Anarchist state theory

Submitted by klas batalo on May 3, 2016

Couldn't find a dedicated thread through search function.

Anyone care to help me research or link dump articles from libcom or elsewhere about anarchist theories of the state?

augustynww

8 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by augustynww on May 3, 2016

https://libcom.org/forums/theory/anarchisms-conception-state-switzerland-24012013

https://libcom.org/forums/theory/state-anarchist-marxist-approaches-24092010

https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-state-praxis-contemporary-antisystemic-social-movements

https://libcom.org/library/anarchist-faq-v-1
(B.2 Why are anarchists against the state?)

https://libcom.org/library/state-its-historic-role-peter-kropotkin

Steven.

8 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on May 3, 2016

This is our intro to the state: https://libcom.org/library/state-introduction

at the bottom there is some further reading with hyperlinks, copied here:
More information
• Private property, exclusion and the state -Junge Linke - Brief article examining the role the state plays in capitalist society.
• The state: Its historical role - Peter Kropotkin - A classic anarchist test examining the state's role in society.
• The state in capitalist society - Ralph Miliband - Excellent book analysing the nature of the state and how it cannot be used in workers' interests (not online unfortunately).
• Capital and the state - Gilles Dauvé - More detailed libertarian communist analysis of the state.
• Marxism, freedom and the state - Mikhail Bakunin - A collection of writings of the Russian anarchist with comments on the state which were sadly proved accurate with the experiences of state socialist revolutions.
• The Bolsheviks and workers' control -Solidarity - A detailed examination of the anti-working class policies of the Bolsheviks in the earliest days of the Russian revolution.
• Labouring in vain -Subversion - A critical history of the Labour Party from a working-class perspective.

We would like to have a State reading guide (like this one: https://libcom.org/library/france-1968-reading-guide), so if anyone would like to compile all these links into a guide for our reading guides section we would really appreciate it!

augustynww

8 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by augustynww on May 6, 2016

Steven.

• The state in capitalist society - Ralph Miliband - Excellent book analysing the nature of the state and how it cannot be used in workers' interests (not online unfortunately).

It's in your library
https://libcom.org/library/state-capitalist-society-ralph-miliband

Steven.

8 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on May 6, 2016

augustynww

Steven.

• The state in capitalist society - Ralph Miliband - Excellent book analysing the nature of the state and how it cannot be used in workers' interests (not online unfortunately).

It's in your library
https://libcom.org/library/state-capitalist-society-ralph-miliband

ha ha whoops, yes I put that up myself, I didn't realise we haven't updated the intro which I just copied and pasted from. I'll do that this weekend, unless anyone else has time to go edit it in beforehand