Life and ideas : the anarchist writings of Errico Malatesta / edited by Vernon Richards ; foreword by Carl Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Carl, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Richards, Vernon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malatesta, Errico, 1853-1932.

Malatesta, Errico.

Anarchism--History.

Anarchism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : PM Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life and Ideas gathers excerpts from Malatesta's writings over a lifetime of revolutionary activity. The editor, Vernon Richards, has translated hundreds of articles by Malatesta, taken from the journals Malatesta either edited himself or contributed to, from the earliest, L'En Dehors of 1892, through to Pensiero e Volontà, which was forced to close by Mussolini's fascists in 1926, and the bilingual Il Risveglio/Le Réveil, which published most of his writings after that date. These articles have been pruned down to their essentials and collected under subheadings ranging from "Ends and Means" to "Anarchist Propaganda." Through the selections Malatesta's classical anarchism emerges: a revolutionary, nonpacifist, nonreformist vision informed by decades of engagement in struggle and study. In addition there is a short biographical piece and an essay by the editor.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Carl Levy

Editor's Introduction to the First Edition

Editor's Introduction to the Third Edition (1984)

Part One

Introduction: Anarchy and Anarchism

Chapter I

1. Anarchist Schools of Thought

2. Anarchist-Communism

3. Anarchism and Science

4. Anarchism and Freedom

5. Anarchism and Violence

6. Attentats

Chapter II

7. Ends and Means

8. Majorities and Minorities

9. Mutual Aid

10. Reformism

11. Organisation

Chapter III

12. Production and Distribution

13. The Land

14. Money and Banks

15. Property

16. Crime and Punishment

Chapter IV

17. Anarchists and the Working Class Movements

18. The Occupation of the Factories

19. Workers and Intellectuals

20. Anarchism, Socialism, and Communism

21. Anarchists and the Limits of Political Co-Existence

Chapter V

22. The Anarchist Revolution

23. The Insurrection

24. Expropriation

25. Defence of the Revolution

Chapter VI

26. Anarchist Propaganda

27. An Anarchist Programme

Part Two

Notes for a Biography

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Part Three

Malatesta's Relevance for Anarchists Today

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 11, 2015).

ISBN:

9781629630564

162963056X

9781629630885

1629630888

OCLC:

904596004