Black Flame

Alternate Titles

• Schwarze Flamme: Revolutionäre Klassenpolitik des Anarchismus und Syndikalismus

Description

Black Flame (Counter-Power, Volume 1) is the first of a two-volume set examining the democratic class politics of the worldwide anarchist movement, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles on five continents over the course of the past 150 years. From anarchism's first glimmers as a nineteenth-century ideology to today's anticapitalist struggles, Black Flame traces anarchism's lineage and contemporary relevance, outlining the movement's insights into questions of race, gender, class, and imperialism. With Black Flame, Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, both writers and activists in South Africa, have begun what promises to be the definitive synthetic account of the international anarchist tradition. Nearly exhaustive in scope, and rigorous in its scholarly detail, this first volume significantly reframes the work of previous historians and, especially, examines coherent alternatives to Marxist and nationalist approaches to revolutionary theory and practice. An indispensable conceptual roadmap to the history and continuing relevance of anarchist praxis.

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Series Statement

• Counterpower -- v. 1

Other Editions

• Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and SyndicalismPaperbackAK Press2009-01-01
• Black FlamePaperbackAK Press2007-08-01
• Black flameAK Press2009-01-01
• Black flameAK Press2009-01-01
• Black flameAK Press2009-01-01
• Schwarze FlammePaperbackEdition Nautilus2013-01-01