{"product_id":"we-do-not-fear-anarchy-we-invoke-it-the-first-international-and-the-origins-of-the-anarchist-movement-paperback","title":"We Do Not Fear Anarchy?we Invoke It: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1864 to 1876, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First International--a body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, the debates and experimentation during the International helped to refine and focus anarchist ideas into a doctrine of international working class self-liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room. At long last, anarchists enter the history of socialism by the main door \u003cbr\u003e--Davide Turcato, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Anarchism: The Experiments with Revolution of Errico Malatesta, Italian Exile in London, 1889-1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrimming with thought and feeling, richly textured, and not shy of judgment, Graham's book marshals a compelling argument and issues a provocative invitation to revisit--or perhaps to explore anew--the story, the struggles, and the persisting ramifications of this pioneering International.\u003cbr\u003e--Wayne Thorpe, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Workers Themselves: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913-1923\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith impressive and careful scholarship, Robert Graham guides us on a complex journey that reflects his command of the material and his ability to express it in a clear and straightforward way. If you were to think this is some dry history book, you couldn't be more wrong.\u003cbr\u003e--Barry Pateman, historian and archivist with the Kate Sharpley Library\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Graham\u003c\/b\u003e has been writing about anarchism for thirty years. He recently edited the three-volume collection \u003ci\u003eAnarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Graham is the editor of the three-volume anthology of anarchist writings from ancient China to the present day, \u003ci\u003eAnarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been writing about anarchism for over thirty years, beginning with his work on the anarchist newsjournal, \u003ci\u003eOpen Road\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the largest circulation English language anarchist paper of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has published numerous articles on the development of anarchist theory, including the introduction to Proudhon's \u003ci\u003eGeneral Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and essays on the role of contract in anarchist ideology, Marxism and anarchism, social ecology, Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky, and Colin Ward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 275\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770100547872,"sku":"9781849352116","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1f24f5568d13815b10d12cf97ceeefc9.webp?v=1780364345","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/we-do-not-fear-anarchy-we-invoke-it-the-first-international-and-the-origins-of-the-anarchist-movement-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}