Background: Resisting Fascism and Reimagening Democracy – How freedom matters for sustainability, climate and justice


The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

a wise government will rather let the people express their discontent with pens than with other guns, which enlightens on the one hand, appeases and prevents uprising and disorder on the other.Peter Forsskål, Thoughts on Civil Liberties, para 9


Read/download “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation” by Gene Sharp: https://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf

Read/download David Graebers’s “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” https://www.prickly-paradigm.com/titles/fragments-anarchist-anthropology.html