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Theories of Anarchist Development
Posts in the EXTRICATIONS series: The question we’re wrestling with remains this: How do we understand the anarchist past and how does that understanding influence our action in the present? This question is ultimately inseparable […]

Contr’un Revisited
“Contr’un Revisited” is a collection of material from the “Contr’un” blog (and several other sources), annotated and intended as an introduction to the anarchist theory that has developed here over the last decade. […]



Available Now! Anarchy and the Sex Question
Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896-1917 By Emma Goldman Edited by Shawn P. Wilbur Available from PM Press Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940) remains one of the best known figures […]

Mutual Exchange on “Anarchy and Democracy”
I’ve been participating in the C4SS “Mutual Exchange” on the topic of “Anarchy and Democracy,” along with a star-studded assembly of anarchists and libertarians from various tendencies. While this is technically the June exchange, it […]

An appealing, but apocryphal tale
“So you see those fellows yonder?” said a man to me in a Russian village in 1871, pointing to a group of sallow, bearded, low-browed peasants, who were slouching past in their ragged frocks of […]

Louise Michel’s “Nadine,” a drama featuring Bakunin
I have previously posted a short excerpt from Louise Michel’s novel, The Imperial Bastard, which featured Bakunin as a main character. Michel also adapted some elements from that novel in dramatic form as Nadine, a […]
