Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

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Click here for orders in the UK & Europe. Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas is a comprehensive and far-ranging collection of anarchist writings from the classical era to 1939. Edited and introduced by noted anarchist scholar Robert Graham, this incomparable volume includes the definitive texts from the anarchist tradition of political thought. It deals both with the positive ideas and proposals the anarchists tried to put into practice and with their critiques of the authoritarian theories and practices confronting them.

ROBERT GRAHAM has written extensively on the history of anarchist ideas. He is the author of The Role of Contract in Anarchist Ideology, in For Anarchism, edited by David Goodway, and he wrote the introduction to the 1989 edition of Proudhon’s General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century, originally published in 1851. He has been doing research and writing on the historical development of anarchist ideas for over 20 years and is a well respected commentator in the field.

Robert Graham is an outstanding scholar of anarchism and has made an exceptionally stimulating choice of texts: some familiar, others–especially those from East Asia–entirely unknown to me. The publication of this first instalment of what promises to be a notable anthology is an important event for anarchists. - David Goodway, Anarchist Historian, University of Leeds, UK

Will definitely meet the need for a comprehensive study of all the strands, ideas and themes of anarchist and libertarian thought. - Stuart Christie, Anarchist Writer/Publisher

An excellent and long-overdue anthology of anarchist writings. It shows the depth, diversity and relevance of anarchist thought and action. Highly recommended. - Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

This judicious collection is admirable in its chronological, geographical, and thematic range. There is nothing comparable in presenting anarchist and libertarian responses both to the challenges of theory and to those of practices forged in the fires of historical crises. - Wayne Thorpe, The Workers Themselves: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913-1923

Admirably displays the range and inventiveness of anarchist approaches. - Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction and Anarchy in Action

Table of Contents

Preface

CHAPTER 1: EARLY TEXTS ON SERVITUDE AND FREEDOM

1. Bao Jingyan: Neither Lord Nor Subject (300 C.E.)

2. Etienne de la Boetie: On Voluntary Servitude (1552)

3. Gerrard Winstanley: The New Law of Righteousness (1649)

CHAPTER 2: ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION

1. William Godwin: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793-97)

2. Jean Varlet: The Explosion (1794)

3. Sylvain Marechal: Manifesto of the Equals (1796)

CHAPTER 3: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIALISM

1. Charles Fourier: Attractive Labour (1822-37)

2. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: What is Property (1840)

3. Proudhon: The System of Economic Contradictions (1846)

CHAPTER 4: REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS AND ACTION

1. Michael Bakunin, The Reaction in Germany (1842)

2. Max Stirner: The Ego and Its Own (1844)

3. Proudhon: The General Idea of the Revolution (1851)

4. Anselme Bellegarrigue: Anarchy is Order (1850)

5. Joseph Dejacque: The Revolutionary Question (1854)

6. Francisco Pi y Margall: Reaction and Revolution (1854)

7. Carlo Pisacane: On Revolution (1857)

8. Joseph Dejacque: On Being Human (1857)

CHAPTER 5: THE ORIGINS OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL

1. Proudhon: On Federalism (1863/65)

2. Statutes of the First International (1864-1866)

3. Bakunin: Socialism and the State (1867)

4. Bakunin: Program of the International Brotherhood (1868)

5. Bakunin: What is the State (1869)

6. Bakunin: The Illusion of Universal Suffrage (1870)

7. Bakunin: On Science and Authority (1871)

CHAPTER 6: THE CONFLICT IN THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL

1. Bakunin: The Organization of the International (1871)

2. The Sonvillier Circular (1871)

3. The St. Imier Congress (1872)

CHAPTER 7: THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR AND THE PARIS COMMUNE

1. Bakunin: Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (1870)

2. Bakunin: The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State (1871)

3. Louise Michel: In Defence of the Commune (1871)

4. Peter Kropotkin: The Paris Commune (1881)

CHAPTER 8: ANARCHIST COMMUNISM

1. Carlo Cafiero: Anarchy and Communism (1880)

2. Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread (1892)

3. Kropotkin: Fields, Factories and Workshops (1898)

4. Luigi Galleani: The End of Anarchism (1907)

CHAPTER 9: ANARCHY AND ANARCHISM

1. Jose Llunas Pujols: What is Anarchy (1882)

2. Charlotte Wilson: Anarchism (1886)

3. Elisee Reclus: Anarchy (1894)

4. Jean Grave: Moribund Society and Anarchy (1893)

5. Gustav Landauer: Anarchism in Germany (1895)

6. Kropotkin: On Anarchism (1896)

7. E. Armand: Mini-Manual of the Anarchist Individualist (1911)

CHAPTER 10: PROPAGANDA BY THE DEED

1. Paul Brousse: Propaganda By the Deed (1877)

2. Carlo Cafiero: Action (1880)

3. Kropotkin: Expropriation (1885)

4. Jean Grave: Means and Ends (1893)

5. Leo Tolstoy: On Non-violent Resistance (1900)

6. Errico Malatesta: Violence as a Social Factor (1895)

7. Gustav Landauer: Destroying the State by Creating Socialism (1910/15)

8. Voltairine de Cleyre: Direct Action (1912)

CHAPTER 11: LAW AND MORALITY

1. William Godwin: Of Law (1797)

2. Kropotkin: Law and Authority (1886)

3. Errico Malatesta: The Duties of the Present Hour (1894)

4. Kropotkin: Mutual Aid (1902) and Anarchist Morality (1890)

CHAPTER 12: ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM

1. The Pittsburgh Proclamation (1883)

2. Fernand Pelloutier: Anarchism and the Workers’ Unions (1895)

3. Antonio Pellicer Paraire: The Organization of Labour (1900)

4. The Workers’ Federation of the Uruguayan Region (FORU): Declarations from the 3rd Congress (1911)

5. Emma Goldman: On Syndicalism (1913)

6. Pierre Monatte and Errico Malatesta: Syndicalism - For and Against (1907)

CHAPTER 13: ART AND ANARCHY

1. Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

2. Bernard Lazare: Anarchy and Literature (1894)

3. Jean Grave: The Artist as Equal, Not Master (1899)

CHAPTER 14: ANARCHY AND EDUCATION

1. Bakunin: Integral Education (1869)

2. Francisco Ferrer: The Modern School (1908)

3. Sebastien Faure: Libertarian Education (1910)

CHAPTER 15: WOMEN, LOVE AND MARRIAGE

1. Bakunin: Against Patriarchal Authority (1873)

2. Louise Michel: Women’s Rights (1886)

3. Carmen Lareva: Free Love (1896)

4. Emma Goldman: Marriage (1897), Prostitution and Love (1910)

CHAPTER 16: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION

1. Voltairine de Cleyre: The Mexican Revolution (1911)

2. Praxedis Guerrero: To Die On Your Feet (1910)

3. Ricardo Flores Magon: Land and Liberty (1911-1918)

CHAPTER 17: WAR AND REVOLUTION IN EUROPE

1. Elisee Reclus: Evolution and Revolution (1891)

2. Tolstoy: Compulsory Military Service (1893)

3. Jean Grave: Against Militarism and Colonialism (1893)

4. Elisee Reclus: The Modern State (1905)

5. Otto Gross: Overcoming Cultural Crisis (1913)

6. Gustav Landauer: For Socialism (1911)

7. Malatesta: Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles (1914)

8. International Anarchist Manifesto Against War (1915)

9. Emma Goldman: The Road to Universal Slaughter (1915)

CHAPTER 18: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

1. Gregory Maksimov: The Soviets (1917)

2. All-Russian Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists: Resolution on Trade Unions and Factory Committees (1918)

3. Manifestos of the Makhnovist Movement (1920)

4. Peter Arshinov: The Makhnovshchina and Anarchism (1921)

5. Voline: The Unknown Revolution (1947)

6. Alexander Berkman: The Bolshevik Myth (1925)

7. Emma Goldman: The Transvaluation of Values (1923)

CHAPTER 19: ANARCHISM IN LATIN AMERICA

1. Comrades of the Chaco: Anarchist Manifesto (1892)

2. Manuel Gonzalez Prada: Our Indians (1904)

3. Rafael Barrett: Striving for Anarchism (1909/10)

4. Teodoro Antilli: Class Struggle and Social Struggle (1924)

5. Lopez Arango and Abad de Santillan: Anarchism in the Labour Movement (1925)

6. The American Continental Workers’ Association (1929)

CHAPTER 20: CHINESE ANARCHISM

1. He Zhen: Women’s Liberation (1907)

2. Chu Minyi: Universal Revolution (1907)

3. Wu Zhihui: Education as Revolution (1908)

4. Shifu: Goals and Methods of the Anarchist-Communist Party (1914)

5. Huang Lingshuang: Writings on Evolution, Freedom and Marxism (1917-29)

6. Li Pei Kan (Ba Jin): On Theory and Practice (1921-1927)

CHAPTER 21: ANARCHISM IN JAPAN AND KOREA

1. Kotoku Shusui: Letter from Prison (1910)

2. Osugi Sakae: Social Idealism (1920)

3. Ito Noe: The Facts of Anarchy (1921)

4. Shin Chaeho: Declaration of the Korean Revolution (1923)

5. Hatta Shuzo On Syndicalism (1927)

6. Kubo Yuzuru: On Class Struggle and the Daily Struggle (1928)

7. The Talhwan: What We Advocate (1928)

8. Takamure Itsue: A Vision of Anarchist Love (1930)

9. Japanese Libertarian Federation: What To Do About War (1931)

CHAPTER 22: THE INTERWAR YEARS

1. Gustav Landauer: Revolution of the Spirit (1919)

2. Errico Malatesta: An Anarchist Program (1920)

3. Luigi Fabbri: Fascism: The Preventive Counter-Revolution (1921)

4. The IWA: Declaration of the Principles of Revolutionary Syndicalism (1922)

5. The Platform and its Critics (1926-27)

6. Voline: Anarchist Synthesis

7. Alexander Berkman: The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1927)

8. Marcus Graham: Against the Machine (1934)

9. Wilhelm Reich and the Mass Psychology of Fascism (1935)

10. Bart de Ligt: The Conquest of Violence (1937)

11. Rudolf Rocker: Nationalism and Culture (1937)

CHAPTER 23: THE SPANISH REVOLUTION

1. Felix Marti Ibanez: The Sexual Revolution (1934)

2. Lucia Sanchez Saornil: The Question of Feminism (1935)

3. The CNT: Resolutions from the Zaragoza Congress (1936)

4. Diego Abad de Santillan: The Libertarian Revolution (1937)

5. Gaston Leval: Libertarian Democracy

6. Albert Jensen: The CNT-FAI, the State and Government (1938)

7. Diego Abad de Santillan: A Return to Principle (1938)

CHAPTER 24: EPILOGUE AND PROLOGUE TO VOLUME 2

1. Emma Goldman: A Life Worth Living (1934)

2. Herbert Read: Poetry and Anarchism (1938)

3. Malatesta: Toward Anarchy

2005: 536 pages, bibliography and index