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Free Download Victor Robinson, Henry Glasse, "The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution – An Address Delivered in Paris: With an Excerpt from Comrade Kropotkin"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1528716019 | EPUB | pages: 25 | 0.3 mb
This vintage book contains Peter Kropotkin’s 1886 address "The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution" on the subject of Anarchism. A passionate and scholarly discourse that deals with the realities of the manipulations and dishonesty of government, this volume is recommended for those with an interest in anarchism, Marxism, and political science. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist, scientist, sociologist, essayist, historian, researcher, political scientist, geographer, geographer, biologist, philosopher and advocate of anarcho-communism. He was a prolific writer, producing a large number of pamphlets and articles, the most notable being "The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops" and "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution". This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from "Comrade Kropotkin" by Victor Robinson.

Free Download Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination by Jeff Shantz
English | March 1, 2011 | ISBN: 1845402367, 1845402375 | True EPUB | 294 pages | 0.3 MB
This volume examines historical and contemporary engagements of anarchism and literary production. Anarchists have used literary production to express opposition to values and relations characterizing advanced capitalist (and socialist) societies while also expressing key aspects of the alternative values and institutions proposed within anarchism. Among favoured themes are anarchist critiques of corporatization, prisons and patriarchal relations as well as explorations of developing anarchist perspectives on revolution, ecology, polysexuality and mutual aid. A key component of anarchist perspectives is the belief that means and ends must correspond. Thus in anarchist literature as in anarchist politics, a radical approach to form is as important as content. Anarchist literature joins other critical approaches to creative production in attempting to break down divisions between readers and writer, audience and artist, encouraging all to become active participants in the creative process.

Free Download In Defense of Anarchism By Robert Paul Wolff
1998 | 135 Pages | ISBN: 0520215737 | PDF | 4 MB
Here with a new preface is Robert Paul Wolff’s classic analysis of the foundations of the authority of the state and the problems of political authority and moral autonomy in a democracy.

Free Download Chris Wyatt, "Associational anarchism: Towards a left-libertarian conception of freedom "
English | ISBN: 1526171287 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 1095 KB
Associational anarchism presents a ground-breaking alternative to both liberal democracy and state socialism, derived from the ideas of Karl Marx and G. D. H. Cole. Uniting the public sphere of citizenship with the private sphere of production in a system of communal ownership, the book proposes a scheme of horizontal networks held together through libertarian politics. With no role for a centralised state, the functions of coordination and administration are fulfilled through pluralist self-governance. Political intermediation proceeds via a web of functional associations, which operate within a system of revitalised communities, while management is carried out through modes of self-regulation that embody the key anarchist values of equality, solidarity and mutual-aid.

Free Download Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One By Robert Graham
2004 | 519 Pages | ISBN: 1551642514 | PDF | 16 MB
Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, is a comprehensive and far ranging collection of anarchist writings from the feudal era (300) to 1939. Edited and introduced by noted anarchist scholar Robert Graham, the collection will include the definitive texts from the anarchist tradition of political thought, beginning with some of the earliest writings from China and Europe against feudal servitude and authority.The collection will then go on to document the best of the anti-authoritarian writings from the English and French Revolutions and the early development of libertarian socialist ideas, including such writers as Gerrard Winstanley, William Godwin, Charles Fourier, Max Stirner, as well as the early anarchist writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Elisee Reclus, Leo Tolstoy, and Emma Goldman.This incomparable volume deals both with the positive ideas and proposals the anarchists tried to put into practice, and with the anarchist critiques of the authoritarian theories and practices confronting them during these years with their revolutionary upheavals.Robert Graham has written extensively on the history of anarchist ideas. He is the author of "The Role of Contract in Anarchist Ideology," in the Routledge publication, For Anarchism, edited by David Goodway, and he wrote the introduction to the 1989 Pluto Press 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.Includes original portraits of the anarchists drawn by Maurice Spira specifically for this book Spira’s imagery is rooted to the political, his subject matter global. Works such as "Battle of Seattle," "Gulf," and "Refugees" are the visual equivalent of newspaper headlines.

Free Download Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Vol. 2: The Emergence of the New Anarchism By Robert Graham
2007 | 525 Pages | ISBN: 1551643111 | PDF | 15 MB
Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, is a comprehensive and far ranging collection of anarchist writings from the feudal era (300) to 1939. Edited and introduced by noted anarchist scholar Robert Graham, the collection will include the definitive texts from the anarchist tradition of political thought, beginning with some of the earliest writings from China and Europe against feudal servitude and authority.

Free Download Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJVSB5H5 | 2023 | 12 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Zoe Baker
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice. Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their views on direct action, revolution, organization, state socialism, reforms, and trade unions. Throughout, she demonstrates that the reasons anarchists gave for supporting or opposing particular strategies were grounded in a theoretical framework-a theory of practice-which maintained that, as people engage in activity, they simultaneously change the world and themselves.

Free Download Keith Hebden, "Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism "
English | ISBN: 1409424391 | 2011 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 539 KB + 2 MB
A second generation of emerging Dalit theology texts is re-shaping the way we think of Indian theology and liberation theology. This book is a vital part of that conversation. Taking post-colonial criticism to its logical end of criticism of statism, Keith Hebden looks at the way the emergence of India as a nation state shapes political and religious ideas. He takes a critical look at these Gods of the modern age and asks how Christians from marginalised communities might resist the temptation to be co-opted into the statist ideologies and competition for power. He does this by drawing on historical trends, Christian anarchist voices, and the religious experiences of indigenous Indians. Hebden’s ability to bring together such different and challenging perspectives opens up radical new thinking in Dalit theology, inviting the Indian Church to resist the Hindu fundamentalists labelling of the Church as foreign by embracing and celebrating the anarchic foreignness of a Dalit Christian future.

Free Download Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience by Chaim Gans
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0521414504 | 188 Pages | PDF | 12.0 MB
This book examines the central questions concerning the duty to obey the law: the meaning of this duty; whether and where it should be acknowledged; and whether and when it should be disregarded.

Free Download Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 1509555234 | 2024 | 268 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an "anarchist." It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had to be concealed, even though its critique of domination and of government is poached by the philosophers.