What do I read if I want to get a decent understanding of Anarchism?
Bakunin
>>7356303
anything in particular?
Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
The Anarchist FAQ (google it)
Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman. There's a really good chapter on them.
>>7356301
The Rebel by Camus
tinychat /lit/erati gave me a good list last night. In chronological order:
>Rousseau
>Proudhon
>Thoreau
>Bakunin
>Kropotkin
>Malatesta
>Emma Goldman
>>7356424
Thoreau? Really? I haven't read anything but him but I thought he was an abolitionist mainly
>>7356451
I haven't read Thoreau since high school tbqh and he didn't strike me as an anarchist at the time. That being said, I am only relaying the recommendations that I received from others.
>>7356451
Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" has been very inspiring to left-wing politics, especially anarchism. But in that essay he also specifically says he's not an anarchist. In fact I also suspect he's pretty much a right-wing libertarian.
Can we discuss Anarchy without shitposting?
I've always thought of studying anarchy seriously, but each time I try to think about applying it to my everyday life, I get to the conclusion that I would be a hypocrite since I still reap the (material) benefits of living in a Capitalist State.
Plus I'm studying a career that makes me work in the State, so while I like the idea of self-resposability over oneself and critical thought, I don't think I have the ethical ground to call myself an Anarchist.
How do you cope with that anarchists from /lit/?
>>7356301
Bakunin
Kropotkin
Goldman
Chomsky
>>7356549
The same way communists cope with holding jobs and buying things from China. It's nearly impossible to go through life in our system without having to compromise your ideas. Is it more noble to avoid exploitation by buying no products and holding no job, or to do what you have to and survive in society?
>>7356303
Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
>>7356546
He has a certain amount of disdain for industry and wage labor, so I doubt he'd have much in common with right-wing libertarian figures like Mises and Hayek.
>>7356549
basically what the dude above said, everyone has to compromise on their ideals, learning that is part of growing up. Doesn't make you a hypocrite, just makes you flexible.
Anything short of becoming a cop and beating down anarchist protests, at least.
The things recommended so far and then Anarchy After Leftism by Bob Black
>>7356549
"I quietly declare war with the state, after my fashion, though I still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such situations" - Thoreau
Basically while you live in a state do whatever's best for you, buy things from massive corporations because it's easy, work for the State if that's a job you can easily do and earn money doing, just never do anything purely because the State tells you to do it.
>>7356589
Wherever you choose to set them. You can compromise them all if you want to, that just makes you a pragmatist.
No Treason: Lysander Spooner
For a New Liberty: Murry Rothbard
>>7356301
What is Communist Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
The Ego and it's own by Max Stirner
>>7356301
Any other answer falls short as a primer to the concepts of Anarchism.
>But muh Capitalism
young adult fiction for edgy teenagers
>>7357140
either young adult fiction for edgy teenagers, then there is this giant gap you fill with 10 years of marxism, then you get to the other anarchism i guess.
>>7356369
I'm not sure if The Rebel describes Anarchism per say, but rather Bourgeois Socialism with Anarchist tendencies.
>>7356549
As long as the state and capitalism exists, anarchists have to live by their rules. There are still ways to support anarchism though.
How does one go on with studying anarchism?
