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Diverging Roots: The Coming Insurrection’S Situationist Lineage, Timothy Fitzgerald
Diverging Roots: The Coming Insurrection’S Situationist Lineage, Timothy Fitzgerald
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
Over the past 60 years, there has been a resurgence of anarchism in Western Society. The revolutionary spirit has very much returned to the consciousness of popular culture, if it ever left at all. This ‘comeback’ of anarchist ideology has become progressively louder in the past decade, with the rise of cyberterrorist/hacktivist groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, the proliferation of political and governmental distrust following the 2008 recession, and the vocal increase in anti-fascist, anarcho-capitalist, post-left anarchism, eco-anarchism, and insurrectionary anarchist groups and activists such as The Invisible Committee. But many of these ideas haven’t been pulled from thin-air, …