num_pages: 304
description: Drawing on decades of research, Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaging, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers, and more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by. Bakuninist secret societies; the Internationals and the clash with Marx; the Illegalists, bombers and assassins; the mass trade unions; and of course, the Russian and Spanish Revolutions are all discussed through the prism of working people battling fiercely for a new world free of the shackles of Capital and the State. Alexandre Skirda is the foremost anarchist theorist and activist writing in Europe today. Also Available from AK No Gods, No Masters , Books One &amp; TwoBook TP 16.95, 1-873176-64-3 • CUSABook TP 16.95, 1-873176-69-4 • CUSA
language: English
title: Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May 1968
titlecomplete: Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May 1968
genres: Philosophy, History, Politics
ratings_count: 51
publisher: AK Press