Synopses & Reviews
Drawing on decades of research, Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaging, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers, and more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by.
Bakuninist secret societies; the Internationals and the clash with Marx; the Illegalists, bombers and assassins; the mass trade unions; and of course, the Russian and Spanish Revolutions are all discussed through the prism of working people battling fiercely for a new world free of the shackles of Capital and the State.
Alexandre Skirda is the foremost anarchist theorist and activist writing in Europe today.
Also Available from AK Press:
No Gods, No Masters, Books One and Two
Book One: TP 16.95, 1-873176-64-3 • CUSA
Book Two: TP 16.95, 1-873176-69-4 • CUSA
Synopsis
Cultural Writing. Translated by Paul Sharkey. The finest single volume history of European Anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideaology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaged, opinionated and witty, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers, and more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by.
Synopsis
The finest single volume history of European Anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Skirda argues that the core problem for anarchists has been to create a revolutionary movement and envision a future society in which the autonomy of the individual is not compromised by the need to take collective action. How anarchists have grappled with that question in theory and practice make up the core of the book.
Synopsis
The finest single volume history of European Anarchism is finally available.
About the Author
Paul Sharkey is an accomplished translator. He has single-handedly made available a vast body of non-English language anarchist writings.