Davide Turcato 
Making Sense of Anarchism [PDF ebook] 
Errico Malatesta’s Experiments with Revolution, 1889-1900

Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else’s rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that question as it investigates the ideas and action of one of the most prominent and underrated anarchists of all times: the Italian, Errico Malatesta.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Anarchism, a Simple and Odd Business? The First International: A Lasting Heritage An ‘Anarchist Rarity’ Reappears, 1889 A Short-Lived, Momentous Periodical, 1889–90 Opaque Insurrectionary Trials, 1890–92 Open-Ended Popular Movements, 1892–94 Patient Work in the Light of Day, 1894–98 From the Other Side of the Atlantic Ocean, 1899–1900 Malatesta’s Anarchism: A Charitable Interpretation Conclusion: A Complex, Rational Business References

About the author

DAVIDE TURCATO is Italian and lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is a computational linguist with an interest in history. He has published several articles on Errico Malatesta and Italian anarchism, and he is the editor of Malatesta’s collected works, a ten-volume project currently under way in Italy.