John Crump

Content by or about John Crump (1944-2005), writer and member of the groups Social Revolution and the Anarchist Communist Federation.

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Anarchism and Nationalism in East Asia

An exploration of the nationalistic character of anarchism in Korea in contrast to China and Japan. Originally published in Anarchist Studies 4 …

Review: A contribution to the Critique of Marx - Bob Dent

Bob Dent reviews John Crump's A Contribution to the Critique of Marx. This was first published in Libertarian Communist Review #2, and made available online by the struggle.ws website.

Not Quite an Anarchist

Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Maximilien Rubel, John Crump (editors)

In the nineteenth century, socialists as different as Marx and Kropotkin were agreed that socialism means a marketless, moneyless, wageless, classless, stateless world society. Subsequently this vision of non-market socialism has been developed by currents such as the anarcho-communists, impossibilists, council communists, Bordigists and Situationists. By tracing this development, this book challenges the…

The origins of socialist thought in Japan - John Crump

Socialism first gained a major foothold in Japan after the revolution and the subsequent Meiji…

Hatta Shūzō and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan - John Crump

A pioneering study of Japanese 'pure anarchism' between the wars focused on its principal…

State capitalism: the wages system under new management - Adam Buick & John Crump

Adam Buick and John Crump's book critiquing the post-revolutionary Russian and Chinese economies as…

Cover of "The Alternative To Capitalism" by Adam Buick and John Crump

The Alternative To Capitalism - Adam Buick and John Crump

E-book by Adam Buick and John Crump on capitalism and its revolutionary alternative.

Resignation letter - John Crump

John Crump's resignation letter from the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) in 1973. Written as he left the UK for Japan, he describes and critiques the two main currents (economic determinists and utopians) that existed in the organisation and its failure to respond to events in society.

Book review: Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan

A review of Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan by John Crump.

Review: Non-market socialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - The Red Menace

The Red Menace reviews Maximilien Rubel and John Crump's book, Non-Market Socialism in the…

Japanese anarchists

The anarchist movement in Japan, 1906-1996 - John Crump

John Crump's history of anarchism and the anarchist movement in Japan from the beginning of the 20th…