William Gillis 🏴The red ahistorians are so fucking goddamn silly. They'll aggressively write Benjamin Tucker, Voltairine de Cleyre, Dyer D Lum, and all the french mutualist anarchists and american individualist abolitionist anarchists out of "anarchism" but then in the same fucking piece admit markets are a valid internal position within anarchism solely on the grounds that this fucking Trot turned Peronist was clearly a valid anarchist because he touched the CNT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Guill%C3%A9n
Running one of the largest english anarchist papers, leading chicago union fights, smuggling Luis Lingg his dynamite, rivaling Emma in popularity as a speaker, saving the entirety of north american anarchism via preserving the most comprehensive archive of our movement to survive... none of that counts as being "in the anarchist movement" to these fucks, but if an authoritarian shitstain fought beside Durruti, he's magically a pure anarchist of unquestioned credentials.
No Exceptions@rechelon It's annoying. That's exactly my anarchism. Have they even heard of Lysander Spooner? I have no idea.
Anarcho Doggo@rechelon do you have a recommendation for a good book on anarchist history (with particular emphasis on different ideological currents and critical events over time)?
Sadly not one with an emphasis on the different currents. Woodcock's book is the most influential, but he misrepresents things and has a strong pacifist bent. Robert's trilogy of compilations is really good but he's not really looking at ideological branching per se https://robertgraham.wordpress.com/anarchism-a-documentary-history-of-libertarian-ideas-volume-one-from-anarchy-to-anarchism-300ce-1939/
Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE-1939)
Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas is subtitled From Anarchy to Anarchism to emphasize that before any anarchist doctrines arose people had been living in stateless…
@rechelon thanks