Books on Anarchism

[AmericanAnarchist]

I am interested in reading some books on anarchist thoughts, studies or essays. If anyone knows some good literature it would be apreciated.

[AmericanAnarchist]

Or even possibly any anarchist writers. Any information will be helpfull

[Noa o `Anakia]

From anyone? YOu can go with the obvious like http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Ar ... t/toc.html
there is many other free books on the website...

The anarchist faq is nice

[Anthony]

The anarchist faq is nice

http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnAnarchistFAQ

[vaguelyhumanoid]

My favorite anarchist writer is Kevin Carson. I recommend his essay The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand, a wonderful mutualist rebuttal to the lie of capitalism as free market:

http://www.mutualist.org/id4.html

[Guest]

http://www.whale.to/b/allen_b1.html

even though this book is a classic for certain right wingers, it was influential in making me an anarchist...

[Noa o `Anakia]

http://www.whale.to/b/allen_b1.html

even though this book is a classic for certain right wingers, it was influential in making me an anarchist...

Of what little I have seen of the book, it seems to completely leave out anything about decentralized, freedom loving left wing economies.

[Guest]

http://www.whale.to/b/allen_b1.html

even though this book is a classic for certain right wingers, it was influential in making me an anarchist...

Of what little I have seen of the book, it seems to completely leave out anything about decentralized, freedom loving left wing economies.

of course it leaves that out. it is a description of the current power structure, not a treatise on a best possible political future.

as i've said elsewhere, if anarchists are against power and the structures of power, they ought to know what those structures actually are. there is no reason to rely solely on those who call themselves anarchists for our information. if a right winger is telling the truth and the left wingers are ignoring that very same truth, it's still the truth.

[vaguelyhumanoid]

http://www.whale.to/b/allen_b1.html

even though this book is a classic for certain right wingers, it was influential in making me an anarchist...

Of what little I have seen of the book, it seems to completely leave out anything about decentralized, freedom loving left wing economies.

of course it leaves that out. it is a description of the current power structure, not a treatise on a best possible political future.

as i've said elsewhere, if anarchists are against power and the structures of power, they ought to know what those structures actually are. there is no reason to rely solely on those who call themselves anarchists for our information. if a right winger is telling the truth and the left wingers are ignoring that very same truth, it's still the truth.

It's not a treatise on the current power structure, though. It's a mixture of Red Scare hysteria and Illuminati bullshit. It also claims that anarchism is the far right. They talk about "America's survival" and "leftist international bankers". It's not anarchist at all.

[Guest]

definitely agree that it isn't an anarchist book, and didn't say that it was.

however to say that it does not describe the current power structure is, imho, not true.

Bolshevism was indeed something to fear - I would think anarchists would agree with that.

"international leftist bankers" is crude terminology, but accurate nonetheless even if the term seems counterintuitive to the average leftist.

the ideology we are talking about here is really called "producerism" which sees the productive middle under attack by the elite via their agents at the bottom of the social hierarchy. it's truly unfortunate that producerists all too often fall into the right-wing traps of jingoism, racist, nationalism, etc - however the basic outline of how power operates is pretty accurate - again imho.

if we take a look at some well know orthodox left treatises, the anarchist will find very much to disagree with. china has a one-child policy for instance. well known leftists like holdren (obama's science czar) and ted turner has openly called for one-child policies as well.

now, as an anarchist am i "closer" to the leftists or to the right-wingers. and the answer is neither. if a right-winger says something that makes sense, it makes sense. if a left-winger says something that makes sense, then it makes sense.