Anarchist theory, read with a hard edge.
Audible Anarchism is a dense archive of anarchist theory in spoken form. Its episodes move through money, war, democracy, prisons, policing, and workplace theft with the rhythm of a political lecture rather than a casual discussion.
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Audible Anarchism is an audio archive built around anarchist texts, movement documents, and long-form political critique. It is not driven by host personality. The center of the show is the argument itself. Episodes frequently sound like public readings, lectures, or serialized chapters, with little room for casual detour. One strand follows Practical Anarchy through questions of money, capitalism, democracy, Scandinavia, and the state. Another preserves older or movement-specific texts, from War is a Racket to guides for starting an Anarchist Black Cross group. The show returns again and again to institutions that present themselves as necessary. It asks what money does when exchange becomes debt and control. It treats capitalism as a history of dispossession, markets, wage labor, colonial expansion, and financial power. It treats the state as more than whichever party happens to govern. Police, prisons, armies, borders, surveillance, paperwork, and law are framed as connected parts of authority. The democratic process receives similar scrutiny, especially where elections leave property, markets, and coercive institutions intact. The tone is grave. It can also be sharp, especially when discussing war profiteering, workplace theft, or the way culture-war spectacle distracts from material power. The show has an archival breadth that makes it feel less like a weekly opinion feed and more like a spoken library of anti-authoritarian thought. Its German-language episodes reinforce that international character. The best moments are not conversational surprises, but cumulative pressure. A claim is introduced, historical examples are stacked behind it, and the conclusion lands as an indictment of systems rather than individuals. Listeners looking for polished debate may find it austere. Listeners looking for accessible anarchist theory, abolitionist organizing, and hard-edged critiques of state power will find a deep catalog with a clear political spine.
Made for: For listeners interested in anarchist theory, anti-capitalist history, abolitionist organizing, and critiques of state power. It best suits people who prefer structured political argument to conversational commentary.
What sets it apart: Audible Anarchism stands apart by functioning as a spoken archive, not a personality-led politics show. Its range runs from anti-war writing to practical organizing guides and serialized theory across English and German recordings.
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A soldier's indictment of war's profit machine, grounded in overpriced undershirts and sinking wooden ships.
War is a Racket follows Smedley Butler's blunt argument about who profits from war by staying close to the invoices. Soldiers' undershirts that cost fourteen cents to make and sold for thirty to forty cents, oversized wrenches, unused buckboards, and wooden ships that would not…
An anarchist account of the State as bureaucracy backed by violence.
What Is the State? presents the anarchist case for seeing the State as a durable structure of power, not just the party currently in office. It connects Max Weber's idea of a monopoly on legitimate physical violence to police, prisons, armies, borders, surveillance, and the…
A grounded look at prison solidarity, abolitionist organizing, and the friendships that sustain the work.
Anarchist Black Cross organizing comes through as a practical abolitionist commitment, grounded in prisoner solidarity and resistance to state repression.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Alfredo M.
Dickie Dredd argues voting is a managed illusion that fails to dismantle the real structures of power like the state and capitalism.
This zine explains how to start an Anarchist Black Cross group to fight state repression and destroy all prisons.
Audible Anarchism’s “Wage Slavery The System We’re Told Is ‘Freedom’” argues that rent and hunger make many jobs less voluntary than the job market suggests.
This episode debunks the myth of barter as the origin of money, arguing that early economies were based on credit and gift economies, and that money is a social relationship.
Audible Anarchism reads Smedley Darlington Butler's "War is a Racket," framing war as a business that turns profits into dollars and losses into lives.
This episode promotes 'Steal Your Workplace Day' on April 15, encouraging workers to take from their employers as compensation for unpaid labor.
This episode critiques the Scandinavian model, arguing that despite its successes, it still involves state coercion and is now facing cracks from privatisation and populism.
This episode critiques parliamentary democracy as an illusion that maintains power structures, using UK political history as an example.
Audible Anarchism’s "What Is the State Violence, Power & the System Explained (Part 12)" defines the State through Max Weber’s "monopoly of legitimate physical violence" and separates it from any one government.
Audible Anarchism presents a guide to starting an Anarchist Black Cross group, an international network focused on prisoner support and anti-repression organizing.
Audible Anarchism presents Francisco Ferrer's 1900 letter and satirical story about envy through a fictional account of God, humanity, and paradise.
Orwell explains how "Trotskyist" became a political label linking revolutionary socialism to fascism.
Common Sense Country rejects both cold feet and warehouses filled with thousands of unused shoes.
Alfredo M.
Kōtoku Shūsui confesses his changed views on socialism, universal suffrage, and parliamentarianism after prison and travels.
An American tourist in Mexico encounters an Indian basket maker and reflects on cultural differences and the value of handmade crafts.