Answers of most questions on anarchism

I'm just going to hop in your thread and reccomend the new book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, came out a few weeks ago from South Africa, and it's pretty cash.

 

I don't mean to turn your thread into a book club, but id like to recommend a book as well its called "Ishmael" its not on anarchy really but is very thought provoking (first book i ever read that made me seriously question society) and brings up some interesting points about mythology its relation to sustainability among other things Go read the book!!!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7829408/Danie ... el-English
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7829413/Danie ... My-Ishmael <--- prequel covers society based theories such as education systems

 

"No Gods No Masters" by Daniel Guerin
"The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin
"Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker
"Anarchism: A Documentary History" by Robert Graham (3 volumes)
"The Ecology of Freedom" by Murray Bookchin

oh and YES to Malatesta!

 

Anarchism and other essays by emma goldman (easy to find as a download audiobook)

 

holy shit! thanks for the link Saering! i've been trying, unsuccessfully, to find a copy of Ishmael to boost this past week... you've saved me the trouble! thanks again

 

I'd also like to recommend Black Flame.
Whilst I've only read some of the introductory chapters so far, its a really good read, especially as its a contemporary text. Its fantastic in the way in which it demonstrates that Anarchism as a political idea and practice was created due to the needs of the newly formed working classes during the early stages of industrialisation and capitalism.
Its, in my opinion, super important to be mindful that anarchist political practice should be (and is) determined by the economic and social conditions society finds itself in, and anarchists must tailor their actions to ending the specific forms that class divisions and hierarchy exist and are maintained within culturally varied and a constantly changing sociopolitical landscape, even if it is still broadly Capitalism.

The first volume i don't think sets out to offer solutions to 'advanced' capitalism/current capitalism, rather just place Anarchism historically (although i may be wrong), I'd love if the second edition dealt with Anarchist organising in a casualised workforce, the unemployed, underemployed, the role of 'identity' politics, environment, indigenous struggles, etc

My only issue is the authors disregard some authors as 'non-anarchists' because they differ in their view on class slightly from the authors. Thus, Bookchin isn't an anarchist, because he wrote that middle class students were more radical, in the US circa-1968, then the working class at that time (i kinda read his writings at the time to say that the students were more radical then the Trot parties and union bureaucrats at the time, which is nearly always true).

sorry

Malatesta's 'Life and Ideas' is a super good read too.

 

Just a question...
What the FUCK do they rest of us do?
Am I the only person who has trouble reading this stuff?
I know I know I'm a stupid kid, but I'm sure their are others like myself, we aren't ALL scholarly anarchist, but a lot of us have spirit, so my question is what do WE do. how do we learn?
Sorry for sounding angry, I just kind of am, it seems you can't get anywhere with anything without being a genius.

 

To make myself more clear, I'm saying that there are some people who can yeah, mabye read the stuff but it's just so much and doesn't make sense. I don't know if that makes sense, but I thought I'd help clarify.

 

Will do! \m/

 

http://libcom.org/tags/errico-malatesta

 

The Anarchist FAQ is the most reliable . It answers almost every question from how the economic structure of an anarchist will work to how social life will go on .

here is the link:
http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnAnarchistFAQ