Contents Fall 1997 IAS Update Papers

Dimensions of Chinese : An Interview with Arif Dirlik From 1905 to 1930, anarchists exerted a means by these concepts is necessary for analysis, broad influence on Chinese culture and politics. establishing first principles tends to dehistoricize They were at the center of the emerging social the approach to them. In other words, you establish radicalism of that period and their activities left a first principles - as if they were true everywhere at significant mark on later decade's revolutionary all times - and then begin to analyze people in movements. terms of those principles. This leads to ahistorical Arif Dirlik is among the few historians writing judgments, in my opinion, on "who is or isn't a true in English to treat the Chinese anarchist movement, anarchist" or "who is or isn't a true Marxist?" which he has chronicled and analyzed in several It leads inevitably to unproductive questions of works, most notably his Anarchism in the Chinese orthodoxy - unproductive both intellectually and . He has also written numerous politically. This also results in certain kinds of explorations of contemporary problems in radical sectarianism, since it leads to a question of truth politics and theory. fulness rather than historical variation. So, this I spoke with Dirlik on May 19, 1997. I asked didn't have anything to do with Chinese anarchism him about Chinese anarchism, his experience as a per se, but rather my approach to intellectual hist radical social theorist in the university, and the ory and concepts. future of his work. ~ Chuck Morse T Tnlike Peter Zarrow in Anarchism and \J Chinese Political Culture, you de-emphasize Most historiesestablishing of the anarchism principles of beginanarchism by the role of Daoism and Buddhism in the and then narrate the lives of those who embraced constitution of Chinese anarchism. Why is this? these principles. You chose a different approach in There is a methodological problem here ... Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution. You There has been a long-standing tendency - I'm describe the Chinese anarchists as both subjects tempted to call it an Orientalist tendency even - to and objects - products and shapers - of the larger attribute everything new in China to Chinese tradi revolutionary process in China, and your book tion, which is another way of saying that there is traces the dialectic between the anarchists and this never anything significantly new in China, anything process. Why did you choose this form of that cannot be explained in terms of the past. exposition? Is there something about the Chinese I have been a critic of this tradition in Chinese anarchists that makes this necessary or does it historiography. I believe that Chinese society was reflect larger methodological commitments? as subject to change as any other society, whether It's the latter. I believe in approaching or not we are willing to recognize it. So, I was concepts, theories, or political orientations hesitant, therefore, to attribute the emergence of historically. While some kind of notion of what one continued on page 6

IAS Grant Awards

The IAS awards an annual total of $6000 in perspective to current debates on biotechnology. grants to writers whose work is important to the It will emphasize the urgent need for an activist anarchist critique of domination, exhibit a clear response to biotechnology and that efforts against financial need, and whose piece is likely to it must also challenge larger structures of social receive wide distribution. On June 15, 1997, the domination. IAS Board of Directors was pleased to award grants to the following individuals: $500 to Frank Adams for the essay, The Educational Ideas and Management Practices of SI000 to Zoe Erwin and Brian Tokar for the I91 and2(f Century Anarchists in Labor-Owned production of Engineering Life: A People's . This essay will explore the Guide to Biotechnology. This anthology of essays practical educational efforts made by anarchists will bring a comprehensive and radical Continued on Page 10 Perspectives-1-on on anarchist anarchist theorytheory

Institute for Update Perspectives - On Anarchist Theory In the last issue of Perspectives I introduced the posted an IAS web site on the Internet. It is our Institute for Anarchist Studies and our goal to hope that this site will help the IAS reach out to Fall 1997, Vol. I, No. 2 encourage the development of radical social potential grant applicants, supporters, and allies Newsletter of the Institute criticism and ideals of freedom. I am pleased to around the world, thus enabling the IAS to embody for Anarchist Studies report that we have pursued this goal vigorously its internationalist commitments in practice. It is and even expanded our activities in small, but also a cost-effective way to distribute information Editorial Committee: significant ways. about the IAS, thus helping us reduce operating Rebecca DeWitt, Chuck Morse expenses to an even smaller percentage of our The IAS has continued to help radical writers annual budget. Although we will continue to add Grammatical Specialists: produce high quality, critical scholarship with its IAS literature to the site as it becomes available, Diva Agostinelli, Brian Wells grant awards. The IAS awarded its second set of you can already download a grant application, read Hay, Chris Robinson grants this July to authors whose projects will IAS publications, and find links to a variety of examine attempts to build social alternatives and Subscription Rates useful resources and complementary projects. If (Two issues per year) confront urgent, contemporary issues with an anti- you have Internet access, please set aside a few I A S D o n o r s - F r e e authoritarian perspective. It was with pleasure that moments and take a look. The address is: http:// I n d i v i d u a l s - $ 5 we provided assistance to these individuals, members.aol.com/iastudy/Default.htm. I n s t i t u t i o n s - '■ $10 knowing that our grants will help them afford time Bulk Subs (25 Copies) - $25 and resources that are typically scarce for those Finally, it is important to emphasize that the IAS's who challenge social hierarchies. Likewise, it has ability to sustain and expand its efforts presupposes (Please make checks payable to the been gratifying to see our grants yield concrete Institute for Anarchist Studies) the generosity of groups and individuals who value results, as previous recipients bring their projects our efforts to support radical scholarship and build Disclaimer: the views expressed in closer to completion. They have worked diligently: a radical social institution. In particular, the IAS Perspectives do not necessarily is finishing the last chapter of his must raise $8500 by January, 1998 to award $6000 represent the views of the IAS as a book, The Culture of Revolt: Art and Anarchism in in grants, pay for daily office expenses, and - by whole. America. Kwaku Kushindana and Paul placing 10 percent of every donation in the IAS Fleckenstein have also nearly completed their endowment - continue laying the foundation for essays ("Avoiding New Forms of Repression: An future generations of dissenting, Utopian authors. IAS Board of Directors: African-American Reply" and "Civic Space and Please consider making a donation to the IAS if Paula Emery, John Petrovato, the Anarchist Dream," respectively). And, finally, Dan Chodorkoff, Cindy Milstein, you are not already among those who have Michelle Matisons, Maura Dillon, is immersed in exhaustive generously donated to our 1997 fundraising Paul Glavin preparatory research for the second volume of his campaign (see page 11). Contributions are tax Spanish Anarchists. deductible for US citizens and, thanks to Perennial IAS Coordinator Books of Montague, Massachusetts, we are able to Rebecca DeWitt We have not only continued to award grants but offer a selection of exceptional books in exchange have also worked to refine our ability to identify for any contribution of $25 or more (see page 11). General Director: and select the most germane and far reaching This will also entitle you to a 15 percent discount Chuck Morse projects. Specifically, the IAS Board of Directors on any item in Perennial's extraordinary catalogue. recently decided to expand the types of work eligible for IAS support. Grants were previously The IAS is working hard to help radical authors, For more information or a grant directed toward non-fiction works, although we encourage dialogue about anarchist scholarship, application, please send a self- came to regard this as both an unnecessary and build an organization that will be there for the addressed, stamped envelope to: restriction and one that could prevent us from next generation of dissidents. Although our efforts Institute for supporting an extremely valuable project (for unfold in an era of uncertainty and change, the IAS Anarchist Studies example, the next Homage to Catalonia). The IAS has emerged as a solid project that is tangibly P.O. Box 7050 Board thus decided to make IAS grants available to enriching attempts to confront the challenges of our Albany, NY all written works, whether they are fiction, non- time with searching critique and radical ideals of 12225 - USA fiction, poetry, drama, etc.. freedom. ~ Chuck Morse Phone: 518-465-3062 We have also expanded our efforts to encourage E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://members.aol.com/ dialogue about anarchist scholarship, keep people informed about developments in the field, and iastudy/Defaulthtm publicize the IAS. First, we have added four pages The IAS is a nonprofit, tax-exempt to Perspectives in order to provide more in depth organization. news and analysis, particularly longer interviews and "What's Happening" reports. We have also Perspectivesi. on anarchist theorv

Anarchism and the Emma Goldman Papers Project Kate Sharpley by Rebecca Dewitt Library Archives are an essential resource for radical a shoebox. In the 1970's, Candace Falk and her scholarship and certainly most studies of anarchism dog, Red Emma, were visiting a friend's guitar shop The is an would not be possible without them. Most archives when he offhandedly mentioned a shoebox he'd found full of love letters from Ben Reitman to extraordinary archive. Named are supported by the federal government or in honor of a WWI anarchist Emma Goldman. This discovery eventually led to universities, while some archives are established by and anti-war activist, it holds anarchists as self-consciously radical projects. the publication of Falk's book Love, , and what is probably the largest Emma Goldman, which Falk hoped would Anarchist run archives are less numerous but they collection of anarchist material tend to more accurately preserve the history of "inscribe a more complete picture of her in England. Their collection anarchism because they function from anarchist [Goldman] into the historical record.'" As a result includes several thousand pam principles, whereas archives that collect anarchist of the book, the National Historical Publications material but do not function from anarchist and Records Commission of the National Archives phlets, books, newspapers, journals, posters, flyers, un principles tend to misrepresent anarchist, history. (a federal agency) asked her to oversee the task of published manuscripts, mono The Emma Goldman Papers Project (EGPP) collecting Goldman's writings for archival graphs, and essays in over 20 focuses exclusively on an anarchist figure purposes. Over a twelve-year period, Falk and others collected correspondence, writings, and languages, covering the history esteemed, quoted, and upheld by the anarchist of the anarchist movement over community, but nonetheless does not embrace government documents to establish the EGPP at the last century. anarchist principles. The EGPP provides a good the University of Berkeley. illustration of the problems that occur when an For example, the KSL possess archive of anarchist material is run in a non- The collection is mainly structured around es detailed reports from the anarchist manner. Goldman's correspondence with radical figures IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist and, with over 20,000 documents, it is impressive. Federation of Britain (1945- The EGPP all started with a dog, a guitar shop, and continued on page 10 50), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-79) as well as records from anarchist pub Recommended Reading lishing houses such as Cien- We asked two authors to tell us Annares, makes the trip to basic politics of Wellspring fuegos Press, ASP, and others. about their favorite books on a Urras. There we see the House is called 'hospitality' and Newspapers include near com anarchist and capitalist demo resembles the politics of plete sets of Freedom, Spain vital topic: the relationship and the World, , cratic societies, the conflicts and Annares where there is no between radical social theory Black Flag, and countless and political opposition. resistances, and the failings and property and people's needs are others dating back 100 years. successes as they emerge in filled in common. As when The Library also has a sizeable Shevek arrives among the Kathryn Addelson, author of practice, not merely theory. collection of libertar-ian LeGuin imagines the anarchist Impure Thoughts; Essays on 'propertarians' of Urras he tells socialist and council comm them, 'I come like a good Philosophy, and society in detail, helping us see unist material. Ethics (Temple, 1992) and an anarchist life inside a cap Odonian, with empty hands.' italist democracy. Moral Passages: Toward a They must care for him with You can help the KSL expand Collectivist Moral Theory Another book, Images for 'hospitality', not by profit or their collection. Please add (Routledge, 1994) writes: Change: The Transformation of exchange." them to your mailing list if you "Anarchism is a philosophy of Society by Rosemary Luling are active in an anarchist group L. Susan Brown, author of The how we might live in freedom Haughton (Paulist Press, 1997), or publish anarchist material. and respect, and practically Politics of : suggests we see our world and Also, please consider donating transform everyday life in the communities as homes and Liberalism, Liberal Feminism any suitable material you might face of opposition. For this suggests ways we might change and Anarchism (Montreal: these homes. Haughton and Black Rose, 1993) writes: "A have. It will be welcome and reason. I like Ursula LeGuin's can be collected. The Dispossessed (Avon, 1974). others have spent years putting dear friend and former teacher The novel tells the story of of mine, Luiz Costa-Pinto, once imagination into practice If you would like to use their two worlds: Annares, the arid said, 'If violence is the midwife through community organizing facilities or donate material, planet where exiled Odonians at Wellspring House in of history, then it is ideas that please contact the KSL at: Kate put anarchism into practice; and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her make history pregnant.' This Urras, the parent globe that earlier book, Song in a Strange statement captures the relation Sharpley Library, BM Hurr Land (Templegate. 1990), tells icane, , WC1N 3XX, includes a capitalist democracy ship between ideas and action UK. Their web address is: http:/ of those experiments and how for me: meaningful political among its hostile states. Shevek, /members.aol.com/wellslake/ a brilliant physicist from opposition was overcome. The Continued on Page 12 Sharpley.htm PerspectivesAon anarchist theory

Contacts and What's Happening: Books & Events Addresses and Murray Bookchin, two of the most The literature on the is already distinguished anarchist authors of the second half expansive and it grows with three new books Anarchist Studies of this century, continue to enrich radical politics examining fairly specialized dimensions of the White Horse Press, and critique. Ward, author of Anarchy in Action movement. These are David Morland's Demanding 1 Strond, Isle of Harris, (Freedom Press, 1973) as well as numerous other the Impossible: Human Nature and Politics in HS5 3UD, Scotland works, has recently published Reflected in Water: Nineteenth-Century (£13.99, Web: http://www.enca. A Crisis of Social Responsibility (£12.99, Cassell demon.co.uk/AS.html Cassell), Michael Forman's Nationalism and the Academic). This book provides an "account of the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the immense social issues raised locally and globally Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory (Penn. AK Press by our universal need for water, and of the various State University Press), and Alexander Varias' P.O. Box 40682, water crises now facing the world." The political Paris and the Anarchists: Aesthetes and San Francisco, CA dimensions of Bookchin's social ecology are Subversives During Fin- 94140-0682 elaborated by Janet Biehl in The Politics of Social de-Siecle (St. Martins Web: http://www. Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism (Black Rose Press). These will be akpress.org/ Books, SI9.99). This work focuses on the historical complemented by AK and philosophical context of libertarian mun Press's new translation Black Crow Books icipalism and practical questions pertinent to and publication of Daniel PO Box 414, Station E, building a libertarian municipalist movement. An Guerin's two volume, Toronto, Ontario, extensive interview with Bookchin is also included. M6H 4E3. Canada documentary history of In addition, many of Bookchin's essential writings Anarchism, Neither God Web: http://www. are collected in the Murray Bookchin Reader. This Daniel Guerin Nor Master ($16.95 per web.net/~blcr/ work, edited and introduced by Janet Biehl, is volume). soon-to-be released by Cassell Academic (£15.99). Cassell Academic: Also, stay tuned for the second volume of The Kate Sharpley Library continues to produce P.O. Box 605 Bookchin's Third Revolution: Popular Movements work from their collection with the pamphlet "The Herndon,VA 22172; in the Revolutionary Era. CNT and the Russian Revolution" by Ignacio Web: http://www.bookshop. Llorens (available from AK Distribution and the co.uk/cassell/default.htm Attempts to refine a KSL). Another pamphlet on the Russian continue. In Twenty-First Century Anarchism: Revolution has just been (re)released by E.G. E.G. Smith Distribution Unorthodox Ideas for the New Millennium (Cassell Smith and AK Press: G.P. Maximov's Bolshevism: P.O. Box 82026 Academic, £13.99) Jon Purkis and James Bowen Promises & Reality. This analysis of the Marxist Columbus. Ohio, 43202 have collected essays that explore issues such as dictatorship was originally published in 1935 by Web: http://www.infinet. human nature, technology, culture and power, the Free Society Group of Chicago. Also available com/~egsmith/welcome.htm 1 identity, and consumerism. Also included is a is Degrees of Freedom: Anarchist Essays By and glossary of anarchist figures, movements, and About Jens Bjorneboe, a noted Norwegian Freedom Press events. Sydney, Australia's Visions of Freedom anarchist author (S4.00 from Protocol Press). 84B. Whitechapet High St., Collective is commemorating the Visions of London El 7QX, U.K. Freedom Conference held there in 1995 with the Anarchist journals are still important forums for production of an anthology of talks given at the debating and developing anarchism. The Raven, an Protocol Press conference. This includes 's anarchist quarterly from London, has a new issue 4722 Baltimore Ave., "Goals and Visions" as well as essays addressing out (Number 33) on the arts. Copies are available Philadelphia, PA 19143 free speech, the relationship between feminism and from Freedom Press. The next issue of Anarchist anarchism, and other issues. They have also Studies, due out in October, includes articles such Social Anarchism produced a magazine containing a variety of as "Kropotkin and Spatial Social Theory: 2743 Maryland Avenue, articles, reports, and photographs related the event. Unfolding an Anarchist Construction" by Shaun Baltimore, MD 21218 Both are available from the Visions of Freedom Huston and "Max Stirner: The Last Hegelian or the Web: http://www. Collective. First Poststructuralist?" by Andrew M. Koch. nothingness.org/sociala/ Copies are available from The White Horse Press. IAS on the Web The next issue of Social Anarchism will be Visions of Freedom dedicated to the memory of David Wieck and will • IAS Publications Collective include, among other things, an article on Ebonics, P.O.Box, 13, • Grant Applications Enmore 2042, Australia • Helpful Links reading Godwin, and a special symposium on building an anarchist agenda. Web: http://www. cat.org.au http://members.aol.com/iastudy/Default.htm * Photo by Sophie Bassouls from Guerin's The Brown Plague Perspectivesa on anarchist theory

Flores Magon, Rosa Pesotta, and other less Anyone interested in buying anarchist books and African meeting anarchist book lovers will want to attend prominent anarchists. Anarchy Archives can be one of the upcoming book fairs. The Sixteenth found at http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/ Anarchism Annual London will be held on Anarchist_Archives/archivehome.html. Also, the October 18, 1997 at 10 am in Conway Hall, Red Kate Sharpley Library now has a web site, where See Sharp Press has just re- Lion Square, London WCI (nearest tube is you'll find a listing of KSL pamphlets and other Xos^AfricmvAf^chism: The Holborn). For more information contact: New publications. The address is http:// History of a Movement This Anarchist Review, C/O 84b Whitechapel High St., members.aol.com/wellslake/Sharpley.htm. Finally, long awaited -^ofkllby Sara London El 7QX or send e-mail to the Anarchist Archives Project of Cambridge, Mbah and HE. Igariweymakes [email protected]. The Third Annual Bay Massachusetts now has a small web site now at a significant contribution to Area Anarchist Bookfair will take place on March http://members.aol.com/wellslake/AAP.htm. anarchist as well as African 28,1997. More than 50 exhibitors from all over the history. The authors explain U.S. will sell radical and anti-authoritarian books, Harold Barclay, author of People Without their intentions as follows: records, posters and tee-shirts, with speakers to be Government: An Anthropology of Anarchism, announced. For more info contact: Bound Together recently published a collection of 14 essays and "Though not abundant any Books, 1369 Haight Street, SF, CA 94117 or AK book reviews entitled Culture and Anarchism where, anarchist literature is Press. (Freedom Press, £6.95/ especially scarce faiAfrica. This feet, in part, explains why The 25th Annual Reunion of the Friends of the Radical struggle is the focus of The Heart of anarchist ideas are not spread Ferrer Modern School will be a great Progress by Paul ingas rast as .they^should in opportunity to see old friends and Klem. Composed of 60 Africa andelsewhere^in spite of make new ones. It will take place on "social expressionist, the crisis of state . Sept. 20, 1997 at Brower Commons polemical etchings" of Rutgers University, New and accompanied by "Anarchist development has Brunswick, NJ. Themes are labor prose poems, it add also .been retarded for decades unions and education and art and the resses issues such as for other reasons,, including the Modern School, featuring talks by technology, peda theoretical weakness of: anarch John Bekken, Allan Antliff, and gogy, race, class, ism. JHowever historically cor James Wechsler. For more gender, work, and rect anarchist positions might information and to reserve a buffet culture. It is available be, without a rigorous theo lunch ($11 per person) contact: for $13Can/$llUS/ retical foundation, most work Friends of the Ferrer Modern £6UK from Black ers, peasants and other potential School, 200 Sumack Ridge Lane, Crow Books. anarchists wilt^inajn indifT- Altamont, NY 12009; phone 518- erehtto the^philpsophy:%;.] 8 6 1 - 5 5 4 4 ; o r e m a i l The Rabble Review is a [email protected]. Also, new magazine pro "It is against this background anarchism's influence on the arts From Paul Klem's The Heart of Progress viding a voice for ideas mat we, members of the Aware from the turn of the century to the and activities of ness League, have elected to present will be the subject of "Anarchism and activists, disgruntled workers, anti-authoritarians, trace the relationship between Visual Culture," a special session at the College corporate resisters, whistleblowers and other Africa and anarchism. In doing Art Association's 86th Annual Conference to be assorted malcontents. For a sample copy, send $4 &£ we; are, impeUealjy. a two- held in Toronto, February 25-28,1998. to P.O. Box 471 VA 22204. fold sense of historical respons ibility: .to enrich anarchism and , an Australian Anarchist bookstore, is Temma Kaplan, author ofAnarchists of Andalusia, anarchist principles with an both celebrating its 20th year and relocating, with has a new book out, Crazy for Democracy: Women African perspective and to festivities being planned at the new location: 440 in Movements (Routledge), which carve out a place:ribr Africa Parramatta Road, PO Box N32, Petersham North focuses on women activists in Central and South within the framework of the NSW 2049, Australia. America. Also, Dennis Sullivan, co-author of The worldwide anarchist move Struggle to Be Human: Crime, Criminology, and ment" ~fromi^efinfrojduction. The Internet continues to grow as resource for Anarchism (Cienfuegos Press, 1980) recently discussion and scholarship on anarchism. The helped establish the Institute for Economic and African Anarchism: The Hist remarkable Anarchy Archives is always expanding, Restorative Justice. The Institute held a conference ory:of a Movement is available and new additions include various works by in June and will also publish a journal, The for $11.45 (post,paM);from See Godwin, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Goldman. A Contemporary Justice Review. For more Sharp ;Press, PiO^lpx 1731, completely new section of the site has been created information contact: The Institute for Economic Tucson, AZ, 85702^31, It is entitled "Bright, But Lesser Lights" featuring and Restorative Justice at P.O. Box 262, also available from-AK Press material by and about figures such as Ricardo Voorheesville, NY, 12186. and E.G. Smith Distribution. PerspectivesAon anarchist theory

Dimensions of Chinese Anarchism:

... Continuedjrom page I subjects into passive political subjects, whereas anarchism, , or anything for that matter, to nationalism called for active political subjects. Arif Dirlik intended to be a some Chinese tradition or another. Aside from the question of the citizen, nuclear physicist Born in The problem is that the Chinese tradition has nationalism's notion of the relationship between Mersjn,: i^nflkey m .1940 (or been used to explain everything, from state and society requires a new kind of accounting 1941,^if|r6u^ik:Jife^ofoer);he and Maoism to anarchism, and these days it's for society, both in the sense of who's going to Teceived'ii^rT; undergraduate fashionable to explain Chinese capitalism in terms participate in politics, what are the qualifications of tradition. I don't know how valid that is as an for participation in politics, and what are the to America to;study science at explanation, that notion of tradition, when it can factors that militate against political participation. the University of Rochester. explain so many different and contradictory things. As I argue in my book, in some ways these changes I came to study Chinese anarchism by tracing lead directly to questions of . Shortly after arriving at the origins of this notion of social revolution, and I In the case of China, there is another element. Rochester, Dirlik decided to believe that Chinese anarchism was a radical, new There's at least some kind of historical coincidence , abandon the sciences entirely idea. There may be Taoist elements in it, there may between the emergence of a nationalist ; and. apply himself to history. be Buddhist elements in it there may even - consciousness and a new kind of supra-national He was welcomed intolKe field through Tolstoy - be Christian elements in it: utopianism, if you like. It's as if the building of a by a group of intellectual nevertheless, my concern was with the new ideas nation becomes the first task but somehow not the historians there, who expressed that anarchism brought into the Chinese intellectual ultimate task; that once the nation has been built no surprise that he would make scene, chief among them this idea of a social and society has been reordered, there would, in the such a transition. revolution. So, I think this emphasis explains some future, be a way of transcending that nationalism. of the differences. It's tricky ... I believe I described this as a It was here that his interest in Also, we need to make a distinction between counterpoint to nationalism. If you recall the parts Chmese history developed, and the past as a determinant of the present and the past in the book about Liu Shipei - and here the he completed his dissertation as a reservoir of ideas upon which people can draw differences between anarchists become really on the origins of Marxist to deal with the present. There is no question that important - there's a feeling that nationalism opens historiography> In. Chinai^Fhls some of the Chinese anarchists - Liu Shipei was the up new questions that prepare the ground for work was the beginning of a outstanding one among them, and then Shifu - drew anarchism, if you like, but also created new kinds larger investigation into on and Buddhism. However, this is not just of threats. For example, someone like Liu Shipei, Chinese political thought, the determination or constitution of Chinese could see correctly that for all the theoretical particularly the origins of the anarchism by Daoism or Buddhism, but rather a despotism of the Imperial State, nationalism idea of social revolution in two way, dialectical process. In other words, the promised far greater and far more intensive Chinese radical movemerits. It Chinese past is being read in new ways with the intrusion in society than had been the case under was also me springboard for his help of anarchism and conversely there is a re the imperial state. At this point anarchism becomes engagement with me Chinese reading of anarchism through Taoist and Buddhist a way of asserting the autonomy of the society anarchists; which he began to ideas. What is important to me is the dialectic, and against an intrusive nationalist society. vigorously research in the early I stay away from the notion that the Chinese were And, while I don't want to generalize too 1980's. somehow unconsciously under the sway of this or much, this may be a fruitful way of thinking about that tradition that then shaped their readings of other circumstances. This notion of nationalism - In addition to writing numerous anarchism. representing a new kind of politics, raising new books and articles, Dirlik has questions, calling for new solutions, and playing taught at DuJce University since some part in the emergence of socialism and joining their 'History depart 7ou nationalismclaim that theactually emergence created manyof Chinese of the anarchism - may be relevant to more than China. ment in i9|4. He is-alsorme theoretical and political preconditions for the father ofirwb *sons, one of emergence of Chinese anarchism. This seems YXTas there something unique about whom is a graduate student in contradictory at first glance. How did this happen? VY circumstances in China at this time that fibn and, theother, an aspiring This reflects a particular appreciation of made Kropotkin - as opposed to other anarchist rock musician. nationalism on my part. While we obviously are theorists - most pertinent or influential? concerned with many of the negative manifest There are probably two reasons. First Kropot When I asked Dirlik to identify ations of nationalism, it is a rather radical idea at its kin's anarchism is thoroughly tied to a program of the main influences on his origins. It calls for both a new conception of state, social transformation and, given the concern work,:he.^a^^^rjaimioment a new conception of the relationship between state among Chinese radicals with the question of social and then cited Marx, Mao, and and society, and a new conception of the political revolution, one can see why they would find Dostoevsky. He did not subject as citizen. In that sense, it breaks radically Kropotkin more relevant than some of the other mention an engineer or a with earlier forms of political consciousness that anarchists. Another interesting element is the physicist. rested legitimacy in the emperor and rendered the importance of Social Darwinism in Chinese PerspectivesJ- on anarchanarchist ist rnenrvtheory

An Interview with Arif Dirlik Arif Dirlik: intellectual circles around the turn of the century. opinions of Chinese past, I think it was somewhat Selected Works Chinese Social Darwinists almost adopted the different. There the influence of Tolstoy may have Euro-American idea that the so-called progressive been quite important. Liu Shipei's objection was Anarchism in the Chinese Rev societies are progressive because they had won in not so much to Europe as to a new idea of politics olution. Berkeley: University of the conflict for survival, and through this there was and the idea of economic developmentalism that California Press, 1991, an element of the new world as a world of comp came with Europeans. etition and conflict, where those who didn't Schools into Fields and succeed might in fact perish. They were very pre Factories: Anarchists, the occupied with the examples of the American- rhe anarchistsanti-Manchu took a racism strong stand implicit against in thethe Guomindang, and the National Indians and Africans, and some Chinese were Revolutionary Alliance's arguments against the Labor University in Shanghai, convinced that those two groups, the black and red Manchu government. Was there an attempt to 1927-1932 (with Ming Chan). races as they called them, were doomed to develop an anarchist theory of ethnicity? Durham: Duke University extinction. I'm not aware of any such attempt. I think they Press, 1991. So, this called for a strengthening of China to took a stand against anti-Manchu racism because struggle in this new world, but the counter-part to they thought it was a distraction from the whole The Postcolonial Aura: Third this was a dissatisfaction with this world view issue of politics. In other words, it was not the World Criticism in the Age of based on conflict. And, the discovery of Kropotkin Manchus that were the problem, but the centralized Global Capitalism. Boulder: under these circumstances - with his argument that political state system and, to the extent that racism Westview Press, 1997. it was not conflict and competition but rather was raised as an issue, it distracted from this more mutual aid that served human progress - served as fundamental problem of the state. After the Revolution: Waking to a significant antidote to this and also resonated Global Capitalism. Hanover, with the Utopian strain to which I referred earlier. ISeminism and anarchism have had a difficult NH: Wesleyan University JL and complicated relationship in Europe and Press, 1994. Ty~ropotkin and Rectus were very important to America, yet feminism was apparently integral to J\. Chinese anarchists and also quite Chinese anarchism and not even a contentious Revolution and History: Eurocentric thinkers, at least in their conception of issue within the anarchist movement. Is there a Origins of Marxist Historiogra world history. Did the Chinese anarchists take reason why feminism was so easily integrated into phy in China, 1919-1937. issue with this or attempt to develop alternatives? the anarchist movement in China? Berkeley: University of Califor I don't think so. It was really not of much I'm going to make a distinction between a nia Press, 1990. concern to the Paris anarchists. And the form in concern for women and feminism in answering this which Kropotkin and Reclus reached the Tokyo question. The description of the Chinese anarch The Origins of Chinese people did not really suggest a Eurocentric ists, including people like He Zhen, as feminists Communism, New York: Ox interpretation of Asia or China. may be somewhat misleading: it fits in with current ford University Press, 1989. Although we are presently very sensitive to fashions, but I think the concern was more with the questions of Eurocentricism, the Chinese anarchists oppression of women and what could be done Chinese Postmodernism (Editor in Paris were much more down on Chinese tra about it than with a specifically feminist agenda. with Xudong Zhang). Durham: ditions than anybody in Europe at the time. These The anarchist involvement in the question of Duke University Press, forth .. are people who women, when we rephrase the problem in that coming. were calling for a manner, followed almost automatically from their revolution concern with the family as an oppressive Critical Perspectives on Mao against Con institution. They were concerned with that Zedong's Thought (Editor with fucius. So, if they throughout, and I think this brought them to the Paul Healy and Nick Knight). learned any of question of women, which was also a diffuse Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Hu this in Europe, concern in Chinese society around 1920. manities Press, 1997. they were much more enthusiastic Asia/Pacific As Space of about the re 7ou emergence write that you or re-emergence wanted to facilitate of a more the Cultural Production (Editor pudiation of the by recalling and examining with Rob Wilson). Durham. Chinese past for the history of Chinese anarchism. Did you also N.C.: Duke University Press, its backwardness intend to assist in the revitalization or 1994. than Europeans reemergence of anarchism? themselves. When I began working on Chinese anarchism What Is in a Rim?: Critical Ba Jin, Chinese anarchist and nov In the case of I sensed that there was a renewal of interest in Perspectives on the Pacific elist. (Photo: Anarchy Archives) Liu Shipei, who anarchism, in a very broad sense, and I hoped to Region Idea (Editor). Boulder: had very high Continued on Next Page Westview Press, 1993. PerspectivesIT on anarchist theory

... Dirlik Coninued way of ideology. We are much more subtle What's happening here? Why are we talking write this book as a contribution to that. And, with our controls and, under current about postcolonialism, all of a sudden, by the 1980's the failure of the promise of the circumstances, so long as you are not an instead of colonialism, domination, and Chinese revolution was becoming more and activist there are not serious reprisals. capitalism, etc? more evident and I found that anarchism We have a very intelligent power The tendencies that have gained the provided an interesting critical perspective structure here. For example, about ten years greatest popularity, in the United States on what had gone wrong. Also, to the extent ago somebody came to see me from the CIA. especially, are those which tend towards an that anarchism is laden with such valuable They were looking for students to recruit and obsession with ethnicity, inter-ethnic insights, obviously it is important to revive it were particularly interested in my students, relations, identity politics, etc., tendencies and bring it to the forefront of discussions. because they figured they would know about that question and even deny the possibility of Marxism, anarchism, etc., and if you want collective identities. To me there is no intelligent analysts you need well informed meaningful political activity, especially revo 7ou ofare Chinese a unambiguously revolutionary movementsradical scholar and people who know about these issues. I think lutionary activity, without the sense of a a full professor at a capitalist university in that's where the power establishment here collective identity. It is this undermining of America, the center of world imperialism. differs, say, from the People's Republic of notions of collective identity, combined with How could you be employed in such a China or the former Soviet Union, where the circumstances I referred to earlier, that setting? Have you been pressured to de- undesirable knowledge will simply be cast led me to assert that what we are dealing with radicalize or depoliticize your work? If not, aside rather than incorporated into an was really a post-revolutionary, not just what does this reveal about the relationship understanding of the world. postcolonial, orientation. between the university and radical social criticism? T Tow do you see your work developing in Contradictions (laughs) ... No, I've 7ou colonialism, just published The Postcolonial a book on Aura. post- JTl the future? never been pressured to deradicalize or How does this work relate to your studies on Well, I think any radical has enough depoliticize my work. If there's pressure it's Chinese anarchism? Also, please explain reason to be depressed these days: there indirect; you know, sometimes people say your discussion of postcolonialism as post- doesn't seem to be anything happening and "what do you do?" and I'd say "I'm writing a revolutionary. radicalism has sort of been highjacked by book on Chinese anarchism" and all they can In The Postcolonial Aura I tried to raise conservatives and liberals, and rendered into say is "oh". There's a sense that you are the question of third world intellectuals. identity politics. doing something marginal and playing There has been a preoccupation recently with On the other hand, some of the recent games. That kind of pressure doesn't bother Eurocentricism and the Euro-American op work I and others have done indicates that me. pression of other peoples which sort of there is a great deal of resistance and protest I think I've been lucky. You know, I've sweeps aside the importance of capitalism in going on which is not visible in the old ways had friends who have suffered for being shaping the world and how many of those because it isn't happening in major labor radicals. There have been hints of slight rejected Euro-American values are actually unions or big, visible communist parties, etc.. discrimination with regard to salaries and transmitted to the rest of the world through There are people lighting for their things like that, but I do not know whether to capitalism. It seemed to me, to the extent that livelihoods, trying to create new social forms attribute that to the fact that I am a radical capitalism has globalized, it has globalized from the bottom up. Some of it is dangerous, scholar or because I'm of third world origin. through the complicity of third world intell some can be right wing, but much of this has There may be a number of explanations here. ectuals, professionals, states, whatever, and, to do with people's efforts at survival under We forget sometimes that elite uni therefore, a critique of power and authority in what's happening with contemporary versities really need their radicals. Elite our day cannot be satisfied with a critique of capitalism. And there is a proliferation of universities, committed to giving their Eurocentricism or Euro-American dom these movements: women's movements, students the broadest education possible and ination of the world, but rather must include ecological movements, social justice making them function in the world, cannot a criticism of third world intellectuals, movements. They are happening all over and afford to produce narrow ignoramuses who professionals, states, power structures, etc.. yet contemporary radicals, such as they are, have never heard of Marxism or anarchism. That's what I seek to do in this work. are unwilling to see them. This may be why there's probably more As for the post-revolutionary aspect this These are not movements that you would tolerance for radicals in the elite universities grew out of a historical curiosity about the associate with conventional left (read: than in smaller places. That's what I had in meaning of postcolonialism: we have been Marxist) politics. They are movements from mind when I jokingly said "contradictions." post-colonials for some time now, why the bottom up. I'm not going to call them In some ways, mis is the strength of the should postcolonialism gain such currency in anarchist - some are feminist, some are American education system, in comparison, the late 1980's? After all, even when we had ecological - but if there were anarchist let's say, to the Chinese education system the radical movements of the 1960's, most movements going on, they would be some where if something was politically un third world societies were already post- thing like that. I think it is important to draw desirable it was kept out with the colonial or clearly becoming postcolonial, attention to these movements and theorize consequence that you end up with a bunch of and yet there was a sustainable radicalism in them as much as possible. This is what I'm people who didn't know anything about the those years, unlike the 1980's or 1990's. The working through: how to really conceptualize world other than what they've been fed by question became: What's the difference? radical movements from the bottom up. ED 8 PerspectivesJ- on anarchist theorytheorv

David Wieck: An Anarchist Life David Wieck: David Thoreau Wieck, an anarchist theorist, think more clearly and deeply about everything Selected Works educator, and activist, died on July 1, 1997 in they thought and did. Albany, New York. Woman from Spillertown: A He had a way of drawing humor out of people as Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck, I met David 33 years ago, four years after he well. It was his laugh itself, I now realize: so Carbondale: Southern Illinois started teaching philosophy at Rensselaer delightful was it to hear, I would do anything to University Press, 1992. Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. I had no make it happen. And yet he could be intimidating idea who he really was. He was just my professor to people at the same time, as they were often so "The Negativity of Anarchism." in "Logic and Argument," an introduction to distracted by his penetrating eyes and sharp tongue In Reinventing Anarchy: What logical analysis. He would come into class looking that they could not hear the twinkle of playfulness Are Anarchists Thinking These neat, hair combed back and shirt tucked into his in his laughter. He was a truly wonderful person, Days, ed. H.J. Ehrlich. New pants. But not long into class, he was drawing his and the world will sorely miss him. York: Routledge, 1979. hands through his hair, and twisting with such excitement, that his shirt would be out of his pants "The Habit of Direct Action." and his hair would go in all directions. I had never In Reinventing Anarchy: Again, met anyone who was so involved in his teaching- ed. by H.J. Ehrlich. San Fran and this was about logic, not politics, remember! cisco: AK Press, 1996.

David was bom in 1921, to parents who themselves "Anarchist Justice." In Anar were notable activists of their day. His mother, chism: Nomos XIX, ed. J.R. about whom David wrote an unusually insightful Pennock and J.W. Chapman. memoir, Woman from Spillertown: A Memoir of New York: New York Univer Agnes Burns Wieck, was known as "the Mother sity Press, 1978. Jones of Illinois" for her work as a labor organizer. David's own principles eventually led him into jail "Essentials of Anarchism." In for 34 months as a during Anarchism, ed. by R. Hoffman. W.W.II. As he told it, there "I learned the methods David Wieck and Diva Agostinelli New York: Atherton, 1970. of non-violent resistance and ... what a hunger- strike is like by fasting for ten days in support of David was fond of saying that, as an idea, "William Empson, Some Ver other C.O.'s." anarchism is a negativity, because it can tell us sions of Pastoral." The Journal what we need to unlearn in order to be free, but it of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, After the war David returned to to cannot tell us how to use that freedom: anarchism Vol. 1, 1960. join the editorial board of Why?, soon to become does not impose a certain life on us, it challenges Resistance, on which he played the leading role us to make a decent life together, to rid ourselves of "Charles R Metzger, Thoreau until it ceased being published in 1954. This pub all vestiges of the authority of power, political and Whitman; A Study of Their lication provided a crucial voice and support for authority. To understand the mutual aid of our own Esthetics." The Journal of Aes many people, including before he authority of competence, David liked us to picture thetics and Art Criticism, Vol. became famous in his own right. Another member two sawyers, at either end of a two-person saw, 2, 1961. of Why?'s editorial board, even before David, was cutting through a tree. For the work we need to do Diva Agostinelli, whose life is a good story itself, together, David had a special gift of description. including a family heritage of other anarchists. To David she was also "my life-partner." Right up to the end, even though he had suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, David could In 1958 David returned to Columbia University, display his customary insight. One of his care his alma mater of 1941, to earn a Ph.D. in givers, herself Black, told Diva that David had said philosophy and came to Rensselaer to teach. David to her: "It's not the heritage of slavery that is the did not draw a line between theory and practice, problem for Blacks. It is their exploitation today." between an intellectual life and an activist life. As When the caregiver asked her own companion how he himself pointed out in his famous little piece, he understood David's remark, he replied, "You "The Habit of Direct Action": "the important earn $4.35 an hour." distinction is between talk that it is mere moral ~ John Schumacher assertion or propositional argument, and talk (in John Schumacher is a regular contributor to anarchist fact: direct action) which conveys a feeling, an publications and the author of Human Posture: The attitude relevant to the desired end." David was Nature of Inquiry (Suny Press, 1989). He lives in Troy, always challenging his students and friends alike to New York. PerspectivesJLon on anarchist anarchist theory

... Goldman Papers Continued anarchism, and accepts financial support from IAS Grant Letters, as many biographers of Goldman have sources such as the federal government and the Awards pointed out, were the mainstay of her Ford Foundation. How does the EGPP manage to communication with the world. Correspondents do justice to the anarchist life of Emma Goldman? ... Continued from Page I included , Rudolf and Milly Beyond collecting and cataloging historical to end the exploitation of their Rocker, , Sinclair Lewis, H.G. Wells, documents, it cannot, and this becomes more labor by capital. It will Paul Robeson, Agnes Smedley, Eugene Debs, obvious when reading through the middle and high examine their accomplish Kropotkin, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Gurley school curriculum the EGPP produced as part of a ments and failures in order to Flynn, and Carlo Tresca. Historical periods public outreach effort. enhance our ability to organize covered by these letters span from the Bolshevik work wisely, effectively, and revolution in Russia to the Spanish Civil War, The curriculum was produced with the goal of in accord with anarchist while government documents reveal the US educating middle and high school students about values. government's role in booting her and other Goldman and is made up of recommended readings anarchists out of various countries.2 Overall the and exercises designed to draw out the implications S250 to Peter Lamborn EGPP is an invaluable resource of Goldman's beliefs. One exercise Wilson for an introduction to that documents not only asks whether a group of students Freedom - My Dream: The Goldman's life but also one of the have had their first amendment Autobiography of Enrico most active periods of anarchist rights violated when they are Arrigoni. Enrico Arrigoni history forbidden by the school board to (a.k.a. "Frank Brand") was an wear black armbands in protest of anarchist author and activist of The EGPP also has a formidable the Gulf War. Another exercise Italian descent who lived in of financial support that asks whether a student's first New York from 1924 until his includes the University of amendment rights have also been death in 1986. His remarkable California at Berkeley, the federal violated when he is suspended for life included a stay in Russia government, the Ford Foundation, making explicit sexual remarks during the early years of the and well-known individuals such during a nomination speech against revolution, participation in the as Howard Zinn, Michelle his opponent. Both exercises Spanish Civil War, and a Shocked, and Gloria Steinem.3 In demonstrate a complete lifelong commitment to effect, the EGPP appears to have misrepresentation of Goldman's anarchism. Wilson's intro created an impressive scholarly Emma Goldman ideals. The freedom Goldman duction will analyze and resource, a niche for itself in the fought for is turned into the right to introduce elements of Arrig progressive community, and also legitimized free speech and, subsequently, advocacy of the first oni *s life and work. Emma Goldman in the eyes of a dominant culture amendment. The second exercise never bothers to that persecuted her during her time. Unfortunately, mention the anarchist claim that patriarchy would S250 to Mark Bonhert and a conflict has emerged between the EGPP's goal to be the cause of sexist behavior.6 Goldman and Richard Curtis for Post- preserve the memory of Emma Goldman and the other anarchists never fought for federally Industrial Resources: Anarch actual result. guaranteed rights: they fought for freedom. ist Reconstructive Efforts & Visions in the Upper Midwest. To begin, the EGPP's relationship to anarchism has However, this curriculum is more than just a Bonhert and Curtis will write always been a problem. On the one hand, problematic interpretation of Goldman's life and an oral history and analysis of anarchists have attacked it for its lack of beliefs. It also shows how the EGPP can collect an contemporary anarchist efforts radicalism. On the other hand, according to Falk, impressive array of anarchist documents and at the to rebuild community in areas the EGPP was attacked by the federal government same time bring a deradicalized image of anarchist of the Midwest devasted by when the "intellectual atmosphere among most history to the larger public. Perhaps this capital flight, urban neglect, federal agencies was hostile to the ideas Goldman contradiction arises out of funding concerns, given and the repression of margin championed,"4 enough so that its funding was the support the EGPP receives from the federal alized people. jeopardized in the early eighties. Ironically, the government and the Ford Foundation (sources that EGPP never seems to have been concerned with or are anathema to anarchist principles but which If you are interested in committed to anarchism. Although the EGPP's uphold federally sanctioned free speech). The applying for a grant, please focus is an anarchist figure, its Director, Candace funding cut in the early eighties certainly shows send a self-addressed, stamped Falk, described anarchism in her book as an that an archive is not independent from the larger envelope to the IAS. You may "unattainable political philosophy," an "elusive political climate, especially when money is also download a grant political vision," and ultimately claimed that the involved. Whatever the reason, the EGPP is in application from the IAS's impossibility of anarchism was revealed by conflict with its purpose to encourage historical web site at: http:// Goldman's failure to deal with such monstrous awareness of Goldman because it obscures the members.aol.com/iastudy/ things as jealousy. The EGPP celebrates a famous radical ideals that shaped her life. Default.htm anarchist figure, claims no substantive belief in Continued on Page 12

10 PerspectivesA on anarchist theorytheory

The IAS's 1997 Fundraising Campaign 1996 Fundraising The IAS needs your support: we must raise $8500 1997 IAS Supporters Campaign by January, 1998 to award $6000 in grants, publish two issues of Perspectives, and build the IAS The following groups and individuals have either The individuals listed below endowment. donated or pledged a donation to the IAS's 1997 made the IAS's first fundraising fundraising campaign. Their generosity sustains campaign a complete success. Please help make this possible by donating to the the IAS and its ability to support the development of Their generous contributions IAS. Your contribution will enable the IAS to help social critique and reconstructive ideals of freedom. enabled the IAS to meet its authors confront some of the most difficult $6000 fundraising goal and thus questions raised by anarchism and radical social * Marc Berahard * Dan Chodorkoff * Tom award its first set of .grants, theory. Your donation will also make it possible for Copeland * Deema Crassy * Rebecca DeWitt * publish. Perspectives, and build us to publish this newsletter and — because we Maura Dillon * Miranda Edison * Rebecca Ellis * the IAS endowment by 10 place 10 percent of every donation in the IAS Elizabeth Elson * Paula Emery * Tony Epiceno * percent of every donation. endowment — make sure there are always Colin Everett * Michael Glavin * Paul Glavin * resources for radical writers. Audrey Goodfriend * Luz Guerra * Cindy Haag * Frank Adams, Anonymous, Jerry Kaplan * Andrew Lee & Elizabeth Wolf * Alison Bailey, Sandy Baird, As an IAS donor you'll receive Perspectives, the Elaine Leeder * Patrick McNamara * Michelle Matt Black, Jon Buell, Dan IAS's biannual newsletter. Also, if you donate $25 Matisons * Cindy Milstein * Chuck Morse * Chodorkoff, Jesse Cohn, or more, we'll send you some of the great books Caroline Morse * Casey Orr * John Petrovato * Gatsby Confreres, Cindy and listed on this page. Donations are tax-deductible David Porter * Megan Reynolds * Eugene Katy CraBb, Dr. James Eick, for US citizens. Rodriguez * Stanley Rosen * Julia Smedley * Patti Maura Dillon, John & Jplene Stanko * Susan Thomas & Peter Sills * Brian Tokar Dubose, Peggy Dye, Miranda * Dave Witbrodt Please make checks payable to the Institute for Edison, Bree Edwards, Paula Anarchist Studies and mail them to: * Autonomedia * Bound Together Books * Kate Emery, Richard Evanoff, Steven Fischler, David Freed- Institute for Sharpley Library * Rainbow Books Co-op. * Social Anarchism * Social Ecology Working Group man, Grace Gershuny, Craig Anarchist Studies Gilmore, Paul Glavin, Bret P.O. Box 7050 Please Note: The IAS is particularly indebited to Goldin, Ian Grimmer, John Albany, New York, Gruchala, Brian Herbert, Blake 12225-USA Miranda Edison, Michelle Matisons, Caroline Morse and her son, Susan Thomas and Peter Sills, Howe, Lawrence Jararch, and John Petrovato. Robin Lloyd, Joe Lowndes, Peggy Luhrs, Susanna Martin, Enid Mastrionni, Michelle Matisons, Andrea Miksic & Peier Burns, Cindy Milstein, Perennial Books - one of the best booksellers around -has generously donated the following books to Caroline Morse, Sandra the IAS in support of our efforts to raise money for anarchist scholarship. Opdycke, Sue Ostfield, Fern anda Perrone, John Petrovato, Pierre Clastres. The Archeology of Violence • For a $25 donation to the IAS, we'll mail you Rachel Rinaldo, Cate Sand- (Semiotext(e), paper, pp. 200). List: $12. any one of the following books. ilands, Jack Schlessinger, Milly • For a $50 donation, we'll send you any three. George Benello. From.the Ground Up: Essays oh Schoenbaum, Richard Schram, • For $100, you get all of them! Grassroots & Workplace Democracy (Southern, John Schumacher, Jon Scott, paper, pp. 245). List: $12. Gary Sisco, Sidney & Clara Edward Spann. Brotherly Tomorrows: Movements Marie Flemming. TheGeogrqphy of Freedom: The Solomon, Bob Spivy & Beverly Naidus, Liza Sutton, Rose for a Society in America, 1820-1920 Odyssey ofElisee Reclus (Black Rose, paper, pp. (Columbia Univ., hardcover, pp. 354). List: $44. Sterling, Dana Ward, Yvette 245). List $16\95. West, Diva Wieck, Priscilla Richard Fenn. The Spirit of Revolt: Anarchism & Martin Blatt. & Anarchism: The Bio Yamin, Members of Love & the Cult of Authority (Rowman & Littlefield, graphy of Ezra Heywood (Univ. of I1L, cloth, pp. Rage (NY), Members of the hardcover, pp. 179). List: $55. 207). List: $26.95. Blackout Books Collective. Micheal Wreszin. A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: Colin MacLachlan. Anarchism & the Mexican The Life & Politics ofDwight MacDonald (Bzsk Revolution: Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magon in Books, hardcover, pp. 584). List: $30. the US (Univ. ofCA, paper, pp. 172). List $11.95. Perennial is also offering a 15%discount on items in iheir catalogue to anyortevAod^r^^ a copy of their great catalogue, write Perennial Books, P.O. Box B14, Montague, MA 01351, or call: 413- 587-0106. 11 PerspectivesIT on anarchist theory

... Goldman Papers Continued Obviously the EGPP cannot accurately portray On the other hand, archives run by anarchists and anarchist history because of its lack of commitment Recommended for anarchist purposes are built upon the desire to to radical ideals. This causes the EGPP to Reading both preserve anarchist history and provide tools misrepresent anarchism and subsequently for anarchism's development, not herald its undermines its goal to encourage historical demise. In doing so, an anarchist archive embraces awareness of Emma Goldman and her anarchist action must be based on sound anarchism as a living tradition unlike archives that beliefs. It is also clear that the EGPP has very ideas'. gAs; ah Anarchist, Tihave relegate it to the dusty silence of library stacks or valuable resources and should be used for scholarly fgrj>^ide^my^^ misrepresent it. Two examples are the Kate purposes. However, the usefulness ends there Sharpley Library and Documentation Centre (KSL) because the EGPP can provide no guidance for the ^in*ffie|id^ip^yvriters ofxadical in the UK and the Anarchist Archives Project development of anarchism when it begins from a ,'S9cTa^£e^ry7^ ~;~ , (AAP) in Boston, Massachusetts. Both have close negation of anarchist principles. For anarchists . ./r^rou^i Anarchism and ties with the anarchist movement, draw their today, the past is our most direct link to the iOther,Ess$ys (Dover, 1969) support from the anarchist community, and tangible achievements of anarchism and therefore Emma Goldman welcomed me maintain a valuable historical resource without it is essential for anarchist history to be preserved intot^anarchlk^femily, show- sacrificing the integrity of anarchist history. in a framework of anarchist principles. Otherwise ing,;fie: how in anarchism, Because of this, they can provide scholars who are we will lose the historical imperative this history communist and feminist prin interested in anarchism with a richer historical presents to us, not only for radical scholarship but ciples could he transformed into perspective. also for our radical ideals. a humanism where we all can jivejmfi»eboss, the .father, the $5 - Individuals 6 "The Life And Times Of Emma Goldman. A legislator, »the :king, the despot andtthe priest to tell me or $10 -Institutions Curriculum for Middle and High School Students: $25 -BulkSubs Freedom of Expression." The Emma Goldman Papers anyone else how to live our (25 Copies) Project 1997. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ lives; - for Anarchist Studies Curricula/FreeExpression (2 Sept. 1997) The gift of iheir vrords has t P.O. Box 7050 The Kate Sharpley Library and Documentation Centre. supported me in, my on-going any, NY 12225-USA 1997 http://members.aol.com/wellsIake/Sharpley.htm (2 struggle for freedom. Sept. 1997) 12