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2 unusual facts about Jason McQuinn


Jason McQuinn

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 Russian anarchist of that name, who was killed in 1921 by the Cheka (the Bolshevik secret police).

Lawrence Jarach

Jarach is now one of the three members of the editorial and production group of the long-running magazine Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, which was for many years published in Columbia, Missouri by Jason McQuinn.


Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed

It was founded by members of the Columbia Anarchist League of Columbia, Missouri, and continued to be published there for nearly fifteen years, eventually under the sole editorial control of Jason McQuinn (who initially used the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi"), before briefly moving to New York City in 1995 to be published by members of the Autonomedia collective.


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