Ron Sakolsky is a rare anarchist for a variety of reasons, including his longevity, his intellectual pursuits (especially challenging academia), and his embrace of art and the surrealists, a tendency that is not strong among modern anarchists and one that could stand to be renewed.

Creating Anarchy is a collection of his writings and art pieces by some surrealist friends, reflecting his interests and thinking over the past couple of decades. This new edition includes more recent pieces (including the particularly relevant "My Life in the Academic Gulag", in which he discusses how and if one can maintain anarchist positions within the academy) and a new introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction

Teaching Anarchy

Why Consent to Being Ruled at All?

Liberty Shield

Refusing The Marketplace

The Myth of Government-Sponsored Revolution

Puppets vs Puppets

Whose Streets, Our Streets

Hangin' Out on the Corner of Music & Resistance

Finding Your Voice

Firespitter

Anarchy in a Diasporic Key

Surrealist May Day Greetings!

Marvelous Freedom/Vigilance of Desire

Surrealist Desire, Anarchy & the Poetry of Revolt

Anarcho-Surrealist Poetics

Total Refusal

A Surrealist Re-Imagining of Canada

Black Star North

Dancing Waves

Utopia at Your Doorstep

My Life in the Academic Gulag

Occupying the Citadels of the Mind