Anarchisms

“The characteristic function of anarchism is to encourage the blossoming of different types of anarchists, of diverse anarchist milieus, dissimilar in operation, differing over the ways to best use life.” – Emile Armand

This collection of essays aims to increase awareness of – and encourage involvement in – anarchist forms of organisation. Capitalism is riddled with paradoxes; perhaps Anarchism has just one: it’s the ideology against ideologies. It seeks not so much to tell people what to think as to show them where to look – to encourage them to think for themselves, to be their own authority.

This is part of the reason that anarchism is necessarily pluralistic – why we think anarchisms is a better descriptor for this anti-doctrinaire doctrine.

Each piece is beautifully illustrated by Cat Sims

Anarchisms is a joint publication with Active Distribution

Contributors

Ruth Kinna, Benjamin Zephaniah, Peter Gelderloos, Spencer Beswick, Zoe Baker, Seth Wheeler, Jessica Thorne, Koshka Duff, Carne Ross and Lorenzo K. Ervin.

Praise for Anarchisms :

“These short and accessible essays are each a joyful provocation. Each chapter is a tender reminder that anarchism’s diversity is not a list of theories but is made by many ways of living and acting together. Anarchisms is a collection of personal invitations to embrace possibility.”

Gavin Grindon (Curator and Art Historian)