Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (180 page)

Warren, Josiah
384
–
7
; freedom
36
,
134
; individualism
181
,
384
–
7
; influence
389
; sovereignty of individual
163
,
384
–
5
,
386
–
7
; Time Store
385
,
498
,
626
; violence
387
,
391

Watson, David
684
,
692

Weathermen
502
,
558

Webb, Beatrice
566

Weber, Max
18
,
43
,
307

Wei Lang
62

Weitling, Wilhelrn
230
,
269
,
479

Welfare State
24
,
258
,
645
–
6

DeWerkplaat
485

West, Rebecca
400

Westwood, Vivienne
494

Whiteway community
491

Whitman, Walt
183
–
4
; influence
170
,
398
; libertarian ideal
181
,
497
; on Tucker
389

Why
502

Wicca
690
,
691

Wichmann, Clara
485

Wieck, David
44
,
502

Wilde, Oscar
175
–
80
; aesthetic concerns
588
; disobedience
141
; individuality
177
–
8
,
403
,
490
,
573
,
590
; influence
399
,
403
; Kropotkin
335
,
633
; property
163
; Utopia
623
,
662

wilderness
186
,
672
,
689
–
90
,
704

Wild Greens
689

Wilhelm
1
, Kaiser
288

will to power
47
,
159
,
232
,
561

Williams, Raymond
541

Williams, Roger
496

Wilson, A. N.
371
,
382

Wilson, Charlotte
490

Wilson, Peter Lamborn
see
Bey, Hakim

Winstanley, Gerrard
51
,
96
–
104
,
199
,
487

Witcop, Milly
418

Wobblies
see
Industrial Workers of the World

Wolff, Robert Paul
42
,
502
–
3
,
563
–
4

Wollstonecraft, Mary
134
,
196
–
8
,
200

Wombles
699

women, views on: anarcho-feminism
556
–
7
; De Sade
148
; Fourier
150
,
151
; Free Spirits
87
; Gandhi
424
; Goldman
506
–
9
; Krnpotkin
328
; Nietzsche
157
; Paine
135
; Paris Commune
288
; Proudhon
49
,
157
,
256
; Ranters
104
–
5
; Reclus
341
; Rousseau
128
; Tolstoy
157
,
366
–
7
; Wollstonecraft
134
;
see also
equality, feminist movement

women’s movement
see
feminist movement

Woodcock, George
xi
,
xiii
,
24
,
42
,
492
,
589
,
602
,
671

Wordsworth, William
191
,
195

work, views on
655
–
7
; Bakunin
299
; Kropotkin
328
–
9
; Russell
655
; Shaw
655
; Tolstoy
215
,
328
,
655
workers’; associations
281
–
2
,
628
–
9
; co-operatives
300
; control
288
,
654
–
5

Workers’ Opposition
475

work-study movement in China
521

World Social Forums
698

World State
569
,
572

World Trade Forum (2002)
698

World Trade Organisation summit (1999)
670
,
698

Wrangel, Ferdinald Petrovich, Baron von
279

Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich
475

Wu Chih-hui
520

Wycliffe, John
91

Ya Bastal
699
,
702

Yasnaya Polyana
366

Yeats, William Butler
x

Ylppies
502
,
544

Yu-Rim
528

Zabalaya Anarchist Communist Federation
701

Zaccaria, Cesare
452

Zalacosta, Francisco
509
–
10

Zapata, Emiliano
511
–
13
,
702

Zapatistas
514
,
701
–
2
,
704

Zaragoza Congress (1922)
456

Zaragoza Congress (1936)
459
,
467

Zen Buddhism
61
–
5

Zengakuren
526

Zenkoku Jiren
525
–
6

Zeno of Citium
70

Zerzan, John
675
,
684
,
685
–
8
,
695

Zhao Ziyan
523

Zhelezniakov, Anatolli
472

Zhukovsky, Nicholas
469
–
70

Zola, Ernile
491

Zoroaster
86

Die Zukunft
481

Zürich: Congress (1893)
410
; Dada movement
440
–
1

Zwingli, Huldreich
93

22 March Movement
548

WOBBLIES AND ZAPATISTAS

Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History

Paperback | 5″ × 8″ | 300 pages | $20.00 | ISBN: 978-1-60486-041-2

“There’s no doubt that we’ve lost much of our history. It’s also very clear that those in power in this country like it that way. Here’s a book that shows us why. It demonstrates not only that another world is possible, but that it already exists, has existed, and shows an endless potential to burst through the artificial walls and divisions that currently imprison us. An exquisite contribution to the literature of human freedom, and coming not a moment too soon.”

—D
AVID
G
RAEBER
, author of
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology and Direct Action: An Ethnography

 

Wobblies and Zapatistas
offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that “my country is the world.” Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement.

The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, anti-globalist counter summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, ‘intentional’ communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers’ Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and Soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible.

“I have been in regular contact with Andrej Grubacic for many years, and have been most impressed by his searching intelligence, broad knowledge, lucid judgment, and penetrating commentary on contemporary affairs and their historical roots. He is an original thinker and dedicated activist, who brings deep understanding and outstanding personal qualities to everything he does.”

—N
OAM
C
HOMSKY

REVOLUTION AND OTHER WRITINGS: A POLITICAL READER

Gustav Landauer

Paperback | 6″ × 9″ | 528 pages | $32.95 | ISBN: 978-1-60486-054-2

“At once an individualist and a socialist, a Romantic and a mystic, a militant and an advocate of passive resistance … He was also the most influential German anarchist intellectual of the twentieth century.”

—P
AUL
A
VRICH
, author of
Anarchist Voices

 

“Landauer is the most important agitator of the radical and revolutionary movement in the entire country.” This is how Gustav Landauer is described in a German police file from 1893. Twenty-six years later, Landauer would die at the hands of reactionary soldiers who overthrew the Bavarian Council Republic, a three-week attempt to realize libertarian socialism amidst the turmoil of post-World War I Germany. It was the last chapter in the life of an activist, writer, and mystic who Paul Avrich calls “the most influential German anarchist intellectual of the twentieth century.”

This is the first comprehensive collection of Landauer writings in English. It includes one of his major works, Revolution, thirty additional essays and articles, and a selection of correspondence. The texts cover Landauer’s entire political biography, from his early anarchism of the 1890s to his philosophical reflections at the turn of the century, the subsequent establishment of the Socialist Bund, his tireless agitation against the war, and the final days among the revolutionaries in Munich. Additional chapters collect Landauer’s articles on radical politics in the US and Mexico, and illustrate the scope of his writing with texts on corporate capital, language, education, and Judaism. The book includes an extensive introduction, commentary, and bibliographical information, compiled by the editor and translator Gabriel Kuhn.

“Gustav Landauer was, without doubt, one of the brightest intellectual lights within the revolutionary circles of fin de siècle Europe. In this remarkable anthology, Gabriel Kuhn brings together an extensive and splendidly chosen collection of Landauer’s most important writings, presenting them for the first time in English translation.

With Landauer’s ideas coming of age today perhaps more than ever before, Kuhn’s work is a valuable and timely piece of scholarship, and one which should be required reading for anyone with an interest in radical social change.”

—J
AMES
H
ORROX
, author of
A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement