Kropotkin- Revolutionary Pamphlets
Rudolf Rocker-Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
The Political Philosophy of Bakunin
Bookchin- Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left
Guerin, Anarchism from Theory to Practice
Cracking the Movement: Squatting Beyond the Media
Antliff- Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology
Avrich- Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
C.T. Butler- On Conflict and Consensus
A New World In Our Hearts: 8 Years of Writings from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation
Kuwasi Balagoon- A Soldier’s Story
G P Maximoff- Constructive Anarchism: The Debate on the Platform
Anton Pannekoek- Workers’ Councils
Kenneth Rexroth- Communalism
Franklin Rosemont- Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making Of A Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture
Laurence R. Veysey- The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth Century America (Phoenix Book)
Colin Ward- A Decade of Anarchy
Jae-Eui Lee- Kwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age
Steve Wright- Storming Heaven
David Watson- Against the Megamachine
Victor Serge- What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide for Activists
Victor Serge- Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Kirkpatrick Sale- SDS
Bertrand Russell- Proposed roads to freedom: Socialism, anarchism and syndicalism
Walter Rodney Speaks
Retort- Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Subcomandante Marcos- Our Word is Our Weapon
Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Steven Lukes- Power: A Radical View, Second Edition
James Koehnline -Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture
Hirschman- The Rhetoric of Reaction
Wilhelm Reich- the Mass Psychology of Fascism
Guy Debord- Society of the Spectacle
Mike Davis- Prisoners of the American Dream
Brinton- For Workers Power
Arendt- Origins of Totalitarianism
- basically anything by vandana shiva
- autonomist stuff (anarchists are in the best position to debate/learn/teach this) such as Paolo Virno- Grammar of the Multitude, and Negri, “Empire” and “Multitude”
- michael albert/parecon stuff.
-Writings on conflict resolution and responses to crime
-Writings on the Spanish revolution
Chris Carlsson- Nowtopia
Crispin Sartwell- Against the State
James Herod- Getting Free
Constituent Imaginations
Jeremy Brecher- Strike!
John Moore- I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzche and the Anarchist Tradition
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Jules Boykoff- Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States
Dennis Danvers- The Watch
Machiavelli- The Prince
Robert Greene– 48 Laws of Power (This is a bestseller about the sleazy arts of domination, manipulation, and exploitation– might be interesting to read this or The Prince in reverse, as a sort of lesson in anti-power, and as a springboard for discussion about breaking down and defending against these forms of domination in our lives and organizations…
I’ve been reading the books for the past couple of months but haven’t been able to attend. I would love to have the opportunity to discuss “Infinitely Demanding” by Simon Critchley. It may be a challenging work in some respects but definitely worth it. Also:
Anarchy Alive by Uri Gordon
The Fiction of a Thinkable World by Michael Steinberg
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (if it hasn’t been discussed already)
This seems like a good book to start of with: Rudolf Rocker-Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice! I Also like the idea of reading 48 laws of power too! Maybe the ideas in that book can be spun to help anarchists , but if not it may help us realize how easliy we are manipulated and give some ideas on how to change it?
i have been wanting to attend this reading group since it started but end up working every time. sunday afternoons would work for me.
and if you can get david g or sylvia f to come ask them to provide some background materials to distribute so we can discuss what they’ve been working on and want to discuss. i just read an essay by dg http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years
about historical cycles between credit and cash based economies and sf has this discussion of the idea of precarious work: http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/3074
June 3, 2008 at 5:18 pm |
Some recommendations posted on NYMAA.org:
Kropotkin- Revolutionary Pamphlets
Rudolf Rocker-Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
The Political Philosophy of Bakunin
Bookchin- Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left
Guerin, Anarchism from Theory to Practice
Cracking the Movement: Squatting Beyond the Media
Antliff- Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology
Avrich- Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
C.T. Butler- On Conflict and Consensus
A New World In Our Hearts: 8 Years of Writings from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation
Kuwasi Balagoon- A Soldier’s Story
G P Maximoff- Constructive Anarchism: The Debate on the Platform
Anton Pannekoek- Workers’ Councils
Kenneth Rexroth- Communalism
Franklin Rosemont- Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making Of A Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture
Laurence R. Veysey- The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth Century America (Phoenix Book)
Colin Ward- A Decade of Anarchy
Jae-Eui Lee- Kwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age
Steve Wright- Storming Heaven
David Watson- Against the Megamachine
Victor Serge- What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide for Activists
Victor Serge- Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Kirkpatrick Sale- SDS
Bertrand Russell- Proposed roads to freedom: Socialism, anarchism and syndicalism
Walter Rodney Speaks
Retort- Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Subcomandante Marcos- Our Word is Our Weapon
Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Steven Lukes- Power: A Radical View, Second Edition
James Koehnline -Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture
Hirschman- The Rhetoric of Reaction
Wilhelm Reich- the Mass Psychology of Fascism
Guy Debord- Society of the Spectacle
Mike Davis- Prisoners of the American Dream
Brinton- For Workers Power
Arendt- Origins of Totalitarianism
- basically anything by vandana shiva
- autonomist stuff (anarchists are in the best position to debate/learn/teach this) such as Paolo Virno- Grammar of the Multitude, and Negri, “Empire” and “Multitude”
- michael albert/parecon stuff.
-Writings on conflict resolution and responses to crime
-Writings on the Spanish revolution
June 10, 2008 at 1:04 am |
Chris Carlsson- Nowtopia
Crispin Sartwell- Against the State
James Herod- Getting Free
Constituent Imaginations
Jeremy Brecher- Strike!
John Moore- I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzche and the Anarchist Tradition
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Jules Boykoff- Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States
Dennis Danvers- The Watch
August 9, 2008 at 12:45 pm |
some suggestions from last month’s meeting:
Machiavelli- The Prince
Robert Greene– 48 Laws of Power (This is a bestseller about the sleazy arts of domination, manipulation, and exploitation– might be interesting to read this or The Prince in reverse, as a sort of lesson in anti-power, and as a springboard for discussion about breaking down and defending against these forms of domination in our lives and organizations…
August 9, 2008 at 2:06 pm |
Infinitely Demanding. Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley
(sorry if has already been read)
August 15, 2008 at 2:46 pm |
I’ve been reading the books for the past couple of months but haven’t been able to attend. I would love to have the opportunity to discuss “Infinitely Demanding” by Simon Critchley. It may be a challenging work in some respects but definitely worth it. Also:
Anarchy Alive by Uri Gordon
The Fiction of a Thinkable World by Michael Steinberg
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (if it hasn’t been discussed already)
I hope to come next time.
September 15, 2008 at 1:19 pm |
“Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy” by Stephen Duncombe
“Woman on the Edge of Time” by Marge Piercy
anarcha-feminist utopian novel
September 17, 2008 at 3:14 am |
This seems like a good book to start of with: Rudolf Rocker-Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice! I Also like the idea of reading 48 laws of power too! Maybe the ideas in that book can be spun to help anarchists , but if not it may help us realize how easliy we are manipulated and give some ideas on how to change it?
November 28, 2008 at 9:29 pm |
Barbara Epstein- Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s
November 30, 2008 at 3:45 pm |
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
December 3, 2008 at 11:32 pm |
Richard Kempton- “PROVO: Amersterdam’s Anarchist Revolt “
February 6, 2009 at 5:33 pm |
i’d love to read, in a group:
caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation
by, sylvia federici
http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/calibanandthewitch
April 29, 2009 at 1:46 am |
(reply to nymaa-reading list serve post)
i have been wanting to attend this reading group since it started but end up working every time. sunday afternoons would work for me.
and if you can get david g or sylvia f to come ask them to provide some background materials to distribute so we can discuss what they’ve been working on and want to discuss. i just read an essay by dg
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years
about historical cycles between credit and cash based economies and sf has this discussion of the idea of precarious work:
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/3074