Anarchist Communist Manifesto

[CELMX]

Not sure if this has been asked already, comrades, but I was wondering if there is a book for the anarchists of the same caliber as the Communist Manifesto to communists.

Like, a bible of the anarchists. If there isn't one, what book is the best to start out with if I want to get an intro to anarchy?

Thanks!!

[bricolage]

At the cafe by Malatesta is a good place to start.

[noway]

I attest to that.. hey, I like this forum

[ZeroNowhere]

Nothing with prose as good as either the Manifesto or the Bible, no.

[Die Neue Zeit]

I'd say that the Communist Manifesto has too much prose (or, in my view, "poetic language"). Actually, one could consider Marx's work a manifesto for anarchists of his time, since Bakunin himself translated it into Russian.

[Old Man Diogenes]

Not sure if this has been asked already, comrades, but I was wondering if there is a book for the anarchists of the same caliber as the Communist Manifesto to communists.

Like, a bible of the anarchists. If there isn't one, what book is the best to start out with if I want to get an intro to anarchy?

Thanks!!

The ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman is a good primer, its not a bible, but its good nonetheless.

Peter Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread is also quite good.

[Skramz]

For an intro read 'What is Communist Anarchism' by Alexander Berkman

[Durruti's Ghost]

The Conquest of Bread. Definitely.

[HEAD ICE]

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin fits the criteria of an anarchist communist manifesto quite easily.

There is a short essay, also by Kropotkin, called Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles

What is Communist Anarchism by Alexander Berkman is a simple and straightforward read

[RedDragon]

For an intro read 'What is Communist Anarchism' by Alexander Berkman
I'm reading this now. It's good, nice and straightforward.

[nuisance]

Here's 'Beyond Resistance' - which is the revolutionary manifesto of the Anarchist Federation.
http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/manifest.pdf
Here's the 'Manifesto of Libertarian Communism'- by George Fontenis.
http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/mlc.html

[Искра]

Yes we have and its called Communist Manifesto wrote by one anarchist guy called Karl Marx ;)

[Stranger Than Paradise]

Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin along with Conquest of Bread which has been mentioned already.

[CELMX]

Thanks all of you guys! All your posts are very helpful! :)
I'll look into those books! :)

[Manifesto]

Yes we have and its called Communist Manifesto wrote by one anarchist guy called Karl Marx ;)
He was kinda against Anarchism.

[yuon]

Many, if not all, of the above mentioned articles, books and so on, are available on the Anarchist Archives.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/

Berkman: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/cw.html
Malatesta: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/MalatestaCW.html
Kropotkin: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/KropotkinCW.html

Some particular works I would suggest include two by Malatesta:
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/MalatestaATAC.html
http://www.efn.org/~danr/mal_maid.html
And three by Kropotkin:
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/kropotkin/commanar.html
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/conquest/toc.html
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/fields.html

I also strongly suggest you browse the writings of Goldman:
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/GoldmanCW.html

There are many other not-specifically communist anarchist writers and writings in the archives which are also quite interesting, including by Bakunin, and Proudhon.

[Искра]

He was kinda against Anarchism.
Who cares, Communist Manifesto is anarchist book.

[More Fire for the People]

The Communist Manifesto is the manifesto for anarchist communists. :p

But I'd check out the ABCs of Anarchism or the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/newplatform/org_plat.htm).

[Musa Abdulrashid]

I recommend the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (draft) for its significance today in the "platformist" tendency within anarchism which is the most organized. I would say its much better than the bible.

libcom.org/library/organisational-platform-libertarian-communists-dielo-trouda

alas, I do not have enough posts to make a hyperlink.

musa

[Искра]

The Communist Manifesto is the manifesto for anarchist communists. :p

But I'd check out the ABCs of Anarchism or the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/newplatform/org_plat.htm).
Platform has nothing to do with anarchism in general. Very few anarchist support that...

Arshinov is Bolshevik.

[Stranger Than Paradise]

Platform has nothing to do with anarchism in general. Very few anarchist support that...

Arshinov is Bolshevik.

Arshinov was a Bolshevik at one point but he was an Anarchist, he worked in the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine and did educational work in the Free Territory.

[Искра]

Arshinov was a Bolshevik at one point but he was an Anarchist, he worked in the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine and did educational work in the Free Territory.
I know who he was. I read his works - stuff about Makhnovchina is terrible.
I dislike platform, so I used label that Berkman gave him - Bolshevik.

[Stranger Than Paradise]

I know who he was. I read his works - stuff about Makhnovchina is terrible.
I dislike platform, so I used label that Berkman gave him - Bolshevik.

Oh ok, sorry then. So what is your opinion on the Free Territory?

[Искра]

Its quite positive. I just think that they didn't have anything but Army. I mean that they didn't have collectivisation like during the Spanish revolution. I understand that that's because of situation etc. Also, I don't like the fact that nothing couldn't run without Nestor Makhno.

And about Archinv's book on this subject, I think that it's just propaganda, and I don't like that way of writing it's to Bolshevik. Critics is important.

[Jethro Tull]

my candidates:

the coming insurrection (http://www.bloom0101.org/thecominginsurrection.pdf) and a call (http://www.bloom0101.org/call.pdf)

also critique of the gotha program (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm)

:D

[Orange Juche]

Nothing with prose as good as either the Manifesto or the Bible, no.

In high school, on a state test for English, we had to compare and contrast two pieces of literature... so I used the Communist Manifesto and the Bible. I got an A. :-D