On Anarchism (Penguin Special)

On Anarchism (Penguin Special)
Noam Chomsky (Author)
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Neither Democrats, nor Dictators: Anarchists!: (And other essays on Anarchism.)

Neither Democrats, nor Dictators: Anarchists!: (And other essays on Anarchism.)
Errico Malatesta (Author), Peter Linka (Editor, Introduction)

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Here, for the first time in an e-book format, we present 7 works from the great Anarchist writer and thinker, Errico Malatesta. There are, in order:
-Neither Democrats, nor Dictators: Anarchists
-A Project of Anarchist Organization
-The anarchists in the present time
-Against the constituent assembly as against the dictatorship
-Towards Anarchism
And 2 bonuses:
-Reply to Nestor Makhno
And The Anarchy in the original "pamphlet version", which is a bit shorter than the one available here on Kindle store for free...
And as always; edited for minor typos and formatted for e-readers.

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• Published on: 2014-02-21
• Released on: 2014-02-21
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Problem Solved!: Libertarian solutions for the real world

Problem? Solved!: Libertarian solutions for the real world
Kent S McManigal (Author)

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Many people claim that "libertarians are always whining about government being the problem, but they never offer solutions." Let "Problem? Solved!" offer the solutions they seek. This is an alphabetically arranged list of common problems in society which are used to justify a government, and some of the possible, liberty-compatible solutions that could be used to solve the problems. No coercion needed!

• Rank: #1256600 in Books
• Published on: 2010-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.87" h x 4.92" w x .35" l, .39 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 170 pages

ALEXANDER BERKMAN, ANARCHIST: Life, Work, Ideas

ALEXANDER BERKMAN, ANARCHIST: Life, Work, Ideas
Bill Nowlin (Author)

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Anarchism

As a young student in Russia, Alexander Berkman claims to have heard the bomb explode which killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881. He emigrated to America and, inspired by the Haymarket martyrs, became active in Jewish anarchist circles. When Henry Clay Frick of Carnegie Steel sent in armed Pinkertons who killed strikers at Homestead Steel, Berkman traveled to Pittsburg and shot Frick in an assassination attempt of his own, hoping to inspire a workers’ revolt. He spent 14 years in prison, then rejoined his comrade Emma Goldman and was active in the free speech movement, in setting up free schools, in the beginnings of the birth control movement, and in defensing numerous activists charged by prosecutors. He and Goldman organized against military conscription during World War I and were deported to Russia, arriving shortly after the Revolution. There, as anarchists, they also ran afoul of the Communist Party authorities who were intent on consolidating political power. They had to leave Russia as well, and then to leave Germany, finally landing in exile in France. Throughout, Berkman was a skilled organizer and both edited and wrote numerous publications. His life, his work, and his ideas are explored in this book. The way Berkman lived his life, maturing in his thought but remaining true to his principles, has been an inspiration to those who have known of him.

• Rank: #407092 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-02-15
• Released on: 2014-02-15
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The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age

The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age
Timothy Messer-Kruse (Author)
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In this controversial and groundbreaking new history, Timothy Messer-Kruse rewrites the standard narrative of the most iconic event in American labor history: the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886. Using thousands of pages of previously unexamined materials, Messer-Kruse demonstrates that, contrary to longstanding historical opinion, the trial was not the “travesty of justice” it has commonly been depicted as. Prosecutors in the trial successfully brought to light a daunting amount of evidence revealing the inner workings of an anarchist conspiracy to spark insurrection by attacking police, and connected their plans to the bomber through a solid chain of evidence. Rather than being an example of “judicial murder,” the Haymarket trial was a tragic case of judicial suicide, as the defense chose to use the trial as a grandstand for anarchism rather than deploy a sound legal defense. Though bumblers in the courtroom, the anarchist lawyers proved adept in the court of public opinion and succeeded in influencing the way historians and activists would remember this event for the next 125 years. Exhaustively researched and forcefully argued, this is a vital new contribution to our understanding of labor history and the world of Gilded Age America.

• Rank: #752197 in Books
• Published on: 2011-08-15
• Released on: 2011-08-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 5.90" w x 9.10" l, .75 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

American Anarchism (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

American Anarchism (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)
Steven J. Shone (Author)

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American Anarchism focuses on nineteenth century American Anarchism, along with two influencial European anarchists, to emphasize the value of using ideas from this milieu to solve contemporar political problems. The thinkers discussed are Alexander Berkman, Voltairine de Cleyre, Samuel Fielden, Luigi Galleani, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Max Stirner, William Graham Sumner, and Benjamin Tucker.

• Rank: #357473 in Books
• Published on: 2014-09-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 297 pages

Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism, 1827-1908

Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism, 1827-1908
James J. Martin (Author)
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An acclaimed survey of 19th-century American anarchist and individualist thinkers, including Josiah Warren, Ezra Heywood, Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker. This classic study by an outstanding libertarian-revisionist historian is valuable for an understanding of the intellectual pioneers of American libertarianism. Includes the foreword by Harry Elmer Barnes to the original (1953) edition.

• Rank: #29038 in Books
• Published on: 1970-06-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.75" h x 5.50" w x 1.00" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 315 pages

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution: Dialectics University Edition

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution: Dialectics University Edition
Peter Kropotkin (Author)

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In Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin attacks the use of Darwinism as a social theory, arguing that cooperation is as important as competition. Examining animals, indigenous societies, medieval cities, and the modern era, Kropotkin demonstrates the importance of cooperation to evolution and survival. This Dialectics edition includes Kropotkin’s extensive notes. Each note is placed as a footnote at the bottom of the page in which it appears.

• Rank: #146451 in Books
• Published on: 2013-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.86" h x 5.91" w x .47" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Philosophical Anarchism and Political Obligation: A Defense of a Philosophical Anarchist Approach to the Problem of Political Authority (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)

Philosophical Anarchism and Political Obligation: A Defense of a Philosophical Anarchist Approach to the Problem of Political Authority (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)
Magda Egoumenides (Author)

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Anarchism

Political obligation refers to the moral obligation of citizens to obey the law of their state and to the existence, nature, and justification of a special relationship between a government and its constituents. This volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series challenges this relationship, seeking to define and defend the position of critical philosophical anarchism against alternative approaches to the issue of justification of political institutions.

The book sets out to demonstrate the value of taking an anarchist approach to the problem of political authority, looking at theories of natural duty, state justification, natural duty of justice, fairness, political institutions, and more. It argues that the anarchist perspective is in fact indispensable to theorists of political obligation and can improve our views of political authority and social relations.

This accessible book builds on the works of philosophical anarchists such as John Simmons and Leslie Green, and discusses key theorists, including Rousseau, Rawls, and Horton. This key resource will make an important contribution to anarchist political theory and to anarchist studies more generally.

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• Published on: 2014-08-14
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Prison Blossoms: Anarchist Voices from the American Past (The John Harvard Library)

Prison Blossoms: Anarchist Voices from the American Past (The John Harvard Library)
Alexander Berkman (Author), Henry Bauer (Author), Carl Nold (Author), Miriam Brody (Editor), Bonnie Buettner (Editor)
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In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engagement via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners. On odd bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared their thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine magazine called “Prison Blossoms.” This extraordinary series of essays on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of prison portraits and narratives of homosexuality among inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American prisons, where punishment cells and starvation diets reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the "beautiful ideal" of communal anarchism.

Most of the "Prison Blossoms" were smuggled out of the penitentiary to fellow comrades, including Emma Goldman, as the nucleus of an exposé of prison conditions in America’s Gilded Age. Those that survived relatively unrecognized for a century in an international archive are here transcribed, translated, edited, and published for the first time. Born at a unique historical moment, when European anarchism and American labor unrest converged, as each sought to repel the excesses of monopoly capitalism, these prison blossoms peer into the heart of political radicalism and its fervent hope of freedom from state and religious coercion.

• Rank: #1116945 in Books
• Published on: 2011-05-05
• Released on: 2011-06-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 5.98" w x 1.10" l, 1.04 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

The Anarchist Cookbook

The Anarchist Cookbook
William Powell (Author)
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Anarchism

The Anarchist Cookbook will shock, it will disturb, it will provoke. It places in historical perspective an era when "Turn on, Burn down, Blow up" are revolutionary slogans of the day. Says the author" "This book... is not written for the members of fringe political groups, such as the Weatherman, or The Minutemen. Those radical groups don't need this book. They already know everything that's in here. If the real people of America, the silent majority, are going to survive, they must educate themselves. That is the purpose of this book." In what the author considers a survival guide, there is explicit information on the uses and effects of drugs, ranging from pot to heroin to peanuts. There i detailed advice concerning electronics, sabotage, and surveillance, with data on everything from bugs to scramblers. There is a comprehensive chapter on natural, non-lethal, and lethal weapons, running the gamut from cattle prods to sub-machine guns to bows and arrows. The section on explosives and booby traps ranges from TNT to whistle traps. One hundred and eleven drawings supplement the recipes. "This book is for anarchists," says William Powell, "Those who feel able to discipline themselves on all the subjects from drugs, to weapons, to explosives) that are currently illegal in this country." Techniques, disciplines, precautions, and warnings pervade what may be the most disquieting "how-to" book of contemporary times.

• Rank: #34225 in Books
• Published on: 2013-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .44" h x 8.50" w x 11.02" l, 1.48 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 162 pages

Temas Esenciales del Anarquismo (Spanish Edition)

Temas Esenciales del Anarquismo (Spanish Edition)
Fabian Moro (Author)

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Anarchism

Key issues of anarchism: Various dictionaries we have consulted define spirit as an incorporeal substance, an immaterial breath that animates and activates bodies, but the word spirit (page 44 of the Anarchist Encyclopedia of Sebastian Faure) is a vague term inasmuch as the definition varies according to the philosophical doctrine .

The spirit, as the word is commonly used, is, therefore, the power to conceive, to compare, to judge, to reason — and it is indeed in this sense that it is frequently used.

In the eighth question posed in his “Ignorant Philosopher” Voltaire tells us: “As we can have no notion, but by experience, it is not impossible that we can ever know what matter is. We touch, we see the properties of this substance; but this very expression “substance which is beneath,” sufficiently acquaints us that this thing beneath will ever be unknown to us; whatever we may discover of its appearance, there will always remain this beneath to discover. For the same reason, we can never know by ourselves what is spirit. It is a word which usually signifies breath, and by which we endeavour to express vaguely and grossly that which gives us thoughts. But when, even by a prodigy, which is not to be supposed, we should acquire some slight idea of the substance of this spirit, we should be no farther advanced; and we could never guess how this substance received sentiments and thoughts. We know very well that we have some small intellectual faculty; but how do we obtain it? This is a secret of nature, which she has not divulged to any mortal.”

If the human body is considered as consisting of chemical compounds, the spirit is the flame that comes from the body, as fire is obtained from a chemical phosphate , and briefly say that the spirit is a force born of matter, inherent in matter , and may not be the manifestation of a separate intangible power of bodily substance .

To satisfy our curiosity on this issue the following study. “Key issues of Anarchism” by the late Fabian Moro examines those ideas that seek to rationalise the concept ‘spirit’.

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• Published on: 2014-01-07
• Released on: 2014-01-07
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Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action

Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action
Sean Birchall (Author)

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Anarchism

The compelling account of the extraordinary activities of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) - by those who were there on the frontline - an organised and committed group of ordinary working class people who, during the 1980s and 1990s took the fight to the far right - and won!

Following the electoral collapse of the National Front in 1979, fascists went on the rampage. Race attacks escalated. NF/BNP gangs employed violence on the streets, on the terraces and to control the music scene. Young anti-fascists stepped up.

A new hardline leadership emerged and AFA was formed in 1985. "A state of war" was how one rueful BNP leader would describe what happened next.

Not only is Beating the Fascists a meticulously researched study, it is also a much-needed piece of history from below. Throughout, the voices of working class anti-fascists come across hard, clear, and without apology.

Illuminating and sometimes chilling by turn, the running commentary they provide helps ensure the tempo never flags. Gradually the reader is drawn into an outlaw world of back street idealism, paramilitary style violence and heroic self-sacrifice.

• Rank: #913633 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Freedom Press
• Published on: 2013-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.10" h x 5.80" w x 8.20" l, 1.90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

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