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Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?
In these essays grouped around common themes, Wayne Price draws on decades of extensive practical experience in antiwar and student movements, marxist tendency groups and affinity-based anarchist organizations, to make an insightful case for "pro-organizational," class-struggle anarchism.
In refreshingly accessible, non-polemical prose, Price distills the best of late 20th century marxist economic thought and anti-authoritarian organizing. This informs his coherent takes on such issues as the relation between class and non-class oppressions, productive engagement with reformist movements, technology and primitivism, and the worldwide economic crash of 2008-2009. Price's recurrent theme is how revolution can possibly be made out of our collective struggles as workers and other marginalized peoples— and how such revolution can avoid the "successes" of Leninist revolutions of China, Cuba and the Soviet Union.
Finally, Price's engagement with the trends of anti-authoritarian marxist and anarchist thought serve as a critical introduction to dozens of other essential writers in these traditions, such as Cornelius Castoradis, Ellen Wood, Hal Draper and Paul Goodman.
Wayne Price is also the author of What is Class Struggle Anarchism & The Relation Between Class and Non-Class Oppressions.
In refreshingly accessible, non-polemical prose, Price distills the best of late 20th century marxist economic thought and anti-authoritarian organizing. This informs his coherent takes on such issues as the relation between class and non-class oppressions, productive engagement with reformist movements, technology and primitivism, and the worldwide economic crash of 2008-2009. Price's recurrent theme is how revolution can possibly be made out of our collective struggles as workers and other marginalized peoples— and how such revolution can avoid the "successes" of Leninist revolutions of China, Cuba and the Soviet Union.
Finally, Price's engagement with the trends of anti-authoritarian marxist and anarchist thought serve as a critical introduction to dozens of other essential writers in these traditions, such as Cornelius Castoradis, Ellen Wood, Hal Draper and Paul Goodman.
Wayne Price is also the author of What is Class Struggle Anarchism & The Relation Between Class and Non-Class Oppressions.
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218 pages, Paperback
First published August 19, 2010
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March 30, 2014
Definitely shifted my interests away from post-structural anarchism and postmarxism toward class struggle anarchism, platformism, especifismo and anarchist communism.
May 19, 2011
Pretty decent analysis of Anarchist-Communist position, well-written, and a good exploration of politics of Marxism, Stalinism (or state capitalism or bueraracratic collectivism, whatever you want to call it), Orthodox Trotskyism, and decent critiques of Parecon. I might of liked it because I am of a similar politics, (libertarian-socialist, syndicalist, marxist-influenced anarchist etc) but I think most fellow travelers will enjoy this book even if they don't agree with everything.
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