libertarian communism
Articles about libertarian or anti-state communism.
Communism And Its Tactics - Sylvia Pankhurst
Pankhurst's communist vision - from her Workers' Dreadnought newspaper of 1921.
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism - Fredy Perlman
An excellent analysis by the late Fredy Perlman of the enduring appeal of nationalism to statist rulers of both left and right.
This essay originally appeared in the Winter, 1984 Fifth Estate, and is also available as a pamphlet published by Black & Red.
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom - Fredy Perlman
Drawing on his personal experiences and family history, Perlman dissects the disturbing irony in the use of the Holocaust as justification for Zionist state brutality.
The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society
This pamphlet is the second printing of an expanded version of an article that appeared in a 1970 issue of "Libertarian Analysis". It is the first pamphlet published by "Soil of Liberty". A second pamphlet, "A Critique of Marxism", also by Sam Dolgoff, is also available ($0.55). Bulk rates are available for both.
Misconceptions of Anarchism
(This talk discussed the main principles of constructive anarchism.)
Anarchism Is Not Absolute Anti-social Individualism
The Beast of Property
The Beast of Property
The Network of Struggles in Italy
The Network of Struggles in Italy
Romano Alquati
**This summary omits the detailed discussion of Italy, concentrating on the concepts deployed. The order of composition has not been re-arranged.[Html editor's note: this summary of Alquati was prepared by a member of the Orford Road Group in England in the early 1970s for those unable to read the original Italian. The Group was at that time in the midst of studying and interrelating both the class struggle in England and recent theoretical developments in Italian Marxism. The formatting below follows the orginal as closely as the html editor allows.]
Communism and Anarchy
Communism and Anarchy
by Peter Kropotkin
Freedom: July (p30)/August (p38) 1901
Reprinted in Small Communal Experiments and Why They Fail
Many Anarchists and thinkers in general, whilst recognising the immense advantages which Communism may offer to society, yet consider this form of social organisation a danger to the liberty and free development of the individual. This danger is also recognised by many Communists, and, taken as a whole, the question is merged in that other vast problem which our century has laid bare to its fullest extent: the relation of the individual to society. The importance of this question need hardly be insisted upon.
Advice to Those About to Emigrate
Advice to Those About to Emigrate
by Peter Kropotkin
Freedom: March 1893 p14
Reprinted in Small Communal Experiments and Why They Fail
From Articles for El Progress
The following are letters taken from a series of articles Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin wrote in the spring of 1869 for the journal El Progress of Geneva
