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Anarchism and Syndicalism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy. It calls for the abolition of the state which it holds to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful. Anarchy is often used as a synonym for chaos and destruction with anarchists seen as black-clad nihilists fomenting violence at peaceful protests.
The official declaration of Anarchist principals took place at the first International, held in Switzerland in 1872.
Syndicalism is a political and economic doctrine advocating control of the means and processes of production by organized bodies of workers. Like anarchists, syndicalists believe that any form of state is an instrument of oppression and that the state should be abolished. Viewing the trade union as the essential unit of production, syndacalists believe that trade unions should be the basic organizational unit of society. To achieve their aims, syndicalists advocate direct industrial action, such as general strikes, sabotage, work slowdowns, and otherwise disrupting the existing system of production. They eschew political action as both corruptive and self-defeating.
Anarchism entry at Wikipedia
"I am an Anarchist. No man who believes in force and violence is an Anarchist. The true Anarchist decries all influences save those of love and reason. Ideas are his only arms. Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist. Socialism is the antithesis of Anarchy. One is the North Pole of Truth, the other the South."
"The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, "Anarchism is a radical and idealistic theory, and completely impractical: As long as Stalins and Putins and Hitlers and Trumps are loose
'anarcho-syndicalism' entry at Wikipedia
Anarcho-Syndicalism Section on the I.W.W. Page
"An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do." — Robert LeFevre [1911-86]
— Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915], in 1901
and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist –
just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school."
— Peter Alexeievich Kropotkin [1842-1921], in "Anarchism: Its Philosophy & Ideal" [1898]
in the world, the battle to restore freedom and justice requires other strategies." — G.E. Nordell
Important Anarchist Leaders
Mikhail Bakunin [1814-76]
Bakunin: Socialism and the State (1867)
Bakunin: Program of the International Brotherhood (1868)
Bakunin: What is the State? (1869)
Bakunin: Integral Education (1869)
Bakunin: The Illusion of Universal Suffrage (1870)
Bakunin: Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (1870)
Bakunin: The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State (1871)
Bakunin: On Science and Authority (1871)
Bakunin: Against Patriarchal Authority (1873)
Alexander Berkman []
"The ABC of Communist Anarchism" (1927)
"A.B.C. of Anarchism" [1929] originally "What Is Communist Anarchism?"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre
"Anarchism & American Traditions" [1909]
http://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-American-Traditions-Voltairine-Cleyre-ebook/dp/B00TR9BRUW/
 | "An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre" [1978] by Paul Avrich, Foreword by Robert P. Helms Kindle Edition from A.K. Press [5/2018] for $14.99 A.K. Press 8½x5½ pb [5/2018] for $15.78 Princeton Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [9/78] out of print/used |
"The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader [Apr 1, 2004] edited by A. J. Brigati
http://www.amazon.com/Voltairine-Cleyre-Reader/dp/1902593871/
"Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre: Feminist, Anarchist, Genius [Feb 10, 2005]
http://www.amazon.com/Exquisite-Rebel-Voltairine-Feminist-Anarchist/dp/0791460940/
"Written-In-Red!: The Collected Writings of Voltairine de Cleyre [Oct 28, 2009]
http://www.amazon.com/Written-Red-Collected-Writings-Voltairine/dp/1449565654/
"Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind [Feb 11, 2010] by Eugenia C. DeLamotte
http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Freedom-Voltairine-Cleyre-Revolution-ebook/dp/B072JBFS3R/
http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Freedom-Voltairine-Cleyre-Revolution/dp/0472068679/
Diego Abad de Santillán [1897-1983] of Spain & Argentina
born Sinesio Vaudilio García Fernández in Spain; he was an anarcho-syndicalist activist, economist & author, and a leading figure in the Spanish & Argentine anarchist movements
Between December 1936 and April 1937 he served as Minister of the Economy (Conseller de Economía) for the Generalitat of Catalonia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Abad_de_Santill%C3%A1n
  | "El Organismo Económico de La Revolución (The Economic Organism of The Revolution)" [1936] by Diego Abad de Santillán, Introducción de Felix Garcia "The Economic Organism of The Revolution" [1936] was published in the name of the anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and later reissued under the title "After The Revolution: Economic Reconstruction In Spain Today" [1937] Zero ZYX Spanish-language mass pb [1978] out of print/used English text available online as .PDF file [1/2020] from Wessex anarchist group |
French pacifist & anarchist Sébastien Faure [1858-1942]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Faure
Emma Goldman [1869-1940]
Emma was an anarchist political activist and writer who played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy
in North America and Europe in the first half of the XXth Century.
http://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AGoldman+Emma&s=relevancerank = 240 titles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4521441/
"Marriage" (1897),
"Prostitution and Love" (1910)
"Anarchism and Other Essays" [Mother Earth Publishing Assn. 1910]
http://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-Other-Essays-1869-1940-Goldman/dp/1360263640/ Hardcover – August 24, 2016
"On Syndicalism" (1913)
"The Social Significance of the Modern Drama" [Gorham Press, 1914]
"The Road to Universal Slaughter" (1915)
"My Disillusionment In Russia" [Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923]
"My Further Disillusionment In Russia" [Doubleday, Page and Co. 1924]
"Living My Life" [Knopf, 1931]
"Voltairine de Cleyre" [Oriole Press, 1932]
"A Life Worth Living" (1934)
"Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches" [Random House, 1972] ISBN 0-394-47095-8
"Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1 – Made for America, 1890–1901" [Univ California Press, 2003] ISBN 0-520-08670-8
"Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2 – Making Speech Free, 1902–1909" [Univ California Press, 2004] ISBN 0-520-22569-4
"Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 3 – Light and Shadows, 1910–1916" [Stanford Univ Press, 2012] ISBN 0-8047-7854-X
"Emma Goldman: Revolution As A Way of Life (Jewish Lives)" [October 4, 2011] by Vivian Gornick
https://www.amazon.com/Emma-Goldman-Revolution-Jewish-Lives-ebook/dp/B005OQ6ONW/
https://www.amazon.com/Emma-Goldman-Revolution-Jewish-Lives/dp/0300137265/
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"Anarchism In America" documentary [1983] /tt0186820/
 | "Women In American History: Emma Goldman, An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman" [WGBH-TV/P.B.S. April 2004] American Experience Season 16, Episode 7; written, co-produced & directed by Mel Bucklin; narrated by Blair Brown; featuring Nathaniel Carlson & Kevin Lawler, with voices of Linda Emond & Denis O'Hare P.B.S. Direct color/b&w DVD [4/2004] for $16.98 series credits at IMDb • episode credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"Shouting Fire: Stories From The Edge of Free Speech" documentary [2009] /tt1333657/
"Good Enough For The People" 3-minute animated short [2011] /tt1974267/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VsOdGoN9RU 6/2011 teaser [0:35]
"The Revolutionary Life of Emma Goldman" episode of the "Ordinary Women" webseries
Directed & hosted by Anita Sarkeesian
watch full 9/2016 episode [5:50 online at YouTube
"Who Was Emma Goldman?" lecture by Dr. Henry Abramson
watch full 11/2016 lecture [53:41] online at YouTube
French anarcho-communist author Daniel Guérin [1904-88]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gu%C3%A9rin + Daniel Guerin, historian of the U.S. labor movement
"Anarchism: From Theory to Practice"
"No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism"
Pyotr Alexeievich Kropotkin [1842-1921] aka Pierre Kropotkine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin
Alexandra Kropotkin, English-born daughter of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin
"Words of A Rebel" [1885]
"Expropriation (1885)
"Law and Authority (1886)
"Anarchist Morality (1890)
"The Conquest of Bread" [1892]
 | "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal" lecture [circa 1896] by Peter Kropotkin Originally written as a lecture to be given in Paris, France in March 1896, but Kropotkin was detained at Dieppe and sent back to England; it seems that the lecture was rewritten in German in 1898 and translated into English with 12 chapter headings 64-page Kindle Edition from Anarcho-Communist Institute [11/2013] for $1.15 {sic} 32-page Univ Michigan Library 7¾x5½ pb [12/2007] for $11.99 read English version online at Panarchia website in Switzerland "L'Anarchie: Sa Philosophie, Son Ideal" [1896] 40-page Kindle Edition from unbranded [5/2014] for $1.99 60-page Univ Michigan Library 7x5 pb [10/2007] for $15.57 |
"On Anarchism (1896)
"Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" [1902]
"Modern Science and Anarchism" [1930]
Errico Malatesta []
"Anarchy" [1891]
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon [1809-65]
He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist (using that term) and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists.
"General Idea of The Revolution In The 19th Century" [1851]
"What Is Property" (1840)
"The System of Economic Contradictions" (1846)
anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti
Bartolomeo Vanzetti [1888-1927]
Nicola Sacco [1891-1927]
Books On The Subject
 | "Anarchy!: An Authentic Exposition of The Methods of Anarchists, and The Aims of Anarchism" [1908] by Peter Latouche original cover title: "Anarchy: Its Methods and Exponents" Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [9/2010] for $22.36 Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [9/2010] for $34.36 1908 edition available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
 | "Proposed Roads To Freedom: A Philosophy of Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism As Man’s Perfect Government and Society" [Allen & Unwin 1918] by Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] 'author weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism, and Syndicalism' ... 'advocating a kind of guild socialism over state communism or anarchism'; NOTE: unusual options: there are a dozen paperback versions set up on CreateSpace etc. with widely varying page counts; pb choice here is known publisher and 240 pages Kindle Edition from Reading Essentials [3/2019] for 99¢ Kindle Edition from Prabhat Prakashan [3/2017] for $1.00 Cosimo Classics 8x5 pb [10/2004] for $10.99 Binker North 9x6 hardcover [11/2019] for $16.99 |
 | "The Anarchist Encyclopedia" in 4 volumes [1934] by Sébastien Faure
initiated by French anarchist activist Faure, between 1925 and 1934 book entry at Wikipedia Volume 1 (a-d) is available as free French-language online flip-book at Internet Archive Volume 2 (e-l) is available as free French-language online flip-book at Internet Archive Volume 3 (m-par) is available as free French-language online flip-book at Internet Archive Volume 4 (parl-z) is available as free French-language online flip-book at Internet Archive French-language Book 1, A-C: Editions Des Equateurs 12x8½ pb [6/2012] for $24.27 French-language Book 2, D-H: Editions Des Equateurs 12x8½ pb [12/2014] for $19.56 |
 | "The Anarchist Encyclopedia" [1934] by Sébastien Faure, Translated & Abridged by Mitchell Abidor Kindle ABRIDGED Edition from A.K. Press [2/2019] for $20.90 {sic} A.K. Press ABRIDGED 9¼x6 pb [2/2019] for $22.00 |
 | "Anarchism, Volume One: From Anarchy To Anarchism, 300CE to 1939 (Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Series)" [1970] Edited by Robert Graham
Black Rose Books 9x6 pb [3/2005] for $28.99 Black Rose Books 9x6 hardcover [1970] for $57.99 |
 | "Anarchy, State & Utopia" [1974] by Robert Nozick [1938-2002] winner of the 1975 National Book Award Basic Books 9¼x6 pb [10/77] for $22.50 "Understanding Utopia and The Natural Rights In Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State & Utopia: A Fresh New Perspective" [2006] by Cristian Ionut Vasilescu Kindle Edition from BookSurge Publng [5/2014] for $24.00 {sic} BookSurge Publng 8x5¼ pb [5/2006] for $24.00 |
 | "Socialism, Anarchism, and Feminism" [1978] by Carol Ehrlich Black Bear pb [1978] out of print/used |
 | "Demanding The Impossible: A History of Anarchism" [1991] by Peter H. Marshall
Kindle Edition from P.M. Press [12/2009] for $17.49 P.M. Press 8½x5½ pb [12/2009] for $26.05 HarperCollins hardcover [5/91] out of print/used |
 | "Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America" [1995] by Paul Avrich
180 interviews conducted by Avrich over a period of 30 years, grouped in six sections: 1) Pioneers (Kropotkin, Rocker); 2) Emma Goldman; 3) Sacco & Vanzetti; 4) Schools & Colonies; 5) Ethnic Anarchists; 6) 1920s & After; includes firsthand recollections about Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco & Vanzetti, as well as self-proclaimed 'philosophical anarchist' Roger N. Baldwin, co-founder of the ACLU; historian Daniel Guerin; socialist Albert Boni, publisher of Modern Library classics; and Dwight Macdonald, who launched the journal Politics in 1944 A.K. Press 9x6 pb [6/2005] for $28.00 Princeton Univ Press 9¾x6¾ hardcover [1995] out of print/used |
 | "Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide" [2005] by Ruth Kinna Kindle Edition from Oneworld Publns [2nd edition 12/2012] for $5.99 Oneworld Publns 7¾x5 pb [10/2009] for $15.09 Oneworld Publns 8½x6 pb [8/2005] for $8.84 |
 | "Anarchism, Volume Two: The Emergence of A New Anarchism, 1939 to 1977 (Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Series)" [2007] Edited by Robert Graham
Black Rose Books 9x6 pb [10/2007] for $28.99 Black Rose Books 9x6 pb [2/2008] for $49.32 Black Rose Books 9x6 hardcover [11/2007] out of print/used |
 | "Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement In New York City, 1880-1914" [2007] by Tom Goyens Univ Illinois Press 9x6 pb [10/2014] for $28.00 Univ Illinois Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2007] for $44.00 |
 | "Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations On Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History" [2008] by Staughton Lynd & Andrej Grubacic, Introduction by Denis O'Hearn Kindle Edition from P.M. Press [9/2008] for $9.92 Oakland P.M. Press 8x5 pb [9/2008] for $15.00 |
 | "Anarchism For Beginners" [2008] by Marcos Mayer, Illustrated by Sanyú Kindle Edition from For Beginners [12/2008] for $14.20 For Beginners 9x6 pb [12/2008] for $14.95 |
 | "Anarchism, Volume Three: The New Anarchism, 1974 to 2012 (Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Series)" [2012] Edited by Robert Graham
Black Rose Books 9x6 pb [6/2012] for $28.99 Black Rose Books 9x6 pb [6/2012] out of print/used |
 | "We Do Not Fear Anarchy · We Invoke It: The First International and The Origins of The Anarchist Movement" [2015] by Robert Graham
Kindle Edition from A.K. Press [6/2015] for $15.99 A.K. Press 9x6 pb [7/2015] for $21.00 |
 | "The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism" [2019] by Ruth Kinna Kindle Edition from Pelican Books [8/2019] for $13.49 Pelican Books mass pb [8/2020] for $13.85 Pelican Books 8¾x5¾ hardcover [11/2019] for $17.21 |
Movies & TV On The Subject
"No God, No Master" [Monterey Media March 2014]
 | tagline "Fear Justice Freedom Anarchy" • An F.B.I. agent is assigned to find out who is causing anarchist violence in America; plot elements include the Ludlow Massacre, Sacco & Vanzetti, the I.W.W. labor union, and the bombings of the Los Angeles Times and of Wall Street • Co-produced, written & directed by Terry Green; starring David Strathairn, Ray Wise {as A. Mitchell Palmer}, Sam Witwer, Alessandro Mario {as Bartolomeo Vanzetti}, Edoardo Ballerini, James Madio {as Nicola Sacco}, Mariana Klaveno, Sean McNall {as J. Edgar Hoover}, Mariann Mayberry {as Emma Gold-man}, Paul Iacono, Andrea Grano, Mario Di Donato, David Darlow {as John D. Rockefeller Sr.}, Gino Sciortino, Alice Wedoff, Tom Groenwald, Gary Houston, Mike Bacarella, Marco Garcia, Michael Herold, Daniel Mooney, Kara Zediker, Jonathan Wainwright, Max Scharrer, Genevieve Pritchard, James Pickering {as Judge Thayer}, Arturo De La Mesa, Adam Jennings, David Crane, Richard Ganoung, Tom Bruno, Lee Ernst, Danny Feltman, Bryson Langer, Jon Maciaso-wicz, Vito Roppo, John Sanders, Claire-Elizabeth Van Fossen, Scott Annala, Paul Bertling, Dan Cotrone, David Crane, Jeff DuJardin, Darren Elliot Fulsher, Kimberly K. Grauer
Monterey Media widescreen color Blu- ray [6/2016] for $19.95 Monterey Media widescreen color DVD [5/2014] for $12.00 full credits at IMDb • official distributor website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 3/2014 official trailer [2:33] online at YouTube |
"No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism, 1840-1945 (Ni Dieu, Ni Maître: Une Histoire de L'Anarchisme)"
[A.R.T.E. TV France April 2017]
| 2½-hour documentary film; 2 parts in France, 3 parts in USA • Co-produced & directed by Tancrede Ramonet; written by Patrick Barbéris; narrated by Redjep Mitrovitsa & Audrey Vernon; archive footage & photos of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Emma Goldman, Joe Hill, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, Leo Tolstoy • credits at IMDb •
official homepage
Icarus Films color DVD [11/2017] for $22.99 Part One: The Passion For Destruction (1840-1906) explores how anarchism emerged from the horrendous social conditions facing workers at a time when industrialization was, paradoxically, providing better hygiene and social standards for the upper class. Early anarchist thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon declared that property was theft.
Part Two: Land and Freedom (1907-1921) looks at differing strains within the anarchist movement during the peak of its popularity when it seemed, for a time, that the dream of anarchist revolution might come to pass.
Part Three: In Memory of The Vanquished (1922-1945) traces the appropriation of anarchism by communists and of anarchist symbol-ism by European fascists. This turbulent period left anarchists in disarray, with nowhere to turn politically as WWII loomed. The old anarchism was doomed, leaving the question whether a new form will arise.
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Director Tancrede Ramonet interviewed Noam Chomsky for his "NGNM" documentary in Boston, USA; portions of that interview were posted
to YouTube in July 2018; Chomsky speaks in English, the intertitles are in French •
watch video [27:42] online at YouTube
Other Media
Anarchy Links
Robert Graham's Anarchism Weblog
The N.Y.C. Anarchist Book Fair [est. 2007] in September - now virtual ONLY
Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair / ROAR Conference [#24 = March 2020 »» postponed!] in Oakland, California
Boston Anarchist Bookfair [#9 = Nov 2019]
London Anarchist Bookfair [est. 1983] in London, England
Montréal Anarchist Book Fair / Salon du Livre Anarchiste de Montréal [est. 2009] in Montréal, Québec, Canada
Victoria, BC Anarchist Bookfair in British Columbia, Canada
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