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Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. In the early part of the 20th century Emma Goldman would become one the most ardent supporters...
2) Anarchism
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Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy, which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of anarchism (known as "anarchists") advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations.
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First written in French and originally appearing as a series of articles in 1892, "The Conquest of Bread" is the most famous and enduring work by Peter Kropotkin, the Russian political philosopher and anarchist. In this widely influential and often cited work, Kropotkin presents his arguments against feudalism and capitalism. These economic systems rely on and perpetuate poverty, misery, and scarcity, while protecting and promoting the privilege of...
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This volume is formed from a collection of memoirs discovered in 1898 at the University of Munich in Bavaria. Sebastian Pierre Drechsler was a student and eventually lecturer at Ingolstadt University between 1783 – 1800, before the faculty was closed down. He later went on to become Professor and then Director of History at Munich University until he retired in 1833. It is understood that the original memoirs were dictated by the scholar on his...
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During the second half of the Twentieth Century, the ideas of leading anarchist thinkers such as Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin seemed destined to fade into history. But today they are finding new energy and power. Libertarian flags wave above the crowds at anti-globalization and anti-corporation rallies. Anarchist axioms appear in contemporary debates on neoliberalism and ecology. Websites passing on anarchism's radical principles proliferate in...
7) L'anarchie
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« Le discours solidaire des puissants n'est qu'un leurre, puisqu'en réalité ils comptent bien davantage sur l'égoïsme et l'isolement des individus pour asseoir leur pouvoir. Le xxe siècle a été l'occasion de faire croire aux populations du monde, et en premier lieu à celles des pays industrialisés, que le "chacun pour soi" était la voie unique de la réussite. Le capitalisme [...] a conduit à des aberrations inédites en matière d'inégalités...
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Qu'est-ce que l'anarchie et que veulent les anarchistes ? Un humaniste curieux et désireux de comprendre interroge son fils, un militant anarchiste qui s'est penché sur le sujet.
Au fil de leur dialogue, les deux hommes remontent aux racines des notions d'anarchie et de démocratie. Ils évoquent certaines figures de l'anarchisme et les différents courants de ce mouvement révolutionnaire, tout en illustrant leurs propos d'exemples tirés...
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With the rise of the global protestor-from Arab Spring to the Occupy movement-the term "anarchist" has been littered throughout mainstream media as never before. But just as frequently, its definition is skewed or left wanting: anarchists are painted as nihilists, supporters of chaos, or even terrorists. In Order without Power, an informative primer, Normand Baillargeon thoroughly defines anarchism and recounts its long history. In outlining the forerunners...
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Five years after his death in 1972, Paul Goodman was, characterized by anarchist historian George Woodcock as "the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation." In this, new PM Press initiative, Goodman's literary executor Taylor Stoehr has gathered, together nine core texts from his anarchist legacy to future generations.
Here will be, found the "utopian essays and practical proposals" that inspired the dissident youth of the Sixties,...
11) Talking Anarchy
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Of all political views, anarchism is the most ill-represented. For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change-and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for...
12) About Anarchism
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Today the word "anarchism" inspires both fear and fascination. But, few people understand what anarchists believe, what anarchists want, and what anarchists do. This incisive book puts forward the case for anarchism as a pragmatic philosophy.
Originally written in 1969 and updated for the twenty-first century, About Anarchism is an uncluttered, precise, and urgently necessary expression of practical anarchism. Crafted in deliberately simple prose...
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Amid the clashes, complexities, and political personalities of world politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Peter Kropotkin stands out. Born a prince in Tsarist Russia and sent to Siberia to learn his militaristic, aristocratic trade, he instead renounced his titles and took up the "beautiful idea" of anarchism. Across a continent, he would become known as a passionate advocate of a world without borders, without kings and...
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The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society, which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism.
Anarchist ideas are so much at variance with ordinary political assumptions...
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The floodgates holding back anarchy are constantly under strain. The liberal would ease the pressure by diverting some of the water; the conservative would shore up the dykes, the totalitarian would construct a stronger dam.
But, is anarchy a destructive force? The absence of government may alarm the authoritarian, but is a liberated people really its own worst enemy-or is the true enemy of mankind, as the anarchists claim, the means by which he...
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'Culture and Anarchy' is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. Arnold's famous writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection." He further wrote that: "Culture seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an...
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Né en Algérie en 1894 et mort en banlieue parisienne en 1953, l'anarchiste kabyle Mohamed Saïl fut toute sa vie un infatigable militant antimilitariste, anticolonialiste et anticapitaliste. Insoumis et déserteur pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, il s'engagea sans hésiter dans la colonne Durruti lors de la guerre d'Espagne pour combattre les fascistes et participer à la révolution. Harcelé par la police, arrêté et emprisonné plusieurs...
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Loin d'être un manifeste dogmatique, ce Petit éloge de l'anarchisme célèbre la faculté d'exercer son jugement moral et sa créativité en toute liberté.
À partir d'exemples tirés de la vie quotidienne et de l'histoire, James C. Scott analyse les notions d'autonomie, de dignité, de justice et de résistance. S'en dégage un plaidoyer pour l'insubordination sous toutes ses formes et dans toutes les circonstances — au travail, dans la rue,...
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Figure emblématique et fondatrice de l'anarchisme, Errico Malatesta a contribué à de nombreux journaux, en créant lui-même plusieurs, au cours de sa longue vie à cheval sur les xixe et xxe siècles. Cette anthologie, parue initialement en 1976 chez 10/18, est ici rééditée, revue et augmentée par son traducteur et préfacier, Frank Mintz. On y retrouve des textes théoriques sur les principes de l'anarchisme, des interventions sur la pratique...
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