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Good shortish anarcho-communist texts for...
So I have a right libertarian friend I'm thinking of giving some anarcho-communist texts. What are some suggestions of good intros for that sort of person. I'm thinking Berkman's ABC of Anarchism would be best.
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.-Leon Trotsky
A revolution without dancing is not worth having.-Emma Goldman
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che Guevara
The wise thing to do is simply to skip the bosh and twaddle and vulgarity and untruth, and get the benefit out of the rest. -Teddy Roosevelt
Berkman's ABC is probably the best. Otherwise, some of the shorter texts by Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, Malatesta, etc. would probably suffice. I really thought that Bakunin's Revolutionary Catechism was a good introduction to how a federation of anarchist communes would function. http://marxists.org/ would be a good place to check.
"All immediatists [. . .] want to get rid of society and put in its place a particular group of workers. This group they choose from the confines of one of the various prisons which constitute the bourgeois society of 'free men' i.e. the factory, the trade, the territorial or legal patch. Their entire miserable effort consists in telling the non-free, the non-citizens, the non-individuals [. . .] to envy and imitate their oppressors: be independent! free! be citizens! people! In a word: be bourgeois!" -Amadeo Bordiga, "Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism"
How short is shortish? I wouldn't have thought the ABC of Anarchism fell into that category
If he's completely knew to Anarcho-Communism then something like Kropotkin's Anarchism and Communism essay might be a good start
See, it has to be in print form though, and a lot of the old pamphlets and such are really hard to find.
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.-Leon Trotsky
A revolution without dancing is not worth having.-Emma Goldman
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che Guevara
The wise thing to do is simply to skip the bosh and twaddle and vulgarity and untruth, and get the benefit out of the rest. -Teddy Roosevelt
I'm in the US though, unfortunately.
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.-Leon Trotsky
A revolution without dancing is not worth having.-Emma Goldman
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che Guevara
The wise thing to do is simply to skip the bosh and twaddle and vulgarity and untruth, and get the benefit out of the rest. -Teddy Roosevelt
you can find most stuff for free online:
dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/
"The Conquest of Bread" by Kropotkin isn't as short as a pamphlet, but it's still relatively short and easy to read. It's a classic A-C book.
"Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice" by Rudolf Rocker. Yes, I know you said A-C, but A-S is simply a branch of A-C. It's one of the best introductions to anarchisms, specifically this tendency, besides Berkman's ABC. It's posted in its entirety on Libcom.
"Syndicalism" by William Z Foster and Earl C Ford isn't necessarily anarchist, but it's still a good, short pamphlet to consider getting your hands on. They sell it relatively cheap on AK Press and it's a quick read (although I would recommend Anarcho-Syndicalism first) You can download this in .pdf format here
Back to A-C, you should also check out some Errico Malatesta. The best stuff you can find of his is a collected book of essays called "At The Cafe" although you can also find some relatively cheap pamphlets from him, like a good introductory text simply titled "Anarchy"
I saw millions of people working.
Not for themselves but for someone else.
I saw millions of people doing.
Not what they themselves want to do.
But what someone else wants them to do.
- One-Eyed God Prophecy
Well, I know all the good theory ones, this is really just a hook to get them interested enough to read more.
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.-Leon Trotsky
A revolution without dancing is not worth having.-Emma Goldman
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che Guevara
The wise thing to do is simply to skip the bosh and twaddle and vulgarity and untruth, and get the benefit out of the rest. -Teddy Roosevelt
