DOCSLIB.ORG

Read Book Demanding the Impossible: a History of Anarchism

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Read Book Demanding the Impossible: a History of Anarchism DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE: A HISTORY OF ANARCHISM PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Peter Marshall | 818 pages | 01 Feb 2010 | PM Press | 9781604860641 | English | Oakland, United States Demanding the Impossible | The Anarchist Library Click here for one-page information sheet on this product. Cart Contents. Recent Posts. Price: 0. Add To Wishlist. Overview Tell a Friend. Send Message. Anarchism Books Combo Pack. A fantastic combo pack of anarchist philosophies, conversations, history and reference not to be missed! Peter Marshall Navigating the broad "river of anarchy," from Taoism to Situationism, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, this volume is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. What Is Anarchism? Donald Rooum This book is an introduction to the development of anarchist thought, useful not only to propagandists and proselytizers of anarchism but also to teachers and students, and to all who want to uncover the basic core of anarchism. Editors: Raymond Craib and Barry Maxwell A collection of essays on the questions of geographical and political peripheries in anarchist theory. Voices of the Paris Commune. Presenting a balanced and critical survey, the detailed document covers not only classic anarchist thinkers--such as Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Reclus, and Emma Goldman--but also other libertarian figures, such as Nietzsche, Camus, Gandhi, Foucault, and Chomsky. Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand what anarchists stand for and what they have achieved, this fascinating account also includes an epilogue that examines the most recent developments, including postanarchism and anarcho-primitivism as well as the anarchist contributions to the peace, green, and global justice movements of the 21st century. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition. Show More Show Less. Any Condition Any Condition. See all 7 - All listings for this product. No ratings or reviews yet No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Best Selling in Nonfiction See all. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey Hardcover 5. Account Options Anmelden. Meine Mediathek Hilfe Erweiterte Buchsuche. E-Book anzeigen. Demanding the Impossible : A History of Anarchism. Peter H. A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day. Demanding the Impossible - Peter Marshall - Google Books November History Today. Minogue, Kenneth February 9, The Sunday Telegraph. Publishers Weekly. April 12, Roth, Gary March Critical Sociology. Sinai, Joshua Perspectives on Terrorism. Tomchuk, Travis Left History. Walter, Nicolas February 27, The London Review of Books. Ward, Colin January 31, The Times Educational Supplement : Ward, Colin February 14, Anarchism portal Books portal. Categories : non-fiction books History books about anarchism HarperCollins books PM Press books Political science book stubs Anarchism book stubs. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Not just by superior force but by the fact that the force represents something — the reality of the situation. As a romantic, I am definitely with all these rebellions but, let's face it, participation is heroic but futile, an act of suicide. It would be like Mishima's hari-kiri only for the goodies. The truth is they did not win for very good reasons related to what we are as human beings. The only successful anarchist rebellion would be one that could change humanity — and that is very dangerous territory indeed, a repetition by force of what the Bolsheviks tried and failed to do. All in all, this book, which is highly sympathetic to the movement, tells us that anarchic thinking is like a chair that is very appealing to the eye but falls apart when someone tries to sit on it. If it did not exist, it would have to be invented but only as a constraint or restraint on power, by promising rebellion if lines were crossed but not as an option for any social organization that is actually viable. This has implications for the four main current strands of quasi-anarchic thinking in the world today — hacker activism, greenery which has already compromised with reality to gain a power that it probably does not deserve , the Occupy Movement and anarcho-capitalist libertarianism. It is interesting that the State did not even bother to do that. Occupy is particularly daft from a classical anarchist perspective. The general public, of course, has seen through this. The most threatening to the State may be hacker activism and then only because its more louche side is quite prepared to act as intellectual muscle for organized crime. Kim Dotcom is an anarchist of sorts but not quite what Prince Pyotr Kropotkin had in mind. Even in Greece today, where one would most expect insurrection, the struggle for mastery over a corrupt and failed bourgeois elite, backed by the European Union, is in the hands either of sensible Leftists who have no intention of unraveling the State and a bunch of gangster fascists. In Catalonia, the drive for independence is also no longer associated with anarchist ideology but with a revived Leftism. Worse, this Euro-Leftism is not only not anarchist in the traditional sense but is imbued with an ideology of identity politics that wholly relies on the State to impose its cultural agenda on an increasingly resentful mass at least that proportion of the mass not on the State pay roll, admittedly a decreasing proportion. Having said all that, if we winnow out perhaps seven out of ten of the anarcho-intellectuals as either faith-based essentialists and we include the Hegelians or narcissistic imposers of their values and personality on the world, we are left with some good people and good thinking. The American Paul Goodman stood out in this respect. And it was good to see Foucault briefly included as gad fly. There is real value in anarchism but not as praxis or ideology. Its value lies in it being a reminder of the core value to humanity of personal autonomy and of individuation. People of anarchist bent would do much better to hold their noses and engage with the political process and the State through improved organization, if only to halt the growing power of authoritarian Leftists, fascists and religious believers. Camus' concept of rebellion as preferable to revolution holds water here - we can all constantly rebel against the unwarranted demands and claims of others. The final pages of the book raise issues with anarchism as practical politics but by this time we have all made our mind up — either we are anarchists or we are not. I am not — more so after reading the book than before. My initial sympathies dissipated chapter by chapter as I realized that I would be filled with a terminal boredom by these men and their utopias. Anarchists are too often people who have lost their sense of reality, equally as much as the religious types they claim to despise. In some cases horror of horrors! Any politics that has a place for invented beings and universal consciousnesses must be considered dangerous and yet a small minority of anarchists persist in this sort of flummery. Like Marxism, anarchism can be religion by other means and so deeply dangerous to non-believers in the long run. Nevertheless, this book is strongly recommended as a sound guide to what anarchists have thought in the past and what they did in history. View all 10 comments. Neither do you have to finish reading this book to rate it, nor do you have to be an anarchist to love it. Peter Marshall is really a hell of a good writer. His profound account of anarchism is rare and almost unique. I was not that much enthusiastic about the book in the beginning, when Professor Chomsky recommended it among some others as essential readings on Anarchism, but after I read almost pages out of the , I would be mistaken if not recommending it to whoever may be concerned. It Neither do you have to finish reading this book to rate it, nor do you have to be an anarchist to love it. It is not just a "Political Philosophy" book, but a profound cultural account for the rise of one of the most controversial western schools of thought May 15, Steven Peterson rated it really liked it. This is a wide ranging overview of the political theory of anarchism. In that endeavor, it is similar in scope to Woodcock's esteemed volume. The work begins by defining the subject. The second part explores forerunners of anarchism--from the east to the Greeks and so on. Part 4? Classic anarchist thinkers, such as Godwin, Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin, and so on. Part five focuses This is a wide ranging overview of the political theory of anarchism. Part five focuses on anarchism in action--its manifestations in different countries e. It concludes with discussions of modern anarchism and the legacy of this perspective. A book that tries to cover so much risks being a mild wide and an inch deep. There is some of that, of course, but the book would prove a useful introduction to readers interested in the subject. May 14, Michael Schmidt rated it liked it Shelves: anarchism. I have to give credit where it is due, and when I picked up Peter Marshall's Demanding the Impossible at Adams' Books in Durban the symbol on its s concrete facade was a red Circle-A back in the early s, it was the first book I had laid hands on that attempted a global synopsis of anarchist thought and action. In many ways, it was hugely influential on me as a young anarchist and lead to my own studies into the history of the anarchist movement and its mass-organisational expressions, I have to give credit where it is due, and when I picked up Peter Marshall's Demanding the Impossible at Adams' Books in Durban the symbol on its s concrete facade was a red Circle-A back in the early s, it was the first book I had laid hands on that attempted a global synopsis of anarchist thought and action.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Catalogue 2021 Welcome to the FREEDOM CATALOGUE
    anarchist publishing Est. 1886 Catalogue 2021 wELCOME TO THE FREEDOM CATALOGUE Anarchism is almost certainly the most interesting political movement to have slipped under the radar of public discourse. It is rarely pulled up in today’s media as anything other than a curio or a threat. But over the course of 175 years since Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s declaration “I am an anarchist” this philosophy of direct action and free thought has repeatedly changed the world. From Nestor Makhno’s legendary war on both Whites and Reds in 1920s Ukraine, to the Spanish Civil War, to transformative ideals in the 1960s and street-fought antifascism in the 1980s, anarchism remains a vital part of any rounded understanding of humanity’s journey from past to present, let alone the possibilities for its future. For most of that time there has been Freedom Featuring books from Peter Kropotkin, Marie Press. Founded in 1886, brilliant thinkers past and Louise Berneri, William Blake, Errico Malatesta, Colin present have published through Freedom, allowing Ward and many more, this catalogue offers much us to present today a kaleidoscope of classic works of what you might need to understand a fascinating from across the modern age. creed. shop orders trade orders You can order online, by email, phone Trade orders come from Central Books, who or post (details below). Our business offer 33% stock discounts as standard. Postage hours are 10am-6pm, Monday to is free within the UK, with £2.50 extra for orders Saturday. from abroad — per order not per item. You can pay via Paypal on our website.
    [Show full text]
  • Rebel Alliances
    Rebel Alliances The means and ends 01 contemporary British anarchisms Benjamin Franks AK Pressand Dark Star 2006 Rebel Alliances The means and ends of contemporary British anarchisms Rebel Alliances ISBN: 1904859402 ISBN13: 9781904859406 The means amiemls 01 contemllOranr British anarchisms First published 2006 by: Benjamin Franks AK Press AK Press PO Box 12766 674-A 23rd Street Edinburgh Oakland Scotland CA 94612-1163 EH8 9YE www.akuk.com www.akpress.org [email protected] [email protected] Catalogue records for this book are available from the British Library and from the Library of Congress Design and layout by Euan Sutherland Printed in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd., Glasgow To my parents, Susan and David Franks, with much love. Contents 2. Lenini8t Model of Class 165 3. Gorz and the Non-Class 172 4. The Processed World 175 Acknowledgements 8 5. Extension of Class: The social factory 177 6. Ethnicity, Gender and.sexuality 182 Introduction 10 7. Antagonisms and Solidarity 192 Chapter One: Histories of British Anarchism Chapter Four: Organisation Foreword 25 Introduction 196 1. Problems in Writing Anarchist Histories 26 1. Anti-Organisation 200 2. Origins 29 2. Formal Structures: Leninist organisation 212 3. The Heroic Period: A history of British anarchism up to 1914 30 3. Contemporary Anarchist Structures 219 4. Anarchism During the First World War, 1914 - 1918 45 4. Workplace Organisation 234 5. The Decline of Anarchism and the Rise of the 5. Community Organisation 247 Leninist Model, 1918 1936 46 6. Summation 258 6. Decay of Working Class Organisations: The Spani8h Civil War to the Hungarian Revolution, 1936 - 1956 49 Chapter Five: Anarchist Tactics Spring and Fall of the New Left, 7.
    [Show full text]
  • Standing on Their Own Feet Or on Ours?
    anarchistmmweehly Vol 32 No 31 riOVERNMENTS are always very to extricate themselves, without be- prepared to admit. The campaign is quick to condemn and deplore ing accused of 'selling out' by their mainly centred around the refusal of ' violence when it is used against respective supporters. the Catholic community to pay rent them, but all the time they are wag- *2? and rates. If religious differences ing war on their own populations NEAR BREAKING POINT can be forgotten and a common in the name of 'Law and Order'. Such a situation shows \pry bond created between the mass of Such hypocrisy and double stan- clearly that nothing worthwhile can ordinary people, then this civil dis- dards are fully illustrated in the come from the compromised solu- obedience could spread to the statement issued after the conclusion tions that are the stock in trade of Protestant areas. Let us face it, the of the tripartite Government talks politicians. Their answers could Protestants also suffer from indig- on Northern Ireland. It reads: 'We lead to disillusionment and resent- nities, injustice, low wages, and poor are at one in condemning any form *SpV '■"■ t •■■■•.-•>a*-v.tv13fc:V-J~. ■ '. ¥r \£-\. ■':'<*.^^!.^/'Ui/^jKjp,-ki,f-^AJi^ fulness on the part of either of the . housing. We know that Catholics of violence as an instrument of il'*;(»»'>,i,^'lk"'f-l<*. -»fr''^ . Vt'/i'li'/-- 1 '' '*■ ■''■**4fflv- ■ ' V'^&f«Ufl*?tivr r two religious communities. The have suffered more because of the political pressure and it is our danger, obviously, is that this en- inability of the State and the capi- common purpose to seek to bring mity could break out into wide- talist methods of production to pro- violence and internment, and all spread open hostility between them.
    [Show full text]
  • Everywhere from Britain’S Rebel Music Revival to Anti-Colonial Conflict in Papua, It’S Not All Paralysis and Defeat Around Here
    XXXX 1 vol 79:2 winter 2019/20 anarchist journal by donation KICKING OFF EVERYWHERE FROM BRITain’S REBEL MUSIC REVIVAL TO ANTI-COLONIAL CONFLICT IN PAPUa, it’S NOT All PARALYSIS AND DEFEAT AROUND HERE Pic by Anzi Matta | pateron.com/anzimatta PLUS: M THE HOUSING CRISIS n RISE OF DOMESTIC MURDER aberdeen’S RADICAL SPACE @ BISEXUAL ACTIVISM IN LONDON 2 editorial It all just needs a spark. From Chile to and token giveaways, somehow manages some common denominator with us. Start Hong Kong, through Catalonia to France to contain it? Will it be the far-right with building structures based on the principle — it has been kicking off everywhere. their populist policies? Or will these of mutual aid: show how this can work in What these events have in common is that upheavals lead to long-lasting, positive practice. Share our knowledge of what they were all sparked by a government and revolutionary changes to the world the State is, and what its main principles decision, of lesser or greater significance, we all live in, the sort of changes we will are. Join in with local struggles. Show but in all cases the States which did so be happy to support? that anarchism, while it maintains a solid thought they could get away with it, as In the UK one may, perhaps reputation of utopianism, can be and is they have done for decades until now. optimistically, assume that with almost the answer to the world-wide problems These decisions have been inflicted on a decade of the Tory rule behind us that we are all facing.
    [Show full text]
  • Changing Anarchism.Pdf
    Changing anarchism Changing anarchism Anarchist theory and practice in a global age edited by Jonathan Purkis and James Bowen Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Copyright © Manchester University Press 2004 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors. This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC- ND) licence, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction provided the author(s) and Manchester University Press are fully cited and no modifications or adaptations are made. Details of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 0 7190 6694 8 hardback First published 2004 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset in Sabon with Gill Sans display by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester Printed in Great Britain by CPI, Bath Dedicated to the memory of John Moore, who died suddenly while this book was in production. His lively, innovative and pioneering contributions to anarchist theory and practice will be greatly missed.
    [Show full text]
  • Akboekencatalogus.Pdf
    1. An anarchist FAQ (vol1) -Lian Mckay (20 euro) 2. The voltairine De Cleyre reader—AJ. Brigati (15 euro) 3. Obsolete communism. The left wing alternative—Daniel Cohn, Gabriel Bendit (19,50 euro) 4. The struggle against the state and other essays—Nestor Makhno (12 euro) 5. The friends of Durruti group 1937-1939—Augustin Guillamon (12 euro) 6. Radical priorities —Noam Chomsky (13 euro) 7. The Russian anarchists—Paul Avrich (14,50 euro) 8. Unfinished business —the politics of Class War (6 euro) 9. Abolition now, ten years of strategy and struggle against the prison complex—CR10 Collective (12euro) 10. What is anarchism? - Alexander Berkman (15 euro) 11. The Spanish anarchists, the heroic years 1868-1936—Murray Bookchin (21 euro) 12. Italian anarchism 1864-1892—Munzig Pernicone (20 euro) 13. Workers councils—Anton Pannekoek (12 euro) 14. Vision on Fire—Emma Goldman on the Spanish revolution (19,50 euro) 15. Facing the enemy—A. Skirda (18 euro) 16. Nowtopia—Chris Carlsson (15 euro) 17. Partisans, Women in the armed resistance to fascism and German occupation 1936– 1945—Ingrid Strobl (13 euro) 18. Critical Mass, bicycling’s defiant celebration—Chris Carisson (18 euro) 19. Nestor Makhno, anarchy’s cossack—Alexander Skirda (19 euro) 20. Dreams of freedom, a Ricardo Flores Magon reader— Chaz Bufe and Mitchell Cowen Verter (15 euro) 21. Pacifism as pathology, reflections on the role of armed struggle in North America—Ward Churchill, Mike Ryan (9;60 euro) 22. For workers power, the selected writings of Maurice Brinton—David Goodway (18euro) 23. Social ecology and communalism—Murray Bookchin (10,50 euro) 24.
    [Show full text]
  • Anarchism As a Culture?
    Anarchism as a Culture? Kljajić, Ivana Master's thesis / Diplomski rad 2016 Degree Grantor / Ustanova koja je dodijelila akademski / stručni stupanj: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / Sveučilište u Rijeci, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci Permanent link / Trajna poveznica: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:222392 Rights / Prava: In copyright Download date / Datum preuzimanja: 2021-10-03 Repository / Repozitorij: Repository of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - FHSSRI Repository Sveučilište u Rijeci Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci Odsjek za kulturalne studije Ivana Kljajić Anarchism as a Culture? Rijeka, 23. rujna 2016. Ivana Kljajić: Anarchism as a Culture? Sveučilište u Rijeci Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci Odsjek za kulturalne studije Ivana Kljajić Anarchism as a Culture? Mentorica: dr.sc. Sarah Czerny Rijeka, 23. rujna 2016. 1 Ivana Kljajić: Anarchism as a Culture? Table of Contents: ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………………… INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………….. 1. ANARCHISM…………………………………………………………………………… 1.1.What Is Anarchism?...................................................................................................... 1.2.The Enlightenment and Liberalism as Great Influences on the Emergence of the Anarchist Movement…………………………………………………… 1.3.Origins of the Anarchist Movement…………………………………………............... 1.4.Anarchism and the Concepts of Freedom and Equality………………………………. 1.5.Anarchism and Democracy……………………………………………………………. 1.6.Anarchism and Its Relationship with
    [Show full text]
  • Catalogue 2018
    anarchist publishing Est. 1886 Catalogue 2018 INTRO/INDEX wELCOME TO THE FREEDOM CATALOGUE Anarchism is almost certainly the most interesting political movement to have slipped under the radar of public discourse. It is rarely pulled up in today’s media as anything other than a curio or a threat. But over the course of 175 years since Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s declaration “I am an anarchist” this philosophy of direct action and free thought has repeatedly changed the world. From Nestor Makhno’s legendary war on both Whites and Reds in 1920s Ukraine, to the Spanish Civil War, to transformative ideals in the 1960s and street-fought antifascism in the 1980s, anarchism remains a vital part of any rounded understanding of humanity’s journey from past to present, let alone the possibilities for its future. For most of that time there has been Freedom Press. Founded in 1886, brilliant thinkers past and present have published through Freedom, allowing us to present today a kaleidoscope of classic works from across the modern age. Featuring books from Peter Kropotkin, Nicolas Walter, William Blake, Errico Malatesta, Colin Ward and many more, this catalogue offers much of what you might need to understand a fascinating creed. ordering direct trade You can order online, by email, phone Trade orders come from Central Books, or post (details below). Our business who offer 33% stock discounts as hours are 10am-6pm, Monday to standard. Saturday. Postage is free within the UK, with You can pay via Paypal on our £2.50 extra for orders from abroad — website.
    [Show full text]
  • Ria Us a T Q .Com Mn
    buchantiquariat Internet: http://comenius-antiquariat.com 2448 • Albrecht/ Lock/ Wulf. Arbeitsplätze durch Rüstung. Warnung vor falschen Hoffnungen. rororo Datenbank: http://buch.ac 4266, 1978. 237 S. CHF 10 / EUR 6.60 A Q Wochenlisten: http://buchantiquariat.com/woche/ Kataloge: http://antiquariatskatalog.com 102541 • Allen, Durward L. u.a., Natur erleben, Natur verstehen. Stuttgart u.a.: Das Beste, 1979. 335 A RI AGB: http://comenius-antiquariat.com/AGB.php Seiten mit Register. Halbkunstleder. 4to. CHF 35 / EUR 23.10 • Originaltitel: Joy of nature; deutsch von .COM M N US ! com Karl Wilhelm Harde. T 78063 • Alley, Rewi, Quer durch China. Reisen in die Kulturrevolution 1966 - 1971. Stuttgart: Verlag Neuer Weg 1977. 502 S. mit Abbildungen. kart. CHF 22 / EUR 14.52 11923 • Almanach Socialiste 1925. Quatrième année. La Chaux-de-Fonds: Imprimerie coopérative 1925. 96 S. brosch. CHF 21 / EUR 13.86 Katalog Soziale Bewegungen 104803 • Alt, Franz, Frieden ist möglich. Die Politik der Bergpredigt. 23. Auflage, 840. - 870. Tausend. München, Zürich: Piper, 1986. 119 Seiten mit Literaturverzeichnis. Kartoniert. CHF 10 / EUR 6.60 • COMENIUS-ANTIQUARIAT • Staatsstrasse 31 • CH-3652 Hilterfingen Serie Piper; 284: Aktuell. Fax 033 243 01 68 • E-Mail: [email protected] 112301 • Altermatt, Urs und Hanspeter Kriesi [Hrsg.], Rechtsextremismus in der Schweiz. Einzeltitel im Internet abrufen: http://buch.ac/?Titel=[Best.Nr.] Stand: 14/03/2010 • 2692 Titel Organisationen und Radikalisierung in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren. Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1995. 264 Seiten mit Literaturverzeichnis. Kartoniert. CHF 25 / EUR 16.50 • Vorwort von Arnold Koller. - Rücken ben leicht bestossen. 78830 • Abendroth, Wolfgang, Sozialgeschichte der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung.
    [Show full text]
  • Black Flag Supplement
    -I U The oodcock - Sansom School of Fals|f|cat|o (Under review: the new revised edition of Geo. Woodcock’s no mnnection with this George Spanish). The book wrote the Anarchists off ‘Anarchism’, published by Penguin books; the Centenary Edition Woodcock! Wrote all essay 111 3 trade altogether. The movement was dead. of ‘Freedom’, published by Freedom Press.) ‘figiggmfii“,:§°:i;mfit‘3’§ar’§‘,ia’m,‘§f“;L3;S, He was its ‘obituarist’. Now he has fulsome praise of his ‘customary issued a revised version of the book brilliance (he had only written one brought up ‘to date’. He wasn’t HEALTH WARNING; Responses to preparing for a three volume history °i3iiei' Pieee) and ’iiiei5iVe insight’ " it wrong, he says, it did die — but his (‘I find the influence of Stirner on was a Pavlovian response from his book brought it back to life again! Freedom Press clique have been namesake’s coterie. It explains what It adds a history’ of the British described by our friends as ‘terminally British anarchism very interesting. .’) The Amsterdam Institute for Social this George Woodcock set out movement for his self-glorification, boring’ but can we let everything History, funded by the Dutch govem- steadily to build up. actually referring to the British pass? We suggest using this as a ment, now utilises the CNT archives He came on the anarchist scene delegate to the Carrara conference supplement to either ‘Anarchism’ or to establish itself (to quote Rudolf de during the war, profiteering on the denouncing those who pretended to ‘Freedom Centennial’, especially when Jong) as ‘paterfamilias’ between the boom in anarchism to get into the be anarchists but were so in name you feel tired of living.
    [Show full text]
  • Ethical Record the Proceedings of the South Place Ethical Society Vol
    Ethical Record The Proceedings of the South Place Ethical Society Vol. 113 No. 4 £1.50 April 2008 S. Root', Donald Rooum's Wildcat (see page 8) BLASPHEMY REPEAL — IS THIS THE END? David Nash 3 UN VOTE MARKS THE END OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS 7 VIEWPOINT - HOW HITLER FAVOURED CHRISTIANITY Doncdd Roount 8 DONALD ROOUM,CARTOONS SINCE 1980 8 PERSUED BY DEMONS - A RATIONAL APPROACH TO THE DRINK PROBLEM Terry Liddle MENTAL ROUGHAGE FOR CONSIDERATION Albert Adler 13 THE FREE WILL DEBATE CONTINUES A Reply to Chris Broacher Tom Rubens 14 ON BEING JEWISH Isaac Ascher 19 ETHICAL SOCIETY EVENTS 24 SOUTH PLACE ETHICAL SOCIETY Conway Hall Humanist Centre 25 Red Lion Square, London WC I R 4RL. Tel: 020 7242 8034 Fax: 020 7242 8036 Websne: www.ethicalsoc.org.uk email: [email protected] Chairman: Giles Enders Hon. Rep.: Don Liversedge Vice-chairman: Terry Mullins Treasurer: John Edwards Registrar: Donald Rooum Editor: Norman Bacrac SPES Staff Executive Officer: Emma J. Stanford Tel: 020 7242 8034 Finance Officer: Linda Alia Tel: 020 7242 8034 Lettings Officer: Carina Dvorak Tel: 020 7242 8032 librarian/Programme Coordinator: Jennifer leynes M.Sc. Tel: 020 7242 8037 Lettings Assistant: Marie Aubrechtova Caretakers: Eva Aubrechtova (i/c); Tel: 020 7242 8033 together with: Shaip Bullaku, Angelo Edrozo, Nikola Ivanovski, Alfredo Olivio, Rogerio Retuerna. David Wright Maintenance Operative: Zia Hameed New Member We welcome to the Society Mike Ward of Farnham Humanists Obituary AL (Lawrence) Payne (1911-2008) Member A .L. Payne has died. His widow Nan tells us that Lawrence was always interested in ethical issues.
    [Show full text]
  • Wildcat Anarchist Comics
    Wildcat Anarchist Comics Donald Rooum Foreword by Jay Kinney • Colors by Jayne Clementson Wildcat Anarchist Comics collects the drawings of Donald Rooum, mostly (but by no means entirely) from the long-running “Wildcat” cartoon series that has been published in Freedom newspaper since 1980. Rooum does not just purvey jokes but makes the drawings comical in themselves, “get- ting the humour in the line,” provoking laughter even in those who do not read the captions or speech balloons. The chief characters in the strip are the Revolting Pussycat, a short-fused anarchist who is furious and shouty; and the Free-Range Egghead, an in- tellectual who would like anarchism to be respectable but sometimes ap- pears foolish. Governments, bosses, and authoritarians are presented as buffoons, and quite often so are anarchists. This thoughtful and delightful collection includes strips from The Skeptic and many more, all beautifully colored for the first time by Jayne Clementson. The book also includes a lively autobiographical introduction that discusses Rooum’s role in the 1963 “Challenor case,” in which a corrupt police of- ficer planted a weapon on Rooum at a demonstration, ultimately resulting in Rooum’s acquittal. SUBJECT CATEGORY ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Art-Comics/Politics-Anarchism Donald Rooum, born 1928, became an anarchist in 1944 and has contrib- PRICE uted articles to the anarchist paper Freedom since 1947. He studied graphic $14.95 design in Bradford, England, and his cartoons have been published in the ISBN British press since 1950. His editorial cartoons have appeared in Peace 978-1-62963-1-462 News since 1962.
    [Show full text]