Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution

Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution
Author: P. A. Kropotkin
Publisher: Mit Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1970
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780262610100

The selection is designed to reveal such fundamental conceptions as Kropotkin'sinterpretation of the role of anarchism in modern history, his criticism of capitalism, his theoryof revolution, and his views of the ideals to be realized in the postrevolutionary society of thefuture.

Anarchism

Anarchism
Author: Peter Kropotkin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0486119866

Includes "Law and Authority," arguing social control through custom and education, and "Prisons and Their Moral Influence on Prisoners," expressing the evils of the prison system, and other documents.

Anarchy, Geography, Modernity

Anarchy, Geography, Modernity
Author: Elisée Reclus
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1604868988

Anarchy, Geography, Modernity is the first comprehensive introduction to the thought of Elisée Reclus, the great anarchist geographer and political theorist. It shows him to be an extraordinary figure for his age. Not only an anarchist but also a radical feminist, anti-racist, ecologist, animal rights advocate, cultural radical, nudist, and vegetarian. Not only a major social thinker but also a dedicated revolutionary. The work analyzes Reclus’ greatest achievement, a sweeping historical and theoretical synthesis recounting the story of the earth and humanity as an epochal struggle between freedom and domination. It presents his groundbreaking critique of all forms of domination: not only capitalism, the state, and authoritarian religion, but also patriarchy, racism, technological domination, and the domination of nature. His crucial insights on the interrelation between personal and small-group transformation, broader cultural change, and large-scale social organization are explored. Reclus’ ideas are presented both through detailed exposition and analysis, and in extensive translations of key texts, most appearing in English for the first time.

Fugitive Writings

Fugitive Writings
Author: Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1993
Genre: Anarchism
ISBN: 9781895431421

These essays, which either have not been previously published or have been out of print since their original publication, embrace Kropotkin's philosophy at a time when he was struggling to first give it expression.

Anarchism, Revolution, and Reaction

Anarchism, Revolution, and Reaction
Author: Angel Smith
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781845451769

The period from 1898 to 1923 was a particularly dramatic one in Spanish history; it culminated in the violent Barcelona "labor wars" and was only brought to a close with the coup d'état launched by the Barcelona Captain General, Miguel Primo de Rivera, in September 1923. In his detailed examination of the rise of the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist-led labor movement, the author blends social, cultural and political history in a novel way. He analyses the working class "from below" and the policies of the Spanish State towards labor "from above." Based on an in-depth usage of primary sources, the authors provides an unrivalled account of Catalan labor and the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist movement and thus makes an important contribution to our understanding of early twentieth-century Spanish history.