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2) Anarchism
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Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy, which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of anarchism (known as "anarchists") advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations.
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With the rise of the global protestor-from Arab Spring to the Occupy movement-the term "anarchist" has been littered throughout mainstream media as never before. But just as frequently, its definition is skewed or left wanting: anarchists are painted as nihilists, supporters of chaos, or even terrorists. In Order without Power, an informative primer, Normand Baillargeon thoroughly defines anarchism and recounts its long history. In outlining the forerunners...
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" C'est chimère d'attendre que l'Anarchie, idéal humain, puisse sortir de la République, forme gouvernementale. Les deux évolutions se font en sens inverse, et le changement ne peut s'accomplir que par une rupture brusque, c'est-à-dire par une révolution. C'est par décret que les républicains font le bonheur du peuple, par la police qu'ils ont la prétention de se maintenir ! Le pouvoir n'étant autre chose que l'emploi de la force, leur premier...
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Eliseo Reclus nos presenta en estas páginas cómo la gran evolución del mundo es la vida y en ella está la clave. Nos muestra cómo la revolución es evolución y esta, para serlo verdaderamente, necesita de la revolución.
Fue un destacado geógrafo y anarquista, gran caminante, escritor y luchador. Sus textos e investigaciones inspiraron a varios intelectuales, entre ellos a su amigo Julio Verne, el novelista, que apenas se movió de Francia,...
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Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons hired by Frick had opened fire on the Homestead strikers, killing men, women, and children. Berkman's...
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In arguably the most radical book published in decades, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he was always meant to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are opening...
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Today the word "anarchism" inspires both fear and fascination. But, few people understand what anarchists believe, what anarchists want, and what anarchists do. This incisive book puts forward the case for anarchism as a pragmatic philosophy.
Originally written in 1969 and updated for the twenty-first century, About Anarchism is an uncluttered, precise, and urgently necessary expression of practical anarchism. Crafted in deliberately simple prose...
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Amid the clashes, complexities, and political personalities of world politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Peter Kropotkin stands out. Born a prince in Tsarist Russia and sent to Siberia to learn his militaristic, aristocratic trade, he instead renounced his titles and took up the "beautiful idea" of anarchism. Across a continent, he would become known as a passionate advocate of a world without borders, without kings and...
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Regroupant le plus grand nombre de textes d'Emma Goldman traduits en français, cette anthologie compose un vibrant plaidoyer en faveur du syndicalisme révolutionnaire, de l'athéisme et de l'égalité entre les sexes, ainsi qu'une charge implacable contre le patriotisme et le puritanisme. Emma Goldman y prend entre autres la défense de la pédagogie anti-autoritaire de Francisco Ferrer, elle critique sévèrement le pouvoir bolchevique en Russie...
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Paris, avril 1850. Un jeune homme fait paraître ce qui peut être considéré comme le premier manifeste anarchiste de l'histoire. Publié dans le premier numéro de L'Anarchie. Journal de l'ordre, ce Manifeste constitue un virulent plaidoyer contre la farce électorale, la fourberie des partis politiques, ainsi qu'un vibrant appel à l'abstention généralisée.
On sait peu de choses du singulier personnage que fut Anselme Bellegarrigue (1813-1869),...
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El anarquismo fue una ideología que dio respuesta a la sociedad capitalista en el momento más álgido de su desarrollo en el siglo XIX, teniendo en su base una fuerte defensa de la libertad individual que llegaba hasta solicitar la desaparición del Estado. Las ideas libertarias, herederas de tradiciones de lucha antiautoritaria, representaron un nuevo modelo social, organizativo, económico y político que rivalizaba con otras corrientes del movimiento...
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Qu'est-ce que l'anarchie et que veulent les anarchistes ? Un humaniste curieux et désireux de comprendre interroge son fils, un militant anarchiste qui s'est penché sur le sujet.
Au fil de leur dialogue, les deux hommes remontent aux racines des notions d'anarchie et de démocratie. Ils évoquent certaines figures de l'anarchisme et les différents courants de ce mouvement révolutionnaire, tout en illustrant leurs propos d'exemples tirés...
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Five years after his death in 1972, Paul Goodman was, characterized by anarchist historian George Woodcock as "the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation." In this, new PM Press initiative, Goodman's literary executor Taylor Stoehr has gathered, together nine core texts from his anarchist legacy to future generations.
Here will be, found the "utopian essays and practical proposals" that inspired the dissident youth of the Sixties,...
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This volume is formed from a collection of memoirs discovered in 1898 at the University of Munich in Bavaria. Sebastian Pierre Drechsler was a student and eventually lecturer at Ingolstadt University between 1783 – 1800, before the faculty was closed down. He later went on to become Professor and then Director of History at Munich University until he retired in 1833. It is understood that the original memoirs were dictated by the scholar on his...
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Né en Algérie en 1894 et mort en banlieue parisienne en 1953, l'anarchiste kabyle Mohamed Saïl fut toute sa vie un infatigable militant antimilitariste, anticolonialiste et anticapitaliste. Insoumis et déserteur pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, il s'engagea sans hésiter dans la colonne Durruti lors de la guerre d'Espagne pour combattre les fascistes et participer à la révolution. Harcelé par la police, arrêté et emprisonné plusieurs...
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What impels someone to abandon middle-class privilege for the sake of revolution? In the 1960s, Meinhof began to see the world in increasingly stark terms: the United States was emerging as an unstoppable superpower, massacring a tiny country overseas despite increasingly popular dissent at home; and Germany appeared to be run by former Nazis. Never before translated into English, Meinhof's writings show a woman increasingly engaged in the major political...
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