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These short introductions delve into the anarchist canon to recover some of the distinctive ideas that historical anarchists advanced about power, domination, injustice and exploitation, education, prisons and a lot more besides. The theoretical toolbox that this small assortment of anarchists helped to construct is there to use, amend and adapt. Agitate, Educate, Organise!
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Great Anarchists - Errico Malatesta
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Malatesta is the living link between the demise of the First International in 1871 and the start of the struggle against European fascism some forty years later. As an anarchist-communist and organisationalist, Malatesta rejected individualism as gestural politics, and whil…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Godwin was an eighteenth-century radical writer and journalist and one of the leading participants in the debates sparked by the French Revolution. Godwin is sometimes credited with being the first philosophical anarchist, but this underplays the character of the philosophy…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Born to an enslaved woman in 1851, Parsons explored class conflict through the prism of the American Civil War. A keen advocate of independent labour organising in the late nineteenth century, Parsons was active in the Knights of Labor and the anarchist International Workin…
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Great Anarchists - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Proudhon is famous for two reasons. First, he is responsible for the immortal phrase ‘property is theft!’ Second, he has emerged as the ‘first’ anarchist. This accolade is explained in part by his provocative reclamation of ‘anarchy’. Until Proudhon published his critique o…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Learning to love Stirner is not an uncomplicated task – as one of the most controversial anarchists, he is by turns celebrated as the seminal anarchist theorist and marginalised as a political philosopher only tangentially related to the anarchist movement. Stirner’s politi…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Scholar, poet, playwright, socialite and wit, Oscar Wilde is one of those magnetic figures that everyone now seems to want to own a piece of. His literary genius accounts for some of the competition, and 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism', the essay he published in 1891, usu…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Educator, poet, dramatist, novelist, movement historian, orator and agitator Louise Michel rose to prominence during the Paris Commune (1870-71) and was one of some 4,500 Communards deported to New Caledonia in 1872. Michel acquired a commanding public profile in the last d…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Bakunin was feted as a champion of libertarian socialism and he is still celebrated as Marx’s most redoubtable adversary. Numbering Kropotkin, Malatesta and Reclus among his adherents, he became the towering figure of European anarchism in the late nineteenth century. Havin…
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Great Anarchists - Voltairine de Cleyre
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Voltairine de Cleyre was an essayist, educator, poet and advocate of anarchy without adjectives. Voltairine’s anarchism bore the hallmarks of free-thinking and abolitionism: the distrust of government and authority, sensitivity to injustice, anti-clericalism and confidence …
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Kropotkin has many claims to greatness. An important conduit for the transmission of Russian revolutionary ideas into western Europe and a powerful propagandist for revolution in Russia in the decades leading up to 1917, he spent most of his life tirelessly promoting anarch…
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