In Militant Kindergarten, the Center for Especifismo Studies invites radicalized and radicalizing people to participate in an educational project together. For the success of this seminar year after year, our ideas have to be dynamic and capable of communicating to the actual participants. To this end, we have proposed three practical ways to understand especifismo […]
Read More WHAT IS ESPECIFISMO?A Response to Daniel Rashid’s “Popular Power or Class Power” by Carl Eugene Stroud Note: This is the original text of a Spanish translation that was published by Regeneración Libertaria and can be found here: https://regeneracionlibertaria.org/2025/07/03/la-voz-de-un-militante-del-especifismo/ Ideas move, especially influential ones. Translation is part of this movement, as is education. Of course, some ideas end […]
Read More The Voice of an Especifismo Militantby Sergio HkBk, Carla Morato, and Miguel Brea (anarcho-syndicalists and platformists) translated by CES and comrades Organized and non-institutional political spaces are at a historical impasse. They’re quickly approaching a theoretical ‘boiling point’. Between this political cycle finally drawing to a close and the new one just starting to emerge, lots of different projects with […]
Read More Not Everything that Shines Leads to Popular PowerWe have to consider more than just what people believe; we have to consider what they do.
Read More The difference between comrades and enemies might seem obvious, but in practice it’s never as clear as it is in theoryWe have to focus our reflections on concrete needs we have because, if we don’t clearly name the needs, a specific organization risks becoming a depoliticizing, essentializing and time-consuming space.
Read More Political organization: how, why, and to what ends[Translated by the Center for Especifismo Studies (CES)]Original Spanish article available here: https://www.regeneracionlibertaria.org/2024/09/30/anarquia-y-cabeza-fria-el-especifismo-como-punta-de-lanza/ “Revolutions without theory don’t make any progress. We, the “Friends of Durruti”, have outlined our thinking; it can be changed with the demands of large-scale, social unrest, but it’s inevitably based on two crucial elements: a program and rifles” [1]. The anarchist […]
Read More Level-headed anarchism: especifismo’s leading role“The social and political tracks don’t always need to be laid at the same time by the same people. It’s wrong to think that the protagonists of revolution are only ever individuals or “great men”. This kind of thinking obscures the work of people who, on a daily basis, are committed to the social transformation […]
Read More The December Document from Militant Kindergarten“The distinction between theory and ideology allows us to be less dogmatic, so while roles obviously need to be rotated, we shouldn’t be afraid of specialization. This goes back to the reoccurring point that the militants are responsible for the organization and the organization is responsible for the militants. Still, to prevent the establishment of […]
Read More The November Document from Militant Kindergarten“Our individual freedom can only be realized collectively, so we insist on revolutionary militancy which, for us, is a commitment to taking everyone with us to the future we want to see. It’s a commitment to keep the movement going. By militating, we make sacrifices and take big risks. There are both micro and macro […]
Read More The October Document from Militant Kindergarten“In Militant Kindergarten radicalized and radicalizing people participate in an educational project together. For the success of this seminar year after year, our ideas have to be dynamic and capable of communicating to the actual participants. Everything that we do relies on our ethics and builds upon our principles. Especifismo militants seek to build real […]
Read More The September Document from Militant Kindergarten
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