Setting Sights

Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense

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Scott Crow, Ward Churchill: Setting Sights (2018, PM Press)

336 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2018 by PM Press.

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5 stars (4 reviews)

"This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a "how-to" manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more."--Amazon.com.

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Powerful collection on armed defense in horizontalist/anarchist responses to oppression. Humbling and reconsidering: acceptance of state monopoly on violence, privilege of non-violence from outside, association of firearms with patriarchal power rather than bottom-up embedding. First third is theory and argument, last two are chronological histories of 20/21c, best of these are the many personal accounts including the editor's.

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Subjects

  • Government, resistance to
  • Firearms
  • Self-defense