Reading List #

Intro to Anarchism #

• Kim Kelly, “Anarchy”
• David Graeber, “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You”

Precursors to Anarchism #

• Etienne de la Boetie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (excerpt), 1549
• The Diggers, “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”, 1649
• William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (excerpt), 1793

Christian Anarchism #

• Adin Ballou, “Non-Resistant Catechism”, 1844
• Leo Tolstoy, “Evil Cannot Be Suppressed by the Physical Form of the Government” from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, 1894

Anarchism’s Rhetorical Questions #

• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? chapter 1, 1840
• Frederick Douglass, “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?”, 1855

Gilded Age Manifestos #

• The Pittsburgh Manifesto, 1883
• Lucy Parsons, “I am an Anarchist” and “The Principles of Anarchism”, 1886

Mutual Aid & Anarchist Science #

• Peter Kropotkin, “Mutual Aid Among Animals”, 1902

Rhetorics of Collectivism #

• Louise Michel, “Why We Are Anarchists”, 1891
• Emma Goldman, “A New Declaration of Independence”, 1909

Anarchism and Genre in the Spanish Civil War #

• Dolores Ibárruri, "¡No Pasarán!", 1936
• Muriel Rukeyser, “Mediterranean”, 1937
• Photographs by Gerda Taro, 1936
• George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938

Anarchism and Reportage After WWII #

• Mildred Edie Brady, “The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy”, 1947

Anarchist (Free) Speech & Song #

• “Mario Savio, “The Operation of the Machine”, 1964
• 1960s protest song playlist

Documentary Filmmaking & Radical Communities #

• Harlan County, USA (dir. Barbara Kopple), 1976
• The Decline of Western Civilization (dir. Penelope Spheeris), 1981

Anarchism, Punk, & Direct Action #

• Working Class History podcast episode 49, “Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis”, 2021

Political Action and Memoir #

• Mab Segrest, Memoir of a Race Traitor, 1994

Queer Anarchism #

• jamie heckert, “Anarchy Without Opposition”, 2012

Prison Memoirs and Black Radicalism #

• Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, “Back From Hell” and “Why I am an Anarchist”, 2009

Anarchism Against Anti-Blackness #

• I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck), 2016
• This is Anarchy zine, 2020

Anarchist How-tos #

• Crimethinc - Recipes for Disaster (excerpt), 2004
• Build Your Own Solidarity Network zine, 2012

Anarchism and Indigeneity #

• Incident at Oglala (dir. Michael Apted), 1992
• Subcomandante Marcos - Our Word is Our Weapon part 1, 2002