Anarchism

• * required / • recommended readings

Recommended background readings

• Chris Cutrone, “On anarchism and Marxism” (2008)

• Trevor Bark, “Half-time team talk” (response to Cutrone) (2008)

• Cutrone, “Against dogmatic abstraction” (2010)

Week 1

• * Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840)

• Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own (1845)

Week 2

• * Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1871)

• Bakunin, A Critique of the German Social-Democratic Program (1870)

• Bakunin, Marxism, Freedom and the State (1872)

• Ferdinand Lassalle, Open letter to the German workers’ movement (1863)

Week 3

• * Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Communism (1909)

• Kropotkin, “The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government” (1919)

• Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, especially Chapters 3, 11 and 12 (1906)

Week 4

• * Errico Malatesta, Syndicalism and Anarchism (1926)

• * Malatesta and Nestor Makhno, About the Platform (1927-29)

Week 5

• * Murray Bookchin, Listen, Marxist! (1969)