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An anarchist is a person who rejects of any form of compulsory government (cf. "state") and supports its elimination. Anarchism can be summarised as the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.
This is a list of individuals who have been identified as anarchists, by themselves, or by independent informed sources. This list only deals with real people notable for the reasons below.
Self-identified anarchists
editThis section of the list includes only people who have explicitly stated that they are anarchists. Persons who have merely expressed viewpoints critical of the state or those with anti-authoritarian stances are excluded. Such sentiments are insufficient to identity one as an anarchist.
Academics and educators
edit- Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878–1953): American socialist publicist and co-founder of the Rand School of Social Science.[1]
- Harold Barclay (1924–): Professor emeritus in anthropology at University of Alberta, Canada.[2]
- Paul Avrich (1931–2006): American Queens College professor and historian.[3]
- Noam Chomsky (1928—): Libertarian socialist MIT professor of linguistics.[4]
- John Flaus (1934—): Australian film critic and theorist and philosophical anarchist. Associate of the Sydney Push, an intellectual libertarian group.[5]
- Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (1859 – 1909): Spanish educator and free thinker, member of the Grand Lodge, delegate to the Second International. Founded la Escuela Moderna (The Modern School), which formed the basis of the Modern Schools of the United States. Was arrested and executed during The Tragic Week.[6]
- Germaine Greer (1939—): Australian feminist academic and writer.[7] A young member of the Sydney Push, she later became an anarchist communist.[8]
- Murray Newton Rothbard (1926–1995): Academic vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and the Center for Libertarian Studies, professor in economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[9]
- Francisco Zalacosta (?? – ??): Mexican anarchist, played a role in introducing anarchist theory to Mexico; student of Plotino Rhodakanaty; founded an anarchist/socialist oriented school for local peasants in Chalco.[10]
Activists and propagandists
edit- Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983): Spanish author and leading figure of the Spanish anarchist movement.[11]
- M.P.T. Acharya (1887–1951): Indian nationalist revolutionary, figure in the Hindu-German Conspiracy, founding member of the Communist Party of India.[12]
- Guy Aldred (1886–1963): English anarchist communist founder of The Bakunin Press, associate of Ethel MacDonald, and prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.[13]
- Ashanti Alston (1954–): American former Black Panther and current publisher of the @narchist Panther Zine.[14]
- David Andrade (1859–1928): Australian co-founder of the Melbourne Anarchist Club.[15]
- Salvador Puig Antich (1948–1974): Catalan anarchist executed by Spanish authorities under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and subject of the film Salvador (Puig Antich).[16]
- Alexander Atabekian (1868–?): Armenian activist, translator, journal editor and corroborator of Kropotkin.[17]
- Kate Austin (1864–1902): American journalist, feminist, social advocate, and associate of Emma Goldman.[18]
- Sherman Austin (1984—): American political prisoner and musician, and former webmaster of RaisetheFist.com.[19]
- Kuwasi Balagoon (1946–1986): Black Panther, member of the Black Liberation Army and New African anarchist.[20]
- Giovanni Baldelli (1914–986): Anarchist theorist best known for his 1971 work Social Anarchism.[21]
- Adin Ballou (1803–1890): Prominent Christian anarchist and founder of the Hopedale Community.[22]
- Fanya Baron (1896–1936): Russian activist, rumored to have assassinated the head of the Okhrana (tsarist secret police).[23]
- Mark Barnsley (1961–): British activist, cause célèbre following "The Pomona pub stabbings".[24]
- Rafael Barrett (??-??): Spanish correspondent and journalist.[25]
- Henry Bauer: German-born American activist who became radicalized by the Haymarket affair and was subsequently imprisoned as a conspirator in the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick.[26]
- Anselme Bellegarrigue (182? — ??): French individual anarchist pamphleteer, journal editor and author of the first anarchist Manifesto.[27]
- Alexander Berkman (1870—1936): American immigrant writer of Russian/Jewish decent. Publisher of The Blast. Companion of Emma Goldman. Attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick. [28]
- Marie-Louise Berneri (1918 – 1949), anarchist communist and member of the Freedom Press collective, principal theoretical influence on its War Commentary and Freedom publications.[29][30]
- Pasquale Binazzi (1873–1944): Italian anarcho-communist, secretary of the chambre du travail, and organizer of the syndicat de l'arsenal in La Spezia; author of various anarchist booklets; co-published Il Libertario (1903–1922), a prominent weekly newspaper with wife, Petroni Carlotta Zelmira Binazzi.[31]
- Abe Bluestein (1909–1997): American editor and union activist[32]
- Alfredo M. Bonanno (1937–): Italian propagandist and activist. A major proponent of insurrectionary anarchism.[33]
- Ian Bone (1947–): English activist, propagandist, and publisher. Co-founder of Class War and The Bristolian. Has made various appearances on BBC television talkshows.[34]
- Henry Bool (185?-1922): American writer and publisher of individualist anarchist essays. Publisher and editor of the Ithaca Journal, an individualist newspaper.[35]
- Per Bylund (1975–): Swedish libertarian writer and thinker.[36] Founding editor of Anarchism.net, designer of Libertatis Æquilibritas,[37] and core member of The Freedom Front (Frihetsfronten).[38]
- Luisa Capetillo (1879 – 1922): Puerto Rican labor organizer; christian anarchist; author of the first feminist thesis written in Puerto Rico.[39]
- Stuart Christie (1946–): Scottish writer, publisher, and translator. Conspired to assassinate Francisco Franco. Re-formed the Anarchist Black Cross and Black Flag.[40]
- Lev Chernyi (?–1921), Russian activist and poet, resister of Bolshevik rule.[41]
- Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912): American activist and one of the earliest anarchists without adjectives.[42]
- Dorothy Day (1897–1980): American journalist, Catholic social activist. Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.[43]
- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (1947–): African American writer, activist, and former member of the Black Panther Party.[44]
- Sébastien Faure (1858–1942): French anarchist, pedagogue and namesake of the Sebastien Faure Century.[45]
- Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940): Lithuanian-born anarchist communist radical, known for her writings and speeches. Publisher of Mother Earth. Leading proponent of Anarcha-feminism.[46]
- Philip Grosser (1890–1933): anti-militarist and author of Uncle Sam's Devil's Island.[47]
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 – 1989): Jewish-American social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Later he became a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine.[48]
- Valerio Isca (1900–1996): Italian-American anarchist without adjectives who co-founded the Libertarian Book Club, wrote the preface for the 1960 Italian edition of Nationalism and Culture, and donated photographs to Pacific Street Films for use in Anarchism in America.[49]
- Agnes Inglis (1872–1952): American librarian and archivist who was the primary architect of the Labadie Collection, one of the world’s most complete collections of materials documenting the history of anarchism.[50]
- Noe Ito (1895–1923): Japanese feminist, essayist, translated essays by Emma Goldman into Japanese, editor of Bluestocking, partner of Osugi Sakae. Murdered by the military in what became known as the Amakasu Incident.[51]
- Marius Jacob (1879–1954): French serial burglar, one of the models for Maurice Leblanc's character Arsene Lupin.[52]
- Maya Keyes (1985 – ): American social and political activist and daughter of Alan Keyes, 2008 Republican presidential candidate.[53]
- Shūsui Kōtoku (1871–1911): Japanese activist and journalist who played a leading role in introducing anarchism to Japan in the early 20th century, particularly by translating the works of contemporary anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin into Japanese.[54]
- Gustav Landauer (1870–1919): anarchist theorist and pacifist.[55]
- Wolfi Landstreicher (?? – ): The current pen name of an American insurrectionary anarchist propagandist, noted for publishing various essays and Venomous Butterfly. Also known by the former pen name, "Feral Faun".[56]
- Jeff Luers (?? – ): Environmental activist, currently serving a ten year prison sentence for arson.[57]
- Dyer D. Lum (1839–1893): American anarchist, labor activist and poet.[58]
- Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982): American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical.[59]
- Ethel MacDonald (1909—1960): Scottish anarchist, propagandist on Barcelona Loyalist radio, associate of Guy Aldred.[60]
- Michael Matteson (??-??): Australian anti-war activist and draft-dodger.[61]
- Chuck Munson (1965—): American activist and librarian. Editor of Infoshop.org.[62]
- Simon Oosterman (1980 – ): New Zealand political activist and trade unionist. Organized various labour strikes, including the first Starbucks strike.[63]
- Sakae Osugi (1885–1923): Japanese propagandist, publisher, essayist, translator, created Japan's first Esperanto school. He, Noe Ito, and his nephew were murdered in what became known as the Amakasu Incident. [51]
- Joan Peiró (1887–1942): Catalan Anarcho-syndicalist writer, editor of the anarchist newspaper Solidaridad Obrera,[64] two-time Secretary General of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labor, CNT) and Minister of Industry[65] of the Spanish government during the Spanish Civil War.
- Rose Pesotta (1896–1965): Ukrainian-born feminist labor organizer and vice president within the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.[66]
- Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958): German Anarcho-syndicalist writer, historian, and activist. Influential in the Jewish anarchist movement (despite being non-Jewish.)[67]
- Alexander Schapiro (1882–1946): Russian-born activist who edited Le Voix du Travail and New Trends.[68]
- Kate Sharpley (1895–1978): English anarchist, active in the early shop stewards movement. The Kate Sharpley Library is named in her honor.[69]
- Katie Sierra (1986—): American anarchist-pacifist activist; gained international media attention in Katie Sierra suspension controversy in 2002.[70]
- Jaggi Singh (1971— ): Canadian anti-globalization and social justice activist.[71]
- Lysander Spooner (1808–1887): American individualist anarchist, political agitator and entrepreneur.[72]
- Mollie Steimer (1897–1980): American trade unionist, anti-war activist and free-speech campaigner.[73]
- Benjamin Tucker (1854 – 1939): American editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty. Leading proponent of Individualist anarchism during the 19th century.[74]
- John Turner (1865–1934): English anarchist, first person ordered deported for violation of the US Anarchist Exclusion Act[75]
- Volin (1882–1945): Russian member of the Black Army and historian of Anarchist Ukraine.[76]
- Charlotte Wilson (1854–1944): Author, editor, and publisher. Co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin, and edited, published, and largely financed it during its first decade. [77]
- Ross Winn (1871—1912): American activist, propagandist, and publisher of numerous anarchist periodicals.[78]
- Cesare Zaccaria (1897–1961.):Italian anarchist, friend of Camillo Berneri, editor of Volontà ("Will", "Will", "Desire") (1946-1957). Married widow of Camillo Berneri, Giovanna.[79]
- Petroni Carlotta Zelmira Binazzi (??–1930): Italian anarcho-communist, co-published Il Libertario (1903–1922), a weekly newspaper, with husband Pasquale Binazzi.[31]
Authors
edit- Edward Abbey (1927–1989): American green anarchist author and environmentalist.[80]
- John Arthur Andrews (1865–1903): Australian journalist and anarchist activist.[81]
- Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886): American individualist anarchist author.[82]
- Ba Jin (1904–2005): considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the twentieth century.[83]
- James Robert Baker (1946–1997): American author of satirical, gay-themed transgressional fiction.[84]
- William Bailie (1966–1957): individualist anarchist and biographer of Josiah Warren.[85]
- Walter Block (1941—): Proclaimed "Mr. Libertarian" by Lew Rockwell. Author of Defending the Undefendable.[86][87]
- Jas H. Duke (1939–1992): Australian Dadaist and performance poet.[88]
- Carl Einstein (1885–1940): German art critic.[89]
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–): American poet, fiction author, translator, film narrator, painter, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.[90]
- David D. Friedman (1945–): American libertarian writer and economist who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalist community with the publication of his book The Machinery of Freedom.[91]
- Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997): American Beat poet and countercultural figure best known for his 1956 poem "Howl".[92]
- Paul Goodman (1911–1972): American sociologist, poet, writer, and public intellectual.[93]
- Hans Jæger (1854-1910), Norwegian bohemian intellectual, philosopher and political activist.[94]
- Tuli Kupferberg (1923– ): American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs.[95]
- Bernard Lazare (1865–1903): French literary critic, political journalist, anarchist and polemist.[96]
- Albert Meltzer (1920–1996): British activist and writer.[97]
- Ida Mett (1901–1973): Russian-born activist and author.[98]
- Alan Moore (1953– ): English graphic novelist known for writing V for Vendetta, the story of an anarchist terrorist living in a fascist England.[99]
- Erich Mühsam (1878–1934): German-Jewish writer, poet, dramatist and cabaret performer.[100]
- П O (1951—): Greek-born Australian poet.[101]
- Angelo Quattrocchi (?? – ): Journalist and author, co-authored The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 with Tom Nairn. [102] [103]
- Morley Roberts (1857 – 1942): English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland.[104]
- Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982): American poet, translator and critical essayist. He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku. He is regarded as a chief figure in the San Francisco Renaissance.[105]
- Simone Weil (1909–1943): French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist who fought with the Sebastien Faure Century in the Spanish Civil War.[106]
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900): Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer known for his barbed wit; one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.[107]
- Fred Woodworth: American author and publisher of The Match!.[108]
- Michel Zevaco (1860 – 1918): French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, anti-clerical activist. [109]
- Howard Zinn (1922—): American historian and political scientist influenced by anarchism and Marxism.[110]
Combatants
edit- Pietro Acciarito (1871–1943): Italian anarchist activist known for attempting to assassinate the King of Italy Umberto I.[111]
- Michele Angiolillo (1871–1897): Italian anarchist and assassin of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Spanish Prime Minister.[112]
- Francisco Ascaso (1901–1936): Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant. Took part in numerous bank robberies and reprisal attacks against anti-anarchists. Member and co-founder of militant cells, Los Justicieros ("The Avengers"), Los Solidarios ("Solidarity"), and Nosotros ("We" / "Us"). The Francisco Ascaso Column, an anarchist militia, was named in his honor.[113]
- Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936): Spanish CNT/FAI activist, military strategist, and army general. [114]
- Nestor Makhno (1888–1934): Ukrainian anarcho-communist, military strategist, and commander of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine.[115]
- Maria Nikiforova (1885–1919): Ukrainian guerilla & terrorist, founded the Black Guards, and commanded a Black Guard regiment, and influenced Nestor Makhno.[116]
- Juan García Oliver (1901–1980): Spanish anarcho-syndicalist revlutionary and leader of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica during the Spanish Civil War.[117]
- Sholom Schwartzbard (1886–1936): Bessarabian-born poet, known for the assassination of the Ukrainian politician Symon Petliura.[118]
- Anteo Zamboni (1911 – 1926): Italian anarchist who failed an attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini in the city of Bologna, and was killed immediately. Two streets in Bologna bear his name.[119][120][121]
- Anatoli Zhelezniakov (1895–1919): Russian sailor, activist, and militant anarchist communist.[122] Defended an anarchist commune against Provisional Government aggression; stormed the Winter Palace during the October Revolution; officially disbanded the Russian Constituent Assembly; delegate to the Congress of Soviets; Soviet armoured train commander; killed by artillery fire commanded by Anton Ivanovich Denikin. Was posthumously declared a "bolshevik" hero of the Soviet Union. A statue of him remains in Kronstadt.[123]
Comedians
edit- Tony Allen: English stand-up comedian, formerly of the performance group Alternative Cabaret and author of A Summer in the Park.[124]
- Mark Thomas (1963—): English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from South London known for his television series The Mark Thomas Comedy Product.[125]
- Penn Jillette (1955–): American comedian and illusionist and self-described anarcho-capitalist.[126]
- Julie McCrossin (1954–): Australian broadcaster, journalist and comedian known for her recurring role on Good News Week.[127][128]
Actors and entertainers
edit- Julian Beck (1925–1985): American actor and founder of The Living Theatre.[129]
- Judith Malina (1926—): American theater and film actor, writer, and theatre director; one of the founders and leaders of The Living Theatre.[130]
- Joseph Toscano (1952—): Australian medical practitioner, radio host and activist.[131]
Philosophers
edit- Edward Abramowski (1868–1918): Polish philosopher.[132]
- Emile Armand (1872–1962): French individualist anarchist.[133]
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876): Well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the "fathers of modern anarchism".[134]
- Giovanni Baldelli (1914–1986): Italian philosopher and political theorist known for his 1971 work Social Anarchism.[135]
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948): Major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. Pioneer of satyagraha, a philosophy of active non-violent resistance based on swaraj.[136]
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1908–1865): French mutualist economist and first individual to call himself an anarchist.[137]
- Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945–): Writer, essaiest, poet, philsopher; sometimes writes under the name Hakim Bey.[138] Proposed the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (T.A.Z.).
- Robert Paul Wolff (1933–): American philosopher, academic, and author.[139]
- John Zerzan (1943 – ): American anarcho-primitivist philosopher, author, and talk radio host.[140]
Politicians and lawyers
edit- Bob Black (1951—): American lawyer and influential post-left anarchist theorist.[141]
- Francesco Saverio Merlino (1856—1930): Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism.[142]
Musicians
editScientists and engineers
edit- Alex Comfort (1920 – 2000): English medical professional, gerontologist, and sexologist. Academic lecturer in psychology. Novelist and poet. Anti-nuke activist, conscientious objector, and pacifist.[143]
- Otto Gross (1877 – 1920): Austrian psychologist. Promoted early forms of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, and founded an anarchist form of depth psychology.[144]
- Fred Hollows (1929–1993): Australian opthalmologist known for his work restoring sight to people blinded by preventable or easily curable conditions, and founder of The Fred Hollows Foundation. Hollows was a member of the Comunist Party in the 1960s but later adopted anarcho-syndicalism.[145]
- Paul Zilsel (1923–2006): Theoretical physicist; militant activist; former communist; co-founder of Left Bank Books in Seattle, Washington. Son of Edgar Zilsel.[146]
Sportspeople
edit- Jeff Monson (1971—): American mixed martial arts fighter and submission wrestler.[147]
Visual artist
edit- Ramón Acín (1887–1936): Spanish anarcho-syndicalist avant-garde artist and writer.[148]
- Charles Angrand (1856–1926): French Neo-Impressionist pointillist painter.[149]
- Enrico Baj (1924–2003): Italian printer, sculptor, writer, and college artist. Known to create works inspired by his philosophy, including Monument to Bakunin and Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli, the latter being inspired by Carlo Carrà's The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli.[150]
- Senya Fleshin (1894–1981): Ukrainian-born photographer[151]
- Clifford Harper (1949–): English cartoonist and illustrator, creator of Anarchy: A Graphic Guide and Class War Comix.[152]
- Augustus John (1878–1961), Welsh Post-Impressionist painter, draughtsman and etcher.[153]
- Frans Masereel (1889–1972): Flemish painter and one of the greatest woodcut artists of the twentieth-century. [154]
- Jonathan Pollak (1982–): Israeli graphic designer.[155]
Former self-identified anarchists
editThis section of the list includes people who have explicitly stated that they were anarchists for a time, but later abandoned it in favor of a different political and/or philosophical position.
- Kanson Arahata (1887–1981): Japanese socialist activist briefly involved with anarcho-syndicalism.[51]
- Peter Arshinov (1887–1937): Russian anarchist[156] who took part in anti-tsarist robbery and assassination. Renounced anarchism in favor of Bolshevism.[157] It is speculated this was a ruse to allow him to reenter Russia and promote an underground anarchist movement.[158]
- Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti (1870 – 1922): Romanian Symbolist poet, essayist, art & literary critic, and journalist. Became an anarchist after briefly studying Law and Letters at the University of Paris.[159] He disassociated from anarchism and associated with the Conservative Party in 1912.[160]
- Murray Bookchin (1921–2006): American libertarian socialist author and radical anti-capitalist. Renounced ties to anarchism in 2001 in favor of a self-titled position, "communalism".[161]
- Paul Brousse (1844 – 1912): French socialist, activist, and propagandist. Member of the Jura federation, a section of the International Workingmen's Association, and edited Bulletin de la Fédération Jurassienne with Peter Kropotkin. Became a reformist/socialist, and a leader of Possibilist thought in the early 1880s.[162]
- Chester Brown (1960 – ): Canadian independent cartoonist. Identified as an anarchist until research into political philosophy for a book, (Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography), shifted his philosophy towards libertarianism.[163]
- Scarlat Callimachi (1921–2006): Romanian journalist, essayist, futurist poet, trade unionist, and communist activist. Became an anarchist while in Paris during World War I.[164] Adopted Bolshevism after attending a rally in which Vladimir Lenin spoke.[165]
- Carlo Carrà (1881–1961): Italian Futurist painter, famous for his work The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli. Identified and associated with anarchists as a young man, but later held more reactionary political views, becoming ultra-nationalist and irredentist before and during World War I, as well as fascist after 1918.[166]
- Andrea Costa (1851–1910): After publishing several anarchist periodicals, renounced anarchism and served as the first socialist in Italy's Chamber of Deputies.[167]
- Alan Grant (1949–): Scottish comic book writer. Became an anarchist during mid 80s and later changed his philosophy in favor of Neo-Tech in mid 90s.[168]
- Tom Morello (1964—): American guitarist; plays alternative rock in Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, and folk as The Nightwatchman. Morello described himself as having been "the only anarchist in a conservative high school"[169] but has since identified as a nonsectarian socialist.[170]
- Steven Pinker (1954—): Candian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science author. Pinker was an anarchist in his youth, until 1969.[171]
- Victor Serge (1890-1947): Russian revolutionary and Francophone writer who was imprisoned as a collaborator of the Bonnot Gang before abandoning anarchism for Bolshevism.[172]
- Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007): American author and philosopher. Disavowed anarchism in favor of libertarianism. [173]
- Victor S. Yarros (1865–1956): American author. Renounced ties to anarchism in various essays.[174] Was denounced by Benjamin Tucker.[175]
People who have been considered anarchists
editThis section of the list includes people who have not explicitly stated that they are anarchists, but have been considered anarchists by other sources. These people may not have identified as anarchists because they predated the term's popular usage, it was considered an epithet, they did not regard themselves as anarchists, they dislike specific ideological labels, or for a variety of other reasons. It is also possible that some of the listed individuals might have been anarchists, but a quote in which they self-identified as such was never recorded, and so only the commentary of third parties serves to identify them. The categorisation of many of these people as anarchists may be controversial.
Activists and educators
edit- Janet Biehl (1953–): social ecologist and long-time companion of Murray Bookchin.[176]
- Steven T. Byington (1859–1967): American intellectual whose translation of The Ego and Its Own was responsible for the popularization of the philosophy of Max Stirner in early 20th century America.[177]
- Har Dayal (1884–1939): Indian revolutionary, founder of the Ghadar Party in India and the Bakunin Institute of California in the US.[178]
- Derrick Jensen (1960—): author and environmental activist known as a critic of civilisation and techology.[179]
- Ivan Illich (1926–2002): Austrian philosopher and social critic noted for his critiques of the institutions of 20th century Western culture, and his advocacy of deschooling.[180]
Authors
edit- Arthur Desmond (1869–1929): New Zealander individualist author.[181]
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924): Jewish-Bohemian modernist fiction author.[182]
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929—): American author of science fiction and fantasy noted for her feminist fictional future civilizations.[183]
- Terry Pratchett (1948—): English Fantasy author known for his satirical Discworld series.[184]
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910): Russian Christian anarchist writer and pacifist of the Tolstoy family, widely regarded to be one the greatest novelists of all time. Although Tolstoy rejected the label anarchist as he believed anarchism to be revolutionary and thus violent, modern consensus sees him as an important figure of the Christian anarchist movement.[185]
Businesspeople
edit- Henry Ford (1863-1947) - American founder of the Ford Motor Company and inventor of the assembly line. Sued the Chicago Times for calling him an anarchist.[186]
Comedians
edit- Bill Hicks (1961–1994): American satirist and social critic, who described his work as "Chomsky with dick jokes."[187]
Musicians
edit- Bob Dylan (1941–): American singer-songwriter, author, musician, poet, and disc jockey. Was pejoratively labeled an anarchist by United Kingdom newspapers in 1967. The moment he learns of this is recorded in the final scene of the 1967 documentary, Dont Look Back. His response was "give the anarchist a cigarette."[188]
- Serge Utgé-Royo: French singer[189]
Philosophers
edit- William Godwin (1756-1836): English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism.[190]
- Bao Jingyan (405-466), Daoist philosopher, author of Neither Lord nor Subject.[191]
- Laozi: philosopher of ancient China and a central figure in Taoism.[192]
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862): American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.[193][194]
- Zeno of Citium (333 BC – 264 BC): Founder of Stoicism, merchant, and student of Crates of Thebes. [195]
- Zhuangzi (ca 370 BC – ca 301 BC): A leading philosopher of Taoism. Allegedly the author of the taoist book, Zhuangzi, named after him.[196]
Politicians and lawyers
edit- Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926): American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States.[197]
Religious figures
edit- Dave Andrews (1951—): Australian Christian author, theologian and social activist. His books include Christi-Anarchy and Not Religion, But Love.[198]
- Jesus (c 4BC/BCE–30AD/CE): 1st century Jewish teacher who is the central figure of Christianity, and is also an important figure in several other religions.[199]
Revolutionaries
edit- Sergey Nechayev (1847–1882): Russian nihilist and associate of Mikhail Bakunin, notorious for his pursuit of revolution by any means necessary.[200][201]
Footnotes and citations
edit- ^ The Fight for Free Speech.
- ^ Barclay, Harold (2005). Longing for Arcadia. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 9781412056793.
- ^ Phillips, Susan (2002). "Love and Anarchy: A Profile and Interview with Paul Avrich". Dead Anarchists. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
Although Avrich calls himself an anarchist, he says that some kind of government is necessary. "I would like to say it could work, but people would have to get along with each other very well."
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1996). "Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future". Red & Black Revolution (2).
I was attracted to anarchism as a young teenager, as soon as I began to think about the world beyond a pretty narrow range, and haven't seen much reason to revise those early attitudes since.
- ^ Martin, Adrian (April 1987). "Flaus". Anarchic Life No. 2. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
I was an anarchist by instinct long before I was an anarchist by conviction. I believe all of us are, and that our anarchic impulses continually recur in our lives ... My kind of anarchism - philosophical anarchism - is to do with the liberation of the self rather than toppling governments.
- ^ "The Register of Francisco Ferrer Collection 1891 - 1979". Mandeville Special Collections Library. Geisel Library, University of California. 2005-10-28. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
- ^ "I was already an anarchist" — Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew, Wallace, Christine, (1997), Faber and Faber, 1999, ISBN 0-571-19934-8
- ^ Greer, Germaine (February 1972). "Greer on Revolution Germaine on Love". Overland 50/51 Autumn 1972. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
I am much more political now than I was then — I'm an anarchist still, but I'd say now I am an anarchist communist which I wasn't then.
{{cite web}}: Check|authorlink=value (help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "As far as I'm concerned, and I think the rest of the movement, too, we are anarcho-capitalists." -Murray Rothbard Exclusive Interview With Murray Rothbard The New Banner: A Fortnightly Libertarian Journal (25 February 1972)
- ^ Dreams of Freedom, Historical Background. Verter, Mitchell pp 25,26. AK Press, 2006. ISBN 1904859240
- ^ de Santillán, Diego Abad (1937), Economy and Liberty, After the Revolution, Greenberg Publisher. Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ Radhan, O.P (2002), Encyclopaedia of Political Parties, Anmol Publications Pvt ltd, ISBN 8174888659.
- ^ "John" (November 16 2000), Anarchist communism in Britain, 1870-1991, LibCom.org. Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ @narchist Panther, Alston's personal website. Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ Sendy, John (1983), Melbourne's Radical Bookshops, p 18, International Bookshop.
- ^ The Great Swindle: "This is not the tale of Salvador Puig Antich", KSL Bulletin, Kate Sharpley Library (July 2006). Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ Selbuz, Cemal (July 2006). "An anarchist on the roads of freedom". Abolishing the Borders from Below (25). Retrieved 2008-04-29.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Carolyn, Ashbaugh. "Radical Women: The Haymarket Tradition". The Lucy Parsons Project. Retrieved 2006-03-25.
- ^ When words are weapons: Aura Bogado interviews Sherman Austin Austin, Sherman; Bogado, Aura. Znet.org October 21, 2007
- ^ Loughery, Jessica. Freedom Song, Philadelphia City Paper, December 13, 2006. Accessed 24 January, 2007.
- ^ Schumaker, John (1989). Human Posture. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 202. ISBN 0791401200.
- ^ Schuster, Eunice (1983). Native American Anarchism. Port Townsend: Loompanics Unlimited. p. 118. ISBN 0915179946.
- ^ Goldman, Emma (1924). My Further Disillusionment in Russia. Wren Press. p. 200. ISBN 9781406739572.
- ^ "Interview with Mark Barnsley". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ Barrett, Rafael. Mi anarquismo. 1909.
- ^ Goldman, Emma (2003). Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520086708.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Max Nettlau, A Short History of Anarchism, trans. Ida Pilat Isca, ed. Heiner M. Becker (London: Freedom Press, 1996), pp. 66-68.
- ^ "I consider anarchism the most rational and practical conception of a social life m freedom and harmony. I am convinced that its realization is a certainty in the course of human development." — Berkman, Alexander. What Is Communist Anarchism?, Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press. (1929)
- ^ Goodway, David (2007). Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-1846310256.
- ^ Gay, Kathlyn (1999). Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 25. ISBN 0874369827.
- ^ a b Raccolta periodici .
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^ [1][dead link]. - ^ Weber, Edward C. "Manuscripts in the Labadie Collection". University of Michigan Library. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ "If we anarchists are utopians, we are so as a tension towards quality..." – The Anarchist Tension, Bonanno, Alfredo M. (1998)
- ^ Bone, Ian (2006). Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK. Naked Guides Ltd. p. 280. ISBN 0954417771.
- ^ Bool, Henry (1901-09-16). "Henry Bool Describes The School of Anarchists to Which He Belongs". Ithaca Journal. Retrieved 2008-09-24.
I am a believer in the doctrines of the individualistic school of Anarchists, to which Garrison, Emerson, Proudhon, Thoreau, Spooner, Andrews, Warren and Tucker belong.
- ^ "...I’m somewhere between individualist anarchism and agorism... The very reason I am an anarchist is that I don't think anyone should have the power to make this or that of society." The Statist Mindset of Anarchists Perbylund.com Accessed 2007-1-2
- ^ The New Symbol of Anarchism Accessed on 2007-03-27
- ^ Projects & Sites on PerBylund.com accessed at December 14 2007
- ^ Sánchez-González, Lisa (2001). Boricua Literature. New York, New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0814731473.
- ^ Christie, Stuart (2002). Granny Made Me an Anarchist. Oil & Gas USSR. p. 180. ISBN 1873976143.
- ^ Phillips, Terry (Fall 1984). "Lev Chernyi". The Match! (79). Retrieved 2008-03-10.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ de Cleyre, Voltairine (1914), "The Making of an Anarchist", Selected Writings of Voltairine de Cleyre, Mother Earth Publishing.
- ^ Dorothy Day. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved July 02, 2008. "A professed anarchist, Day was widely considered in later years one of the great Catholic lay leaders of the time"
- ^ Ervin, Lorenzo Komboa (1979). Anarchism and the Black Revolution. Distributed by A.B.C. [i.e. Anarchist Black Cross]. p. 54.
Finally around 1973, after I had been locked up for about three years, I started receiving Anarchist literature and correspondence from Anarchists who had heard about my case. This began my slow metamorphosis to a confirmed Anarchist, and in fact it was not until a few years later that I came over.
- ^ Gay, Kathlyn (1999). Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 73. ISBN 0874369827.
- ^ "I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and the relation it establishes between the individual and society." Was My Life Worth Living? Goldman, Emma. Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. CLXX, December 1934
- ^ Brock, Peter, ed. (1980). These Strange Criminals: An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-8020-8707-8.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Hoffman, Abbie (1980). Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. New York: Perigee Books. p. 128. ISBN 0-399-50503-2.
- ^ Anarchist Voices Avrich, Paul. AK Press (2006). p.143 -150. ISBN 1904859275
- ^ Herrada, Julie (Fall 1999). "Agnes Inglis: Anarchist Librarian". Progressive Librarian (19). Retrieved 2008-04-28.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b c Stanley, Thomas A. (1982). Osugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taisho Japan: The Creativity of the Ego. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. ISBN 0-674-64493-X.
- ^ Maitron, Jean (1951). Histoire du mouvement anarchiste en France. Translated by Abidor, Mitch. Albany: ocieté universitaire d’editions et de librairie. p. 202. ISBN 0791401200.
{{cite book}}: External link in|title= - ^ Matthew Cardinale. "Maya Keyes (Alan Keyes' Daughter) Sets the Record Gay in Interview Exclusive". OpEdNews.com. OpEdNews. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
Maya is a self-described "anarchist" with leftist social and political-economic views.
- ^ Crump, John (1996), "Kōtoku Shūsui and the emergence of Japanese anarchism", The Anarchist Movement in Japan, Anarchist Communist Editions, Pirate Press, Spunk.org. Retrieved September 8, 2007.
- ^ Paul Avrich, Anarchist Portraits (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988) p. 249.
- ^ My Perspectives Landstreicher, Wolfi. "Above all, I am an individual who desires to create my life and my relationship to the world and to other people on my own terms. This is why I am an anarchist. Therefore, my anarchist perspective is egoist and I take from all perspectives that I find useful in developing and carrying out my anarchist project."
- ^ Dicum, Gregory. "Green Flaming SUVs". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ Schuster, Eunice (1999). 'Native American Anarchism'. Breakout Productions. pp. 168 (footnote 22). ISBN 9781893626218.
- ^ Avrich, Paul (2006). Anarchist Voices. Stirling: AK Press. p. 469. ISBN 1904859275.
- ^ (Prod. & Directer) Mark Littlewod, (Excutive Producer) Carole Sheridan, (Executive Producer) Ewan Angus, (Producer and Researcher) Alison Murphy, (Writer) Chris Dolan, (Editor) Andy Boyd (2007-1-24). Ethel MacDonald: An Anarchist's Story (html) (Documentary). BBC Two. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
{{cite AV media}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month2=and|year2=(help) - ^ Matteson, Michael (1971). "Power To All The People Or To None At All". Peacemaker. 33 (9). Federal Pacifist Council of Australia.
Geoff Mullen and I are both anarchists. We both believe that you must take personal responsibility for your actions and follow this wherever it leads you. We were both influenced by the Orwell of "Homage to Catalonia" and the collected essays. However the practical form of anarchism that I support, and which Geoff would reject as largely futile, is the anarchism that has always seen itself as the left-wing of the labour movement. This is the anarchism of Mikhail Bakunin's "libertarian socialism" of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists who carried out successful workers' control in 1936-37. It identifies with the popular movements that struggled for self-management against the Bolshevik counter-revolution 1917-21, and workers' councils of the Hungarian revolution 1956.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ "I am an anarchist. Sometimes I identify as a anarchist without adjectives or a practical anarchist or a ecumenical anarchist." Another Blog is Possible Retrieved May 11, 2007.
- ^ Farrell-Green, Simon (2006). "Megaphone Man" (html). Metro Magazine. MSN New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
It's difficult to get him to talk about his views, but essentially, Oosterman defines himself as an anarchist, or a libertarian socialist, and believes very strongly that people should act collaboratively to work towards social transformation.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Christie, Stuart (2000). We, the Anarchists!: A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), 1927-37, Christie Books, ISBN 1901172058, pg.52
- ^ Radosh, Ronald; Habeck, Mary R. (2001). Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War , Yale University Press, ISBN 0300089813, pg.89
- ^ Paul Avrich, Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) p. 502 n. 292.
- ^ "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." – Rudolf Rocker, The London Years
- ^ Paul Avrich, Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) p. 489 n. 111.
- ^ Meltzer, Albert (1996) [1996]. "chapter 20". I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels (1 ed.). Edinburgh: AK Press. pp. 291–2. ISBN 1-873176-93-7.
- ^ "Katie admits she is an anarchist, but says that while anarchism is often associated with a violent overthrow of government, she is a pacifist." "Teen anarchist sues school principal". Trial Report. Retrieved 2002-10-17.
- ^ Seguin, Rheal (May 5, 2001). "'It makes me the creation of the media'". The Globe and Mail.
Since the age of 17, Mr. Singh was sympathetic to anarchism, but it was at Trinity College that he said he became a serious intellectual anarchist. "The label is not important to me. What is important is the spirit that promotes mutual aid and solidarity, anti-authoritarian ideas. I don't shy away from the label either. It's not chaos, it's not disorder, but a body of political idea."
{{cite news}}: line feed character in|quote=at position 148 (help) - ^ Stringham, Edward (2007). Anarchy and the Law. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. p. 698. ISBN 978-0765803306.
- ^ Paul Avrich, Anarchist Portraits (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988) p. 225.
- ^ Symes, Lillian and Clement, Travers. Rebel America: The Story of Social Revolt in the United States. Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1934. p. 156
- ^ Chalberg, John (1991). Emma Goldman: American Individualist. Harper Collins. p. 85-86. ISBN 0673521028.
- ^ Rocker, Rudolf, ed. (1974). "Introduction". Human Posture. New York: Free Life Editions. p. 202. ISBN 0791401200.
Under the influence of his new surroundings it was inevitable that Voline gradually altered his political and social views, with the result that in 1911 he separated himself from the Social Revolutionaries and joined the Anarchist movement.
{{cite book}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ Anarchist Essays Wilson, Charlotte. Freedom Press ISBN 0-900384-99-9
- ^ "Every man, they say, has a religion; my religion is Anarchism." — Ross Winn. A Vision of Anarchy, originally appearing in Firebrand, October 13, 1895
- ^ Cesare Zaccaria Papers
- ^ "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners." A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) Abbey, Edward (1989)
- ^ Reeves, Andrew (1979), "Andrews, John Arthur (1865 - 1903)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, p.69
- ^ Trahair, Richard (1999). Utopias and Utopians. Westport: Greenwood Press. p. 17. ISBN 0313294658.
- ^ "Literary Witness to century of turmoil", China Daily. Accessed January 24, 2007
- ^ Oliver, Myrna. "James Robert Baker: Satiric Novelist, Cult Filmmaker". Los Angeles Times; November 15, 1997, page A-20
- ^ Avrich, Paul (2006). Anarchist Voices. Stirling: AK Press. p. 14. ISBN 1904859275.
- ^ Block, Walter (1976). Defending the Undefendable. ISBN 0-930073-05-3.
- ^ On Autobiography, LewRockwell.com. Accessed November 19, 2008.
- ^ Sloane-Lees, Joanne (November 13 2004), "Jas H. Duke: Poems of Life and Death", Poetica, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "Jas was thrown out of the Communist Youth League after being instructed to paint the words "Pig Iron Bob" on a bridge. He did the job, but painted the words upside down. Was this the beginning of his life-long commitment to Anarchism?" Retrieved on May 26, 2009.
- ^ "Revolutionary Portraits: Carl Einstein" (PDF). Organise!. 57. London: Anarchist Federation: 28. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ^ Kelly, Kevin (Winter 1988), "Lawrence Ferlinghetti - interview", Whole Earth Review, no. 61
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) "I'm in the anarchist tradition. By "anarchist" I don't mean someone with a homemade bomb in his pocket. I mean philosophical anarchism in the tradition of Herbert Reed in England." - ^ I hold that there are no proper functions of government. In that sense I am an anarchist." – David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (1973, revised 1989)
- ^ Ginsberg, Allen (1977). Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties. New York: Grove Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-8021-3347-9.
- ^ Stoehr, Taylor, ed. (1994). Decentralizing Power: Paul Goodman's Social Criticism. Montréal: Black Rose Books. pp. pp. viii, 189. ISBN 1-551640-08-2.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help);|pages=has extra text (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Sabo, Anne G. (2004), "Are Norwegians European?: the Bohemians Say So!", Journal of European Studies, 34 (3): 247, doi:10.1177/0047244104046383, S2CID 144240868
- ^ Steven Lee Beeber, The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk (Chicago:Chicago Review Press, 2006) p. 5.
- ^ Michael Löwy, Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992) pp. 186-187.
- ^ Walter, Nicolas (May 10 1996). "Obituary: Albert Meltzer". The Independent. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Skirda, Alexandre (2004). Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack. Oakland: AK Press. p. 340. ISBN 1-902593-68-5.
- ^ "Politically I'm an anarchist." — A FOR ALAN, Pt. 1: The Alan Moore interview, Mile High Comics, November 1, 2005.
- ^ Mühsam, Erich (2001) [1930]. Thunderation!: Folk Play with Song and Dance. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses. p. 12. ISBN 0-8387-5416-3.
- ^ Koval, Ramona (May 25 2008), "Poetic anarchy: Pi O", Poetica, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "Pi O is a man who calls himself an urban poet -- a poet of cafes and coffee shops, of time and space with poems of numbers and poems of fragments, with poetry of the postmodern, premodern and most modern -- and above all an anarchist poet." Retrieved on May 26, 2009.
- ^ The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 Preface, Ali, Tariq. Verso (1998) ISBN 1859842909
- ^ Where Have All the Fascists Gone? Bar-On, Tamir. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. (2007). p.61 ISBN 0754671542
- ^ "And even now I do not mind avowing that I am philosophically... an Anarchist.." Preface to Project Gutenberg's A Girl Among the Anarchists, by Isabel Meredith. Gutenberg.org Accessed September 3, 2007.
- ^ Wroe, Nicholas (2006). "Last of the bohemians". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
He called himself a 'philosophical anarchist'...
- ^ McLellan, David (1990). Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil. Poseidon Press. p. 121.
- ^ Wilde said himself "I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe." — Ireland, Doug (August 26, 2005). "Wildes Second Coming Out" [sic]. In These Times. Retrieved on April 20, 2007.
- ^ Avrich, Paul (2006). Anarchist Voices. Stirling: AK Press. p. 475. ISBN 1904859275.
I have no prefix or adjective for my anarchism. I think syndicalism can work, as can free-market anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, even anarcho-hermits, depending on the situation. But I do have a strong individualist streak.
- ^ DEMARS DIOT, Aline. "Michel Zevaco and the Serial Novel"
- ^ "I am an anarchist..." Howard Zinn: Anarchism Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word, by Ziga Vodovnik, CounterPunch. May 17, 2008. Retrieved June 1, 2008
- ^ Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred (1911), Barcelona Outrages - The Empress Elizabeth and Luccheni, The Anarchists: Their Faith and Their Record, Turnbull and Spears Printers, Edingurgh. Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ Maura, J. R. (1968), Terrorism in Barcelona and its Impact on Spanish Politics 1904–1909: The Terrorist Tradition, Past & Present Society. Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ Simancas, Francisco. (1979?) Hombres en la lucha: C. Mera, F. Ascaso, y B. Durruti. Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Libertarias.
- ^ "I have been an anarchist all my life." – Buenaventura Durruti, quoted by Emma Goldman. Goldman, Emma, Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living
- ^ "As a revolutionary anarchist, I shared the life of the Ukrainian people during the revolution." Makhno, Nestor "The ABC of The Revolutionary Anarchist", The Struggle Against the State and other essays. Translated by Paul Sharkey.
- ^ Palij, Michael The Anarchism of Nestor Makhno, 1918-21.
- ^ Casanova, Julián (2005). "Terror and Violence: The Dark Face of Spanish Anarchism". International Labor and Working-Class History. 67 (67): 79–99. doi:10.1017/S0147547905000098. S2CID 146303092.
Also appearing on this stage were the "kings of the working- class pistol," to use anarchist Juan García Oliver's words
- ^ Paul Avrich, Anarchist Portraits (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988) p. 123.
- ^ Delzell, Charles F., review of A. G. Casanova, Matteotti: Una vita per il socialismo (1974), A. Landuyt, Le sinistre e l'Aventino (1973), and A. Galante Garrone, I radicale in Italia (1849-1925) (1973), in The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Jun., 1977), p. 325
- ^ Roberts, Jeremy, Benito Mussolini, Twenty-First Century Books, 2005 (ISBN 978-0-8225-2648-3). p 54.
- ^ izi, Fabio Fernando, Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism. University of Toronto Press, 2003. (ISBN 978-0-8020-3762-6), p. 113
- ^ "Whatever may happen to me, and whatever they may say of me, know well that I am an anarchist, that I fight as one, and that whatever my fate, I will die an anarchist." Volin, The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921, rev. ed. (Detroit and Chicago, 1974), p. 238. Emphasis in original.
- ^ Stormy Petrel - Anatoli Zhelezniakov Avrich, Paul
- ^ A Summer in the Park - A Journal of Speakers' Corner; Allen, T.; Freedom Press; 2004
- ^ Phil Daoust (1999-01-20). "Stand up and be taunted". The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Steigerwald, Bill (2003-05-24). "Dear graduates: Work for freedom". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
I guess libertarian is a little too much government for me. I tend to be a little more anarcho-capitalist.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ McCrossin, Julie (1981). "Women, wimmin, womyn, womin, whippets - On Lesbian Separatism". Girls Own. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
I had similar mind expanding sensation when I was first introduced to anarchist ideas. Alexander Berkman's indictment of state violence and Emma Goldman's criticism of the way the Russian Revolution developed were good news to this left-winger who had always felt uneasy with the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. To hear of a form of organization that didn't involve leaders or hierarchies or forced obedience to party lines of any colour, offered an ideal worth fighting for.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Curthoys, Ann (1996). Feminist Review. Feminist Review. ISBN 9780415145619. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
However, McCrossin also identified as an anarchist, with a long personal history of involvement in anarchist and left politics, and as such had worked, and continued to work, with both men and heterosexual women.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Beck, Julian, "Preface to The Brig", A Spotlight Dramabook.
- ^ Tallmer, Jerry (2008-08-20). "Judith Malina, woman alone (sort of)". The Villager. 78 (12). Retrieved 2008-09-26.
'Yes, I am an anarchist,' says Judith Malina, the rabbi's daughter, born Kiel, Germany, June 4, 1926. 'Anarchists are looking for an alternative to the destruction of civilization. They like it this way.'
- ^ "Anarchists come out of the closet with a friendly smile", The Sun, April 24, 1986.
- ^ Kenney, Padraic (2002). A Carnival of Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 62. ISBN 0691050287.
- ^ Kedward, H. (1971). The Anarchists. New York: American Heritage Press. ISBN 0070334323.
- ^ Bakunin, Mikhail, God and the State, Chapter II.
- ^ Baldelli, Giovanni (1971), Social Anarchism, Penguin Books. ISBN 0140806911.
- ^ Snow, Edgar. The Message of Gandhi. SEP, March 27, 1948. "Like Marx, Gandhi hated the state and wished to eliminate it, and he told me he considered himself 'a philosophical anarchist.'"
- ^ Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1840), What is Property?.
- ^ July 2004 interview from the Brooklyn Rail. "If it doesn’t involve alternative economic institution building, it’s not [a radical life]. As an anarchist, I’ve had this critique for years, and experience has only deepened it."
- ^ Paterson, R.W. K. Authority, Autonomy and the Legitimate State. Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1992
- ^ Running on Emptiness Zerzan, John. Feral House, 2002. "So...how did you become an anarchist?"
- ^ Black, Bob (1994), "My Anarchism Problem", Beneath the Underground, Feral House. ISBN 0922915210
- ^ Goldstein, Robert (2000). The War for the Public Mind. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0275964612.
- ^ Rayner, Claire (2000-03-28). "Alex Comfort Obituary" (html). The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
- ^ Heuer, Gottfried. "Otto Gross, 1877-1920: Biographical Survey". ottogross.org/. International Otto Gross Society. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
- ^ Follett, Rosemary (February 16, 1993), "Death of Professor F.C. Hollows", Debates of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory, HANSARD, p.13. "Professor Hollows was an egalitarian and a self-named anarcho-syndicalist who wanted to see an end to the economic disparity which exists between the First and Third Worlds and who believed in no power higher than the best expressions of the human spirit found in personal and social relationships." Retrieved on May 26, 2009.
- ^ Paul Zilsel, In Memorium, 1923—2006
- ^ "I am an anarchist, someone who would like to do away with all class hierarchy in society and the institutions that promote this inequality" — Interview with Anarchist Jeff "The Snowman" Monson of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Infoshop.org, March 7, 2006.
- ^ "Acín Aquilué, Ramón, 1888-1936", libcom.org. Accessed September 3, 2007.
- ^ Ivers, Anne. "Artists: Charles Angrand", Art Experts Inc. Accessed January 6, 2006.
- ^ Anarchism in the arts: Painting, graphic art, and cartooning. "Many major 20th-century painters, at one time or another, were active in the anarchist movement or acknowledged anarchism as a significant influence...Enrico Baj in Italy." Britannica.com/oscar Enrico Baj 1924-2003 "Baj was devoted to anarchism and this expressed itself in his works." libcom.com Accessed September 13, 2007.
- ^ Paul Avrich, Anarchist Portraits (Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1988) p. 225.
- ^ Agraphia Press. Accessed May 12 2007.
- ^ Wright, Lesley (October 2, 2004). "My Week: Curator at Tate Britain on the gallery's Gwen and Augustus John exhibition". The Independent.
- ^ "An ideal communism would be, let us say, an anarchic sort of communism." Roger Avermaete, Frans Masereel, 1976, Fonds Mercator, pp 84-7
- ^ Lavie, Aviv (2004-04-15). "Picking Their Battles". Haaretz. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
- ^ "He turned to anarchism because of the minimalism of the Bolsheviks which, in Arshinov's view, did not respond to the real aspirations of the workers and caused, together with the minimalism of the other political parties, the defeat of the 1905-06 revolution. In anarchism Arshinov found, in his own words, a collection of all the libertarian-egalitarian aspirations and hopes of the workers." Eichenbaum, Vsevolod M. (Voline) Voline's Preface, History of The Makhnovist Movement (1918-1921) Arshinov, Peter.
- ^ Anarchism and The Dictatorship of The Proletariat (1931), Anarchism In Our Age (1933), The Fiasco of Anarchism (1935).
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- ^ Tudor Vianu, p.370; Zambaccian
- ^ Cioculescu, p.378
- ^ Vanek, David Interview with Murray Bookchin Harbinger, Vol.2 No.1 Social-ecology.org Retrieved October 11, 2007
- ^ Guérin, Daniel (2005). No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism. Oakland, California: AK Press. ISBN 1904859259.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Matheson, Emmet (2004). "Chester Brown". Riel: a comic-book hero. CBC Digital Archives. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
I was an anarchist when I began the strip and I knew the story would make the government look bad. [...] But in doing all the research for this book, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, I learned a lot about general political theory. I came to realize that anarchy is completely unworkable, which I sort of suspected all along.
- ^ Chiva & Şchiop
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- ^ Pinkus, p.20
- ^ Di Scala, Spencer (2004). Italy from Revolution to Republic: 1700 to the Present, Westview Press, p.166
- ^ Holy Penis Collapsor Batman! DC Publishes The First Zonpower Comic Book!?!?!. gocomics.com. Accessed February 18, 1998
- ^ Harris, Chris (February 6, 2007). Nightwatchman, Rage Reunion Have Morello Fired Up For Political Fights. MTV News. MTV.com. Retrieved on November 8, 2007.
- ^ Young, Charles M. (June 1996). Rage Against the Machine plots a revolution. Underground. Retrieved on November 8, 2007.
- ^ "As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism. I laughed off my parents' argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. ... This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist)." — Pinker, Steven (2002), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin Putnam, ISBN 0-670-03151-8.
- ^ Sedgwick, Peter (Spring 1984). "Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism". History Workshop Journal. 17: 150. doi:10.1093/hwj/17.1.150. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian. I suppose an anarchist would say, paraphrasing what Marx said about agnostics being "frightened atheists," that libertarians are simply frightened anarchists. Having just stated the case for the opposition, I will go along and agree with them: yes, I am frightened. I'm a libertarian because I don't trust the people as much as anarchists do. I want to see government limited as much as possible; I would like to see it reduced back to where it was in Jefferson's time, or even smaller. But I would not like to see it abolished. I think the average American, if left totally free, would act exactly like Idi Amin. I don't trust the people any more than I trust the government." Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence Wilson, Robert Anton. Elliot, Jeffrey.
- ^ Victor S. Yarros places the year of his conversion to anarchism at age 19 (in approximately 1884), and announces his abandonment of it in the same essay, Adventures in the Realm of Ideas. He further elaborates upon his position on Anarchism in The Persistence of Utopian Thinking and Benjamin R. Tucker and Philosophical Anarchism. All three articles are collected in an anthology of his essays: Yarros, Victor S. Adventures in the Realm of Ideas (1947). Praxeology.net Accessed October 11, 2007.
- ^ "Victor Yarros, who now parades in the role of a mere observer, was for years my most active participant in Anarchistic propaganda, – a fact which he is now at pains to conceal. I once admired him; I now despise him." – Benjamin R. Tucker, Free Vistas 2 (1937)
- ^ Godfrey, Phoebe (December 2005). "Diane Wilson vs. Union Carbide: Ecofeminism and the Elitist Charge of "Essentialism"". Capitalism Nature Socialism. 16 (4): 37–56. doi:10.1080/10455750500376008. S2CID 143414183.
But Biehl's objection to diversity is an odd one coming from an anarchist; and her confusion of diversity with contradiction is a poor lapse for a would-be "rationalist."
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Clarke, Bruce (1996). Dora Marsden and Early Modernism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472106465.
- ^ "Anarchist ideas had a dominant place in the thinking of Har Dayal" — Puri, Harish K, Ghadar Movement: Ideology, Organisation and Strategy, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 1993, p 171
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strangers in a tangled wilderness. "Fiction & Anarchism: interview with Derrick Jensen". Infoshop News. Infoshop.org. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
I get called an anarchist lot. I think that's the most accurate way to say it, I get called an anarchist a lot, and I don't mind. Do I self identify as an anarchist? Sometimes. It's a label.
- ^ Derbyshire, John (2001-05-15). "The Price You Pay". National Review. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
Thirty years ago the Austrian radical anarchist Ivan Illich proposed a "deschooling" of society, to benefit the poor.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Prebble, Frank (1999), "Arthur Desmond", "Trouble Makers" - Anarchism and Syndicalism: The early years of the Libertarian Movement in Aotearoa / New Zealand, Radical Tradition. "Arthur Desmond never described himself as an anarchist, but because of his association with anti-authoritarian ideas and groups he is often regarded as such. He was an individualist anarchist along the lines of Max Stirner." Accessed 26 May 2009.
- ^ Löwy, Michael (Summer 1997). "Franz Kafka and Libertarian Socialism". New Politics. 6 (3). Retrieved 2008-02-16.
In another chapter of the book, Pawel refers to Kafka as a "metaphysical anarchist not much given to party politics" -- a definition which seems to me very much on the mark.
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"Ursula K LeGuin on Anarchism, Writing". Infoshop News. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
SiTW: [...] Would you describe yourself as an anarchist?
Ursula: I don't, because I entirely lack the activist element, and so it seems phony or too easy. Like white people who say they are "part Cherokee."
SiTW: I hope you don't mind that a lot of us claim you, in approximately the same way that we claim Tolstoy. [...]
Ursula: Of course I don't mind! I am touched and feel unworthy.{{cite web}}: line feed character in|quote=at position 63 (help) - ^ "Pratchett is pro-feminist, pro-pacifist, pro-anarchist." — James, Edward, The Times Literary Supplement, December 23, 1994
- ^ "Leo Tolstoy: Conversion and religious beliefs". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2007.
- ^ "HENRY FORD FILES $1,000,000 LIBEL SUIT; Resents Chicago Tribune's Charge of Anarchy in Connection with Enlistment of His Employes". New York Times. September 8, 1916. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ Hicks' work is sold by AK Press (Best of Bill Hicks: Philosophy at AK Press), and he has variously been considered an anarchist - see, e.g. Coysh, Daniel (December 20, 2006). "Hicks's humanity". Retrieved 2007-03-03.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ D.A. Pennebaker (Director, Writer, Editor), John Court (Producer), Albert Grossman (Producer) (1967-05-17). Dont Look Back (Documentary). Leacock-Pennebaker. Retrieved 2007-11-16.
They've started calling you an anarchist.
- ^ Portis, Larry (2004). French Frenzies. Virtualbookworm.com Publishing. p. 179. ISBN 1589395476.
Son of refugees from the defeat of the Spanish Revolution in the late 1930s, he (Serge Utgé-Royo) is an uncompromising anarchist who sings for revolutionary movements everywhere.
- ^ Mark Philip (2006-05-20). "William Godwin". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "William Godwin [...] was the founder of philosophical anarchism"
- ^ Keith Knapp. "Ge Hong". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ "Introduction". 老子道德經. Open Court Publishing Company. 1898. p. 35.
...Lao-Tze was an anarchist, not in the sense of being against kings, but against governing...
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Johnson, Ellwood. The Goodly Word: The Puritan Influence in America Literature, Clements Publishing, 2005, p. 138.
- ^ Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, edited by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Alvin Saunders Johnson, 1937, p. 12.
- ^ "The best exponent of anarchist philosophy in ancient Greece was Zeno (342-267 or 270 BC), from Crete, the founder of the Stoic philosophy, who distinctly opposed his conception of a free community without government to the state-utopia of Plato." – Kropotkin, Pyotr (1910) Anarchism The Encyclopaedia Britannica Anarchy.org
- ^ Rothbard, Murray. Concepts of the Role of Intellectuals in Social Change Toward Laissez Faire, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol IX No. 2 (Fall 1990). – According to Murray Rothbard, Zhuangzi was "perhaps the world's first anarchist"; Zhuangzi said, the world "does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed," and, "Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone." Rothbard claims that Zhuangzi was the first to work out the idea of spontaneous order, before Proudhon and Hayek.
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Hearing his views, I could not help exclaiming:
"Why, Mr. Debs, you're an anarchist!"
"Not Mister, but Comrade," he corrected me; "won't you call me that?"
Clasping my hand warmly, he assured me that he felt very close to the anarchists, that anarchism was the goal to strive for, & that all socialists should also be anarchists. Socialism to him was only a stepping-stone to the ultimate ideal, which was anarchism.
"I know & love Kropotkin & his work," he said; "I admire him & I revere our murdered comrades who lie in Waldheim, as I do also all the other splendid fighters in your movement. You see, then, I am your comrade. I am with you in your struggle."— Emma Goldman, Living My Life - ^ Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre J. M. E. (2008), "Turning the Other Cheek to Terrorism: Reflections on the Contemporary Significance of Leo Tolstoy's Exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount", Politics and Religion #1, pp 27-54
- ^ The Educational enterprise in the Light of the Gospel Illich, Ivan. Lecture. Chicago, November 13 1988. "Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us."
- ^ Magill, Frank (1984). Critical Survey of Poetry. Pasadena: Salem Press. p. 1159. ISBN 0893563501.
- ^ Maegd-Soëp, Carolina (1990). Trifonov and the Drama of the Russian Intelligentsia. Ghent State University, Russian Institute. p. 79. ISBN 907313904X.
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External links
edit- "Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians", from flag.blackened.net
- "Who are the major anarchist thinkers?", from An Anarchist FAQ
- The Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed Calendar
- Libertarian Communist Library - contains works of many prominent anarchists