Black Flame
Subtitle: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
By: Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt.
Contributors: Schmidt, Michael.
Series: Counterpower -- v. 1
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh, UK; Oakland, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781904859161
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Libertarianism -- Europe -- History; Anarchism -- Europe -- History; Syndicalism -- Europe -- History; Socialism -- Philosophy
Other titles: Schwarze Flamme: Revolutionäre Klassenpolitik des Anarchismus und Syndikalismus
Description: Black Flame (Counter-Power, Volume 1) is the first of a two-volume set examining the democratic class politics of the worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles on five continents over the course of the past 150 years. 

From anarchism's first glimmers as a nineteenth-century ideology to today's anticapitalist struggles, Black Flame traces anarchism's lineage and contemporary relevance, outlining the movement's insights into questions of race, gender, class, and imperialism. With Black Flame, Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, both writers and activists in South Africa, have begun what promises to be the definitive synthetic account of the international anarchist tradition. 

Nearly exhaustive in scope, and rigorous in its scholarly detail, this first volume significantly reframes the work of previous historians and, especially, examines coherent alternatives to Marxist and nationalist approaches to revolutionary theory and practice. An indispensable conceptual roadmap to the history and continuing relevance of anarchist praxis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-376) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface, by Stuart Christie
pagenum: 1; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 5; title: Part 1: Theory and Analysis; label: 2
title: Socialism from below: defining anarchism
pagenum: 33; label: 3
title: Proudhon, Marx, and anarchist social analysis
pagenum: 83; title: Part 2: Strategy and Tactics; label: 4
title: Roads to revolution: mass anarchism versus insurrectionist anarchism
pagenum: 123; label: 5
title: Anarchism, syndicalism, the IWW, and labour
pagenum: 149; label: 6
title: Ideas, structure, and armed action unions, politics, and the revolution
pagenum: 181; label: 7
title: Dual unionism, reforms, and other tactical debates
pagenum: 211; label: 8
title: Militant minority: the question of anarchist political organization
pagenum: 239; title: Part 3: Social Themes; label: 9
title: The class character and popular impact of the broad anarchist tradition
pagenum: 271; label: 10
title: Anarchist internationalism and race, imperialism, and gender
pagenum: 297; label: 11
title: Conclusion to volume 1 and prologue to volume 2.
pagenum: 347; title: Appendix; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 349; title: Index
pagenum: 377