libertarian communism
Articles about libertarian or anti-state communism.
The Immorality of the State
The Immorality of the State
by Mikhail Bakunin [1814-1876]
Ethics: Morality of the State
The Theory of Social Contract.
Founding of the Worker's International
Founding of the Worker's International
by Mikhail Bakunin 1814-1876
From "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin" by G.P. Maximoff 1953, The Free Press, NY
Awakening of Labor on the Eve of the International. In 1863 and 1864, the years of the founding of the International, in nearly all of the countries of Europe, and especially those where modern industry had reached its highest development - in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland - two facts made themselves manifest, facts which facilitated and practically made mandatory the creation of the International.
Revolutionary Catechism
A programmatic statement of 1866 (not to be confused with Nechayev's notorious Catechism).
As We See It / Don't See It
By Solidarity London, it is an introduction to the ideas and activity of the group Solidarity. As We See It is followed by As We Don't See It, a series of clarifications and explanations published later, and later revisions to both.
These texts were taken from the on-line Solidarity and Subversion archive at af-north.org
Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft)
In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Dielo Trouda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet (also known as the 'Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists') on organisation based on their experiences in the 1917 Russian revolution.
It arose not from some academic study but from their concrete experiences in the revolution. They had taken part in the overthrow of the old ruling class, had been part of the blossoming of workers' and peasants' self- management, had shared the widespread optimism about a new world of socialism and freedom...
Manifesto of Libertarian Communism - Georges Fontenis
The 'Manifesto of Libertarian Communism' was written in 1953 by Georges Fontenis for the Federation Communiste Libertaire of France. It is one of the key texts of the anarchist-communist current.
It was preceeded by the best work of Bakunin, Guillaume, Malatesta, Berneri, the organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists written by Makhno, Arshinov and Matt, which sprang from the defeats of the Russian Revolution, and the the statements of the Friends of Durruti, also a result of another defeat, that of the Spanish Revolution.
Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement
A book by Francois Martin and Jean Barrot (AKA Giles Dauve), quite influential since the 1970s in the English-speaking world of radical theory. A restatement of communist revolution as self-organised class struggle - that abolishes markets, states and classes.
Original edition published by Black and Red, Detroit 1974.
This revised edition published by Antagonism Press, London 1997.
