A review of a pamphlet on the lessons of the First International written by Mark Leier whose excellent biography of Bakunin is recommended.
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Review: Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition
A review of a flawed account of Kropotkin’s ideas which does not include recent research. It appeared in Anarchist Studies, Volume 26 Number 1 (Spring 2018)
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Voltairine De Cleyre: Her revolutionary ideas and legacy
A review and evaluation of Voltairine De Cleyre’s politics, showing why modern radicals would gain from reading her. It uses three recently published books of her writings to discuss her ideas and their evolution from an individual to a communist anarchist and how it related to changes in North American anarchism. An important figure in Anarchist history whose ideas are of interest today, particularly as we still suffer from the patriarchy, capitalism and statism she opposed.
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Louise Michel: “If you are not cowards, kill me!”
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A review of a book on that remarkable anarchist activist, Louise Michel. Sadly marred by an obvious, and utterly unnecessary, bias for Marxism, it fails to do justice to her ideas and her life. -
Review: A Critique of State Socialism
A review of an excellent comic version of Bakunin’s critique of Marxism.
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