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.
Category: Anarchists
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Louise Michel: “If you are not cowards, kill me!”
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Review: Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis
A review of the book Albert Parson produced while in prison awaiting execution after the Haymarket police riot of 1886. An essential introduction to the ideas of the Chicago Anarchists.
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Review: A Critique of State Socialism
A review of an excellent comic version of Bakunin’s critique of Marxism.
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Will the real Bakunin please stand up?
A reply to Leninists distortions about Bakunin. Includes a summary of his key anarchist ideas and anarchism’s key difference with Leninism.
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Review: Statism and Anarchy
A review of Bakunin’s only published book, Statism and Anarchy (1873). It is most famous for its prescient critique of Marxism as either producing reformism or tyranny.
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