Resisting Illegitimate Authority

Author : Bruce E. Levine
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353255
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Illegitimate Authority written by Bruce E. Levine and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity’s fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians—people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, asResisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated. Profiling a diverse group of U.S. anti-authoritarians—including Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Bruce—in order to glean useful lessons from their lives, No Badges is the first self-help manual for anti-authoritarians. Discussing anti-authoritarian approaches to depression, relationships, and parenting, it provides political, spiritual, philosophical, and psychological tools to help those suffering violence and marginalization in a society whose most ardent cheerleaders for “freedom” are often its most obedient and docile citizens. Resisting Illegitimate Authority is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.

Author : William Moses Kunstler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Police State written by William Moses Kunstler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kunstler, the firebrand lawyer, speaks out against the encroaching police state.

Author : Bruce E. Levine
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603582983
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Up, Stand Up written by Bruce E. Levine and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The situation, however, is not truly hopeless. Get Up, Stand UP describes how we can recover dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy. In other countries and during other periods of American history people have successfully resisted domination. Get Up, Stand Up details those, strategies and tactics that oppressed peoples have employed to gain power and put that power back in the hands of We the People.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642599053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegitimate Authority written by Noam Chomsky and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this tumultuous moment. In these informative interviews, conducted for Truthout by C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky addresses the rapid deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling social fabric and fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal; the illegitimate authority of the Supreme Court, in particular its decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade; and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Chomsky also untangles the roots of the War in Ukraine, the diplomatic tensions among the United States, China, and Russia, and considers the need for climate action on an international scale. Throughout, Chomsky "remains...a beacon of hope in the darkest of times" (Sarah Jaffe).

Author : Bruce Levine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780826414502
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonsense Rebellion written by Bruce Levine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the mental health industry has been attacked for the invalidity of its illnesses, the unreliability of its diagnoses, the dangers of its treatments, and its corruption by drug companies. Commonsense Rebellion integrates those critiques and goes further.Nearly 1 in 4 American adults take psychiatric drugs, and Ritalin production has increased 800 percent since 1990. Yet the mental health industry laments the fact that two-thirds of us with diagnosable mental disorders do not seek treatment. This book argues that "institutional mental health's" ever-increasing diseases, disorders, and drugs have diverted us from examining an important rebellion against an increasingly impersonal and coercive "institutional society" which worships speed, power, and technology. This has created fantastic wealth - at least for some - but its disregard for human autonomy, community, and diversity has come with a cost. Depression has reportedly increased tenfold since 1900, and suicide levels for teenage boys have tripled since 1960. Have human genetics and serotonin levels changed that much, or has society?>

Author : Bruce E. Levine
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849354618
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Profession Without Reason written by Bruce E. Levine and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field requires a completely fresh look, and clinical psychologist Bruce Levine—a man often at odds with his profession—enlists the early Enlightenment philosopher Baruch de Spinoza to help work through the problem. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. Levine compares the radical/moderate divide among Enlightenment thinkers to a similar divergence between contemporary critics of psychiatry, siding historically with Spinoza in order to bring an equivalent intellectual force to bear upon our modern crisis and calling for new forms of free and enlightened thinking.

Author : Jerry Elmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004546685
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History written by Jerry Elmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History is the definitive history of conscription in America. It is the first book ever to consider the entire temporal sweep of conscription from pre-Revolutionary War colonial militia drafts through the end of the Vietnam era. Each chapter contains an examination of that era’s draft law, the actual workings of the conscription machinery, and relevant court decisions that shaped the draft in practice. In addition, the book describes the popular opposition to conscription: organized and unorganized, violent and nonviolent, public and clandestine, legal and illegal. Using sources never before utilized by historians, including government documents obtained in Freedom of Information Act requests, the book demonstrates how anti-conscription sentiment has been far deeper than is popularly appreciated.

Author : Lysander Spooner
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447488903
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Treason written by Lysander Spooner and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1870, this essay by the American anarchist and political philosopher Lysander Spooner is here reproduced. Described by Murray Rothbard as “the greatest case for anarchist political philosophy ever written”, Spooner’s lengthy essay is still referenced by anarchists and philosophers today. In it, he argues that the American Civil War violated the US Constitution, thus rendering it null and void. An indispensable read for political historians both amateur and professional alike. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Paul J Bern
Publisher : Rev. Paul J. Bern
ISBN 13 : 0615612598
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occupying America written by Paul J Bern and published by Rev. Paul J. Bern. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the author and publisher of the revolutionary and incendiary book, "The Middle and Working Class Manifesto," this is the most comprehensive book about the Occupy and 99% Movements ever written. From a history of American Revolutions to documenting class warfare waged against us by the rich, this book is not the first to predict the probability of civil unrest in the US, but it makes the strongest case yet for that to occur, and goes on to predict the eventuality of civil war if there is no economic relief for the middle and working classes, and especially for the poor. All who care about the future of our country should read this book and educate themselves for the coming economic tribulation.

Author : Eric S. Knowles
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135626383
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance and Persuasion written by Eric S. Knowles and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance and Persuasion is the first book to analyze the nature of resistance and demonstrate how it can be reduced, overcome, or used to promote persuasion. By examining resistance, and providing strategies for overcoming it, this new book generates insight into new facets of influence and persuasion. With contributions from the leaders in the field, this book presents original ideas and research that demonstrate how understanding resistance can improve persuasion, compliance, and social influence. Many of the authors present their research for the first time. Four faces of resistance are identified: reactance, distrust, scrutiny, and inertia. The concluding chapter summarizes the book's theoretical contributions and establishes a resistance-based research agenda for persuasion and attitude change. This new book helps to establish resistance as a legitimate sub-field of persuasion that is equal in force to influence. Resistance and Persuasion offers many new revelations about persuasion: *Acknowledging resistance helps to reduce it. *Raising reactance makes a strong message more persuasive. *Putting arguments into a narrative increases their influence. *Identifying illegitimate sources of information strengthens the influence of legitimate sources. *Looking ahead reduces resistance to persuasive attempts. This volume will appeal to researchers and students from a variety of disciplines including social, cognitive, and health psychology, communication, marketing, political science, journalism, and education.