Modern Slavery (2012)

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Slavery-1-CoverModern Slavery’s website describes it as:
Modern Slavery is a meeting space for all those interested in moving on beyond the dead-ends of ideology and postmodern fashions. Modern Slavery is for anyone and everyone interested in choosing to live their own lives to as great an extent as possible here and now. Modern Slavery is not the place to read the latest theories about organizing the masses, buying ecology-friendly commodities or reforming capitalism through direct democracy, neighborhood associations, industrial unions or abolishing the Federal Reserve! Modern Slavery is written, edited and published for those who think and act for themselves and want to encourage others to do so here and now and always.

The Libertarian Critique of Civilization · 2012–2014

Publisher: C.A.L. Press
Editor(s): Jason McQuinn; Paul Z. Simons
City: Oakland, United States
Language: English
Frequency: semiannual (intended); irregular in practice
TitleID: MODSLAVX-2012

Modern Slavery presented itself as a meeting place for people seeking to move beyond ideological dead ends and live their own lives as fully as possible in the present. It rejected programs centered on organizing or reforming society and instead addressed readers who think and act for themselves and encourage others to do likewise.

An independent, not-for-profit journal project of C.A.L. Press devoted to a libertarian critique of civilization and the abolition of modern forms of enslavement. Three issues are documented: no. 1 (Spring–Summer 2012), no. 2 (Fall–Winter 2012–2013), and no. 3 (Spring–Summer 2014). The journal was announced as twice yearly, but the documented publication pattern was irregular.

Union of Egoists, “Modern Slavery (2012),” https://www.unionofegoists.com/journals/modern-slavery/; Social History Portal, “Modern Slavery: The Libertarian Critique of Civilization,” https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/307328; Bolerium Books, “Modern Slavery No. 1 Spring/Summer 2012,” https://www.bolerium.com/pages/books/201791/jason-mcquinn-paul-simons/modern-slavery-no-1-spring-summer-2012-the-libertarian-critique-of-civilization; user-supplied legacy catalog Modern-Slavery-catalog(2).csv.

Modern Slavery N1

No. 1 — Spring–Summer 2012
204 pp. · 8 × 10 in · $12.95 · Printed by C.A.L. Press, Columbia, Missouri

Reported as 204 pages, with the front cover, inside front cover, inside back cover, and back cover included in the pagination. The legacy CSV placed “1” in Whole No.; this conversion records it in Issue because the publication is cited as no. 1 and no separate whole-number sequence is documented.

Pg.ItemAuthor
2–3The Archimedean Point? Self-Activity — editorialJason McQuinn
4–5Modern Slavery Notes: New Journal on the Planet! — columnJason McQuinn
6–10An Introduction to Modern Slavery — introductionJason McQuinn
11–14John Brown’s Body: 150 Years Is a Long Time to Moulder — essayPaul Z. Simons
15–26Notes on Abolitionism & Anarchism — essayFrançois Gardyn
27–40A Plea for Captain John Brown — essayHenry David Thoreau
41–51Mutual Acquiescence or Mutual Aid? — essayRon Sakolsky
52–58The Situationists and Beyond: Introduction to The Old World Is Behind You — introductionKaren Goaman
59–84Oppositional Currents and the Art of Anthropology: Chapter 1 of The Old World Is Behind You — essayKaren Goaman
85Introduction to Strangers in an Alien World — introductionWolfi Landstreicher
86–94Living in an Alien World: Chapter 1 of Strangers in an Alien World — essayWolfi Landstreicher
95–103Hunting Seasons — fictionLang Gore
104–140Beautiful Losers: The Historiography of the IWW — essayBob Black
141–150Direct Action — essayVoltairine de Cleyre
151–157Mutual Utilization: Relationship and Revolt in Max Stirner — essayMassimo Passamani
158–179Clarifying the Unique and Its Self-Creation — essayJason McQuinn
180–182Anarchist Individualism as Life and Activity — essayE. Armand
183Publication Notes — columnJason McQuinn
184–185Periodical Reviews — department
184–185└ i — reviewJason McQuinn
186–200Reviews — department
186–191└ Max Stirner’s Dialectical Egoism — reviewWolfi Landstreicher
192–194└ Twilight of the Machines — reviewJason McQuinn
195–196└ Nihilist Communism — reviewJason McQuinn
197–200└ Begin at Start — reviewWolfi Landstreicher
201Correspondence — correspondence
202Contributors — contributors list

Modern Slavery N2

No. 2 — Fall–Winter 2012–2013
204 pp. · 8 × 10 in · $12.95

Reported as 204 pages, with the front cover, inside front cover, inside back cover, and back cover included in the pagination. The legacy CSV placed “2” in Whole No.; this conversion records it in Issue because the publication is cited as no. 2 and no separate whole-number sequence is documented.

Pg.ItemAuthor
2–5Ideology and Libertarian Theory — essayJason McQuinn
6–7Modern Slavery Notes: What Happened to the Anarchist Press? — columnJason McQuinn
8–10An Introduction to Modern Slavery: Part 2 — introductionJason McQuinn
11–24Curtains of Blood: A Peek behind the Phenomena of the Grand Guignol — essayPaul Z. Simons
25–33Raoul Vaneigem: The Other Situationist — essayJason McQuinn
34–61A Surreal Interview with an Anarchist: Ron Sakolsky — interviewRon Sakolsky
62–88Anarchy in the UK: Anarchistic Currents: Chapter 2 of The Old World Is Behind You — essayKaren Goaman
89–101The Greatness of My Hostility: Chapter 2 of Strangers in an Alien World — essayWolfi Landstreicher
102–109Necropolis, Chapter 1 — fictionBruno Massé
110–169Slavery & Slack: Part 1—Slavery — essayJ. T. Winogrond
170–184Anarchy on the Market? A Review Essay on Kevin Carson’s Notes on Mutualist Political Economy — review essayWolfi Landstreicher
185–199Reviews — department
185–188└ Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society — reviewJason McQuinn
189–193└ History of Reaction — reviewLawrence Stepelevich
194–199└ American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt — reviewPaul Z. Simons
200Publication Notes: Adbusters & Alternatives to EMS — columnJason McQuinn
201–202Correspondence & Discussion — correspondence
203Contributors — contributors list

Modern Slavery N3

No. 3 — Spring–Summer 2014
204 pp. · 8 × 10 in · $12.95

Reported as 204 pages, with the front cover, inside front cover, inside back cover, and back cover included in the pagination. The legacy CSV placed “3” in Whole No.; this conversion records it in Issue because the publication is cited as no. 3 and no separate whole-number sequence is documented.

Pg.ItemAuthor
4–5The Slave Syndrome — essayJason McQuinn
6Modern Slavery Notes: Can We Get Serious? — columnJason McQuinn
7An Introduction to Modern Slavery: Part 3 — introductionJason McQuinn
8–34Illegalism: Why Pay for the Revolution on the Installment Plan…When You Can Steal One? — essayPaul Z. Simons
35–61Critical Self-Theory: The Non-ideological Critique of Ideology — essayJason McQuinn
62–73An Interview with Manolo Gonzalez: On Anarchist Culture in the Spanish Revolution — interviewManolo Gonzalez
74–92The Situationists and May ’68: Chapter 3 of The Old World Is Behind You — essayKaren Goaman
93–103The Greatness of My Ambition: Chapter 3 of Strangers in an Alien World — essayWolfi Landstreicher
104–138Slavery & Slack: Part 2—Slack — essayJoseph Winogrond
139Publication Notes — columnJason McQuinn
140–202Reviews — department
140–171└ Chomsky on Anarchism or Chomsky on the Nod? A Review Essay on Noam Chomsky’s Chomsky on Anarchism — review essayBob Black
172–179└ The Mysteries of Paris — reviewMax Stirner; translation and introduction by Lawrence Stepelevich
180–181└ Decolonizing Anarchism — reviewPaul Z. Simons
182–196└ A Moral Sermon on Debt: David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years — review essayWolfi Landstreicher
197–202└ Max Stirner — reviewJason McQuinn
203Contributors — contributors list