Chaz Bufe

Charles Bufe, better known as Chaz Bufe, is a contemporary American Anarchist author.

Bufe writes most notably on the problems faced by the modern anarchist movement (as in his pamphlet "Listen, Anarchist!). This pamphlet was concerned in part with the conflict (1984-1985) between anarchist writer Bob Black and the San Francisco magazine "Processed World" for which Bufe was the East Bay distributor. As a member of the Bound Together anarchist bookstore collective in San Francisco, he sought to ban from the store "The Baby and the Bathwater" (1985), Black's book-length version of the conflict. Bufe was opposed by, among others, Lawrence Jarach, who was later the co-author (with Brian Kane) of "Hold Your Tongue Demagogue: Turning a Deaf Ear to Bufe-oonery," a rejoinder to "Listen, Anarchist!" (available from http://theanarchistlibrary.org). When the collective decided to continue to carry both Black's book and "Processed World," Bufe resigned from it.

After receiving a masters in music from the University of California (Berkeley), Bufe relocated to Tucson, Arizona and commenced his current publishing project, See Sharp Press, which emphasises atheist and anarchist titles. Some are reprints of classical anarchist texts, others are by Bufe himself, including a critique of Alcoholics Anonymous and two pamphlets on ideas about a future anarchist or utopian society. One was "A Future Worth Living: Thoughts on Getting There" (1998), which reveals the influence of the German New Age commune ZEGG. It was critically reviewed by Bob Black in "Bufe Goof" (available at www.inspiracy.com). Bufe returned to the utopian theme in "Design Your Own Utopia" (2004), co-authored by "Doctress Newtopia" (Libby Hubbard, from the ZEGG commune) which mostly consisted of a questionnaire addressed to would-be utopians. Black again wrote a critical review, "Views From Nowhere" (available at http://theanarchistlibrary.org).

Bufe has written some aphorisms under the pseudonym "Robert Tefton" which appear in an anthology he edited, "The Heretics's Handbook of Quotations" (self-published in 1998, and in an expanded edition in 2001). Its model is "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce. Bufe has released a volume, The Devil's Dictionaries consisting of quotations by Bierce and himself. The latter book has been referenced by IslamOnline, recommended by Cape Cod Times^[1] and has earned him the title "the Ambrose Bierce of our time" from AlterNet.^[2][3] Bufe is also a musician, and author of An Understandable Guide to Music Theory, now in its third edition.^[4] He edited two works on Ricardo Flores Magón – Flores Magón and the Anarchist Vision of Freedom and Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader – and translated the Spanish language book Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement by Frank Fernández into English.

Bibliography

• Fabbri, Luigi; Charles Bufe (1987). Bourgeois influences on anarchism. San Francisco: Acrata. OCLC 40358389. 
• Bufe, Charles (1987). Astrology : fraud or superstition?. San Francisco: See Sharp Press. OCLC 22929767. 
• Bufe, Charles (1987). Listen, Anarchist!. Tucson, Arizona: The Match!. OCLC 22807295. 
• Bufe, Chaz (1994). An Understandable Guide to Music Theory. San Francisco: See Sharp Press. ISBN 1884365000. 
• Bierce, Ambrose; Chaz Bufe (1995). The Devil's Dictionaries. San Francisco: See Sharp Press. ISBN 188436506X. 
• Haldeman-Julius, E; Charles Bufe (1993). The Meaning of atheism. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. OCLC 55749463. 
• Bufe, Charles (1998). A future worth living : thoughts on getting there. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. OCLC 46823347. 
• Bufe, Charles (2000). 20 reasons to abandon Christianity. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. OCLC 45056549. 
• Fernandez, Frank (2001). Cuban Anarchism. San Francisco: See Sharp Press. ISBN 1884365191. 
• Bufe, Charles; Doctress Neutopia (2002). Design your own utopia. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. OCLC 52101028. 
• Bufe, Charles (2003). Anarchism : what it is & what it isn't. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. OCLC 56972828. 
• Bufe, Charles (2004). You call this freedom?. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. OCLC 54442735. 
• Magón, Ricardo Flores; Chaz Bufe and Mitchell Cowen Vertor (eds.) (2005). Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader. Stirling: AK Press. ISBN 9781904859246. 
• Bufe, Chaz (2006). God's hit list : abominations and death penalties in the Bible. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. OCLC 70855645. 

References

1. ^ Gonsalves, Sean (2005-07-12). "Not-so-best-selling summer reading list". Cape Cod Times. 10B4F2E766FF1010. 
2. ^ Arbuthnot, Felicity (2004-04-21). "Iraq... The Aftermath". IslamOnline. http://www.islamonline.net/english/In_Depth/Iraq_Aftermath/2004/04/article_13.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-08. 
3. ^ Gonsalves, Sean (2007-06-04). "The Art of Aphorisms". AlterNet. http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/53070/. Retrieved 2008-04-08. 
4. ^ "Patty Horn, Daniel Asia keeping busy". The Arizona Daily Star. 1994-10-30. 

External links

• Bufe's See Sharp Press.

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