A review of an excellent book leading Primatologist Frans de Waal which confirms Kropotkin’s views on mutual aid and ethics. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 58 (Summer 2012)
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Review: Two Cheers for Anarchism
Review of the late anthropologist James C. Scott’s book on anarchism. An interesting work by someone who was not quite an anarchist but appreciated it, its useful and potential. Appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 64/5 (Summer 2015)
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Review: The Next Revolution
A review of a posthumously published collection of essays by once leading anarchist Murray Bookchin. It discusses his break with anarchism in 1999 and how he spent the final years of his life destroying his own legacy. The collection itself includes pre- and post-break articles, showing the similarities in his ideas as well as their limitations.
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Review: Whither Anarchism?
Review of a pamphlet on the state of the anarchist movement in America. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 78 (Winter 2020)
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Review: Black Flame
A short review of Black Flame which, in general, is very good. I have my disagreements with it, particularly on its inclusion of Marxist-syndicalists into the wider anarchist tradition and exclusion of Proudhon. This was written before the revelation that Michael Schmidt had ties to white nationalism. Needless to say, the book itself shows no signs of that and remains a good, if flawed, account of class struggle anarchism.
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