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Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May 1968
by Skirda, Alexandre
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1902593197
- ISBN 13
- 9781902593197
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AK Press, 2002-04-01. Paperback. Very Good. Remainder mark on bottom edge of pages. Finest single volume history of European anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaged, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers and, more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by. Opinionated and witty, he is equally at home skewering the actions of the early anarchist Victor Serge as he is the Paris chief of police who organized undercover "anarchist bombers" in an attempt to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Skirda argues that the core problem for anarchists has been to create a revolutionary movement and envision a future society in which the autonomy of the individual is not compromised by the need to take collective action. How anarchists have grappled with that question in theory and practice make up the core of the book. Bakuninist secret societies; the Internationals and the clash with Marx; the Illegalists, bombers, and assassins; the mass trade unions and insurrections; and, of course, the Russian and Spanish Revolutions are all discussed through the prism of working people battling fiercely for a new world free of the shackles of Capital and the State.
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- Earthlight Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1001760
- Title
- Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May 1968
- Author
- Skirda, Alexandre
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 6
- ISBN 10
- 1902593197
- ISBN 13
- 9781902593197
- Publisher
- AK Press
- Place of Publication
- Oakland, California, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002-04-01
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