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THE NETWORKOF DOMINATION

Anarchist Analyses of the Institutions, Structuresand Systems of Domination and Exploitation to be

Debated, Developed and Acted Upon

by Wolfi Landstreicher


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Contents

Introduction.2

The Power of the State.3

The Cost of Survival..8

From Proletarian to Individual: Toward an Anarchist Understand-ing of Class.11

Work: The Theft of Life...16

The Machinery of Control: A Critical Look at Technology19

Property: The Enclosing Fences of Capital..24

Religion: When the Sacred Imprisons the Marvelous27

A Family Affair..32

Why Do We All Live in Prison: Prison, Law and Social Control.36

Afterword: Destroy Civilization?.40


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played by the commodity there is no real basis left for family co-

hesion. Thus, we see the current horror of the breakdown of the

family without its destruction. And few people are able to conceive

of a full life involving intimacy and love without it.

If we are to truly take back our lives in their totality, if we are totruly liberate our desires from the chains of fear and of the

commodity, we must strive to understand all that has chained as,

and we must take action to attack and destroy it all. Thus, in at-

tacking the institutions that enslave us, we cannot forget to attack

that most intimate source of our slavery, the family.

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It is, thus, not possible for those of us who seek the destruction of

the social order to play the nation-state against the capitalists and

gain anything by it. Their greatest interest is the same, to maintain

the current order of things. For our part it is necessary to attack the

state and capitalism with all of our might, recognizing them as thetwo-headed hydra of domination and exploitation that we must de-

stroy if we are ever to take back our capacity to create the condi-

tions of our existence.


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