Anarchism

This original and impressively researched book explores the concept of anarchy-"e;unimposed order"e;-as the most humane and stable form of order in a chaotic world.

Anarchism is a significant but relatively neglected of political thought.

War and Peace by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originally published in 1861, is still one of the only extended accounts of anarchist international theory and is one of the earliest in the history of socialist thought.

In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement.

Bunt, bizarr und widersprüchlich, verführerisch für die einen, Inbegriff des Bösen für die anderen, zieht sich die Idee der Anarchie durch die Geschichte der Menschheit.

It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social relations.

For Gustav Landauer, literary critic and anarchist, scholar of mysticism and participant of the Bavarian revolution, culture and politics occupied the same spiritual space.

The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917-24 explores the impact of the Russian Revolution on the world's most powerful anarchist movement, the Spanish National Confederation of Labour.

Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th centurya time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture.

This book explains why leaders chose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters.

Bringing together a decade's worth of AK Thompson's essays on the culture of revolt, Premonitions offers an engaged and engaging assessment of contemporary radical politics.

In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network.

This book is a profound search for a theory of social change.

Is it possible to evolve a form of socialism which, while promoting industrial development, will be merciful to the ideals of democracy?

Percy Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets.

Were the occupations of 2010-11 - from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street - a success or failure?

You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how engaging with the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to understand the problems of contemporary organizing much more clearly.

The battles between Athenian anarchists and the Greek state have received a high degree of media attention recently.

A true classic of radical literature, in its first scholarly, annotated edition.

In this book the author proposes that parties are indispensable to modern politics and that the absence of parties suggests that a system is governed by a traditional elite which has yet to come to terms with the modern world.

This book explores a variety of forms of radical political subjectivity.

Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War.

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Future Primitive is Zerzan's iconic and long out-of-print work.

This book, originally published in 1949 (but here re-issuing the second edition of 1966) presents a history of international socialism, not just from the political but also the economic standpoint.

A comparative study of the porous intellectual and political borders between a colonial power and the colonized.

The forgotten legacy of religious Jewish anarchism, and the adventures and ideas of its key figures, finally comes to light in this book.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, dozens of anarchist publications appeared throughout the United States despite limited financial resources, a pestering and censorial postal department, and persistent harassment, arrest, and imprisonment by the State.

In Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities Bernd Reiter contributes to the ongoing efforts to decolonize the social sciences and humanities, by arguing that true decolonization implies a liberation from the elite culture that Western civilization has perpetually promoted.

Between 1936 and 1939, the Spanish Civil War showcased anarchism to the world.

This is the first book by Carlos Taibo, a prolific and well-known social theorist in Spain, to be translated into English.

The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma provides an unprecedented multidimensional and multidisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of charisma - first defined by Max Weber as the irrational bond between deified leader and submissive follower.

Protest, Property and the Commons focuses on the alternative property narratives of 'social centres', or political squats, and how the spaces and their communities create their own - resistant - form of law.

As an analyst, philosopher and militant, F lix Guattari anticipated decentralized forms of political activism that have become increasingly evident around the world since the events of Seattle in 1999.

This volume takes up the idea of 'multiplicity' as a new common ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems, cosmology and the history of political ideas.

The definitive English-language collection by the first man to call himself an anarchist.

What are the core features of an anarchist ethics?

The first in AK Press's ten-volume Complete Works of Malatesta.

Anarchism is by far the least broadly understood ideology and the least studied academically.

This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Theroigne de Mericourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg.

Building a Revolution, one handful at a time.

This book follows the life of Ivan Agu li, the artist, anarchist, and esotericist, notable as one of the earliest Western intellectuals to convert to Islam and to explore Sufism.

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project.

This is the most extensive collection of Peter Kropotkin's writings available in English.

The debates concerning global terrorism focus on "e;radical Islam"e; and the way it can be "e;moderated"e; or pacified by appeals to its peaceful side.

In this book the author proposes that parties are indispensable to modern politics and that the absence of parties suggests that a system is governed by a traditional elite which has yet to come to terms with the modern world.

Successive waves of global protest since 1999 have encouraged leading contemporary political theorists to argue that politics has fundamentally changed in the last twenty years, with a new type of politics gaining momentum over elite, representative institutions.

Atthe very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth.