The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. These essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveal some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation. Bringing together specialists working from a range of political perspectives, the book charts a history of radical twentieth-century socialism, and opens new vistas for research in the twenty-first. Contributors examine the political and social thought of a number of leading socialists—Marx, Morris, Sorel, Gramsci, Guérin, C.L.R. James, Hardt and Negri—and key movements including the Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and Council Communism. Analysis of activism in the UK, Australasia, and the U.S. serves as the prism to discuss syndicalism, carnival anarchism, and the anarchistic currents in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Contributors include Paul Blackledge, Lewis H. Mates, Renzo Llorente, Carl Levy, Christian Høgsbjerg, Andrew Cornell, Benoît Challand, Jean-Christophe Angaut, Toby Boraman, and David Bates.

Libertarian socialism : politics in black and red

Prichard, Alex, editor; Kinna, Ruth, editor; Pinta, Saku, editor; Berry, David, editor

David Berry, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, Alex Prichard, David Berry

Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, David Berry

Alex Prichard, Saku Pinta, Ruth Kinna, David Berry

Alex Prichard; Ruth Kinna; Saku Pinta; Dave Berry

United States, United States of America

Oakland, CA, 2017

1, 2017

1 online resource
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 26, 2017)
Front Cover; Praise for Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction -- Ruth Kinna and Alex Prichard; 2. Freedom and Democracy: Marxism, Anarchism and the Problem of Human Nature -- Paul Blackledge; 3. Anarchism, Individualism and Communism: William Morris's Critique of Anarcho-communism -- Ruth Kinna; 4. The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham Coalfield before 1914 -- Lewis H. Mates; 5. Georges Sorel's Anarcho-Marxism -- Renzo Llorente
6. Antonio Gramsci, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Sovversivismo -- Carl Levy7. Council Communist Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939 -- Saku Pinta; 8. A 'Bohemian Freelancer'? C.L.R. James, His Early Relationship to Anarchism and the Intellectual Origins of Autonomism -- Christian Høgsbjerg; 9. 'White Skin, Black Masks': Marxist and Anti-racist Roots of Contemporary US Anarchism -- Andrew Cornell; 10. The Search for a Libertarian Communism: Daniel Guérin and the 'Synthesis' of Marxism and Anarchism -- David Berry
11. Socialisme ou Barbarie or the Partial Encounters between Critical Marxism and Libertarianism -- Benoît Challand12. Beyond Black and Red: The Situationists and the Legacy of the Workers' Movement -- Jean-Christophe Angaut; 13. Carnival and Class: Anarchism and Councilism in Australasia during the 1970s -- Toby Boraman; 14. Situating Hardt and Negri -- David Bates; 15. Conclusion: Towards a Libertarian Socialism for the Twenty-First Century? -- Saku Pinta and David Berry; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index

<p>The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. This collection of essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveals some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. Contributors include Paul Blackledge, Lewis H. Mates, Renzo Llorente, Carl Levy, Christian H&amp;oslash;gsbjerg, Andrew Cornell, Beno&amp;icirc;t Challand, Jean-Christophe Angaut, Toby Boraman, and David Bates.<br></p>

The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. This collection of essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveals some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. Contributors include Paul Blackledge, Lewis H. Mates, Renzo Llorente, Carl Levy, Christian H0gsbjerg, Andrew Cornell, Benoit Challand, Jean-Christophe Angaut, Toby Boraman, and David Bates. --Provided by publisher

"The history of the left is usually told as one of factionalism and division. This collection of essays casts new light to show how the boundaries between Marxism and anarchism have been more porous and fruitful than is conventionally recognized. The volume includes ground-breaking pieces on the history of socialism in the twentieth-century."--Publisher's website.

2023-06-28