The ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman

The ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman

A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assassination, he was expelled to the Soviet Union, a country which he eventually renounced. But before his repudiation of the Soviet system, Berkman attempted to answer some of the charges made against anarchism and to present its case clearly and intelligently. This book, first published in 1929, is the result of those efforts.
Thorough and well stated, The ABC of Anarchism is today widely regarded as a classic declaration of the movement's goals and methods. For those who have questions about anarchism, Berkman provides lucid answers. In conversational tones, he discusses society as it existed in the early twentieth century; why in his opinion, anarchy was necessary; the myths surrounding it; and necessary preparations for its successful implementation.
Of the book, Emma Goldman said: People need a primer of>Anarchism--an ABC, as it were, that would teach them the rudimentary principles of Anarchism and whet their appetites for something more profound. The book] was intended to serve this purpose. That it has fulfilled its purpose no one who has read it] will deny.

A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assassination, he was expelled to the Soviet Union, a country which he eventually renounced. But before his repudiation of the Soviet system, Berkman attempted to answer some of the charges made against anarchism and to present its case clearly and intelligently. This book, first published in 1929, is the result of those efforts.
Thorough and well stated, The ABC of Anarchism is today widely regarded as a classic declaration of the movement's goals and methods. For those who have questions about anarchism, Berkman provides lucid answers. In conversational tones, he discusses society as it existed in the early twentieth century; why in his opinion, anarchy was necessary; the myths surrounding it; and necessary preparations for its successful implementation.
Of the book, Emma Goldman said: People need a primer of>Anarchism--an ABC, as it were, that would teach them the rudimentary principles of Anarchism and whet their appetites for something more profound. The book] was intended to serve this purpose. That it has fulfilled its purpose no one who has read it] will deny.

Alexander Berkman was a prominent writer and participant in the Anarchist movement in the twentieth century. During the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892, the young, idealistic Berkman practiced propaganda by attempting to kill Henry Clay Frick. He penned the famous narrative of prison life, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, while incarcerated. Berkman went on to edit Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and his own paper, The Blast!, after his release. In 1919, he was deported from New York City to his native Russia, where he witnessed firsthand the defeat of the Bolshevik revolution and dedicated himself to authoring What is Anarchism?, the classic primer on anarchism.

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Title	The ABC of Anarchism
Author	Alexander Berkman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2005-02-25
Number of pages	297
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