing into
lofty gibberish."<br />
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Peter Marshall, author of Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, has described Cudenec's essay Antibodies as <b>"very readable and profoundly thoughtful" </b>and offering <b>"many new insights on the destructive relationship between the greater part of humanity and the planet which tries to sustain them"</b>.<br />
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Paul Cudenec will be talking on The Anarchist Revelation at the London Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday October 19, at 5pm in room 3.20. Paul Cudenechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02402964162730880904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601717783012068473.post-78573438615369041792013-09-23T02:31:00.001-07:002013-09-23T02:31:14.500-07:00Paul Cudenec: talks in Brighton and London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Paul Cudenec will be giving two talks in the UK in the next few weeks, based around the themes of his book The Anarchist Revelation, published by Winter Oak Press.<br />
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The first is at <a href="http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk/">The Cowley Club</a> at 12 London Road, Brighton, East Sussex, on the evening of Wednesday September 25.<br />
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The event, oganised by Cowley Books, is open to all and free of charge and begins at 7pm. The Cowley Club is a libertarian social centre, which hosts a range of cultural and political activities and has its own bookshop, library and bar.<br />
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The second talk will be on Saturday October 19 at the <a href="http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/">2013 Anarchist Bookfair</a> at Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS.<br />
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Paul's talk will be on the third floor, room 3.20, from 5pm to 6pm. The programme says he will explain "how only anarchy can save humankind
and the planet - and why today’s anarchists must urgently reconnect with the
primal force of our root ideology, a free and profound way of thinking that
stands in direct opposition to the blinkered and soul-stifling materialism of
contemporary society". It will be followed by a general discussion.</div>
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"The book attempts no less than equipping contemporary anarchism with a
footing that is often neglected: the transformation not only of
society's structures but also of people's souls.<br />
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and no new age hocus-pocus disguised in anarchist colors. <br />
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"Cudenec's
text is well-structured, consistent in its arguments, and manages to
address poetry, mysticism, and spirituality without regressing into
lofty gibberish.<br />
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"It is never in doubt that the book is a serious attempt
at helping us answer the ever relevant question of whether life can
change with a rearrangement of social institutions alone, if we don't
change as human beings...<br />
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"Paul Cudenec's work will mostly appeal to those who – in increasing
numbers – explore the relations between anarchism and philosophy,
psychology, and religion.<br />
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"People looking for in-depth analyses of
governmental bodies, labor conditions, or gender and race relations
might have to turn somewhere else. No single book has it all. <i> </i><br />
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<i>"The Anarchist Revelation</i>
has a clear purpose, however, that is, reflecting on the transformation
of the self for the benefit of the community. Everyone interested in
this mighty challenge will find the text to be an inspiring read."<br />
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Above are a few key paragraphs from a <a href="http://www.alpineanarchist.org/r_cudenec_review.html">review</a> of Paul Cudenec's <i><a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-anarchist-revelation-by-paul-cudenec.html">The Anarchist Revelation</a></i>, published by Winter Oak Press, by author Gabriel Kuhn. The <a href="http://www.alpineanarchist.org/r_cudenec_review.html">original</a> can be seen on the <a href="http://www.alpineanarchist.org/">Alpine Anarchist Productions</a> website.</div>
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Gabriel Kuhn is well known to English-speaking anarchists
for the likes of <i>Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age
Piracy</i> (2010), <i>Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical
Politics</i> (2011), and for editing and translating Gustav Landauer's<i>
Revolution and Other Writings</i> (2010) and <i>Liberating Society from the
State and Other Writings</i> (2011) by Erich Mühsam.<br />
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His German-language works include <i>Tier-Werden, Schwarz-Werden, Frau-Werden.
Eine Einführung in die politische Philosophie des Poststrukturalismus</i>
(2005) and <i>Neuer Anarchismus in den USA. Seattle und die Folgen</i> (2008).</div>
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A new collection of writing by <a href="http://www.paulcudenec.blogspot.co.uk/">Paul Cudenec</a> has been
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<i>Antibodies, Anarchangels and Other Essays</i> brings together a
selection of work by the author of <i><a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-anarchist-revelation-by-paul-cudenec.html">The Anarchist Revelation</a></i>, published earlier
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Cudenec calls for a new deeper level of resistance to
global capitalism - one which is rooted in the collective soul not just of
humankind but of the living planet. </div>
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He leads us along the intertwining
environmental and philosophical strands of <i>Antibodies</i>, through the passion of
<i>Anarchangels</i> and <i>The Task</i> and on to a cutting analysis of Gladio, a
state-terrorist branch of what he calls the "plutofascist" system. </div>
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Peter Marshall, author of <i>Demanding the Impossible: A
History of Anarchism</i> and <i>Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking</i>,
has described Antibodies as “very readable and profoundly thoughtful... Many
new insights on the destructive relationship between the greater part of
humanity and the planet which tries to sustain them".</div>
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<i>Antibodies, Anarchangels and Other Essays</i> is 154 pages long
and is available at <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Antibodies-anarchangels-other-essays-Cudenec/dp/0957656610/">£7.99 in the UK</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Antibodies-anarchangels-other-essays-Cudenec/dp/0957656610/">$11.99 in the USA</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Antibodies-anarchangels-other-essays-Cudenec/dp/0957656610">Euros 9.62</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-anarchist-revelation-by-paul-cudenec.html">The Anarchist Revelation</a> by Paul Cudenec is now on the shelves of two radical bookshops in London - Housmans and Freedom.<br />
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<a href="http://www.housmans.com/">Housmans</a>, at 5 Caledonian Road, King's Cross, London
N1 9DX, is a not-for-profit bookshop, specialising in <a href="http://www.shop.housmans.com/">books</a>, zines, and <a href="http://www.housmans.com/periodicals.php">periodicals</a>
of radical interest and progressive politics.<br />
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It stocks the largest range of radical newsletters, newspapers and magazines of any shop in Britain. It opens Monday to Friday, 10am to 6.30pm, Saturday, 10am to 6pm, and Sunday, noon to 6pm. </div>
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<a href="http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/bookshop/">Freedom Bookshop</a> in<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"> </a>Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX,<span style="color: silver;">
</span>is Britain’s
largest anarchist bookshop, stocking thousands of books, newspapers and
pamphlets on history to sex, philosophy to workers’ struggles, fiction
to anti-fascism, as well as the latest magazines, periodicals and
newsletters from all the major anarchist and radical groups.<br />
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It also
stocks an extensive range of political t-shirts, badges, CDs, DVDs,
posters and Zapatista coffee. It opens Monday to Saturday 12 noon to 6pm and Sunday 12 noon to 4pm<span style="color: #888888;"></span><strong><span style="color: #888888;"><br /></span></strong><br />
The Anarchist Revelation is also available at the <a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/anarchist-revelation-at-cowley-club.html">Cowley Club bookshop</a>, 12 London Road, Brighton.<br />
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Paul Cudenec has posted a passage from his book <a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-anarchist-revelation-by-paul-cudenec.html">The Anarchist Revelation</a> on his blog, under the heading <a href="http://paulcudenec.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-natural-laws-of-freedom.html">The Natural Laws of Freedom</a>.<br />
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For details of how to get hold of a copy, see previous entries on this site. Paul Cudenechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02402964162730880904noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601717783012068473.post-84300321097182226312013-07-09T02:04:00.000-07:002013-07-09T02:04:25.284-07:00Anarchist Revelation at The Cowley Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are pleased to announce that Paul Cudenec's <a href="http://winteroakpress.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-anarchist-revelation-by-paul-cudenec.html">The Anarchist Revelation</a> is now available from the <a href="http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk/">Cowley Club</a> bookshop at 12 London Road, Brighton, East Sussex. Copies are on sale there for £7 each.<br />
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The cub is a social centre which houses a cafe and bookshop during the day and a members'
bar during the evenings. It also has a library and is a base for a variety of other projects.<br />
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It is collectively owned and run as a base for those
involved in grassroots social change and those sympathetic to such activities. It is run entirely
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The Anarchist Revelation by Paul Cudenec is now available from <a href="http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/paul+cudenec/the+anarchist+revelation/9861841/">Waterstones</a> bookshops, at £7.99, with free delivery in the UK.<br />
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An interview with Paul Cudenec, author of <i>The Anarchist Revelation</i>, has been published on the internet.<br />
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It was originally published on the <a href="http://vastminority.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/total-opposition-interview-with.html">Vast Minority</a> blog site but has since also appeared at on <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/07/511089.html">UK Indymedia</a> and <a href="http://indybay.org/">Indybay.org</a>.<br />
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Anarchist Revelation is very much focused around presenting an anarchist
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That’s the question I hopefully go some way to answering over
the course of some 150 pages! In short, there are two separate, and yet
interwoven, strands. Firstly there is the individual question – how can an
alienated individual such as an anarchist, who is sane enough to find the
contemporary capitalist world insane, carry on living in that world?
Involvement in the anarchist struggle is part of the answer, but you also need
something more than that, some greater perspective to fall back on in times of
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I think anarchism, historically, has always offered a depth
of vision that can sustain and propel an individual through adversity but, if
we start to regard anarchism not as a life-philosophy but as a narrowly defined
social movement, we will lose contact with that vital force.</div>
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Secondly, there’s the spiritual depth of the anarchist
movement as a whole. To me, it stands opposed to the modern materialist mindset
at a fundamental level. It’s not just that we reject all those assumptions
about the legitimacy of authority, property or privilege, but we also reject
the blinkered and one-dimensional thinking of the current age.</div>
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Anarchy is lateral thinking, creative thinking, poetic
thinking in many ways, and in that it has a lot in common with something like
Sufism, the esoteric strand of Islam. It’s not stuck on the one level - like
Marxism is, for example. And I think we need to reconnect to that imaginative
and fluid side of anarchist thought.</div>
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difference between the vitality or fluidity of a philosophy and this idea of
“spirituality”. Why does that come in? Why does it have to come in?</i></div>
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Spirituality for me is all about using the parts of our mind
that are left to wither away in a purely materialist society, where nothing it
considered valid unless it can be “empirically” proven to be so. These are the
powers we need to reignite, on both an individual and collective level.</div>
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religious aspect to “spirituality” that you do evoke in your book? Are you
suggesting that these unused parts of our mind are something to do with a
supernatural element?</i></div>
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Not supernatural, no. But my definition of what is natural,
and real, would go a lot further than what’s generally understood by that. As
far as religion goes, the only religion I’m promoting is anarchism. OK, maybe
it’s not quite a religion at the moment, but I think it has the potential to
be, if it doesn’t cut itself off from the less materialist aspects of its
philosophy that take it up in that direction.</div>
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religion would anarchism be? A religion with no god?</i></div>
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There doesn’t have to be a “god”, in the sense in which it’s
normally meant in the West. It’s all about an holistic vision, understanding
that on every level of existence everything is interconnected and ultimately
part of the one entity. On a human level, this is already the anarchist
position – mutual aid, co-operation, solidarity and so on. On a planetary level
this is the environmentalist position – the Gaia idea of a living Earth. On a
cosmic level, this becomes a Buddhist or Taoist idea of the ultimate unity.</div>
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I think that anarchism naturally embraces the holistic
approach on the other levels, as well, thus expanding itself into a complete
vision of life, rather than remaining merely a social or economic programme
spiced up with a confrontational attitude.</div>
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thing, then, a “confrontational attitude”? Should anarchists be adopting the
quietism of Eastern mystics?</i></div>
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Not at all. A confrontational attitude is essential for
anarchism. I think we need to be more confrontational, in fact, in contexts
other than street battles with the police or fascists. We need to be more
confrontational in our refusal of the moral claims of the state, by stating
clearly that we don’t accept that they have the right to rule us, to jail us, to
control us in any way. Of course, we recognise the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reality</i> that they can do so, in the same way that a large man with
a knife has the physical ability to rob me in the street, but we should make it
clear that we don’t buy into their lie that there is any moral <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">legitimacy</i> behind this.</div>
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We also need to be more confrontational in attacking the
limits that are placed around possible futures. Although it’s often a
tactically good idea to work with reformist campaigns, if only to help stem the
tide of increasing capitalist domination, we should never stop talking about
the completely different society that is our vision and inspiration. It doesn’t
matter if people can’t grasp that this could ever happen, that they are
conditioned by society to think that such a future is not only undesirable but
also impossible.</div>
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We have to keep our black flag flying so that the vision
stays alive, at least on an abstract level, and it’s there for people to turn
to one day when they finally realise that the only alternative is going to be a
future of slavery and misery for the vast majority of humanity. What we need to
reclaim is the total opposition to the current system that was historically
offered by anarchism. There’s such a strength in that.</div>
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Also, by the way, there’s nothing necessarily quietist or
pacifist about faiths like Buddhism – take the Tibetan monks in their struggle
against Chinese occupation, for a start. Many religions are used by authorities
to promote obedience and submission, and Buddhism is no exception, but that
doesn’t reflect on its innate qualities or its potential as an aid to human
liberation.</div>
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That sounds quite full-on!</i></div>
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In the context in which I just used it, I meant total opposition
in a philosophical sense – attacking the current death-system at its roots,
rather than focusing on trimming it back here and there. But I do think that’s
what we need, at every level. Otherwise nothing will change, all possibilities
of improvement will remain blocked and the future will be like this, only a
thousand times worse.</div>
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environmental current running through your work. Would you describe yourself as
an eco-anarchist?</i></div>
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I have done, yes, though I’m tending now to focus on just
being an anarchist, which I think is enough. For a start, I can’t see that
anything other than anarchism – and the total opposition that it involves – is
going to save the planet. The system is not going to reform itself or
voluntarily concede any power or control. I also don’t feel there’s a need for
any of us to qualify our anarchism with adjectives.</div>
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I’ve been playing around with the notion of an Anarchy
Threshold, this being the “finishing tape” that all anarchists are aiming at,
the point at which humankind can said to be liberated. The idea is that we
don’t really have to argue about what happens after that, because, as
anarchists, we’re saying that the people around at the time (whenever it
actually happens!) will decide that, by their actions and views, among
themselves.</div>
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So it doesn’t matter if my vision of a better future is one
without factories, while my comrade sees the need for a continuation of some
form of industrialism. Neither of us will be in a position to decide that. As
anarchists we’re not about imposing our views on others anyway, even if we
could do so. So it’s purely theoretical – our only input is in putting forward
our own visions of how life <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could</i> be.
If we have faith in a free humanity, we will have faith in the future it will
create for itself in an anarchist society. Personally, I can’t see that a
post-capitalist world would be industrial in any way, because industrialism <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> capitalism.</div>
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The capitalists are right when they say that without the
profit incentive, we wouldn’t have what they call “progress” – it’s the forces
of money and power, feeding off each other, that have spawned the industrial
hell in which we are all forced to live today and the moment that there is no
more capitalism there will be no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">raison
d’être </i>for factories, oil refineries, nuclear power stations, shopping
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I don’t have to argue too much with other anarchists about
what a future anarchist society would look like, though. Firstly, because it’s
not my call – or theirs. Secondly, because I know, in my own heart, that an
anarchist society would not be an industrial one. It will all unfold in due
course. And in the meantime, before the Anarchy Threshold has been reached, our
only aim should be to work towards that point with a diversity of tactics and a
respect for each others’ personal visions. </div>
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It’s not naïve to think we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">should</i> all work together – or at least not snipe at each other. If
we can’t, then perhaps that’s something to do with the egos of individuals
concerned (not just inflated egos, but fragile ones as well) – and that is
something that can be addressed by an individual spiritual approach that is a
microcosm of our social struggle, as I describe in the book. It’s about
rediscovering our strength and clarity, both individually and collectively.</div>
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your book can be quite academic at times – do you feel that this can create a
barrier to people understanding what you’re saying and limit the numbers who
are going to read your message?</i></div>
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Firstly, I’m not a professional academic and I try to make
my meaning clear to readers. It’s difficult, though, to express complex ideas
without using the short cut of a certain vocabulary – otherwise the end result
would be both long-winded and a little patronising.</div>
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Secondly, when you’re quoting writers like Herbert Marcuse
or Karl Jaspers it would be strange if the surrounding text was in a completely
different register – the flow wouldn’t be there. Thirdly, part of theme of The
Anarchist Revelation is the lowering of the intellectual level and the denial
by the narrow positivist mindset of people’s ability to think clearly and
profoundly. Dumbing-down the language in which that sort of argument is
expressed seems to me like something of an own goal!</div>
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It’s not just a question of vocabulary, but also the way
ideas are expressed. Everything doesn’t always have to be compressed into
soundbites. I do take on board the criticism to a certain extent, though, and I
would like to work on ways of communicating these ideas in a way that they can
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draws on the work of a whole range of writers, many of whom are not anarchists.
How would you respond to criticism that you risk diluting the anarchist message
and confusing it with unrelated strands of thought. Is this some kind of
“post-anarchism” that you’re serving up?</i></div>
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No, it’s not “post-anarchism”. If anything, I’m trying to
unearth an “Ur-anarchism”, a primal force behind the philosophy, hence my foray
into the worlds of hermeticism, alchemy, Sufism and Taoism.</div>
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I think it’s a mistake to imagine that anarchism is, or
should be, some kind of self-contained bubble of consciously-limited political
analysis. It’s not airtight, but porous. Anarchism influences the world around
it and it is, in turn, influenced by that world. The fact that an idea is
expressed by a particular individual does not make it “their” idea anyway; it’s
all drawn from the common cultural resource of humanity.</div>
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So if a writer expresses something that seems valid and
interesting to me, I don’t have to agree with everything else they ever wrote
or did in order for me to make use of it in my work and acknowledge where I
read it. To me, it’s actually exciting to find anarchist ideas bubbling up in
unexpected places, as it makes it clear that our vision is not as peripheral as
the thought-authorities would like to make out.</div>
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Anarchism is the political label we give to a massive
underground river of suppressed thinking that is flowing under the streets of
our materialist capitalist civilization, waiting to rise up and sweep away its
factories, prisons and city halls. Ultimately, it’s the life-force itself and
as such it’s unstoppable. </div>
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An important new book on anarchist thought is now available
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the latest work by activist and writer <a href="http://paulcudenec.blogspot.co.uk/">Paul Cudenec</a>.</div>
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Here, he turns his back on contemporary trends of anarchism
in a bid to reconnect with the primal force of its root ideology.</div>
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Cudenec notes the significance of its refusal of the state
and its judicial system, of land ownership and of the need to work for wages in
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But he goes further in suggesting that anarchism represents
a whole way of thinking that stands in direct opposition to the blinkered
materialism of contemporary society and its soul-stifling positivist dogma.</div>
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He writes: “The anarchist does not merely stray outside the
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Cudenec explores the fluidity and depth of thinking found in anarchism,
in stark contrast to Marxism, and identifies, in particular, a love of apparent
paradox that seems to appeal to the anarchist psyche.</div>
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He also sees a connection between and anarchism and esoteric
forms of religion – such as Sufism, Taoism and hermeticism - whose inner light
defies the crushing patriarchal conservatism and hierarchy of the exoteric
institutions.</div>
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Cudenec provides evidence that anarchism’s roots lie partly
in this life-embracing source of inspiration, the bringer of art and poetry as
well as of resistance and revolt.</div>
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While, he argues, anarchism is incompatible with existing
religions, it has the potential to harness its powerful ideology to this
universal esoteric current and thus become the religion of the future, the
spiritual and political revelation that will save humankind from a grim future
of slavery, corruption and destruction. </div>
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In making his case, Cudenec draws on the work of anarchists
such as Gustav Landauer, Michael Bakunin and Herbert Read. But he also widens
the field of enquiry to include the philosophy of René Guénon, Herbert Marcuse
and Jean Baudrillard; the existentialism of Karl Jaspers and Colin Wilson; the
vision of Carl Jung, Oswald Spengler and Idries Shah, and the environmental
insight of Derrick Jensen and Paul Shepard.</div>
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With a fusion of scholarly research and inspiring polemic,
Cudenec succeeds in forging a coherent and profound 21st<sup></sup> century
world-view with an appeal that will reach out far beyond those who currently
term themselves anarchists.<br />
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<i>Contact Winter Oak Press via winteroak(at)greenmail.net</i><br />
<i>Contact Paul Cudenec via cudenec(at)riseup.net </i><br />
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<i>Paul Cudenec has a blog at <a href="http://paulcudenec.blogspot.co.uk/">paulcudenec.blogspot.co.uk</a></i><br />
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<i>The book will in due course be available in independent radical bookshops but currently the best way to get a copy is <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Paul%20Cudenec&search-alias=books-uk&sort=relevancerank">here</a>. </i></div>
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