The ABC of anarchism / Alexander Berkman ; with a new introduction by Paul Avrich ; preface by Emma Goldman.

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Paperback The ABC of anarchism / Alexander Berkman ; with a new introduction by Paul Avrich ; preface by Emma Goldman.

Author: Berkman, Alexander, 1870-1936.

Publication year: 2005

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications,

Resource type: Physical

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ISBN: 9780486433691 (pbk.)

Notes:

This edition previously published: What is communist anarchism? New York : Dover Publications, 1972.

Originally published: Now and after. New York : Vanguard Press, 1929.

Part One Now
 Chapter I What Do You Want Out of Life?
 Chapter II The Wage System
 Chapter III Law and Government
 Chapter IV How the System Works
 Chapter V Unemployment
 Chapter VI War
 Chapter VII Church and School
 Chapter VIII Justice
 Chapter IX Can the Church Help You?
 Chapter X Reformer and Politician
 Chapter XI The Trade Union
 Chapter XII Whose Is the Power?
 Chapter XIII Socialism
 Chapter XIV The February Revolution
 Chapter XV Between February and October
 Chapter XVI The Bolsheviki
 Chapter XVII Revolution and Dictatorship
 Chapter XVIII The Dictatorship at Work
Part Two Anarchism
 Chapter XIX Is Anarchism Violence?
 Chapter XX What Is Anarchism?
 Chapter XXI Is Anarchy Possible?
 Chapter XXII Will Communist Anarchism Work?
 Chapter XXIII Non-Communist Anarchism
Part Three The Social Revolution
 Chapter XXIV Why Revolution
 Chapter XXV The Idea Is the Thing&

First published in 1929, this book by one of the most gifted writers for the anarchist movement answers some of the charges made against it and presents the case for communist anarchism clearly and intelligently. Thorough and well stated, it is today regarded as a classic statement of the cause's goals and methods.

Original title: Now and after