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Dublin - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Anarchist Reading Group Explores Theory, Movement and Practice.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three Short Readings Will Be Used to Form the Base of the Discussion In the first of what will hopefully become a fortnightly anarchist reading group, we have decided to look at three short texts exploring the relationship between activism and theory. A discussion of the interaction between radical theory and movement practice seems like a rather obvious starting point to kickstart an anarchist reading group. All of the chosen articles are available free online and are short and snappy. The longest is a transcription of a round table discussion that flits and darts in conversational style over areas our own discussion might cover. The first article we have chosen is a joint contribution to the US based Lip Magazine called "Action Will Be Taken" Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents. It uses an accessible journalistic style to tackle 'hyperpragmatism' and 'activistism' as reigning anti-ideologies in post-911 political 'scenes'. This anti-intellectualism is identified as a destructive force that ham-strings the political imagination of the left. Such intellectual paralysis and thoughtless activism leaves movements jumping between single issues that salve the moral conscience of activists but ironically undermines the sustainability of our movements through burn out and alienating those seeking a politics more mindful of long term aims. |