Ardent Press

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ardent Press is a publishing project committed to publishing original anarchist and anti-political works.

There are many existing anarchist publishing efforts. We strongly believe in the anarchist principles of decentralization and diversity, and in this spirit we enter with books for children and adults, books on philosophy, nihilism, sexuality and body image, race, history, and psychology, all from an anarchist and anti-political perspective.

While there are almost as many definitions of anarchist as there are anarchists, ours is one based on a rejection of representation, on a radical practice that eschews the political role of the activist, militant, or leftist. It means stealing back the power that we have been dispossessed of: the power to create our lives, not the politics of petitioning the state to act in our name or waiting on the power of “the people” to rise up on our behalf.

Our books will reflect this spirit.

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Thoughts on Possible Community Responses to Intimate Violence (redux)
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The original is here.

This version is modified by one of the original authors to formalize the text, with a few added paragraphs here and there. The vision is the same – the idea that abuse and violence are best taken on by groups of people, that social groups need to determine for themselves what they consider problematic behavior, that these occurrences are more complicated usually than they're given credit for being, and that there are lots of roles for people to fill, at various levels of intimacy and responsibility.

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Complicated Relationships
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conversations on polyamory and anarchy


Relationships have been clear anarchist territory since Emma Goldman and Voltairine DeCleyre explicitly rejected monogamy and marriage.
But while polyamory may be a popular alternative, it is - by definition - not simple, especially when we recognize the ways that it's coherent with exactly what is expected of us (for example, stereotypical male sexual behavior).

 

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The Spartacist Movement, excerpts from Freedom, My Dream, frank brand
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Freedom, My Dream is the one book put out by Ardent that anyone can love. It's fun, funny, historical, egoist, adventurous and humble.

This is an excerpt of it, to whet your appetite.

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What Have We Done for Us Lately?
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Previously found exclusively in Anarchy: a journal of desire armed, here is your chance to get DM's work on its own.

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Untold Delight
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...An Experience of the Ineffable, Untold Delight is a collection of some less common essays by John Moore, as well as his best-known piece, “A Primitivist Primer.”

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The Anarchist Tension
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This pamphlet is the text to a presentation Bonanno gave as La Tensione anarchica, translated by Jean Weir.

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be realists!
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Fredy Perlman was the leading theorist of green anarchy before primitivism, one of the main forces behind Fifth Estate and Black and Red Press, and a...
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Wild Carrot Seed 101
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There are many pamphlets in the world about how to induce miscarriage, or how to encourage your period. Some of them are out of date, some of them are...
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Child Sexuality
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New material and reprints from Anarchy: a journal of desire armed . The reprinted articles and letters from Anarchy are some of the most controversial...
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Jane
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Anon, Ardent Press
Now with a new, in-your-face cover, here are first-hand accounts of one of the most successful clandestine organizations in u.s. history. Jane, the codename...
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Relations without End
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Two pieces, an interview with Ben Morea, and Aragorn!'s article "Nihilist Animism." There is a painful and enormous gap between being (or naming...
 
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Nuances
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Nuances is three articles on topics that deserve more thoughtful analysis than they normally receive. How some alliances go wrong, what does the...
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