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The Anarchist Papers
Brings together some of the best writings of Chomsky, Bookchin, Woodcock, and Castoriadis in one volume.
195 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1986
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Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos
20 books3 followersDimitri Roussopoulos is a political activist, ecologist, writer, editor, publisher, community organizer, and public speaker. Educated in philosophy, politics and economics at several Montreal universities and London. Roussopoulos has sought to keep himself free from any academic confinement, and apart from having taught for two years in the late sixties at a college that followed the progressive education philosophy of John Dewey, he has remained institutionally independent.
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September 24, 2014
My edition is from 2002, and is mostly comprised of essays written in the 1980s, with a few very cursory pieces about the Seattle protests at the end. I don't know if subsequent editions have more content.
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Like many anthologies - especially anarchist anthologies - this is a mixed bag. I found some pieces rambling and not very incisive, others interesting, and still others sharply argued. The tone and complexity of the articles is somewhere between the standard for academic books and the kind of personalistic [note: that's not meant to be derisive] anthologies that the AK Press tends to put out. The range of the essays is very, very wide; it contains a nearly empirical article on the nature of the (West) German Green Party, an account of the uses of propaganda as a method of control in liberal democracies, a piece on Emma Goldman's complicated relationship with the status of women, and a technical philosophical piece on Robert Paul Wolff's In Defense of Anarchism. If there's something that unites the contents of the book other than a vague appeal to anarchism, I'm not sure what it is. This is neither a flaw nor a feature; it does mean that you'll almost certainly find something of interest and something else that you find boring or pointless.
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Like many anthologies - especially anarchist anthologies - this is a mixed bag. I found some pieces rambling and not very incisive, others interesting, and still others sharply argued. The tone and complexity of the articles is somewhere between the standard for academic books and the kind of personalistic [note: that's not meant to be derisive] anthologies that the AK Press tends to put out. The range of the essays is very, very wide; it contains a nearly empirical article on the nature of the (West) German Green Party, an account of the uses of propaganda as a method of control in liberal democracies, a piece on Emma Goldman's complicated relationship with the status of women, and a technical philosophical piece on Robert Paul Wolff's In Defense of Anarchism. If there's something that unites the contents of the book other than a vague appeal to anarchism, I'm not sure what it is. This is neither a flaw nor a feature; it does mean that you'll almost certainly find something of interest and something else that you find boring or pointless.
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