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Anarchism: Bolinda Beginner Guides
- Narrated by: Miranda Nation
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Before encircled red As began marking backpacks across the globe, the idea of anarchy was being debated by some of history's greatest minds. This primer to the subject of anarchism, part of Bolinda's Beginner Guides, traces the history of this seductive, unlikely idea as it has barnacled itself to the visions of religious dreamers, Marxist radicals, and armchair philosophers throughout history. Rousseau, Hobbes, Marx, and others all throw out tempting and often contradictory images for what anarchy might mean in practice. Author Ruth Kinna untangles these knots and shows what the idea of anarchy has meant to some of humanity's most influential thinkers and at its most crucial junctures. Narrator Miranda Nations conveys these ideas with a clarity and accessibility.
Summary
An investigation of a divisive and often misunderstood ideology. What do anarchists stand for? In this clear and penetrating study, Ruth Kinna goes directly to the heart of this controversial ideology, explaining the influences that have shaped anarchism and the different tactics and strategies that have been used by anarchists throughout history to achieve their ends.
Kinna covers themes both historical and acutely contemporary, including: Could anarchy ever really be a viable alternative to the state? Can anarchist ideals ever be consistent with the justification of violence? How has anarchism influenced the anti-globalisation movement?
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- Greg Gauthier
- 13-05-16
Extremely Thorough, Though Occasionally Biased
This book was an excellent, well structured and thorough overview of an ideology typically resistant to these sorts of treatments.
I have two complaints, however. First, is the audio production. For whatever reason, the SPOKEN chapter numbers were utterly jumbled and random. I kept having to check the table of contents to be sure my phone hadn't skipped around.
Second, is the author's moral double standard in the characterisation of certain anarchists. On the one hand she is full of disgust and derision at Rothbard, for the horror of suggesting that unwanted children should be made available as a commodity product on the free market. Yet, on the other hand, she waxes romantic at the Spanish and Ukraine anarchists who slaughtered families en masse merely for being wealthy, and was practically gleeful describing the "Easy, Safe, and Fun" eco-terrorist practice of tree spiking (which is designed to mame and kill loggers).
For these reasons, the book gets a 3 instead of a 4.
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