Category: Reviews

A Review of Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel

An Overview of Christian Anarchist Theory By Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University, WSA/TX Alexandre Christoyannopoulos’ Christian Anarchism is a meticulously researched but readily accessible survey of an often overlooked and frequently misunderstood anarchist tradition. As he explains in the introduction, “Anarchism is not all there is to Christianity. The point which some describe as the [...]

Posted: December 25th, 2011 under Ideas, Reviews.

Venezuela from Below

Review: Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui (See Sharp Press, 2010) By Tom Wetzel In her essay Latin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism (published as  an issue of Monthly Review last year), Marta Har­necker presents a description of “some features” of a decentralized, self-managed socialism based on direct democracy in workplaces and neighborhoods — [...]

Posted: September 6th, 2011 under International, Reviews.

Examining a Ghost: A Young Anarchist Reflects on Bookchin

By Cam Mancini I have recently been reading Murray Bookchin.  AK Press put out a wonderful collection, titled Post-Scarcity Anarchism, of ten of his works, including essays and discussion pieces on them, and a collection of letters and observations.  Bookchin is a touchy topic with some, because as most are aware, he moved away from [...]

Posted: August 18th, 2011 under Ecology, Economy, Ideas, Reviews.

Let’s Talk About Another Burning Color: Black Flame vs. Red Fire Extinguisher?

by Nate Hawthorne In this article I discuss the treatment of marxism in a recent book on the anarchist tradition, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. I argue that the book’s treatment of marxism is not up to the book’s otherwise high standards. This is not simply a matter of historical [...]

Posted: August 24th, 2010 under Reviews.

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