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This book is a study of political exile and transnational activism
in the late-Victorian period. It explores the history of about 500
French-speaking anarchists who lived in exile in London between
1880 and 1914, with a close focus on the 1890s, when their presence
peaked. These individuals sought to escape intense repression in
France, at a time when anarchist-inspired terrorism swept over the
Western world. Until the 1905 Aliens Act, Britain was the exception
in maintaining a liberal approach to the containment of anarchism
and terrorism; it was therefore the choice destination of
international exiled anarchists, just as it had been for previous
generations of revolutionary exiles throughout the nineteenth
century. These French groups in London played a strategic role in
the reinvention of anarchism at a time of crisis, but also
triggered intense moral panic in France, Britain and beyond. This
study retraces the lives of these largely unknown individuals - how
they struggled to get by in the great late-Victorian metropolis,
their social and political interactions among themselves, with
other exiled groups and their host society. The myths surrounding
their rumoured terrorist activities are examined, as well as the
constant overt and covert surveillance which French and British
intelligence services kept over them. The debates surrounding the
controversial asylum granted to international anarchists, and
especially the French, are presented, showing their role in the
redefinition of British liberalism. The political legacy of these
'London years' is also analysed, since exile contributed to the
formation of small but efficient transnational networks, which were
pivotal to the development and international dissemination of
syndicalism and, less successfully, to anti-war propaganda in the
run up to 1914.
Although most people believe that some form of government is
necessary, until recently it was merely an assumption that had
never been analyzed from an economic point of view. This changed in
the 1970s when economists at the Center for the Study of Public
Choice engaged in a systematic exploration of the issue. This
stimulating collection, the first book-length treatment on the
public choice theory of government, continues and extends the
research program begun more than three decades ago. The book
reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the
Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well
as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers
Hummel and Peter Boettke. The younger economists are notably less
pessimistic about markets and more pessimistic about government
than their predecessors. Much of the new analysis suggests that
private property rights and contracts can exist without government,
and that even though problems exist, government does not seem to
offer a solution. Might anarchy be the best choice after all? This
provocative volume explores this issue in-depth and provides some
interesting answers. Economists, political scientists, philosophers
and lawyers interested in public choice, political economy and
spontaneous order will find this series of essays illuminating.
You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing
anarchism in your daily life. From relationships to school, work,
art, even the way you organise your time, anarchism can help you
find fulfilment, empathy and liberation in the everyday. From the
small questions such as 'Why should I steal?' to the big ones like
'how do I love?', Scott Branson shows that anarchism isn't only
something we do when we react to the news, protest or even riot.
With practical examples enriched by history and theory, these tips
will empower you to break free from the consumerist trappings of
our world. Anarchism is not just for white men, but for everyone.
In reading this book, you can detach from patriarchal masculinity,
norms of family, gender, sexuality, racialisation, individual
responsibility and the destruction of our planet, and replace them
with ideas of sustainable living, with ties of mutual aid, and the
horizon of collective liberation.
Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver
environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international
governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally
incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. Across the
world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to
realise their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to
planetary destruction, often pitted against the new megaprojects
promoted by greenwashed alternative energy infrastructures and the
neocolonialist, technocratic policies that are the forerunners of
the Green New Deal. Gelderloos interviews food sovereignty
activists in Venezuela, Indigenous communities reforesting their
lands in Brazil and anarchists fighting biofuel plantations in
Indonesia, looking at the battles that have cancelled airports,
stopped pipelines, and helped the most marginalised to fight
borders and environmental racism, to transform their cities, to win
a dignified survival.
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and
free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous - and notorious - woman
in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her
two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist
Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials,
imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the
epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the
Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with
Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard
today, "Living My Life" is a riveting account of political ferment
and ideological turbulence.
First biography of a major anarchist thinker Draws on untapped
archival primary sources and family records More interest in
anarchist ideas as mutual aid has become more prevalent
This book by one of the most prominent writers for the American
anarchist movement presents the case for communist anarchism
clearly and intelligently. Thorough and well stated, it is today
regarded as a classic statement of the cause's goals and methods.
'A powerful - even startling - book that challenges the shibboleths
of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the
threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of
the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda
Report Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black
radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising
tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic
written by a key figure of the Civil Rights movement is republished
with a wealth of original material for a new generation. Anarchist
theory has long suffered from a whiteness problem. This book places
its critique of both capitalism and racism firmly at the centre of
the text. Making a powerful case for the building of a Black
revolutionary movement that rejects sexism, homophobia, militarism
and racism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin counters the lies and distortions
about anarchism spread by its left- and right-wing opponents alike.
New material includes an interview with writer and activist William
C. Anderson, as well as new essays, and a contextualizing biography
of the author's inspiring life.
Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were
pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time. In that
context, the Spanish Civil War and the armed resistances during the
Second World War involved particularly large numbers of
transnational fighters. The need to fight fascism wherever it
presented itself was undoubtedly the main motivation behind these
fighters' decision to mobilise. Despite all this, however, not
enough attention has been paid to the fact that some of these
volunteers felt they were the last exponents of a tradition of
armed volunteering which, in their case, originated in the
nineteenth century. The capacity of war volunteering to endure and
persist over time has rarely been investigated in historiography.
The aim of this book is to reconstruct the radical and
transnational tradition of war volunteering connected to Giuseppe
Garibaldi's legacy in Southern Europe between the unification of
Italy (1861) and the end of the Second World War (1945). This book
seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of the long-term,
interconnected, and radical dimensions of the so called
Garibaldinism.
"On Anarchism" provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's
fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched
power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned
ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his
political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic
and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that
is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes
the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.
The collection includes a revealing new introduction by journalist
Nathan Schneider, who documented the Occupy movement for "Harper's"
and "The Nation," and who places Chomsky's ideas in the
contemporary political moment. "On Anarchism" will be essential
reading for a new generation of activists who are at the forefront
of a resurgence of interest in anarchism--and for anyone who
struggles with what can be done to create a more just world.
This book, originally published in 1949 (but here re-issuing the
second edition of 1966) presents a history of international
socialism, not just from the political but also the economic
standpoint.
Anarchism is a significant but relatively neglected of political
thought. April Carter examines the anarchist critique of the state,
of bureaucracy, of democratic government and contrasts this
attitude with more orthodox political theory. She also considers
anarchist theories and social and economic organization, the
relevance of anarchism to contemporary conditions and the problems
of idealism in politics.
The book presents an analysis of the concept of rights and provides
an illuminating expression of socialist ideals. The author outlines
an analysis of fundamental human rights compatible with historical
relativism and applies this to the political right of freedom of
expression and the economic right to work. Finally he deploys the
proposed analysis of socialist rights to explain the ambivalence of
socialist thinkers towards welfare rights in contemporary
capitalist states and to analyze the logic of assertions that
welfare law is often counter-productive.
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