In Oakland, California on Maa fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses.

Includes writings by Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, Berkman, Bakunin, Proudhon, and Malatesta.ĭaniel Guérin was the author of Anarchism: From Theory to Practice. The classical texts will re-establish anarchism as both an intellectual and practical force to be reckoned with. This definitive anthology portrays anarchism as a sophisticated ideology whose nuances and complexities highlight the natural desire for freedom in all of us. It details a vast array of unpublished documents, letters, debates, manifestos, reports, impassioned calls-to-arms and reasoned analysis the history, organization and practice of the movementits theorists, advocates and activists the great names and the obscure, towering legends and unsung heroes. I am also in the presence of a badly executed copy (editions la decouverte) with references that go to the wrong pages.The first English translation of Guérin’s monumental anthology of anarchism, published here in one volume. In 2015 you are better off reading the originals and checking out the biographies that are online. Important references are given late in the text and only a see page XX before that.īack in 1970 it might have been hard to gather all these books and biographies. This way important information is delegated to the small text area. And has the bad habit of using and abusing page notes. Guerin seems to be interesting because of a shortage of authors to cover this part of political theory. And only the need for a short text makes this hagiographies look like biographies. The same way some have tried to make a coherent system of gods out of the anarchic (pun intended) set of cults and temples in ancient Rome or Greece, the same way Guerin tries to give a direction to a group of people that stood for extremely different goals and paths.

And in the end you get a good inside into what Guerin feels of anarchy and almost nothing about the anarchist movement. Inside there is a strange mix of biographies and excerpts of the most important books of certain authors. Somebody (Guerin) decided he likes anarchy so much that he needs to make a book about it.

No Gods No Masters by Daniel Guérin