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Hello!
I'm incurios about anarcho-communism. What i need to read to knowing anarcho-communism? Any modern theorist about anarcho-communism?
I've read The Conquest of Bread written by Kropotkin.
ps: sorry for engrish
Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt Euch!
Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick
An Anarchist FAQ edited by Iain McKay
Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
The ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman
The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cultivated, to be nurtured and reared, as the most delicate flower is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beautiful existence. - Alexander Berkman
particularly the above if you are looking for something in very plain language which is very easy to understand.
"The law of life should not be competitive or acquisitiveness but cooperation, the good of each contributing to the good of all." ~Jawaharlal Nehru
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I think The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin is quite straightforward.
"Direct Action is a notion of such clarity, of such self-evident transparency, that merely to speak the words defines and explains them. It means that the working class, in constant rebellion against the existing state of affairs, expects nothing from outside people, powers or forces, but rather creates its own conditions of struggle and looks to itself for its means of action. It means that, against the existing society which recognises only the citizen, rises the producer. And that that producer, having grasped that any social grouping models itself upon its system of production, intends to attack directly the capitalist mode of production in order to transform it, by eliminating the employer and thereby achieving sovereignty in the workshop – the essential condition for the enjoyment of real freedom.” Emile Pouget
In the interests of being a bit of a non-conformist, I'll just chuck a curve-ball right in here: The Liberation of Society from the State: What is Communist Anarchism? by Erich Mühsam
Not this.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
I recommend grabbing a copy of Red Emma Speaks. Has a nice collection of essays by Emma Goldman on various issues. Also, ABC of Anarchism is good. I often disagree with the vocabulary used by anarchists of the past including Goldman and Berkman. So when they use the terms "socialism" or "communism", realize they are using it differently than most anarchists today like to use those terms. An example is they at times use socialism when referring to the ideology of reformist socialist parties instead of using it to refer to a democratically controlled economy.
I wouldn't put "Chomsky on Anarchism" even close to a top 20 list of anarchist recommendations. Lots more important (and overall better) stuff out there.
Besides The Conquest of Bread, I think Fields, Factories, and Workshops by Kropotkin is important. There's an edition put out by Black Rose Books, that was edited by George Woodcock. The good thing about this edition is that after each chapter, it puts the context into modern senses (although the original book is good by itself, it helps put more clarity into the text). My only complaint is that there seems to be an obvious typo every 4 pages
