Some of the texts linked below are focused on how much of the radical/revolutionary left consists of a small group of people with similar backgrounds. Other linked texts might not focus on this situation, but contain reflections or suggestions useful for those of us who consider it a problem.
Peter Gelderloos, A Critical History of Harrisonburg Food Not Bombs1, 2006.
eleven o clock alchemy, Why I Broke Up with the Anarchist Community. November 2009
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, The Progressive Plantation: Racism Inside White Radical Social Change Groups.
Jeff Shantz, Beyond May Day: From ritual to resistance. May 2012
Chasing after Ghosts: a Critique of anarchist organizing, and its worst contradictions, in the [North] American context. 2012 (print PDF, u.s. letter)
Chekov Feeney, The limits of counter-culture. 2013
Kevin Keating, The anarchist subculture and the leftist protest ghetto: a review of 'Fireworks,' Issue 3. 2014
Doug Gilbert, The Rise of Oakland’s Riot Culture. February 2015
D Hunter, Power and Community: Mistakes in organising.
Bay Area Intifada, The Challenge of Autonomy: Prospects for Freedom Going Into 2021. January 2021
Black Anarchist Reflections, From Bash Back! and Beyond. September 2023 (print PDF, u.s. letter; screen reading PDF)
Stoking the Embers Collective, Breaking out of subcultures: the need for organisation and strategy. 2024
Some Questions To Be Addressed Before Milwaukee and the Bay. September 2024