All topics - Anarchism

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority and hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of...

x The Machinery of Freedom

The Machinery of Freedom is a 1973 nonfiction book by libertarian economist David D. Friedman outlining the means by which an anarcho-capitalist society could operate. The Institute of Public Affairs included it in a list of the "Top 20 books you...

x The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). The book won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974,...

x V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V"...

x Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. The first edition was published in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until...

x Power and Market

Power and Market: Government and the Economy is a 1970 book by Murray Rothbard in which he analyzes the negative effects of the various kinds of government intervention, and denies that the State is either necessary or useful. It was originally part...

x The Conquest of Bread

The Conquest of Bread (French: La Conquête du Pain) is a book by the anarchist communist Peter Kropotkin. Originally written in French, it first appeared as a series of articles in the anarchist journals Le Révolté and La Révolte (both edited by...

x The Anarchists

The Anarchists is a book by the historian James Joll. At 265 pages, it is a relatively brief history of the anarchist movement, covering its philosophical beginnings in Europe with William Godwin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the further development...

x What Is Property?

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the concept of property and its...

x Temporary Autonomous Zone

T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism is a book by anarchist writer Hakim Bey published in 1991 by Autonomedia. It is composed of three sections, "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism," "Communiques...

x Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in October 1902. The individual chapters had...

x Change the World Without Taking Power

Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today is a book by John Holloway that looks at the concept of revolution. The book was first published in 2002. (ISBN 0-7453-1863-0) It opened up a wave of debate between Holloway and...

x The Kingdom of God Is Within You

The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Russian: Царство Божие внутри вас [Tsarstvo Bozhiye vnutri vas]) is the non-fiction magnum opus of Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in his home country of Russia. It is the...

x Man, Economy, and State

Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles, first published in 1962, is a book on economics by Murray Rothbard, and is one of the most important books in the Austrian School of economics (others are Ludwig von Mises' The Theory of...

x Democracy: The God That Failed

Democracy: The God That Failed is a 2001 book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, containing a series of thirteen essays on the subject of democracy and concluding with the belief that democracy is the primary cause of the decivilization allegedly sweeping the...

x Days of War, Nights of Love

Days of War, Nights of Love is a collection of political, social and philosophical essays written and published by anarchist collective CrimethInc.. Most essays advocate the fight for personal freedom, alternate choices and lifestyles. Some of the...

x Anarchy

In his pamphlet Anarchy (Italian L'anarchia), published in 1891, Errico Malatesta seeks to explain the fundamental tenets of, and provide a persuasive argument for, his version of anarchism. According to Worldcat, it has been published in fifty-five...

x Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a 1974 work of political philosophy by Robert Nozick. This minarchist book was the winner of the 1975 National Book Award It has been translated into 11 languages and was named one of the "100 most influential books...

x The Rebel

The Rebel (French title: L'Homme révolté) is a 1951 book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, especially Western Europe. Camus relates writers and...

x Fields, Factories and Workshops

Fields, Factories and Workshops: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work is a landmark anarchist text by Peter Kropotkin, and arguably one of the most influential and positive statements of the anarchist political...

x Fighting for Our Lives

Fighting For Our Lives is a pamphlet published by CrimethInc., a U.S. based anarchist collective. According to the authors, this pamphlet "discusses, in simple language, what is anarchist in everyday life, and how those spheres of cooperation can be...

x Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is one of a series of pamphlets published by Prickly Paradigm Press in Chicago. With the essay, anthropologist David Graeber attempts to outline areas of research that intellectuals might explore in creating a...

x Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is Alexander Berkman's account of his experience in prison in Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh, from 1892 to 1906. First published in 1912 by Emma Goldman's Mother Earth press, it has become a...

x Anarchism & Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays is a book by the anarchist Emma Goldman, first published in 1910 by Mother Earth Publishing Association.

x Granny Made me an Anarchist

Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me is the 2002 autobiography of Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie. Christie recounts his radicalization through the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Committee of 100, and his...

x The Politics of Individualism

The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism is a 1993 political science book by L. Susan Brown. She begins by noting that liberalism and anarchism seem at times to share common components, but on other occasions are in...

x The State is Your Enemy

The State Is Your Enemy is a book with essays, articles, and commentary from Freedom from 1965 to 1986. ISBN 0-900384-57-3

x Living My Life

Living My Life is the 993-page autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, published in two volumes in 1931 (Alfred A. Knopf) and 1934 (Garden City Publishing Company). Goldman wrote it in Saint-Tropez, France, following her...

x The Revolution of Everyday Life

The Revolution of Everyday Life is a 1967 book by Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian author, philosopher and former member of the Situationist International (1961-1970). In French the title of the work was more elaborate: Traité du savoir-vivre à l’usage des...

x The Ethics of Liberty

The Ethics of Liberty, by American economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard, first published in 1982, is an exposition of the libertarian political position. It roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host...

x Endgame

Endgame is a two-volume work by Derrick Jensen, published in 2006, which argues that civilization is inherently unsustainable and addresses the resulting question of what to do about it. Volume 1, The Problem of Civilization, spells out the need to...

x Agrarian Justice

Agrarian Justice is the title of a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, published in 1797, which advocated the use of an estate tax and a tax on land values to fund a universal old-age and disability pension, as well as a fixed sum to be paid to all...

x Letters of Insurgents

Letters of Insurgents is a 1976 novel by Fredy Perlman (under the character aliases Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo) dealing with anarchist themes and relationships. The novel is a subtle and complex narrative which takes the form of fictional...

x God and the State

God and the State is the best-known literary work of Russian anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin. God and the State was written between February and March 1871. It was originally written as Part II of a greater work that was going to be called The Knouto...

x Anarcho-Syndicalism : Theory and Practice

x The Growing Stone

"The Growing Stone" is a short story by the French writer Albert Camus. It is the final short story in the collection Exile and the Kingdom. The story follows a French engineer, d'Arrast, as he is driven by a local chauffeur, Socrates, to a town in...

x Expect Resistance

Expect Resistance is a self-described crimethink field manual published by CrimethInc. in 2007. The book is composed of three books within the book that can be read separately or together. The first of these is a theoretical text which follows the...

x Nationalism and Culture

Nationalism and Culture is a nonfiction book by German anarcho-syndicalist writer Rudolf Rocker. In this book, Rocker's best known work, he criticizes religion, statism, nationalism, and centralism from an anarchist perspective. The ideas expressed...

x Pioneers of American Freedom

Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America is a book by the German anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker about the history of liberal, libertarian, and anarchist thought in the United States. Rudolf Rocker, who had...

x Now and After

Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism is an introduction to the principles of anarchism and anarchist communism written by Alexander Berkman. First published in 1929 by Vanguard Press, after parts of it had appeared in Freie Arbeiter Stimme,...

x In Defense of Anarchism

In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by Robert Paul Wolff regarded as a classical work in anarchist scholarship. Wolff specifically defends individualist anarchism; the book is premised on the idea that individual autonomy and state authority are...

x Post-Scarcity Anarchism

Post-Scarcity Anarchism is a collection of essays written by Murray Bookchin and first published in 1971 by Ramparts Press. It outlines the possible form anarchism might take under conditions of post-scarcity. It is one of Bookchin's major works,...

x Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left