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An edition of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (2007)

Black Flame

The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism

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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.

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AK Press
Language
English
Pages
395

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History, Syndicalism, Socialism, Anarchism, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Europe, politics and government

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Europe
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2009, AK Press
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2009, AK Press
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Table of Contents

Preface, by Stuart Christie
Page 1
Acknowledgements
Page 3
1. Introduction
Page 5
Part 1: Theory and Analysis
2. Socialism from below: defining anarchism
Page 33
3. Proudhon, Marx, and anarchist social analysis
Page 83
Part 2: Strategy and Tactics
4. Roads to revolution: mass anarchism versus insurrectionist anarchism
Page 123
5. Anarchism, syndicalism, the IWW, and labour
Page 149
6. Ideas, structure, and armed action unions, politics, and the revolution
Page 181
7. Dual unionism, reforms, and other tactical debates
Page 211
8. Militant minority: the question of anarchist political organization
Page 239
Part 3: Social Themes
9. The class character and popular impact of the broad anarchist tradition
Page 271
10. Anarchist internationalism and race, imperialism, and gender
Page 297
11. Conclusion to volume 1 and prologue to volume 2.
Page 347
Appendix
Bibliography
Page 349
Index
Page 377

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-376) and index.

Published in
Edinburgh, UK, Oakland, USA
Series
Counterpower -- v. 1
Other Titles
Schwarze Flamme: Revolutionäre Klassenpolitik des Anarchismus und Syndikalismus
Copyright Date
2009

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.5/7094
Library of Congress
HX884 .V36 2009, HX884

Contributors

Foreword
Stuart Christie

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
395p.
Number of pages
395
Dimensions
23 x 15.5 x 2.5 centimeters

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Open Library
OL23949779M
Internet Archive
Black_Flame
ISBN 10
190485916X
ISBN 13
9781904859161
LCCN
2009483480
OCLC/WorldCat
495192914, 144596882
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Wikidata
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