Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (157 page)

7
    George Bernard Shaw, ‘The Impossibities of Anarchism’ (1893), in
Patterns of Anarchy
, op. cit., p. 508

8
    Ibid., p. 514

9
    Hobhouse,
Liberalism
, op. cit., p. 146

10
  Russell,
Roads to Freedom
, op. cit., p. 15

11
  Miller,
Anarchism
, op. cit., p. 178

12
  See Howard J. Ehrlich, ‘Anarchism and formal organizations’,
Reinventing Anarchy
, op. cit., p. 108

13
  See David Wieck, ‘The Negativity of Anarchism’,
Reinventing Anarchy
, op. cit., p. 140; Giovanni Baldelli,
Social Anarchism
, op. cit., p. 95

14
  Quoted in Ward,
Anarchy in Action
, op. cit., p. 38

15
  Russell,
Principles of Social Reconstruction
, op. cit., p. 3

16
  Dostoevsky,
Notes from Underground
, op. cit., pp. 33–4

17
  Godwin,
Political Justice
(1793 edn.), op. cit., II, 565

18
  Orwell, ‘Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool’ (1947),
Collected Essays
, op. cit., p. 432.

19
  Orwell, ‘Politics vs. Literature’ (1946), ibid., p. 405. Cf. Shaw, ‘The Impossibilities of Anarchism’, op. cit., p. 508

20
  Godwin,
Political Justice
(1798 edn.), op. cit., I, 168

21
  Joll,
The Anarchists
, op. cit., p. 259

22
  Orwell,
Poetry Quarterly
(Autumn 1945)

23
  See Russell,
In Praise of Idleness
, op. cit., p. 11

24
  Shaw, ‘The Impossibilities of Anarchism’, op. cit., p. 508

25
  Camillo Berneri, ‘The Problem of Work’ (1938),
Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society
, ed. Vernon Richards (Freedom Press, 1983), p. 74

26
  
Adresse à tous les travailleurs
(30 May 1968) (Paris: Comité Enragés - Internationale Situationniste, 1968)

27
  G. Plechanoff,
Anarchism and Socialism
, trans. Eleanor Marx Aveling (Chicago: C. H. Kerr, 1912), pp. 141, 148

28
  Lenin,
The State and Revolution
, op. cit., p. 124

29
  See Lenin,
‘Left-Wing’ Communism, An Infantile Disorder
(1920)

30
  Gray,
The Socialist Tradition
, op. cit., p. 380

31
  Wilde, ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism’, op. cit., p. 34

32
  Apter, ‘The Old Anarchism and the New - Some Comments’,
Anarchism Today
, op. cit., p. 1

33
  Ward,
Anarchy in Action
, op. cit., p. 11

34
  Joll, ‘Anarchism - a Living Tradition’,
Anarchism Today
, op. cit., p. 225

35
  Hobsbawm, ‘Reflections on Anarchism’ (1969),
Revolutionaries: Contemporary Essays
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973), p. 83

1
    See Richard Day,
Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Contributions to the Newest Social Movements
(Pluto Press, 2005)

2
    Woodcock,
Anarchism
(1975), op. cit., p. 454

3
    See Jonathan Purkis & James Bowen, eds.,
Twenty-first Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas for a New Millennium
(Cassell, 1997), p. 3. See also their
Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)

4
    See Penny Kornegger, ‘Anarchism: The Feminist Connection’, H. J. Ehrlich, ed.,
Reinventing Anarchy, Again
(Edinburgh: AK Press, 1996), p. 175

5
    See L. Susan Brown,
The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Feminism and Anarchism
(Montréal: Black Rose, 2003)

6
    Bulletin of the Anarcha-feminist International in Ruth Kinna,
Anarchism: A Beginner’s Guide
(Oxford: Oneworld, 2005), p. 79

7
    See Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, ed.,
Quiet Rumours
(Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003)

8
    Noam Chomsky, ‘Anarchism, Intellectuals and the State’ (1996),
Chomsky on Anarchism
, ed. Barry Pateman (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2005), p. 215

9
    Chomsky, Interview with Barry Pateman (2004), ibid., p. 223

10
  Chomsky,
Language and Politics
, ed. C. Otero (Montréal: Black Rose, 1988), p. 162

11
  Chomsky, ‘Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future’ (1995),
Chomsky on Anarchism
, op. cit., p. 178

12
  Chomsky, Interview with Barry Pateman, op. cit., p. 222

13
  Chomsky, Interview with Zida Vodnovik, op. cit., p. 238

14
  Chomsky, Interview with Barry Pateman, op. cit., p. 226

15
  See David Goodway,
Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow
(Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006), pp. 309–25. See also Colin Ward and David Goodway,
Talking Anarchy
(Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2003)

16
  Ward,
Anarchy in Action
(Allen & Unwin, 1973), p. 11

17
  Ward,
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 98

18
  Alan Carter, ‘Analytical Anarchism: Some Conceptual Foundations’,
Political Theory
, 28, 2 (2000), p. 230

19
  Michel Foucault, ‘The Subject and Power’, Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow,
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
(Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982), p. 221

20
  Foucault, ‘Power and Strategies’, in
Power/Knowledge
, op. cit., p. 141

21
  Todd May,
The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
(Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 1994), p. 63. See my ‘Human Nature and Anarchism’,
For Anarchism: History, Theory and Practice
, ed. David Goodway (Routledge, 1989)

22
  Ibid., p. 119, p. 123

23
  Saul Newman,
From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power
(Lanham: Lexington Books, 2001), p. 153

24
  See Newman, ‘Anarchism and the Politics of
Ressentiment’, Theory & Event
, 4, 3 (2000)

25
  Lewis Call, ‘Anarchy in the Matrix: Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’,
Anarchist Studies
, 7, 2 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 100

26
  Call,
Postmodern Anarchism
(Lanham: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 52–3

27
  Ibid., p. 97

28
  See Murray Bookchin,
Social Anarchism or Life-Style Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
(Edinburgh: AK Press, 1995)

29
  Peter Lamborn Wilson, ‘Crazy Nietzsche’,
I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition
, eds. John Moore with Spencer Sunshine (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2004), p. 147

30
  Hakim Bey,
T.A.Z: The Temporary Autonomous Zone: Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
(1985) (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1991), pp. 98–9

31
  Ibid., p. 100

32
  Bey,
Immediatism
(Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1994), p. 106

33
  Wilson, ‘Secular Antinomian Anabaptist Neo-Luddism’,
Fifth Estate
, 372 (Spring, 2006), p. 39

34
  George Bradford, ‘Civilization in Bulk’,
Fifth Estate
(Spring, 1991)

35
  John Zerzan,
Future Primitive and Other Essays
(Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1994), p. 144

36
  Fredy Perlman,
Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
(Detroit: Black & Red, 1983), p. 57

37
  Zerzan, ‘Who is Chomsky?’,
Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2002), p. 34

38
  Zerzan,
Future Primitive
, op. cit., p. 16

39
  See Zerzan and Alice Carnes, eds.,
Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology
(Freedom Press, 1988)

40
  Zerzan,
Running on Emptiness
, op. cit., p. 80

41
  See my
Around Africa: From the Pillars of Hercules to the Strait of Gibraltar
(London and New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 127–31

42
  See my
Europe’s Lost Civilization: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Megaliths
(Headline, 2004), pp. 8–10, 285–90

43
  See
www.primitivism.com

44
  ‘Rewilding’,
Back to Basics
, vol. 3,
www.greenanarchy.org

45
  See Graham Purchase, ‘Social Ecology, Anarchism and Trades Unionism’,
Deep Ecology and Anarchism
(Freedom Press, 1993)

46
  Gary Snyder, ‘Buddhist Anarchism’,
Journal for the Protection of All Beings
(San Francisco: City Lights, 1961)

47
  Agorn!,
Towards an Anarchist Theory of Race
(Detroit, n.d.)

48
  Ursula K. Le Guin,
The Dispossessed
(New York: Harper & Row, 1974), p. 241

49
  See Murray Bookchin,
Re-enchanting Humanity: A Defense of the Human Spirit against Anti-Humanism, Misanthropy, Mysticism and Primitivism
(Cassell, 1995)

50
  Bookchin,
Social Anarchism or Life-Style Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
op. cit., p. 1

51
  Ibid., p. 56

52
  Ibid., p. 9

53
  Bookchin, ‘Libertarian Muncipalism: An Overview’,
Society and Nature
, 1, 1 (1992), p. 94. See also Janet Biehl and Murray Bookchin,
The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism
(Montréal: Black Rose, 1997)

54
  Bookchin, Interview with David Vanek,
Harbinger: A Journal of Social Ecology
, 2, 1 (Spring, 2003), p. 2

55
  Bookchin, Introduction, third edition,
Post-Scarcity Anarchism
(Edinburgh: AK Press, 2004)

56
  Brian Morris,
Ecology and Anarchism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Thought
(Malvern Wells: Images, 1996), p. 5. See also his
Kropotkin: The Politics of Community
(New York: Humanity Books, 2004)

57
  David Watson,
Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology
(Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1996), p. 240

58
  John P. Clark,
The Anarchist Moment
, op. cit., p. 160

59
  Clark, ‘What is Social Ecology?’,
Renewing the Earth
, op. cit., pp. 10–11

60
  See John P. Clark and Camille Martin, eds.,
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Thought of Elisée Reclus
(Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004)

61
  Clark, ‘Municipal Dreams: A Social Ecological Critique of Bookchin’s Politics’,
Social Ecology after Bookchin
, ed. Andrew Light (New York: Guilford Press, 1998)

62
  See Clark, ‘Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm: On Bookchin’s Critique of the Anarchist Tradition’, forthcoming in
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory

63
  See David Graeber, ‘The New Anarchists’,
New Left Review
, 13 (January-February, 2002). See also his
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
(Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004)

64
  See Benjamin Franks,
Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
(Edinburgh: AK Press, 2006); Zerzan,
Running on Emptiness
, op. cit., p. 162