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Resource List:
The purpose of this reading list is to provide a basic outline of the various anarchist theories of organization. After reading this you will have begun to develop a decent grasp on this aspect of anarchist theory.
Anarchism and Organization
By Errico Malatesta (1897)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1897/xx/anarchorg.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1897/xx/anarchorg.htm)
perhaps the best text on the subject
The Anarchist Tension
by Alfredo Bonanno
http://zinelibrary.info/anarchist-tension (http://zinelibrary.info/anarchist-tension)
Advocates an informal theory of organization
The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman (1970)
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html (http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html)
Advocates formal organization
Syndicalism and Anarchism
By Errico Malatesta (April/May 1925)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1925/04/syndic1.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1925/04/syndic1.htm)
points out a fatal flaw in anarchisms historically most successful method of organization
The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group (Sam Moss, 1930s, USA)
http://libcom.org/library/impotence-of-revolutionary-group-international-council-correspondence-moss (http://libcom.org/library/impotence-of-revolutionary-group-international-council-correspondence-moss)
anti-organizationalism
Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization in South America
by Adam Weaver
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2999 (http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2999)
A theory of dual organization
The purpose of this reading list is to provide a basic outline of the various anarchist theories of organization. After reading this you will have begun to develop a decent grasp on this aspect of anarchist theory.
Anarchism and Organization
By Errico Malatesta (1897)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1897/xx/anarchorg.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1897/xx/anarchorg.htm)
perhaps the best text on the subject
The Anarchist Tension
by Alfredo Bonanno
http://zinelibrary.info/anarchist-tension (http://zinelibrary.info/anarchist-tension)
Advocates an informal theory of organization
The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman (1970)
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html (http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html)
Advocates formal organization
Syndicalism and Anarchism
By Errico Malatesta (April/May 1925)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1925/04/syndic1.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1925/04/syndic1.htm)
points out a fatal flaw in anarchisms historically most successful method of organization
The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group (Sam Moss, 1930s, USA)
http://libcom.org/library/impotence-of-revolutionary-group-international-council-correspondence-moss (http://libcom.org/library/impotence-of-revolutionary-group-international-council-correspondence-moss)
anti-organizationalism
Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization in South America
by Adam Weaver
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2999 (http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2999)
A theory of dual organization