No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries

Global Anarchisms

Raymond Craib, Barry Maxwell, Raymond Craib, Barry Maxwell

• Publisher: PM Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781629630984
• eBook ISBN: 9781629631394
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Was anarchism in areas outside of Europe an import and a script to be mimicked? Was it perpetually at odds with other currents of the Left? The authors in this collection take up these questions of geographical and political peripheries. Building on recent research that has emphasized the plural origins of anarchist thought and practice, they reflect on the histories and cultures of the antistatist mutual aid movements of the last century beyond the boundaries of an artificially coherent Europe. At the same time, they reexamine the historical relationships between anarchism and communism without starting from the position of sectarian difference (Marxism versus anarchism). Rather, they look at how anarchism and communism intersected; how the insurgent Left could appear—and in fact was—much more ecumenical, capacious, and eclectic than frequently portrayed; and reveal that such capaciousness is a hallmark of anarchist practice, which is prefigurative in its politics and antihierarchical and antidogmatic in its ethics.

Copublished the with Institute for Comparative Modernities, this collection includes contributions by Gavin Arnall, Mohammed Bamyeh, Bruno Bosteels, Raymond Craib, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Silvia Federici, Steven J. Hirsch, Adrienne Carey Hurley, Hilary Klein, Peter Linebaugh, Barry Maxwell, David Porter, Maia Ramnath, Penelope Rosemont, and Bahia Shehab.

INDEX

“Passim” (literally “scattered”) indicates intermittent discussion of a topic over a cluster of pages.

AbdelRahim, Layla: Wild Children—Domesticated Dreams, 119n9

Abeja, La, 219–27 passim

Abou-Bakr, Ammar, 239

Abrika, Belaid, 148, 149

Abstrait-Surréaliste, 254

adivasis. See indigenous people: India

Adorno, Theodor, 268n10, 272

Africa, 89–90, 258, 271, 350. See also Algeria; Arab Spring, 2001; Egypt

African Americans, 97, 98, 105, 106, 257–58; India and, 50, 55, 64–67 passim

African American surrealist poets, 250, 263–82 passim

African Anarchism (Mbah and Igariwey), 350

Against His-story, Against Leviathan (Perlman), 257

Agrupación Socialista Marítima (Argentina), 203

Aguilar, Antonio, 211

Ait-Ahmed, Hocine, 150

Aleshinsky, Pierre, 248

Alexander, Will, 263–82 passim; Asia & Haiti, 264, 265, 270–76 passim

Alfred, Taiaiake, 11, 48

Algeria, 131–55, 245–46, 332

Algiers, 133, 141, 144

Al-Qaida, 152

Alvaredo, Daniel, 205, 210

Alvear, Marcelo de, 201–5 passim

Amari, Chawki, 146

Amateur Riot, 125–26

Ambedkar, B.R., 45, 52–59 passim, 63n74, 64, 68–78 passim

American Indians. See Native Americans

American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), 232

Amsterdam, 223, 234, 254, 255

Ana María, Major, 28–29

anarcha-feminism, 349, 350, 354–56 passim

“anarchism” (word), 3

Anarchist Bookfair, Montreal, 2011, 126–27

anarchist press: Peru, 219–29 passim; Uruguay, 15n6

anarchists and anarchism, 74–78 passim, 123–29 passim, 243–45 passim, 249, 258–60 passim, 351–52; Algeria, 146, 153, 154; Arab Spring, 317, 321, 322, 326–35 passim; Argentina, 180–214 passim; Chile, 169, 171, 172; conflation with foreigners, 198, 230–31; conflation with violence, 123, 124; England, 255; fear of, 169, 175, 230–31; France, 131, 150–51; ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Raymond Craib a Foreword
• Learning From Indigenous Experience: Anarchism and Indigeneity: Is There a Native Philosophical Alternative? and What Might One Achieve by Standing against the Further Entrenchment of Institutions Modeled on the State? —taiaiake Alfred
• A Thousand Links: Transnational Lines in an Anarchist Age: We Never Live Only by Our Own Efforts, We Never Live Only for Ourselves; Our Most Intimate, Our Most Personal Thinking is Connected by a Thousand Links with That of the World. —victor Serge
• The Horizon at the Centre: No Peripheries: Social Space… is the Horizon at the Centre of Which They Place Themselves and in Which They Live. —henri Lefebvre
• The Black Mirror: Anarchism, Surrealism, and the Situationists: It Was in the Black Mirror of Anarchism That Surrealism First Recognized Itself. —andré Breton
• Black, Red, and Grey: Anarchism, Communism, and Political Theory: All Theory is Grey. —the Devil
• Barry Maxwell Afterword, Beginning with “A”
• Notes on Contributors
• Index