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RE: An Intro to Anarchism: Democratization and/or Privatization of Government
http://theanarchistlibrary.org
The author link is at the bottom.
Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin are the big names, but Voltarine De Cleyre, Emma Goldman, and Lucy Parsons all have their contributions, as well.
Ricardo Flores Magon, if you want a Mexican viewpoint.
Some of those writers can be hard to read, especially for beginners. Reading Proudhon can be quite dreadful. I'll suggest a little lighter reading.
"The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism" by Janet Biehl & "Democratic Confederalism" by Abdullah Ocalan are good places to go for the democratic strain of anarchism. Alexander Berkman's "The ABC of Anarchism" is good reading if you want to check into communist anarchism. Also, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" by Friedrich Engels is worth reading (it's not anarchist, but it will help you understand communist anarchism if you don't already).
For market-oriented stuff, there's "Individual Liberty" by Benjamin Tucker & "The Production of Security" by Gustave de Molinari. Maybe check out "What is Mutualism?" by Clarence Swartz. I'm definitely not an anarcho-capitalist, but some of their stuff is worth reading too. I'd recommend "The Private Production of Defense" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe & "Power & Market" by Murray Rothbard.
Great. This is what I was hoping to find - a list of text for people in their first stages of getting acquainted with anarchism. 👍
Excellent post, by the way, I have always been a supporter of anarchic ideas, but your post will help me structure all the information I have accumulated thus far from different sources. It will also come in handy next time I'm put into the position of defending anarchism against the most common misconception: that it is just a bunch of aggressive vandals running around destroying private and public property.
I'll have to check out those that I'm not already familiar with.
I know most of them and avoid the newbs due to the monarch influences.
I agree that tomes are often dreadful, and I'd go a little farther in saying that if the answers were in them we would be there already.
Here I condense my reading list: https://steemit.com/anarchylibrary/@freebornangel/this-is-for-you-larken-and-jared-too
I'm glad you are here in the struggle, as well.
There are more of us now than there was when I signed up in '85.
Hoppe sucks at life, but the particular book of his that I recommended is good.
I skimmed through the link; I'd actually already seen that post and added it to my reading list, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I noticed a few authors on there that I'm not familiar with, so I'll have to check them out.
I've never read Hoppe, or Locke, or a lot of others recommended in high school.
I have read this: https://archive.org/stream/RulesForRadicals/RulesForRadicals_djvu.txt
Perhaps you will enjoy it, too.