Anarchy Works: Examples of Anarchist Ideas in Practice - Softcover

Gelderloos, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909798053 ISBN 13: 9781909798052

Publisher: Active Distribution, 2015

Synopsis

The many stories, past and present, that demonstrate how anarchy works have been suppressed and distorted because of the revolutionary conclusions we might draw from them. The examples in this book have been selected from a wide range of times and places - about ninety altogether. Thirty are explicitly anarchist; the rest are all stateless, autonomous, or consciously anti-authoritarian. As climate change, food and water shortages, market instability, and other global crises intensify, hierarchical models are not proving to be particularly sustainable. The histories in this book show that an anarchist society can do much better at enabling ALL its members to meet their needs desires.

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Product Description

This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth--the principles that anarchy is founded on--regardless of whether they called themselves anarchists or not. Too well documented to be strictly mythology, and too expansive to be strictly anthropology, this is an inspiring answer to the people who say that anarchists are utopian: a point-by-point introduction to how anarchy can and has actually worked.

Edition details

• Publisher: Active Distribution
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1909798053
• ISBN 13: 9781909798052
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 206