A review of Goldman’s account of her experiences in Russia, plus a review of a classic collection of Kropotkin’s essays. Both contain much wisdom for modern revolutionaries.
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Review: Carlo Tresca
A review of an excellent biography by Nunzio Pernicone of leading American-Italian anarchist Carlo Tresca.
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Mutualism, yes and no
This was written in 2010 after a request from Shift Magazine for a communist-anarchist critique of mutualism. It focuses on Proudhon’s mutualism rather than the American version associated with Tucker (this is better termed Individualist Anarchism, I think). This was the immediate forerunner of revolutionary anarchism, specifically collectivist anarchism which later developed into communist anarchism, and shares much with it. Its title deliberately echoes Daniel Guérin’s Proudhon oui et non.
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The Economics of Anarchy
This is based on a talk give at the Radical Routes Conference “Practical Economics: radical alternatives to a failed economic system” on the 23rd May, 2009. Radical Routes is a network of co-operatives. It appeared in Black Flag (no. 230)
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The “science” of class warfare
An article on the “Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment” and how it is simply a rationale for class warfare (by the rich). Prompted by Edmund Phelps winning the (non-)Nobel prize for economics in October of 2006.
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