A compelling work to be studied and applied to new conditions each generation.
An exposition of anarchism by one of its greatest propagandists and clearest thinkers. In a conversational style, Berkman discusses society as it now exists, the need for anarchism, and the methods for bringing it about. His primary goal for writing the book was to dispel the misinformation concerning the aspirations of anarchists in the minds of average people. The secondary goal was to reexamine the movement after the Russian Revolution and to promote the fact that authoritarian methods cannot lead to liberty, indeed: methods and aims must be identical to ensure lasting equality and freedom.İçerik tablosu
Introduction to the Working Classics Edition, by Barry Pateman
Preface to the 1937 edition, by Emma Goldman
Foreword to the 1937 Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Do You Want Out of Life?
Chapter 2: The Wage System
Chapter 3: Law and Government
Chapter 4: How the System Works
Chapter 5: Unemployment
Chapter 6: War?
Chapter 7: Church and School
Chapter 8: Justice
Chapter 9: Can The Church Help You?
Chapter 10: Reformer and Politician
Chapter 11: The Trade Union
Chapter 12: Whose Is the Power?
Chapter 13: Socialism
Chapter 14: The February Revolution
Chapter 15: Between February and October
Chapter 16: The Bolsheviki
Chapter 17: Revolution and Dictatorship
Chapter 18: The Dictatorship at Work
Chapter 19: Is Anarchism Violence?
Chapter 20: What is Anarchism?
Chapter 21: Is Anarchy Possible?
Chapter 22: Will Communist Anarchism Work?
Chapter 23: Non-Communist Anarchists
Chapter 24: Why Revolution?
Chapter 25: The Idea is the Thing
Chapter 26: Preparation
Chapter 27: Organization of Labor for the Social Revolution
Chapter 28: Principles and Practice
Chapter 29: Consumption and Exchange
Chapter 30: Production
Chapter 31: Defense of the Revolution
Yazar hakkında
Barry Pateman is a former Associate Editor at the Emma Goldman Papers. He is coeditor of Alexander Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist as well as Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays and is a member of the Kate Sharpley Library Collective.