Anarchist reading materials request

Go to forums home page and then anarchism and activism forum and there is a couple of links to Anarchopedia and AFAQ (anarchist frequently asked questions). In the bibliography the AFAQ quotes many pamphlets, books and people that you can then search on the internet. You can also go to a number of book sites and purchase a copy of some of those books.

 

Also go to this torrent http://onebigtorrent.org
It has a number of selected anarchist works.

Including this full address
http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/5886/ ... -Socialism

 

I'd highly recommend Chomsky's "Anarchism", a compilation of writing on the subject put together by AK press. It's absolutely incredible, although if you're really into his work you might already have most of it as the material has been published in different formats. I'd also highly recommend "Demanding the Impossible" by Peter Marshall, it has a few flaws and errors, but you really can't beat it for a thorough history of Anarchism from it's precursors in Hellenic and Asian philosophy to modern day. Daniel Guerin's "Anarchism" is also quite good.

 

in the german language Horst Stowassers "Anarchie" is considerd a rahter important overview, but I guess it isn't translated to english or hard to get... don't know.

 

Go here as well http://theanarchistlibrary.org

 

Ungovernable's list was excellent. From the classics, I'd also like to add Emma Goldman, who was well ahead of her male peers on so, so many issues, including the critique of patriachy, gay rights, the importance of art and culture to revolutionary strugle and so on and so on. Her autobiography, Living My Life, is a superb synthesis of politics and narrative, and her various collections of essays are most enlightening. In fact, from a feminist perspective, Mother Brown is also a key, but under-recorded figure in American anarchist history. She was one of the great union leaders and theorists, but, of course, phalocentric histories ignore her.

The key anarchist revolutionary 'moments' in the western tradition include the Ukranian revolution, the Spanish Civil war and the Paris Commune. Reading about any of these will be profitable. My particular area of interest in anarchist history is that of radical movements in my own country, England, during our own revolution in the 17th century. Cristopher Hill's book The World Turned Upside Down is the best geberal account of this I know, and all of the works of Gerard Winstandley (the most radical theorist of the age) are excellent if you can filter out the veneer of religious language.

There are so many incredible anarchist writers, its impossible to start to name them all, especially since I don't even know most of them. One who I am curently reading, and am greatly impressed by is Grubacic, a sociologist who analyses the recent history of the Balkans, (where he is from) and international labour history, especially the IWW.