A talk given in Glasgow to mark the 150th anniversary of Bakunin’s death. As usual, this write-up reflects what I wanted to say rather than what was actually said but it is close enough.
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Praxis, lacking: On The Communist Manifesto and its historical context
This review of China Miéville’s book on the Communist Manifesto was written for the Marxist group Platypus. I was asked due to my speech The 1848 Revolutions: An Anarchist Perspective. Suffice to say, more could have been written but that speech plus the few links I’ve added to the text should help flesh out the arguments made.
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Anarchism, Marxism and the lessons of the Commune
A discussion of the Paris Commune and its legacy from an anarchist perspective, indicating how it influenced both Anarchism and Marxism. It shows that anarchism alone has learnt its lessons and that Marxism, particularly in its Leninist form, paid lip-service to it while ignoring both its actual politics and its lessons.
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Anarchist Theory – Use it or Lose it
A talk given to the London Anarchist bookfair in 2011 on why anarchists should be proud of our ideas.
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Precursors of Syndicalism IV
A discussion of the Anarchist-Communist Critique of revolutionary syndicalism. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 78 (Winter 2020)
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