Lawrence Jarach

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Lawrence Jarach is an American anarchist essayist and author of the primer Anarchy 101: Instead of a Meeting. Jarach is a contributing editor of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, 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.[1] Jack Bratich also situates Jarach on the anti-authoritarian left.[2] Jarach's views on the topic of conspiracy theory have attracted attention in the anarchist media.[2] 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.[2]

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. His stage name is "Roamin' Polkalanski".

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  1. ^ Churchill, Ward (2003). Perversions of Justice. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 126. ISBN 0872864111. 
  2. ^ a b c Bratich, Jack Z. (2008). Conspiracy Panics. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791473333. OCLC 123912525. 

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