A review of an excellent collection of writings by Maurice Brinton, a leading British libertarian socialist of the 1960s and 1970s. A second edition was published in 2020.
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Libertarian: Its Origins, Use and (attempted) Arrogation
The introduction to the four-volume anthology A Libertarian Reader. It includes a host of writings from all the schools of libertarian socialism, including Social and Individual Anarchism, Syndicalism, Guild Socialism, Council Communism, Situationism and Autonomism. It covers the years 1857 (when libertaire was coined) to 2016.
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Review: Towards A Libertarian Socialism
A review of a collection of writings by G.D.H. Cole, a leading Guild Socialist in Britain before the First World War. They show that while he moved to a more Labourite position, he retained his libertarian views to a large degree. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, No. 85 (Spring 2022)
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Review: Private Government
A review of an academic’s book on the private hierarchies associated with capitalism, showing its lack of engagement with the anarchist tradition and unwillingness to draw obvious conclusions in terms of advocating workers’ control. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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Propertarianism and Fascism
An account of the links between propertarianism (right-wing “libertarians”) and fascism. Both are authoritarian ideologies with the advocates of the former supporting the latter regularly. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalism Review No. 75 (Winter 2019)
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