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Guerin tirelessly investigates and advocates for a socialism that is “free” and built from the bottom-up; in other words, anarchism. In the preface, Chomsky quotes Rudlof Rocker to further define anarchism, as opposed to so-called “authoritarian” socialism: “Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it ‘opposes the exploitation of man by man.’ But anarchism also opposes ‘the dominion of man over man.’ It insists that ‘socialism will be free or it will not be at all.
This book is appealing because it is a broad survey of the topic, and covers many of anarchism’s important thinkers, but isn’t bogged down with biographical details, like many of the other books on the topic. Instead, Guerin focuses on the range of ideas contained within anarchism. For example, he shows the tension between the individual and the collective (a point that would be interesting to compare alongside Negri’s conception of the “multitude”).
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