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Since the early 2000s, global, underground networks of insurrectionary anarchists have carried out thousands of acts of political violence. This book is an exploration of the ideas, strategies, and history of these political actors that engage in a confrontation with the oppressive powers of the state and capital. This book challenges the reader to consider the historically ignored articulations put forth by those who communicate through sometimes violent political acts-vandalism, sabotage, arson and occasional use of explosives. These small acts of violence are announced and contextualized through written communiqués, which are posted online, translated, and circulated globally. This book offers the first contemporary history of these digitally-mediated networks, and seeks to locate this tendency within anti-state struggles from the past.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Anarchism and Political Modernity looks at the place of'classical anarchism'in the postmodern political discourse, claiming that anarchism presents a vision of political postmodernity.The book seeks to foster a better understanding of why and how anarchism is growing in the present. To do so, it first looks at its origins and history, offering a different view from the two traditions that characterize modern political theory: socialism and liberalism. Such an examination leads to a better understanding of how anarchism connects with newer political trends and why it is a powerful force in contemporary social and political movements.This new volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series offers a novel philosophical engagement with anarchism and contests a number of positions established in postanarchist theory. Its new approach makes a valuable contribution to an established debate about anarchism and political theory. It offers a new perspective on the emerging area of anarchist studies that will be of interest to students and theorists in political theory and anarchist studies.

En esta brillante obra, Benedict Anderson efectúa una reestructuración radical de los temas de Comunidades imaginadas, su clásico estudio sobre el nacionalismo, mediante una exploración de la política y la cultura fin de siècle que abarca el Caribe, la Europa imperial y el mar del Sur de China. En el punto culminante de El filibusterismo –cuyo autor, el gran novelista político José Rizal, fue ejecutado en 1896 a los 35 años por las autoridades españolas en Filipinas–, se prepara una granada envuelta en piedras preciosas y llena de nitroglicerina para hacer volar a la elite colonial manileña del siglo XIX. Anderson explora la influencia de la literatura y la política vanguardista europea sobre Rizal y su contemporáneo el innovador folclorista Isabelo de los Reyes, apresado en Manila después de los violentos levantamientos de 1896 y más tarde encarcelado, junto con anarquistas catalanes, en el castillo barcelonés de Montjuïc. A su regreso a Filipinas, para entonces ocupada por los estadounidenses, Isabelo formó los primeros sindicatos militantes, bajo la influencia de Malatesta y Bakunin. Anderson analiza las complejas relaciones intelectuales de estos jóvenes filipinos con la nueva'ciencia'de la antropología en Alemania y Austro-Hungría, y con los empiristas franceses posteriores a la Comuna, sobre un fondo de anarquismo militante en España, Francia, Italia y América, el levantamiento armado de José Martí en Cuba y las protestas antiimperialistas en China y Japón. Al hacerlo, describe el estrecho entrelazamiento del internacionalismo anarquista con el anticolonialismo radical.

Continuing where Volume One left off,this anthology of anarchist writings, broad in its geographical and intellectual scope, documents both continuity and change in anarchist ideas since the Spanish revolution and civil war. Topics covered include anti-capitalism and global justice movements, opposition to war, ecology and anarchism, the relevance of syndicalism, libertarian communism, anarcha-feminism, personal and sexual liberation, libertarian education, participatory democracy, direct action and affinity groups, technology and freedom, anthropology and anarchy,art and the utopian imagination, bureaucracy, state and empire, resistance and revolution, post-modernism, and philosophical anarchism. In addition to English language material from England and North America, the book includes translations from Africa, India, China, Latin America, and Europe, much of which has never appeared before in English. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Murray Bookchin,Emma Goldman, George Woodcock, Marie Louise Berneri, Herbert Read, Alex Comfort, Martin Buber, Paul Goodman, Carole Pateman, Colin Ward, Paul Feyerabend, Pierre Clastres, Chaia Heller, Ivan Illich, Daniel Guerin, Luce Fabbri and many more. ROBERT GRAHAM has been writing on the history of anarchist ideas and contemporary anarchist theory for over 20 years.In 2005, he published Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism 300CE to 1939(Black Rose Books) TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: MAKING SENSE OF ANARCHISM by Davide Turcato CHAPTER 1: ANTI-MILITARISM, WAR & REVOLUTION 1. Herbert Read: The Philosophy of Anarchism (1940) 2. Emma Goldman: The Individual, Society and the State (1940) 3. The Romande Anarchist Federation: Coming to Grips With War (1939) 4. Marie Louise Berneri: Constructive Policy versus Destructive War (1940-43) 5. Jean Sauliere, Voline et. al.: Appeal to All Workers (1943) 6. Italian Anarchist Federation: Act for Yourselves (1945) 7. Bulgarian Anarchist Manifesto (1945) 8. French Anarchist Federation: The Issues of the Day (1945) 9. Korean Anarchist Manifesto (1948) 10. International Anarchist Manifesto (1948) 11. Paul Goodman: Drawing the Line (1945) 12. Alex Comfort: Peace and Disobedience (1946) 13. Dwight Macdonald: The Root Is Man (1946) CHAPTER 2: THE WILL TO DREAM 14. Ethel Mannin:The Will to Dream (1944) 15. Marie Louis Berneri: Journey Through Utopia (1949) 16. Martin Buber: Paths in Utopia (1949) 17. Paul & Percival Goodman: Communities (1947) 18. Giancarlo de Carlo: Rebuilding Community (1948) CHAPTER 3: ART AND FREEDOM 19. Herbert Read:The Freedom of the Artist (1943) 20. Alex Comfort: Art and Social Responsibility (1946) 21. Holley Cantine: Art: Play and Its Perversions (1947) 22. Paul-Émile Borduas: Global Refusal (1948) 23. André Breton: The Black Mirror of Anarchism (1952) 24. Julian Beck: Storming the Barricades (1964) 25. Living Theatre Declaration (1970) CHAPTER 4: RESISTING THE NATION STATE 26. Alex Comfort:Authority and Delinquency (1950) 27. Geoffrey Ostergaard: The Managerial Revolution (1954) 28. Mohamed Saïl: The Kabyle Mind-Set (1951) 29. Maurice Fayolle: From Tunis to Casablanca (1954) 30. André Prudhommeaux: The Libertarians and Politics (1954) 31. Noir et Rouge: Refusing the Nation-State (1957-62) 32. Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakesh Narayan: From Socialism to Sarvodaya (1957) 33. Vernon Richards: Banning the Bomb (1958-59) 34. Nicolas Walter: Direct Action and the New Pacifism (1962) 35. Paul Goodman:'Getting into Power'(1962) CHAPTER 5: CREATING A COUNTER-CULTURE 36. Herbert Read:Anarchism and Education (1944-47) 37. Paul Goodman: A Public Dream of Universal Disaster 38. L'Impuls

Click here for orders in the UK & Europe. Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas is a comprehensive and far-ranging collection of anarchist writings from the classical era to 1939. Edited and introduced by noted anarchist scholar Robert Graham, this incomparable volume includes the definitive texts from the anarchist tradition of political thought. It deals both with the positive ideas and proposals the anarchists tried to put into practice and with their critiques of the authoritarian theories and practices confronting them. ROBERT GRAHAM has written extensively on the history of anarchist ideas. He is the author of'The Role of Contract in Anarchist Ideology,'in For Anarchism, edited by David Goodway, and he wrote the introduction to the 1989 edition of Proudhon's General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century, originally published in 1851. He has been doing research and writing on the historical development of anarchist ideas for over 20 years and is a well respected commentator in the field.'Robert Graham is an outstanding scholar of anarchism and has made an exceptionally stimulating choice of texts: some familiar, others--especially those from East Asia--entirely unknown to me. The publication of this first instalment of what promises to be a notable anthology is an important event for anarchists.'- David Goodway, Anarchist Historian, University of Leeds, UK'Will definitely meet the need for a comprehensive study of all the strands, ideas and themes of anarchist and libertarian thought.'- Stuart Christie, Anarchist Writer/Publisher'An excellent and long-overdue anthology of anarchist writings. It shows the depth, diversity and relevance of anarchist thought and action. Highly recommended.'- Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism'This judicious collection is admirable in its chronological, geographical, and thematic range. There is nothing comparable in presenting anarchist and libertarian responses both to the challenges of theory and to those of practices forged in the fires of historical crises.'- Wayne Thorpe, The Workers Themselves: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913-1923'Admirably displays the range and inventiveness of anarchist approaches.'- Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction and Anarchy in Action Table of Contents Preface CHAPTER 1: EARLY TEXTS ON SERVITUDE AND FREEDOM 1. Bao Jingyan: Neither Lord Nor Subject (300 C.E.) 2. Etienne de la Boetie: On Voluntary Servitude (1552) 3. Gerrard Winstanley: The New Law of Righteousness (1649) CHAPTER 2: ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION 4. William Godwin: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793-97) 5. Jean Varlet: The Explosion (1794) 6. Sylvain Maréchal: Manifesto of the Equals (1796) CHAPTER 3: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIALISM 7. Charles Fourier: Attractive Labour (1822-37) 8. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: What is Property (1840) 9. Proudhon: The System of Economic Contradictions (1846) CHAPTER 4: REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS AND ACTION 10. Michael Bakunin, The Reaction in Germany (1842) 11. Max Stirner: The Ego and Its Own (1844) 12. Proudhon: The General Idea of the Revolution (1851) 13. Anselme Bellegarrigue: Anarchy is Order (1850) 14. Joseph Déjacque: The Revolutionary Question (1854) 15. Francisco Pi y Margall: Reaction and Revolution (1854) 16. Carlo Pisacane: On Revolution (1857) 17. Joseph Déjacque: On Being Human (1857) CHAPTER 5: THE ORIGINS OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL 18. Proudhon: On Federalism (1863/65) 19. Statutes of the First International (1864-1866) 20. Bakunin: Socialism and the State (1867) 21. Bakunin: Pr