Jason McQuinn
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Jason McQuinn is an American anarchist, founder and co-editor of Alternative Press Review
, and founder and former co-editor of the journal Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
from 1980 to 1995, when Tad Kepley took it over, and again from 1997 to 2006. He is an advocate of post-left anarchy
; that is, anarchism outside the constraints of political ideology which is seen as antiquated and irrelevant to real struggle.
Before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, McQuinn wrote and edited Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed under the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi" in honor of the Russia
n anarchist of that name
, who was killed in 1921 by the Cheka
(the Bolshevik
secret police).
Alternative Press Review
Alternative Press Review is a libertarian American magazine established in 1994 as a sister periodical to Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed. As of 2002, its editorial collective consisted of Jason McQuinn , Chuck Munson and Thomas Wheeler...
, and founder and former co-editor of the journal Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed is a North American anarchist magazine, and is one of the most popular anarchist publications in North America. It could be described as a general interest and critical, non-ideological anarchist journal...
from 1980 to 1995, when Tad Kepley took it over, and again from 1997 to 2006. He is an advocate of post-left anarchy
Post-left anarchy
Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that promotes a critique of anarchism's relationship to traditional leftism. Some post-leftists seek to escape the confines of ideology in general also presenting a critique of organizations and morality...
; that is, anarchism outside the constraints of political ideology which is seen as antiquated and irrelevant to real struggle.
Before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, McQuinn wrote and edited Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed under the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi" in honor of the Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n anarchist of that name
Lev Chernyi
Pável Dimítrievich Turchanínov , known by the pseudonym Lev Chernyi , was a Russian anarchist theorist, activist and poet, and a leading figure of the Third Russian Revolution. His early thought was individualist, rejecting anarcho-communism as a threat to individual liberty...
, who was killed in 1921 by the Cheka
Cheka
Cheka was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations. It was created by a decree issued on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky...
(the Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
secret police).