A review of an excellent comic version of Bakunin’s critique of Marxism.
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And the Nobel prize for economics goes to… Karl Marx
A sort article on the 2006 (non-)Nobel prize for economists going to Edmund Phelps basically repeating what socialists had argued as regards the role of unemployment in capitalism since at least Karl Marx
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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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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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