Reading order for an anarchist

[Drowzy_Shooter]

So far I'm reading the conquest of bread. I just recently got a kindle and am looking for some good books to fill it up with :)

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Well, for anarchism you can't go wrong with No God No Masters.

Also, here are some other good books you may like (though they aren't necessarily "anarchist" per se).

1. Socialism Today and Tommorow by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel

2. Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

3. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

4. Non-Leninist Marxism (no real author, just a collection of Council Communist writings distributed from Red and Black publishers).

5. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Again, most of these are not anarchist writings, but overlap with anarchist ideas or are writings an anarchist could appreciate.

[StalinFanboy]

Stay away from chomsky. Anyone who supports parliamentary politics is not an ally.


Check out things from malatesta. Fredy perlman and filles dauve are both crucial but are not anarchists. At daggers drawn is a good anarchist text too. Self-organization and anarchist intervention, armed joy. Call is a must read but neither anarchist nor marxist.

[Caj]

I'd recommend Daniel Guerin's Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, No Gods, No Masters, and Bakunin on Anarchism. #4 on Anti-Capitalist's list is also worth reading, albeit it isn't on anarchism, but council communism (still pretty similar, if you ask me).


Stay away from chomsky. Anyone who supports parliamentary politics is not an ally.

Yes, and we should only read things by our allies of course.

[Grenzer]

So far I'm reading the conquest of bread. I just recently got a kindle and am looking for some good books to fill it up with :)

Most things worth reading are not going to be found on amazon's online book store, I can attest to that first hand. If you don't mind getting some physical books, then AK Press (http://www.akpress.org/) has some good selections.

It's also worth mentioning that you can get PDFs at the Anarchist Library (www.theanarchistlibrary.org). You can view PDFs on a kindle, but the screen is so small that it doesn't work well sadly. As for specific titles, I have strange tastes so I can't recommend much. Personally I think Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin are kind of crap.

[StalinFanboy]

I'd recommend Daniel Guerin's Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, No Gods, No Masters, and Bakunin on Anarchism. #4 on Anti-Capitalist's list is also worth reading, albeit it isn't on anarchism, but council communism (still pretty similar, if you ask me).



Yes, and we should only read things by our allies of course.

They asked for anarchist texts to better understand anarchism.

[o well this is ok I guess]

They asked for anarchist texts to better understand anarchism. Hey man plenty of Anarchists read Debord.

[Caj]

They asked for anarchist texts to better understand anarchism.

Pretty sure every text I mentioned was explicitly on anarchism. . . .

Unless you were referring to the Chomsky thing? Yeah, true, Chomsky doesn't really explain anarchism all that well, but you said to stay away from Chomsky because he isn't an ally, not because he is bad at explaining anarchism.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

"Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice" by Rudolf Rocker

[Sasha]

How non violence protects the state by peter gelderloos
At daggers drawn with the existent..
Living my live by Emma Goldman
The coming insurrection by the invisible commitee
Introduction to civilwar by Tiqqun
Anything by Alfredo bonanno
Malatesta

[bricolage]

Hey man plenty of Anarchists read Debord.
unfortunately.

[hatzel]

I suggest 'The Trial' by Kafka.

...wait what? :confused:

Srsly!