
Life and Ideas by Errico Malatesta
With the timely reprinting of this selection of Malatesta's writings, first published in 1965 by Freedom Press, the full range of this great anarchist activist's ideas are once again in circulation. Life and Ideas gathers excerpts from Malatesta's writings over a lifetime of revolutionary activity.
The editor, Vernon Richards, has translated hundreds of articles by Malatesta, taken from the journals Malatesta either edited himself or contributed to, from the earliest, L'En Dehors of 1892, through to Pensiero e Volontà, which was forced to close by Mussolini's fascists in 1926, and the bilingual Il Risveglio/Le Réveil, which published most of his writings after that date. These articles have been pruned down to their essentials and collected under subheadings ranging from "Ends and Means" to "Anarchist Propaganda." Through the selections Malatesta's classical anarchism emerges: a revolutionary, nonpacifist, nonreformist vision informed by decades of engagement in struggle and study. In addition there is a short biographical piece and an essay by the editor.
Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist who lived from 1853 to 1932. He was exiled from Italy for most of his life and spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta published a variety of radical journals and was a hugely popular public speaker in his day, regularly speaking to crowds of tens of thousands of people.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781629630328 |
| ISBN 10 | 1629630322 |
| Title | Life and Ideas |
| Author | Errico Malatesta |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | PM Press |
| Year published | 2015-04-16 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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