The Anarchist Revolution: Polemical Articles 1924-1931

by Errico Malatesta, Vernon Richards (Editor), Gillian Fleming (Translator)

A complement to 'His Life And Ideas,' much of it previously unpublished. As fresh today as when the polemics were written.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Errico Malatesta (December 14, 1853 – July 22, 1932) was an Italian anarchist. He spent much of his life exiled from Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of Mikhail Bakunin. He was an enormously popular figure in his time. According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, "Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100,000, fans to show up whenever [he] arrived in town." (Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Thomé Freyre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Óptima colecção de artigos do que foi talvez, o último dos grandes teóricos anarquistas.

[Scarlett]

I read Communism and Individualism on The Anarchist Library. My sentiment is leftists are divided on so many issues that we will never bring about any change if we don't stand ground on the core principals we all seem to believe in (except for tankies and fascists we don't talk about them) which are economic freedom from the state and corporations and social equality for all.

[Lee]

This is a collection of several of Malatesta's articles right before his death in fascist Italy. He discusses some very relevant issues within the anarchist milieu such as the role of anarchists in the trade unions, revolutionary terrorism, individualism and communism, gradualism, revisionism, the Platform, and what is to be done in a post-revolutionary society. Malatesta, as always, keeps the readers attention in his prolific style of writing.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

EXCELLENT collection of short essays and discussions by Malatesta. TOTALLY worth reading. VERY good.