The Anarchist Past and Other Essays

by Nicolas Walter, David Goodway (Editor)

For forty years Walter was a contributor to the anarchist press, principally Freedom and its companion periodicals Anarchy and The Raven . He was active in many groups including the Spies for Peace and the Rationalist Press Association, editing The New Humanist . This volume selects from his extensive writings on anarchist history and theory. This book presents a history of anarchism, reaching from its prehistory in the American Revolution to the work of Murray Bookchin and Colin Ward.
The Anarchist Past is edited and introduced by David Goodway.

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First published June 12, 2009

About the author

Nicolas Walter (1934-2000) was one of the best-known and mostly widely read anarchist writers of the last half century. His About Anarchism has been translated into many languages, including Russian, Serbo-Croat, Greek, Turkish, Chinese and Japanese. But his immense output was otherwise overwhelmingly journalism for the libertarian press. It is only with The Anarchist Past and Other Essays (Five Leaves, 2007), a virtual history of anarchism reaching from its prehistory in the American Revolution to the work of Murray Bookchin and Colin Ward, and the present volume that libertarians today are enabled to appreciate his range, erudition and readability.