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475 likes, 20 comments - anarchicchasm on August 13, 2026: "Lorenzo Kom’Boa Ervin’s political journey carried him through the Civil Rights Movement, SNCC, the Black Panther Party, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, political imprisonment and ultimately Black anarchism. During his imprisonment, he encountered Martin Sostre, whose ideas profoundly influenced his political transformation.
In Anarchism and The Black Revolution, Ervin outlines community councils, workers’ federations, labor organizing, cooperatives, mutual aid networks, self-defense units, community self-management, and decentralized revolutionary structures designed to confront capitalism, white supremacy, and state power simultaneously.
His critique extends beyond capitalism alone. Ervin repeatedly challenges centralized authority, the vanguard model, and the belief that liberation can be achieved by seizing state power and placing it in the hands of a revolutionary elite. Honestly, while reading Ervin, it’s hard not to hear echoes of Mikhail Bakunin.
Both argued that revolutionary movements risk creating new ruling classes and rejected the idea that freedom could be delivered in a top-down format as both insisted that liberation required dismantling hierarchy—not reproducing it under a different banner.
Ervin is still alive today and remains associated with Memphis, Tennessee and both his personal accounts and writings remain to be poignant amongst Black Anarchist literature and the broader scope of anarchist thought and theory.
*any misspellings in the literature is present within the text on Anarchist Library. Please yell at their editor and not me*".
Old video of Marxist Leninist YouTuber Hakim explaining why George Orwell was a terrible human being. He’s the author of the books “Animal Farm” and “1984”.
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CNBC poll: Half of those 18 to 34 see democratic socialism positively
New CNBC Generation Lab poll shows almost half of 18- to 34-year-olds see democratic socialism positively and nearly 80% see the U.S. economy negatively.