The article discusses the growing recognition and literary production of black anarchism, which was once considered a fringe ideology. It highlights the works of Lorenzo Ervin and William Anderson, specifically Ervin's book "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" and Anderson's book "Th...
In Statism and Anarchy (1874), for example, Bakunin attacked Marx’s view that the transitional state—the dictatorship of the proletariat—would simply wither away after it had served its purpose of preventing a bourgeois counterrevolution. No state, said Bakunin, has ever withered away, and...
can control the union to be exactly the same, but if something that can happen so obviously in front of all the people’s eyes. How can you be an anarchist and live your daily revolution with it? We do have a much bigger enemy outside known as “the capitalism”, however what really...
Part of this essay is based on the article "Trotskyist Lies on Anarchism" which appeared in Black Flag issue no. 211 and Tom Wetzel’s article Workers’ Power and the Spanish Revolution. 1. Were the Spanish Anarchists "Primitive Rebels"? The thesis that the Spanish Anarchists were "primitive...
ahead were right. The participation of the CNT-FAI in the government, and concessions to the insatiable monster in Moscow, have certainly not benefited the Spanish revolution, or even the anti-fascist struggle. Yet closer contact with reality in Spain, with the almost insurmountable odds against ...
Camillo Berneri: The State – or Revolution Camillo Berneri (1897-1937) was an important anarchist intellectual and anti-fascist activist who came to prominence after the First World War during the “Red Years” (1919-1920) in Italy, when anarchists, syndicalists and some revolutionary socialist...
It will reaffirm the anarchist influences on the Commune, the place of the Commune in anarchism and the anarchist critique of the revolution. It will also show how incredulous Leninist attempts to appropriate it for their tradition are. For, while Gluckstein praises the Commune for introducing “...
Anarchism - Mutualism, Collectivism, Utopianism: In the United States, a native and mainly nonviolent tradition of anarchism developed during the 19th century in the writings of Henry David Thoreau, Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner, Joseph Labadie, and ab
His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that ...
when General Franco crushed the Spanish revolution to end the civil war, today it is again possible to talk about an anarchist movement or movements. The origins of contemporary anarchism can be traced to 1968 when, to the delight and surprise of activists – and disappointment and incredulity ...