Anarchist Studies |
ABSTRACT: Historians have consistently underestimated Emma Goldman's commitment to individual violence as a mechanism of social change. However, Goldman's advocacy of political violence was central to her weltanschauung, both a consequence of and contributor to her philosophy of anarchist revolution. The heroic act of the attentateur ultimately transcended political violence, and symbolised the entire anarchist project of living a free life in an unfree society. However, this project repudiated almost all received cultural values; it thus alienated most workers, who were usually culturally conservative.
ABSTRACT: After noting the anarchist contribution to both the New Social Movements (henceforth NSM) of the 1990s and the alternative media that support them, this article establishes a theoretical model for analysing these media, based on Alberto Melucci's (1996) six organisational conditions of collective action. It applies these to a case study of Green Anarchist and traces the paper's aims and organisational methods from its founding in 1984 to the present. It focuses on its current editorial practices and the role that its readers play in contributing to its pages. Finally, it finds that - far from being a paper that is at some remove from the everyday activities of NSM actors, as Melucci seems to expect such media to be - Green Anarchist reflects these activities and involves such actors directly in its organisation and writing. Hence it offers a model of radical media that is fully integrated into collective action.
ABSTRACT: Two people sent responses to Lewis Call's paper on Locke, published in AS 6:1, both arguing that Call had mis-understood the philosophical basis of Locke's thinking. As their papers made similar points, I asked the authors - Terry Hopton and Dave Morland - to work together to produce one paper. This editorial task was carried out by Morland; however, the paper should be read as representing the views of both Morland and Hopton. (Sharif Gemie
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