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Malatesta & Bir İtalyan Anarşisti: Hayatı ve Düşünceleri

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Errico Malatesta, ünlü bir düşünce ve eylem adamıdır. 1872’de henüz 19 yaşındayken Bakunin ile tanıştı ve silah arkadaşı oldu. Eylemle propaganda kuşağının bu önde gelen temsilcisi, Bologna Ayaklanması’nda jandarmayla çatışan bir asi, fabrika işgallerinde bir militan, köylerde tapu ve vergi belgelerini yakarak “anarşist düzeni” ilan eden küçük bir “isyan ordusu neferi” dir. Gün olur bir sürgün adasından Malta’ya kaçarken fırtınaya tutulan küçük bir teknede dalgalarla boğuşur. Gün olur yenilgiyle sonuçlanan bir ayaklanma sonrasında Amerika’ya doğru denize açılan bir gemide, dikiş makinesi sandığına kilitlenmiş kaçak bir yolcudur. Avrupa ve Amerika’da uğramadığı, toplantı, konferans ve miting yapmadığı ülke hemen hemen yok gibidir. Mısır, Suriye ve İstanbul’daki göçmen İtalyanları örgütlemeye çalışır. Yunanistan’da maden işçjileri arasında, etkileri uzun süre devam eden propaganda çalışması yapar. Malateste, yalnızca İtalya anarşist hareketinin değil, tıpkı Bakunin gibi, uluslararası anarşist hareketin renkli bir siması, ateşli bir militanıdır.

Eylem adamı olduğu kadar düşünce adamıdır da. Çeşitli ülkelerde, –bir kısmı hâlâ yayınlanmakta olan– sayısız dergi ve gazete çıkarmış, editörlüğünü yapmıştır. 1919-1932 yılları arasında yazdığı yazılar ölümünden sonra derlenerek 3 cilt halinde basılmıştır.

Elinizdeki kitap, Malatesta’nın yaşamıyla birlikte, anarşist devrim, bilim, şiddet, araç ve amaç, suç ve ceza, çoğunluk ve azınlık, toprak, para ve bankalar gibi birçok temel konudaki düşüncelerini biraraya getiriyor. Bu usta ajitatör, en karmaşık felsefi konularda bile, düşüncesini son derece berrak ve etkileyici bir dille ortaya koyuyor.

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1965

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Errico Malatesta

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Errico Malatesta (December 14, 1853 – July 22, 1932) was an Italian anarchist. He spent much of his life exiled from Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of Mikhail Bakunin. He was an enormously popular figure in his time. According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, "Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100,000, fans to show up whenever [he] arrived in town." (Wikipedia)

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131 reviews7 followers
November 20, 2022
Deadass, this was an interesting read. There was a nice balance between Malatesta’s ideas and anarchist thought as a whole. The content was somewhat repetitive at stages, hence the 4*, instead of 5*. This one low-key niche so don’t let the middle class drillers who want to be edgy see this, they will gaslight you about the perks of anarchy after reading this.

P.s. hold tight my dad for copping me this for chrimbo.
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170 reviews28 followers
January 3, 2020
solid complitaion of malatesta pamphlets and writing culled from varios anarchist periodicals of the era. the biographical nits and bits in the second part, not too good or enlightening.

the most salient point is, how contemporary, and even more urgent and pressing most of his ideas are in this day and age.

malatesta is alive.
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13 reviews
April 3, 2022
Kitap gerçekten de Malatesta'nın anarşizm ve anarşizmin yaşamın farklı konuları üzerindeki tasavvurları hakkında yazdığı yazıların iyi bir derlemesi olmuş. Malatesta'nın sade dili, farklı bakış açılarından yaklaşan anarşistlere olan saygısı ve şüpheciliği takdire şayan.
4 reviews
May 25, 2022
Very well written and a solid collection of essays that grasp Malatestas overall thought, great biography that incorporates his revolutionary action as examples of his own praxis.
167 reviews4 followers
September 5, 2022
Smart, pragmatic anarchist theory by a man so dangerous to the establishment, he spent much of his prime in prison.
103 reviews9 followers
October 28, 2021
I tend to find the more anarchists talk like marxists, the more I can get into what they are saying. Malatesta is one such example.
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147 reviews
September 2, 2015
I picked this up excited about the essay that was billed as an assessment of Malatesta's relevance for today. However, once I started reading it, I found out the essay was from the 1960s. Other material from dated editions of this book is included as well, making it a bit hard to follow at times. I also thought that the selections from Malatesta--culled from various anarchist newspapers over the years--were relatively disjointed and seemed too tightly trimmed.

The book probably does what it sets out to do, I was just expecting something different...
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February 7, 2021
This book was probably one of the greatest influences on my political education during the early to mid 1980's (along with Christi & Meltzer's 'Floodgates of Anarchy'). Always found Malatesta to be very readable, although the translator no doubt helped with that.
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