Contemporary Anarchism

ISBN-13: 9781138508569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 294 str.

Terry Michael Perlin

Opis

Anarchism literally, a society without government is less a political philosophy than it is a temperament. Anarchists are defiant people who seek to organize for the purpose of destroying organization. For its adherents, anarchism means a grand struggle against evil, a plea for the "new," a secular crusade against the debasement of self, a fight against the degradation of mankind that organized society seems to represent. Anarchism is anti-politics, anti-economics, anti-authoritarianism in all forms. Anarchism is a mood of perpetual rebellion. The decade of the sixties witnessed a revival in the anarchist temperament, which Perlin finds evident in such diverse efforts as the women's liberation movement, student demonstrations, civil rights marches, free schools, the "back to the land" movement, demands for birth control and other usually controversial-causes and activities. This new anarchism had few conscious links with the old anarchism. It was instead a response to changed conditions in the social fabric of American and European life, a reflex to the structural, cultural and psychological tensions that made those years turbulent, strife-filled and rebellious. Perlin concludes that while a revolution was not made in the sixties, a revolutionary life-style became a possibility. The spokesmen for the marginal groups whose interests achieved a new kind of legitimacy during the sixties were anarchists or their sympathizers. A representative cross-section of their writings is included in this volume.

Spis treści

The Return Of Anarchism; 1: The Recurrence of Defiance; The Revival; 2: Anarchism Revisited; 3: The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society; Anarchism On The Left; 4: Letter to the New Left; 5: The Movement: A New Beginning; 6: The Anarchist Revolution; 7: The Red Flag and the Black; Libertarianism; 8: The Transformation of the American Right; 9: The Anatomy of the State; 10: Why Be Libertarian?; Doing Anarchism; 11: Anarchists — And Proud of It; 12: Why Terror Is Not an Anarchist Means; 13: Black Anarchy in New York; 14: A New Consciousness and Its Polemics; 15: Some Secular Myths; 16: A Religious View of Anarchism; 17: Man — the Creator and Destroyer; 18: Education and the Democratic Myth; 19: The Machinery of Conformity; 20: Towards Workers’ Control; 21: From: Manifesto for a Nonviolent Revolution; Anarchism as Critique and Possibility; 22: From: Revolution: A Quaker Prescription for a Sick Society; 23: From: Post-Scarcity Anarchism; 24: The Conspiracy of Law

O autorze

Terry M. Perlin