Kevin Van Meter

Reading Struggles is the website of Organizer, Autonomist, and Author of Guerrillas of Desire, amongst other things.

Autonomists begin with a workers’ inquiry by “reading the struggles,” recording everyday resistance and overt rebellions, as the working class creates new relationships and new subjectivities, escapes capitalist command (even temporarily), and is recomposed (and often decomposed) vis-à-vis its struggle with capitalism and the state apparatus.

The task of the revolutionary...

The task of the revolutionary is to produce new kinds of relationships between human beings. Such a generative process begins in the actually existing struggles of the working class: in everyday resistance, the refusal of work, mutual aid, and self-activity. Correspondingly, the revolutionary is an organizer who encounters, records, amplifies, and circulates the new society as it appears in these struggles.

BOOKS

Guerrillas of Desire

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Uses of a Whirlwind

(with Team Colors)

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Articles, Book Chapters, Interviews & Media, News & Blog Posts.

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Reviews

“

Kevin Van Meter’s eloquent and provocative book Guerillas of Desire gave me a whole new way to think about organizing.

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Few have approached radical theory with the rigor and skill of Kevin Van Meter. Empowering, lucid, and inspiring, Guerrillas of Desire provides an exhaustive (and much needed) retooling of anarchism that will align the dreams of ‘becoming revolutionaries’ with the reality of everyday resistance.

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Beautifully written, Guerrillas of Desire shows the power of the refusal of work of those
capitalism has subjugated…

ALEXANDRA BRADBURY,

editor at LABOR NOTES

ALEXANDER

REED ROSS,

author of AGAINST THE FASCIST CREEP

SILVIA FEDERICI,

author of CALIBAN AND THE WITCH

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BIO

Kevin Van Meter is an organizer and independent-scholar based in the Pacific Northwest and author of Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible published by AK Press, amongst other works.

As an activist, organizer, and public intellectual, Van Meter’s efforts focus on reading the struggles that circulate in the United States, mutual aid and working-class self-activity, the refusal of work and everyday forms of resistance.

CONTACT

For speaking, workshop, and interview requests, contact the Institute of Anarchist Studies Mutual Aid Speakers Bureau.

For curriculum vitae and educational background, visit Van Meter's page at the University of Minnesota.