Lawrence Jarach

Lawrence Jarach is an American anarchist essayist and author of the primer "Anarchy 101: Instead of a Meeting". Jarach is a contributing editor of "", and has published in the "Berkeley Daily Planet", "Killing King Abacus", "Green Anarchy" and "L'EnDehors".

He has been identified by Ward Churchill as a prominent Euroamerican radical and anti-authoritarian. [cite book |authorlink=Ward Churchill |last=Churchill |first=Ward |title=Perversions of Justice |publisher=City Lights Books |location=San Francisco |year=2003 |isbn=0872864111 |pages=126 ] Jack Bratich also situates Jarach on the anti-authoritarian left.cite book
last=Bratich
first=Jack Z.
title=Conspiracy Panics
year=2008
accessdate=2008-06-09
publisher=State University of New York Press
location=Albany, New York
isbn=0791473333
oclc=123912525] Jarach's views on the topic of conspiracy theory have attracted attention in the anarchist media. Jarach holds that the term "conspiracy theory" acts as a "derisive dismissal" which serves to characterise counter-narratives as falsehoods or fantasy, and prefers the term "conspiratology" in its place. Conspiracy, according to Jarach, is the normal functioning mode of government and other hierarchies.

Jarach writes from within the post-left anarchy milieu, and has also written on the Spanish Revolution, "anarchist dual power", leftism and primitivism. Jarach famously clashed with anarchist Chaz Bufe over the latter's publication of "Listen, Anarchist!". Jarach came to the defense of fellow post-leftist Bob Black in a rebuttal entitled "Hold Your Tongue Demagogue: Turning a Deaf Ear to Pure Bufe-oonery".

Jarach is also a musician, performing as a vocalist and trombonist for punk/polka band, Polkacide.

References

Selected publications

*"Anarchy 101: Instead of a Meeting", Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Anarchist Press, 2002. oclc|57929786
*" [http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewwritingdetail&writingId=236 Leftism 101] ", included in "Green Anarchy" magazine's Back to Basics 2: The Problem of Leftism" series

External links

*Worldcat|id=np-jarach,%20lawrence
* [http://anti-politics.net/distro/text/insteadofameeting.html "Instead of a Meeting"] , by Lawrence Jarach, full text at anti-politics.net
* [http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2005-05-06/article/21341?headline=Commentary-White-Washing-the-Spanish-Civil-War-By-LAWRENCE-JARACH White Washing the Spanish Civil War] , by Lawrence Jarach, at the Berkeley Daily Planet
* [http://www.polkacide.com/ Polkacide] official website.

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