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Eyewitness reports of the crushing counter-revolution from Augustin
Souchy, Jose Peirats, Burnett Bolloten and Emma Goldman. This
'minor' incident in the Spanish Civil War claimed more casualties
in the armed struggle that took place, than in the first week of
the military uprising in Barcelona on July 19th 1936.
"Life and Ideas" gathers excerpts from Malatesta's writings over a
lifetime of revolutionary activity. The editor, Vernon Richards,
has translated hundreds of articles by Malatesta, taken from the
journals Malatesta either edited himself or contributed to, from
the earliest, "L'En Dehors" of 1892, through to "Pensiero e
Volonta," which was forced to close by Mussolini's fascists in
1926, and the bilingual "Il Risveglio/Le Reveil," which published
most of his writings after that date. These articles have been
pruned down to their essentials and collected under subheadings
ranging from "Ends and Means" to "Anarchist Propaganda." Through
the selections Malatesta's classical anarchism emerges: a
revolutionary, nonpacifist, nonreformist vision informed by decades
of engagement in struggle and study. In addition there is a short
biographical piece and an essay by the editor.""
This analysis of Georges Sorel's ideas on revolution and the
original translations of some of his little-known writings on this
theme offer a critical reassessment of Sorel's place in modern
political thought. By turns conservative pessimist, social
democrat, revolutionary syndicalist, and reactionary, Sorel is a
perplexing figure. He has long been regarded as one of a generation
of intellectuals who abandoned reason for violence, theoretical
reflection for practical commitment. But according to Sorel -- as
the title of his most notorious book makes clear -- the task of the
theoretician is to reflect on violence. He maintained that
reflection discloses the limited and deficient character of
practical thought, but he also recognized that the springs of
action escape the grasp of the reflective theorist. It was this
distinctness of theory and practice that Soreal attempted to come
to terms with in his thinking on revolution. If revolution is a
violent action, it is also a process of structural change which the
actors themselves do not comprehend. This theme enables the reader
to grasp a significant degree of continuity among some of Sorel's
bewilderingly diverse positions. Moreover, it accounts for much of
his critique of Marxism and his sceptical reflects on Marxian
notions of history, class, consciousness, and party. Placed in the
context of modern revolutionary thinking, Sorel is an eccentric
figure but not an irrelevant one, for his approach points to some
of the difficulties in the idea of revolution that were largely
overlooked by the 'New Left.'
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