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Black flame : the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism / Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt.

Title
Black flame : the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism / Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt.
Author
Van der Walt, Lucien
Publication
Edinburgh ; Oakland : AK Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
Schmidt, Michael.
Description
395 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Black Flames is the first of two volumes that reexamine' anarchism's democratic class politics, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles in five continents over the last 150 years. From the nineteenth century to today's anticapitalist movements, it traces anarchism's lineage and contemporary relevance, outlining anarchism's insights into questions of race, gender, class, and imperialism. In the process, Schmidt and van der Walt significantly reframe the work of previous historians on the subject and, especially, question Marxist approaches to revolutionary theory and practice."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Counterpower ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Counterpower ; v. 1.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-376) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Socialism from below: defining anarchism -- Proudhon, Marx, and anarchist social analysis -- Roads to revolution: mass anarchism versus insurrectionist anarchism -- Anarchism, syndicalism, the IWW, and labour -- Ideas, structure, and armed action unions, politics, and the revolution -- Dual unionism, reforms, and other tactical debates -- Militant minority: the question of anarchist political organisation -- The class character and popular impact of the broad anarchist tradition -- Anarchist internationalism and race, imperialism, and gender -- Conclusion to volume 1 and prologue to volume 2.
ISBN
  • 9781904859161 (pbk.)
  • 190485916X (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 144596882
  • SCSB-10575022
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library