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Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy, primarily targeting the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism is usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism).

Although traces of anarchist ideas are found all throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose conclusion marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more, growing in popularity and influence within anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-globalisation movements. (Full article...)

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The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman describing his experiences in Bolshevist Russia from 1920 to 1922, where he saw the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Written in the form of a diary, The Bolshevik Myth charts Berkman's recollections after having been deported from the United States along with Emma Goldman and over two hundred socialists, anarchists and other leftists.

The book describes how Berkman's initial enthusiasm for the revolution faded as he became disillusioned with the Bolsheviks and their suppression of all political dissent. Berkman recounts the economic scarcity in the cities of Petrograd and Moscow, his meeting with Lenin and his intercessions with the Bolshevik leadership on behalf of anarchist political prisoners. Berkman and Goldman learn of the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine fighting the Bolsheviks in the Free Territory, and of the Kronstadt rebellion against the regime in Russia. In a climate of increasing repression of anarchists, they leave the Soviet Union for the last time in 1921. The Bolshevik Myth was published to positive reviews in 1925, following Goldman's My Disillusionment in Russia (1923) and My Further Disillusionment in Russia (1924). (read more...)

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Photograph of the Italian American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti prior to their execution

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Photograph of Italian American anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in handcuffs shortly before their execution for armed robbery in 1923.

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Did you know?

...that the physician Marie Equi (pictured) became an anarchist after being attacked by police while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World?
...that the slang word "scab" comes from the idea that people hired to replace striking workers are covering a wound?
...that when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort, he did not speak Yiddish?
...that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal?
...that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?

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“Well! you are a democrat?”

“No.”

“What! you would have a monarchy.”

“No.”

“A constitutionalist?”

“God forbid!”

“You are then an aristocrat?”

“Not at all.”

“You want a mixed government?”

“Still less.”

“What are you, then?”

“I am an anarchist.”

“Oh! I understand you; you speak satirically. This is a hit at the government.”

“By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.”

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—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?, 1840.

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Anniversaries for July 8

1898 - May Picqueray born (d. 1983), Châteaubriant, Bretagne.
1898 - Georges Butaud founds colony in Paris suburbs.
1900 - Ettore Cropalti born (d. 1955).
1943 - Esteban Pallarols Xirgu (aka Riera), dies, shot in Barcelona.
1966 - Antonio Casanova (b. 1898) dies, Bueno Aires.

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