Perspective

The following is a selection of readings that broadly reflect my perspective on anarchism. I do not endorse any of them uncritically or totally. This is a work in progress.

Defining Anarchism

• Socialism From below: Defining Anarchism (pdf), 2009, chapter from Black Flame by Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt.
• Proudhon, Marx and Anarchist Social Analysis (pdf), 2009, from Black Flame by Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt.
• Counterpower, participatory democracy, revolutionary defence: debating Black Flame, revolutionary anarchism and historical Marxism, 2011, Lucien van der Walt, in International Socialism issue 130. Excellent piece for any discussion on where Marxist groups and anarchists might agree, and where they significantly diverge.

On Organisation

• Social Anarchism and Organisation, 2004, by Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro.
• Anarkismo editorial statement, ?, based on an earlier document by the WSM.
• Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft), 1926, by Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness, 1973, by Joreen or Jo Freeman.

On Violence

• You Can’t Blow up a Social Relationship – the Anarchist Case Against Terrorism, 1979, by Libertarian Socialist Organisation, Libertarian Workers for a Self Managed Society, Monash Anarchist Society and Adelaide Libertarian Socialists.
• Defense of the Revolution, various extracts from 1920-24, by Errico Malatesta, from “Malatesta: His Life & Ideas”, ed. Vernon Richards, Freedom Press, 1993.

On Economics

• Marx’s Economics for Anarchists: An Anarchist’s Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy, 2012, by Wayne Price.

On Russia

• The Bolsheviks and Workers Control, 1970, by Maurice Brinton.