Anarchism
An Audio Guide
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Anarchism
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Editor reviews
Before encircled red As began marking backpacks across the globe, the idea of anarchy was being debated by some of history's greatest minds. This primer to the subject of anarchism, part of Bolinda's Beginner Guides, traces the history of this seductive, unlikely idea as it has barnacled itself to the visions of religious dreamers, Marxist radicals, and armchair philosophers throughout history. Rousseau, Hobbes, Marx, and others all throw out tempting and often contradictory images for what anarchy might mean in practice. Author Ruth Kinna untangles these knots and shows what the idea of anarchy has meant to some of humanity's most influential thinkers and at its most crucial junctures. Narrator Miranda Nations conveys these ideas with a clarity and accessibility.
Critic reviews
“Ruth Kinna cannot be praised highly enough for writing a comprehensive, original and sympathetic work which will no doubt come to be viewed as the key text on the subject.” (Simon Tormey, Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham)
“A valuable contribution to our understanding of this much misunderstood philosophy.” (Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States)
“Kinna is an ideal guide and has written an exemplary work of clarification and explanation. This book deserves to be read very widely.” (David Goodway, Senior Lecturer In Political Theory, University of Leeds)
I have two complaints, however. First, is the audio production. For whatever reason, the SPOKEN chapter numbers were utterly jumbled and random. I kept having to check the table of contents to be sure my phone hadn't skipped around.
Second, is the author's moral double standard in the characterisation of certain anarchists. On the one hand she is full of disgust and derision at Rothbard, for the horror of suggesting that unwanted children should be made available as a commodity product on the free market. Yet, on the other hand, she waxes romantic at the Spanish and Ukraine anarchists who slaughtered families en masse merely for being wealthy, and was practically gleeful describing the "Easy, Safe, and Fun" eco-terrorist practice of tree spiking (which is designed to mame and kill loggers).
For these reasons, the book gets a 3 instead of a 4.
Extremely Thorough, Though Occasionally Biased
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An introduction to the history of Anarchism
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