anarchism
Articles about anarchism, a political ideology based on mutual aid, solidarity and the abolition of the state.
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism
This paper was written for and presented to the Conference on Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin organized by the Russian Academy of Science on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
The conference was held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Dimitrov on December 8 - 14, 1992. It was the first such conference to be held on Russian soil since the Revolution in 1917.
by Harry Cleaver
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism Options
The Chinese anarchist movement
A history of the Chinese anarchist movement in France, Japan and China itself from 1900 up to the formation of the Chinese Communist Party.
R. Scalapino and G.T. Yu.
Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, 1961
Contents
Editor's Note
Preface
The Origins of Chinese Anarchism
Anarchism and the Nationalist Revolution
The Work-Study Movement
The Anarchist Conflict With Marxism
Editor's Footnote
Editor’s Note
Left-Wing Communism in Britain 1917-21...An Infantile Disorder? - Bob Jones
A survey of the anti-parliamentarist communist movement in Britain during and after WWI, and the effects of Comintern/Bolshevik directives on the efforts at organisational unity.
Lenin's famous manual of reformism, "Left Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder(1920), which directed Communists to work within parliament and existing labour unions, was partly a response to British anti-parliamentarism.
Communism - Story of the Communist Party - Guy A. Aldred
Aldred's summary of the development of the official communist movement and of its external radical communist critics contains a wealth of detail.
[b]Published during World War II, it illustrates how Russian political intervention in China and Europe served Russian foreign policy interests and so worked against the possibilities of proletarian revolution.
Freedom Teaching: Anarchism and Education in Early Republican Cuba, 1898-1925
Like so many of their fellow residents on the island, Cuban anarchists quickly grew disillusioned after independence from Spain in 1898. They agitated towards social revolution, but believed these efforts would be, if not useless, then at least less effective if the people were not educated.
Consequently, anarchists saw education as an essential revolutionary tool to raise the consciousness of the popular classes.
This article focuses on two distinct eras of Cuban anarchist education (1898-1912 and 1922-1925) within the context of Cuban education generally and the island’s anarchist movement specifically.
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Counter-revolution and the Soviet Union - Gregori Maximov
Short essay by famous Russian anarchist, Gregori Maximov, on the defeat of the 1917 revolution by counter-revolution from within.
Taken from the Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library, No. 14 (March 1998), can also be found on the KSL website here.
Anarchism in South Africa - An interview with Michael Schmidt of the ZACF, 2007
The ZACF is one of the most active libertarian formations in the southern part of the African continent. In order to better understand its history, its intervention in southern African society and the fights which it impels and supports, AL interviewed one of its militants, Michael Schmidt.
Anarchism in South Africa
An interview with Michael Schmidt of the ZACF
by Alternative Libertaire
Alternative Libertaire: Could you tell briefly in which conditions/context and how Zabalaza, and then the ZACF, were built?
Interview with a member of libcom.org, 2007
A critical interview by Wayne Foster of Steven Johns from the libcom group, about the libcom.org project and the general state of things.
Libcom.org is a constantly expanding online resource that seeks to promote working class self-organisation through publishing news, theoretical texts and historical articles. Site traffic has risen from 25-35,000 visits per month in 2005 to 110-170,000 now and there are now 2,600 active users.
Notes on Bakunin's book 'Statehood and Anarchy' - Karl Marx
Marx responds to Bakunin's criticisms of Marx and Marxism. Marx's comments were written at the end of 1874 as he read Bakunin's book as part of his efforts to learn Russian and to study Russian society.
Marx's late writings on the Russian 'mir' (peasant commune) were influenced by Bakunin's descriptions of communal peasant society in 'Statehood and Anarchy'.
From Volume 24 of 'Marx & Engels - Collected Works'; Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1989.
Repression as state strategy - A Murder of Crows
Repression is a topic that is often discussed in the revolutionary milieu, but unfortunately it is a subject that is not well understood.
Because of democratic baggage, repression is often understood as simply an anomalous and outrageous violation of rights. What people fail to comprehend is that repression is part of the standard operating procedure of any class society. There are those that rule and those who are ruled, and to maintain this divide, a combination of coercion and accommodation is necessary.
