An edition of Rebel Alliances: The Means And Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
(2006)
Rebel Alliances
The Means And Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
by Benjamin Franks
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Rebel Alliances offers an applied philosophical perspective on contemporary class-struggle anarchism in Britain. It identifies the main principles distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal, and social-democratic groupings. From these key characteristics, Franks constructs a consistent anarchism, which both shares characteristics with politically-engaged post-structuralisms and has a distinctive ethic.
The theory and practice of contemporary groups are then assessed against this "ideal-type" of anarchism. Many of the central themes of anarchism are consequently subject to original scrutiny: the nature of the revolutionary subject; workplace and community organizing; violence and pacifism; the meaning of direct action; and propaganda by the word and deed.
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Histories of British Anarchism
Foreword
1. Problems in Writing Anarchist Histories
2. Origins
3. The Heroic Period: A history of British anarchism up to 1914
4. Anarchism During the First World War, 1914–1918
5. The Decline of Anarchism and the Rise of the Leninist Model, 1918–1936
6. Decay of Working Class Organisations: The Spanih Civil War to the Hungarian Revolution, 1936–1956
7. Spring and Fall of the New Left, 1956–1976
8. Punk and DiY Culture, 1976–1984
9. The Revival of Class struggle Anarchism: The Miners’ Strike to anti-capitalism, 1984–2004
Chapter Two: The Anarchist Ethic
Part I: The Anarchist Ethical Framework
Introduction
1. Against Ethics
2. The Prefigurative Method
3. Ends-based Approaches
4. Means-Centred Approaches
Part II: Direct Action
Introduction
5. Direct Action: Means and Ends
6. Constitutional Proceedings Versus Direct Action
7. Symbolic Action and Direct Action
8. Direct Action and Violence
Chapter Three: Agents of Change
Introduction
1. The Anarchist Ideal: A concept of class agents
2. Leninist Model of Class
3. Gorz and the Non-Class
4. The Processed World
5. Extension of Class: The social factory
6. Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
7. Antagonisms and Solidarity
Chapter Four: Organisation
Introduction
1. Anti-Organisation
2. Formal Structures: Leninist organisation
3. Contemporary Anarchist Structures
4. Workplace Organisation
5. Community Organisation
6. Summation
Chapter Five: Anarchist Tactics
Introduction
1. Revolution
2. Industrial Activity
3. Methods of Propaganda
4. Community Sabotage and Criminality
5. Atypical Anarchist Tactics
6. Summation
Conclusion
Endnotes
Appendix One – Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix Two – Groups by Organisational Structure 1985–2002
Bibliography
Index
Contacts List
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
Edition Identifiers
Work Identifiers
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