Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution

Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution

Author: P. A. Kropotkin

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780262610100

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The selection is designed to reveal such fundamental conceptions as Kropotkin'sinterpretation of the role of anarchism in modern history, his criticism of capitalism, his theoryof revolution, and his views of the ideals to be realized in the postrevolutionary society of thefuture.


Anarchism

Anarchism

Author: Peter Kropotkin

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0486119866

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Includes "Law and Authority," arguing social control through custom and education, and "Prisons and Their Moral Influence on Prisoners," expressing the evils of the prison system, and other documents.


Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

Author: Arif Dirlik

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0520082648

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Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the socialist movement in China. Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the anarchist contribution to revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the Chinese revolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide.


Anarchy, Geography, Modernity

Anarchy, Geography, Modernity

Author: Elisée Reclus

Publisher: PM Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1604868988

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Anarchy, Geography, Modernity is the first comprehensive introduction to the thought of Elisée Reclus, the great anarchist geographer and political theorist. It shows him to be an extraordinary figure for his age. Not only an anarchist but also a radical feminist, anti-racist, ecologist, animal rights advocate, cultural radical, nudist, and vegetarian. Not only a major social thinker but also a dedicated revolutionary. The work analyzes Reclus’ greatest achievement, a sweeping historical and theoretical synthesis recounting the story of the earth and humanity as an epochal struggle between freedom and domination. It presents his groundbreaking critique of all forms of domination: not only capitalism, the state, and authoritarian religion, but also patriarchy, racism, technological domination, and the domination of nature. His crucial insights on the interrelation between personal and small-group transformation, broader cultural change, and large-scale social organization are explored. Reclus’ ideas are presented both through detailed exposition and analysis, and in extensive translations of key texts, most appearing in English for the first time.


Anarchism, Revolution, and Reaction

Anarchism, Revolution, and Reaction

Author: Angel Smith

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9781845451769

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The period from 1898 to 1923 was a particularly dramatic one in Spanish history; it culminated in the violent Barcelona "labor wars" and was only brought to a close with the coup d'état launched by the Barcelona Captain General, Miguel Primo de Rivera, in September 1923. In his detailed examination of the rise of the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist-led labor movement, the author blends social, cultural and political history in a novel way. He analyses the working class "from below" and the policies of the Spanish State towards labor "from above." Based on an in-depth usage of primary sources, the authors provides an unrivalled account of Catalan labor and the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist movement and thus makes an important contribution to our understanding of early twentieth-century Spanish history.