Anarchy For An Anarchic Village

Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village

Leo Tolstoy with his grandchildren (via)

In Sri Lanka, protestors have occupied a patch of ground in the shadow of five-star hotels and luxury apartments for over 50 days now, in what is called GotaGoGama. It means [the President’s name] Go [village]. This community has no particular permission to be there and is democratically organized literally from the ground up…