La loi et l'autorite (Essais) (French Edition)

La loi et l'autorite (Essais) (French Edition)
Pierre Kropotkine (Author)

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Anarchism

« "Quand l'ignorance est au sein des sociétés et le désordre dans les esprits, les lois deviennent nombreuses. Les hommes attendent tout de la législation, et chaque loi nouvelle étant un nouveau mécompte, ils sont portés à lui demander sans cesse ce qui ne peut venir que d'eux-mêmes, de leur éducation, de l'état de leurs mœurs." — Ce n'est pourtant pas un révolutionnaire qui dit cela, pas même un réformateur. C'est un jurisconsulte, Dalloz, l'auteur du recueil des lois françaises, connu sous le nom de Répertoire de la Législation. Et cependant ces lignes, quoique écrites par un homme qui était lui-même un législateur et un admirateur des lois, représentent parfaitement l'état anormal de nos sociétés. »

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• Published on: 2013-12-15
• Released on: 2013-12-15
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The Tyranny of Theory: A Contribution to the Anarchist Critique of Marxism

The Tyranny of Theory: A Contribution to the Anarchist Critique of Marxism
Ronald D. Tabor (Author)

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Anarchism

Does Marxism equal totalitarianism? Are the ideas of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels somehow responsible for the horrors of Communism? Or were Communist societies simply an aberration—the result of a profound misreading of Marxian concepts, the unfortunate outcome of objective conditions, or the work of perverse, power-hungry individuals?

In this volume, Tabor argues that, despite the apparently libertarian vision of Marx and Engels, the roots of totalitarianism lie within Marxism itself. Focusing on central facets of Marxist theory—its conception of the state; the notion of the dictatorship of the proletariat; the analysis of capital; the materialist conception of history; and dialectical materialism—Tabor argues that the sources of despotism can be traced in all of these.

However, Tabor contends, Marxism’s totalitarian logic is especially apparent in two of Marxism’s most fundamental notions: (1) the belief that the state, in the form of the "dictatorship of the proletariat," can be utilized to establish a free society; (2) a philosophical outlook that insists that human society, history, and the cosmos as a whole can be convincingly explained by, and subsumed under, one logically consistent world view, its own. Seen philosophically, then, Marxism must be understood as a form of totalizing rationalism that seeks to impose itself on humanity (and the Earth) by means of a monolithic state.

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• Published on: 2013-12-03
• Original language: English
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• 358 pages

Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism (Critique. Influence. Change.)

Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism (Critique. Influence. Change.)
Michael Albert (Author)

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Anarchism

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Michael Albert would disagree.

Realizing Hope offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the unchecked destruction of the earth, and the oppression of all for the benefit of the few. 'Participatory Economics' - 'Parecon' for short - is Albert's concrete proposal for a classless economy, developed from anarchist principles first introduced by Kropotkin, Rocker, Bakunin, Pannekoek, and others. Under capitalism, the centre cannot hold. This book is a blueprint for a world that is just over the horizon; a world we can begin building today.

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• Published on: 2014-02-04
• Released on: 2014-02-04
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

The Chicago Seven: 1960's Radicalism in the Federal Courts

The Chicago Seven: 1960's Radicalism in the Federal Courts
Federal Judicial History Office (Author)

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Anarchism

The trial of political activists accused of inciting riots during the Democratic National Convention of 1968 attracted national attention and exposed the depths of political and cultural divisions at a crucial moment in the nation’s history. The trial of the “Chicago Seven” became a defining event in public debates about the Vietnam War, the student protest movement, and the fairness of the federal judicial process.

The defendants and their lawyers used the courtroom as a platform for a broad critique of American society and an almost anarchic challenge to the legitimacy of governmental authority. The judge in the case displayed open contempt for the defendants, and his own unorthodox behavior threatened public confidence in the judiciary. The nearly five-month long trial illustrated the contentious and often theatrical nature of public affairs during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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• Published on: 2013-12-01
• Released on: 2013-12-01
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Anarchism and other essays (Illustrated)

Anarchism and other essays (Illustrated)
Emma Goldman (Author)
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Anarchism

Widely considered to be one of the foremost experts on Anarchist theory, Emma Goldman's classic essay on the political/social/philosophical doctrine known as Anarchism is collected here, along with other excellent essays covering a wide range of radical topics like the enslavement of women, the destruction wrought by nationalism, the Puritan ethos, and much more. Goldman's clear writing style and passion are guaranteed to trigger a reaction in the reader: either actively seek to stand in opposition to the status quo, or react and be further absorbed into the machine of oblivion.

Illustrated throughout to enhance the reading experience. Formatted for Kindle devices and the Kindle for iOS apps.

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• Published on: 2013-12-10
• Released on: 2013-12-10
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Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology

Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
Peter Kropotkin (Author), Iain McKay (Editor)

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Anarchism

This is the most extensive collection of Peter Kropotkin's writings available in English. Over half the selections have been translated for the first time or salvaged from long-out-of-print pamphlets and newspapers. Both an introduction to classic texts and a recontextualization of Kropotkin from saintly philosopher to dangerous revolutionary, Direct Struggle Against Capital includes a historical introduction, biographical sketch, glossary, bibliography, and index.

Peter Kropotkin was one of anarchism's most famous thinkers. His classic works include The Conquest of Bread and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.

Iain McKay has edited An Anarchist FAQ (volumes one and two) and Property Is Theft: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology.

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• Published on: 2014-03-18
• Original language: English
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• 680 pages

LOS MANOS: ANATOMY OF AN ACTION GROUP

LOS MANOS: ANATOMY OF AN ACTION GROUP
Freddy Gomez (Author), Antonio Tellez (Author), Paul Sharkey (Translator)

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Anarchism

In 1945 Mariano Aguayo Morán (1922 -1994) who had been active in a small group of anarchists and socialists, took up the armed struggle against Franco. Imprisoned for a few months in 1948, he moved to Barcelona in February 1949 and joined the Los Maños anarchist action group (maño being a slang term for natives of Aragon) led by Wenceslao Jimenez Orive (Wences); other members of the group included Simon Gracía Fleringan, DGM Rodolfo, Placido Ortiz Nicetas Gratal and Pardillo Manzanero. On March 2 1949, in Barcelona, Wences, Jose Lopez Penedo, Carlos Vidal Pasanau together with Francisco and Jose Sabate Llopart, ambushed what they believed to be the car of Eduardo Quintela, head of the Francoist secret police (BPS)n in Catalonia; they killed, instead, the secretary of the Falangist Youth Front, Manuel Piñol and his driver. Subsequently the group carried out a string of armed robberies in Madrid, Malaga, Seville and in France in order to fund an attempt on the life of Franco as he drove to his residence at the royal palace on Mount Pardo. A few months later they made a second, equally unsuccessful, attempt to blow up Franco’s convoy as it made its way up the steep winding road between Zaragoza and Madrid at La Cuesta de la Muela. Following their return to Barcelona on 2 January 1950 the group was betrayed by a disaffected member, Aniceto Pardillo Manzanero (The Kid), and most were arrested on 9 January just a few hours after Wences was gunned down in a police trap. They were later executed. Mariano Aguayo was fortunate to have been in Paris when the group was wiped out in Barcelona.
This interview with Mariano Aguayo Morán (1922-1994) in September 1976 provided an opportunity to get to grips with the history of the libertarian anti-Franco resistance in the crucial years after the war (1946-1950), the Second World War having inspired high but often disappointed hopes at a time when, after fascist regimes had been defeated, the Franco regime looked likely to be next in line to fall. The ‘Los Maños’ group, which grew out of the close friendship between two young men from the working class El Arrabal district of Zaragoza, was soon wedded to the cause of anarchist activism and drawn into the nebulous libertarian resistance of which Quico Sabaté (1915-1960) and José Lluís Facerías (1920-1957) were then the two emblematic representatives.
The reader will realise that the chief purpose behind this interview is not to extoll the praises of the shadow warriors from those times, but to learn from the story of the ‘Los Maños’ group, as told by one of its protagonists, the difficult circumstances in which such resistance occurred and understand the problems with which it had to grapple. There, to our way of thinking, is where its morsel of human truth resides.

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• Published on: 2013-12-13
• Released on: 2013-12-13
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Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One
Robert Graham (Author), Maurice Spira (Illustrator)
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Anarchism

Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, is a comprehensive and far ranging collection of anarchist writings from the feudal era (300) to 1939. Edited and introduced by noted anarchist scholar Robert Graham, the collection will include the definitive texts from the anarchist tradition of political thought, beginning with some of the earliest writings from China and Europe against feudal servitude and authority.

The collection will then go on to document the best of the anti-authoritarian writings from the English and French Revolutions and the early development of libertarian socialist ideas, including such writers as Gerrard Winstanley, William Godwin, Charles Fourier, Max Stirner, as well as the early anarchist writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Elisee Reclus, Leo Tolstoy, and Emma Goldman.

This incomparable volume deals both with the positive ideas and proposals the anarchists tried to put into practice, and with the anarchist critiques of the authoritarian theories and practices confronting them during these years with their revolutionary upheavals.

Robert Graham has written extensively on the history of anarchist ideas. He is the author of “The Role of Contract in Anarchist Ideology,” in the Routledge publication, For Anarchism, edited by David Goodway, and he wrote the introduction to the 1989 Pluto Press edition of Proudhon’s General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century, originally published in 1851. He has been doing research and writing on the historical development of anarchist ideas for over 20 years and is a well respected commentator in the field.

Includes original portraits of the anarchists drawn by Maurice Spira specifically for this book Spira’s imagery is rooted to the political, his subject matter global. Works such as “Battle of Seattle,” “Gulf,” and “Refugees” are the visual equivalent of newspaper headlines.

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• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Original language: English
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• 304 pages

Pirate State: Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea

Pirate State: Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea
Peter Eichstaedt (Author)
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Anarchism

Providing a timely and never-before-seen perspective on the ever-increasing menace of Somali pirates, this account shows how the cargo ship and oil tanker hijackings and ransoms in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean have turned one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes into one of the most dangerous. By way of one-on-one interviews with pirates, their associates, their victims, and those who police them, the book reveals piracy’s origins, tactics, and increasing links to terrorists in Somalia, East Africa, and the Middle East, including Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. These sources point to a scenario in which Somali pirates might not just be out for themselves; they may be a part of a larger, more sinister infrastructure of global financiers and Islamic extremists thatAif not dealt with soonAcould greatly destabilize the region and perhaps threaten United States national security.

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• Published on: 2010-10-01
• Released on: 2010-10-01
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Democracy is a lie: thoughts and notes on Anarchism.

Democracy is a lie: thoughts and notes on Anarchism.
Errico Malatesta (Author), Peter Linka (Editor, Foreword)

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Anarchism

"Democracy is a lie, it is oppression and is in reality, oligarchy; that is, government by the few to the advantage of a privileged class."
From "Democracy and Anarchy.

"...we know good doctors who profess anarchist ideas; however, they do not talk about anarchy when they do science..."
From Medicine and Anarchy.

"Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity. "
From the note on Individualism and Anarchism

This e-book contains 6 articles and notes, plus brand new foreword by the publisher. Articles were written by one of the biggest anarchist thinkers; Errico Malatesta. The first five of them are presented in a chronological order, written between the years of 1924 and 1926, and they are:
Democracy and Anarchy.
Medicine and Anarchism/Editorial mail
Syndicalism and Anarchism
The Labor Movement and Anarchism
Further thoughts on Anarchism and the Labor Movement

And as a bonus is presented Malatesta's note on:
Individualism and Anarchism (originally published in August 1924, as an reply to a reply).

All of these articles are published here in an e-book format for the first time, edited for minor grammatical error that were present in the original translations.
Recorded here for all the future generations of thinkers and freedom seekers!

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• Published on: 2013-11-21
• Released on: 2013-11-21
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The State (LvMI)

The State (LvMI)
Franz Oppenheimer (Author), John M. Gitterman (Translator)
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Anarchism

This is the 1908 book that kicked off a century of antistate, proproperty writing. This was the prototype for Albert Jay Nock's writing, for Frank Chodorov's work, and even the theoretical edifice that later became Rothbardianism.

Indeed, Franz Oppenheimer wrote what remains one of the most bracing and stimulating volumes in the history of political philosophy. He overthrows centuries of fallacious thinking on the subject of the state's origin, nature, and purpose, and replaces it with a view of the state as composed of a victorious group of bandits who rule over the defeated group with the purpose of domination and exploitation.

Not surprisingly, such views were a scandal when Oppenheimer published this book in turn-of-the-century Germany — they still are. The physician-turned-sociologist suffered terribly for his libertarian views. Yet when this book appeared it stunned even his most vociferous critics with its analytical rigor, historical sweep, and steely resolve. The book has since appeared in more than a dozen languages. In a world that cares about ideas, this would be required reading in political philosophy.

From an economic angle, Oppenheimer's analysis holds up even where his language about capitalism and socialism is muddled. It was Murray N. Rothbard's work that later took Oppenheimer's theory and fit it into a thoroughly free-market framework.

Yet to fully understand the state theory that underlies modern Austrolibertarian thinking, this work is indispensable.

To search for Mises Institute titles, enter a keyword and LvMI (short for Ludwig von Mises Institute); e.g., Depression LvMI

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• Published on: 2010-12-31
• Released on: 2010-12-31
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Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century

Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century
Chris Spannos (Editor)
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Anarchism

What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society’s defining institutions—those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, culture, community, and ecology—were based not on competition, individual ownership, and coercion, but on self-management, equity, solidarity, and diversity? Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.

Instead of simply declaring “another world is possible,” the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain. Topics include: participatory economics, political vision, education, architecture, artists in a free society, environmentalism, work after capitalism, and poly-culturalism. The catchall phrase here is “participatory society”—one that is directly democratic and seeks institutional solutions to complex sociological and economic questions.

Contributors include: Michael Albert, Barbara Ehrenreich, Steve Shalom, Robin Hahnel, Maria Trigona, Justin Podur, Tom Wetzel, Cynthia Peters, Andrej Grubacic, and Mandisi Majavu, among others.

Chris Spannos is an activist, organizer, and anti-capitalist. He is a full-time staff member of the internationally acclaimed ZNet, a website dedicated to social change, hosting works by many of today’s leading social commentators, organizers, activists, and analysts, with 300,000 users weekly. He resides in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Original language: English
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• 420 pages

Radical Fundamentals

Radical Fundamentals
Emma Goldman (Author), Pierre Joseph Proudhon (Author), V.A. Blair (Editor)

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Anarchism

This collection of excerpts and essays from some of the most prominent anarchists of the 19th and 20th centuries serves as a handy introduction to left-wing anarchist philosophy. Featuring writings from Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta and Pierre Joseph Proudhon.

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• Published on: 2013-11-27
• Released on: 2013-11-27
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The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents (Vintage)

The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents (Vintage)
Alex Butterworth (Author)
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Anarchism

In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from anarchist extremists.
 
In this riveting history of that tumultuous period, Alex Butterworth follows the rise of these revolutionaries from the failed Paris Commune of 1871 to the 1905 Russian Revolution and beyond. Through the interwoven stories of several key anarchists and the secret police who hunted them, Butterworth vividly describes how a movement born in idealism turned increasingly to desperate acts of terrorism and murder. Rich in anecdote and with a fascinating array of supporting characters, The World That Never Was offers a revelatory portrait of an era with uncanny echoes of our own.

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• Published on: 2011-08-09
• Released on: 2011-08-09
• Original language: English
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• 544 pages

The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt

The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt
Ted Rall (Author)
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Anarchism

How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tonedeaf. In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama--and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements--and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren't lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted.

• Rank: #749870 in Books
• Published on: 2012-06-05
• Released on: 2012-06-05
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 5.98" w x .67" l, .84 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages