| The Anarchists: A Portrait of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): MacKay, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 157027066X ISBN-13: 9781570270666 Publisher: Autonomedia OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1999 Annotation: The Anarchists was first published in English by Benj. R. Tucker, the anarchist editor of Liberty in New York City. It is a thinly-disguised autobiographical journey of transformation from revolutionary self-martyrdom to radical self-ownership. Mackay's authentic Kulturgemalde begins in Victorian London, its five million people struggling with poverty, class conflict, police brutality, and seething with proletarian discontent over the impending execution of othe Haymarket Anarchists in Chicago. Onto the scene come Carrard Auban -- a French revolutionary firebrand turned anarcho-individualist -- and Otto Trupp -- Auban's comrade-in-arms. With Trupp, Auban debates the merits of anarcho-communism, and takes the reader on radical walking tours of London. Set in London, Paris and Chicago, The Anarchists is a moving 19th-century tale of three cities. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.42" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 201 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Fiction. Germany's Poet-Anarchist John Henry Mackay (1864-1933) wrote this thinly-disguised fictional account of his sojourn to London in 1887. A journey of transformation from revolutionary self-martyrdom to radical self-ownership, the book follows Carrard Auban (a French revolutionary firebrand turned anarcho-individualist) through late-19th century Paris, Chicago, and London. THE ANARCHISTS is one of the very few books that have a right to live.... For insights into life and manners, for dramatic strength, for incisiveness of phrase, and for cold pitiless logic, no book of this generation equals it--New York Morning Herald, quoted in Liberty, December 5, 1891. |