Spencer Beswick: Part of what I find so compelling about Love and Rage is how they drew on multiple radical traditions to reimagine revolutionary anarchism in the 1990s. As I write in my chapter "Smashing Whiteness," Love and Rage rejected the colorblindness of classical American anarchism and 1/

Part of what I find so compelling about Love and Rage is how they drew on multiple radical traditions to reimagine revolutionary anarchism in the 1990s. As I write in my chapter "Smashing Whiteness," Love and Rage rejected the colorblindness of classical American anarchism and 1/

drew on other political traditions for their racial politics. Following Black anarchists, they believed that white supremacy and capitalism were intertwined and that revolutionaries therefore needed to fight both at once. Another source of inspiration was 2/

the white anti-imperialists of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO). Drawing on their experience organizing in factories, members of STO argued that white people receive material benefits from their whiteness that discourage them from 3/

recognizing common interests with workers of color. This ‘white skin privilege’ must be addressed in order for white workers to contribute to the revolutionary movement. Noel Ignatiev, a co-founder of STO, went on to join Love and Rage and further theorize 4/

white race abolitionist politics in the journal Race Traitor. Love and Rage drew on this tradition alongside Black Anarchism to formulate revolutionary anarchist politics that centered the fight against white supremacy. 5/5 Read more in DIY OR DIE: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

DIY OR DIE! Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-Together & Punk Anarchismpmpress.org Jim Donaghey, Will Boisseau and Caroline KaltefleiterEssays on DIY's basis in action and doing, its emphasis on freedom of expression, its ties to material and cultural production, and its blurring of...

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