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Kirkpatrick Sale, the Glossary

Kirkpatrick Sale (born June 27, 1937) is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.^[1]

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Addison-Wesley

Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Amy Tan

Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film.

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Anarcho-primitivism

Anarcho-primitivism, also known as anti-civilization anarchism, is an anarchist critique of civilization that advocates a return to non-civilized ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization, abandonment of large-scale organization and all technology other than prehistoric technology and the dissolution of agriculture.

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Anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.

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Autonomedia is a nonprofit publisher based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn known for publishing works of criticism.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña.

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Bioregionalism

Bioregionalism is a philosophy that suggests that political, cultural, and economic systems are more sustainable and just if they are organized around naturally defined areas called bioregions, similar to ecoregions.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Booknotes

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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Chelsea Green

Chelsea Anne Cardona (née: Green; born April 4, 1991) is a Canadian professional wrestler.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Cornell University Library

The Cornell University Library is the library system of Cornell University.

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Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations.

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Currency

A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.

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Decentralization

Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

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Environmental disaster

An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is defined as a catastrophic event regarding the natural environment that is due to human activity.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.

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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

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Free Press (publisher)

Free Press was an American independent book publisher that later became an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

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Freelancer

Freelance (sometimes spelled free-lance or free lance), freelancer, or freelance worker, are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term.

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Front Porch Republic

Front Porch Republic is a localist and communitarian American blog where various contributorsknown as 'porchers'emphasize the importance of concepts such as community, place, decentralism, and conservation.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons

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Gaddis Smith

George Gaddis Smith (December 9, 1932 – December 2, 2022) was an American historian who was the Larned Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and an expert on U.S. foreign relations and maritime history.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Hill & Wang

Hill & Wang is an American book publishing company focused on American history, world history, and politics.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).

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In loco parentis

The term in loco parentis, Latin for "in the place of a parent", refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent.

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Ithaca, New York

Ithaca is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States.

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John Zerzan

John Edward Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist author. Kirkpatrick Sale and John Zerzan are neo-Luddites.

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Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays.

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Journalism

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.

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Kevin Kelly (editor)

Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of ''Wired'' magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review. Kirkpatrick Sale and Kevin Kelly (editor) are American non-fiction environmental writers.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. Kirkpatrick Sale and Kurt Vonnegut are American tax resisters.

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League of the South

The League of the South (LS) is an American white nationalist, neo-Confederate, white supremacist organization that says its goal is "a free and independent Southern republic".

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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List of historical acts of tax resistance

Tax resistance, the practice of refusing to pay taxes that are considered unjust, has probably existed ever since rulers began imposing taxes on their subjects.

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List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups

The following is a list of U.S.-based organizations that are classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

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Luddite

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns regarding decreased pay for textile workers and a perceived reduction of output quality, and often destroyed the machines in organised raids.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture.

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Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Mount Pleasant is a large suburban town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States.

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Neo-Luddism

Neo-Luddism or new Luddism is a philosophy opposing many forms of modern technology.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Norman Thomas

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was an American Presbyterian minister and political activist. Kirkpatrick Sale and Norman Thomas are American tax resisters.

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Oracle Thinkquest

ThinkQuest was an educational website, created 1996 and intended for primary and secondary schools.

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Prediction market

Prediction markets, also known as betting markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures or event derivatives, are open markets that enable the prediction of specific outcomes using financial incentives.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Richard Fariña

Richard George Fariña (Spanish IPA:; March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Roger Sale

Roger Sale (1932–May 11, 2017) was an American literary critic and author, brother of Kirkpatrick Sale and father of Tim Sale.

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Secession

Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity.

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Second Vermont Republic

The Second Vermont Republic (SVR, 2VR) is a secessionist group within the U.S. state of Vermont which seeks to restore the formerly independent status of the Vermont Republic (1777–91).

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Self-determination

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

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Separatism

Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group.

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Sierra Club Books

Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of the Sierra Club, founded in by then club President David Brower.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Steven Levy

Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist and editor at large for Wired who has written extensively for publications on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.

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Students for a Democratic Society

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s and was one of the principal representations of the New Left.

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Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.

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The American Conservative

The American Conservative (TAC) is a magazine published by the American Ideas Institute which was founded in 2002.

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The Cornell Daily Sun

The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent newspaper at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Nation

The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New Leader

The New Leader (1924–2010) was an American political and cultural magazine.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

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Thomas Naylor

Thomas Herbert Naylor (May 30, 1936 – December 12, 2012) was an American economist and professor.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. Kirkpatrick Sale and Thomas Pynchon are American tax resisters.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Sale

Also known as Sale, Kirkpatrick.

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