Ardent Press is part of an effort to revitalize print publishing. We miss a time when new and challenging ideas were part and parcel of anarchist publishing, and when ideas, even disagreeable ones, were up for discussion and contemplation. We want anarchist and anti-political theory to live and move, and our texts reflect that.

Ardent publishes books and pamphlets that confront and challenge our assumptions about this social order and the transformation of the world.

What citizens are abandoned to in the guise of "existence" is no longer anything but a life or death effort to make themselves compatible with empire. But for the others, for us, each gesture, each desire, each affect encounters in some way the necessity of annihilating empire and its citizens.

On this criminal path, we take our time. What we are talking about here is nothing less than the constitution of war-machines.

This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth--the principles that anarchy is founded on--regardless of whether they called themselves anarchists or not. Too well documented to be strictly mythology, and too expansive to be strictly anthropology, this is an inspiring answer to the people who say that anarchists are utopian: a point-by-point introduction to how anarchy can and has actually worked.