Bøger af Paul Cudenec

"Cudenec, like a prophet, calls for us to become spirit rebels" - W.D James.In this latest collection of radical writing, Paul Cudenec sets out his personal vision through a new essay entitled Our Quest For Freedom.He argues that the liberation of humankind from tyranny will require a process involving a number of interrelated stages: Realising; Remembering; Yearning; Exposing; Explaining; Proposing; Meaning; Motivating; Becoming; Inspiring; Preparing; Boycotting; Building and Defending.And he warns: "If people don't understand the extent of the problem with contemporary society, if they don't understand who they really are, if they are not prepared to risk everything, then our bid for liberty will fall short".The book also contains a dozen other recent articles, in which Cudenec consistently rejects modern industrialism in favour of the rediscovery of the natural order of freedom.

Beer-loving Brighton journalist Jon Harvey has been dragged out of semi-retirement by an old friend, who wants him to find his missing adult son, Henry. Relying on his famous sense of intuition and some strange coincidences, Jon follows the trail from an eccentric left-wing library in Edinburgh, to an anti-capitalist convergence centre in London and then to an isolated corner of rural France. The questions just don't stop coming in this intriguing political detective story from Paul Cudenec, author of The Fakir of Florence and The Anarchist Revelation. What is Henry up to? What is the significance of the books that seem to be guiding his movements? What is the precise agenda of the Kitson Institute of Democracy, for which Henry has been working? And, most of all, what, who or where is Asha and why does it seem to lie at the centre of this whole entangled ideological intrigue?

I am The Green One, although I would maybe better be named The Green Many.I am Pachamama, I am Isis, I am Yemoja. I am Jack in the Green, I am Tammuz, I am Khidr.I am regeneration. I am the right way of living. Sometimes I am revolution.I have taken up the mighty sledgehammers of the Luddites. The May Queens are running riot in the streets. Joan of Arc is burning patriarchy at the stake.The pylons are tumbling. The motorways are crumbling. The pipelines are fracturing.The Green One is coming! The Green One is coming!

In this, his third book, Paul Cudenec depicts a humanity dispossessed, a society in which freedom, autonomy, creativity, culture, and the spirit of collective solidarity have been deliberately suffocated by a ruthlessly violent and exploitative elite hiding behind the masks of Authority, Property, Law, Progress and God. But he also identifies an underground current of heresy and resistance which resurfaces at key moments in history and which, he argues, has the primal strength to sweep away the prison walls of our diseased civilization and carry us forward to a future of vitality and renewal.

A hard-hitting and humorous short play from the Winter Oak author best known for his essays exposing the manipulations of the global criminocracy. George thinks that he is alone in the corner of a London park when he complains out loud about the state of contemporary society, but he has been overheard by Jim, from underneath a nearby bench, who offers some pithy commentary. Their conversation in turn attracts the critical interest of Denise, who is then herself confronted by an angry Trevora. Finally, a green-robed mystic, Ashok, emerges from inside a tree to explain to the other four what has gone wrong with the modern world and what is required to put things right.

"How can the human race embrace freedom if it does not have a clear idea of what freedom is? How can we ever gain a clear idea of freedom if we do not even start looking for it in the right places?" In this important new book, Paul Cudenec, author of The Anarchist Revelation and The Stifled Soul of Humankind, challenges layer upon layer of the assumptions that lie largely unchallenged beneath contemporary industrial capitalist society. He rejects limited definitions of freedom as an absence of specific restraints in favour of a far deeper and more radical analysis which describes individual, collective, planetary and metaphysical levels of freedom. A powerful and tightly-argued work inspired by a profoundly coherent anarchist vision, Forms of Freedom is a potential classic of 21st century revolutionary philosophy.

In this collection of essays, Paul Cudenec calls for a new deeper level of resistance to global capitalism - one which is rooted in the collective soul not just of humankind but of the living planet. He leads us along the intertwining environmental and philosophical strands of Antibodies, through the passion of Anarchangels and The Task and on to a cutting analysis of Gladio, a state-terrorist branch of what he calls the "plutofascist" system. Also included, alongside short pieces on Taoism and Jungian psychology, is an interview with the author, in which he explains key aspects of his approach. "Very readable and profoundly thoughtful... Many new insights on the destructive relationship between the greater part of humanity and the planet which tries to sustain them". Peter Marshall, author of Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism and Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking.

Paul Cudenec draws on an impressively wide range of authors to depict a corrupted civilization on the brink of self-destruction and to call for a powerful new philosophy of resistance and renewal offering a future for humanity in which we are all able to "be what we're meant to be". He combines the anarchism of the likes of Gustav Landauer, Michael Bakunin and Herbert Read with the philosophy of René Guénon, Herbert Marcuse and Jean Baudrillard; the existentialism of Karl Jaspers and Colin Wilson; the vision of Carl Jung, Oswald Spengler and Idries Shah, and the environmental insight of Derrick Jensen and Paul Shepard in a work of ideological alchemy fuelled by the ancient universal esoteric beliefs found in Sufism, Taoism and hermeticism. With a fusion of scholarly research and inspiring polemic, Cudenec succeeds in forging a coherent and profound 21st century world-view with an appeal that will reach out far beyond those who currently term themselves anarchists. The book sets out by exploring the sense of meaninglessness in modern society, exemplified by our alienating dependency on technology and mental manipulation by commercial interests. It follows Guénon, Marcuse and Baudrillard in diagnosing a regression of intellect and the reign of quality over quantity - a condition that Cudenec describes as the disease of modernity. He argues that the concepts of "progress" and economic "growth" imply the inevitability of one particular future - a continuation of the current system. Although environmental crisis threatens our very existence, change is blocked and democracy is an illusion. The repression of resistance is mirrored by the control of "reality". The closing-down of language and thought encouraged by the positivist philosophy is, as Marcuse and Jaspers explain, ideal for the capitalist system - denying as it does all possibility of human autonomy. What we need, says Cudenec, is a complete refusal of the system. Anarchism challenges assumptions about the law (Leo Tolstoy), property (William Godwin), employment (Bakunin) and the state (Errico Malatesta). It rejects the narrowness of positivism (Bakunin, Landauer) and imagines individuals' natural potential fulfilled in a harmonious organic society (Peter Kropotkin). Our innate human sense of justice is thwarted by capitalism, argues Cudenec, creating a powerful potential for revolt. But where, he asks, will the rebels come from to take on such a titanic struggle? He looks at the way a natural outsider (Wilson) can manage to turn the despair of alienation into acceptance of an existential burden of responsibility (Jean-Paul Sartre). An inner strength is needed to take on the "allotted task" (Jaspers), which presents itself as calling or "daemonic will" (Jung). This originates in the collective unconscious and acts for the benefit of whole - it is thus merely channelled by an individual, who must be open and authentic enough to allow this to happen. The universal esoteric spiritual path involves stripping away the ego's barrier between the individual and the collective whole (Ibn 'Arabi). With historic connections to this tradition (Sedgwick, Waterfield), anarchists use the language of alchemy to call for a transformation of society (Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon). The anarchist love of seeming paradox reflects the depth and fluidity of the philosophy - in contrast to "rigid" Marxism (Landauer). Contradictions are embraced rather than resolved. Playfulness and creativity are also at the heart of anarchism and set it apart from materialist Marxism. The poetic language of revolt can bypass social conditioning and open up new possibilities. In his final chapter, "¡Viva la Revelación!", Cudenec concludes that a remarkable transformation is needed to save humanity. This will not come from existing religions - we need a spiritual awakening that speaks a "new language" (Jaspers) and is powered by its own values (Frithjof Schuon). This is The Anarchist Reve

In the summer of 2020, with the Covid crisis in full swing, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum co-authored a book calling for a Great Reset. One of the most widely-read responses to Schwab's call was Paul Cudenec's detailed critique on the Winter Oak website, which pulled in Schwab's previous work and record to expose a frightening techno-fascist and transhumanist agenda.In this collection of writing, Cudenec's 'Klaus Schwab and His Great Fascist Reset' is presented in a broader context, alongside in-depth articles such as 'Organic radicalism: bringing down the fascist machine', 'Liberalism: the two-faced tyranny of wealth' and 'Fascism, newnormalism and the left'.The overarching aim of Cudenec's dissident anti-fascist approach is to reveal how "the dominant complex paints a false picture of historical fascism not just to smear its own current opponents, but also to hide its own close relationship with that very same monstrosity".Among the 18 articles featured here are fiery condemnations of the New Normal world order, such as 'Resist the Fourth Industrial Repression!' and 'Impactor alert!', and also pieces in which Cudenec sets out his own distinctive political-philosophical vision, including 'Another world exists within us' and 'Reclaiming the revolutionary wisdom of the past'.

"Eventually, after layer after layer of artifice has been peeled away, we will see the horrible truth about the psychopathic mafia and the physical and psychological slavery they have imposed on us for so long".In this collection of 15 essays penned in 2022, Paul Cudenec of Winter Oak looks deep into the rotten heart of a modern world that he shows to be run for the profit and self-interest of a tiny and evasive criminal cartel.He concludes that we urgently need to reclaim the freedom "to be what we are meant to be, to live how we wish to live, to decide amongst ourselves what kind of future we want to give our children and our children's children".