Winter 2022: Anarchism
Melbourne
Thursdays 6:30–9PM AEDT
The Clyde Hotel - 385 Cardigan Street, Carlton VIC
[time and location subject to change]Contact: pas1917melbourne@gmail.com
On the web: Facebook Event
• required / + recommended readings
Recommended background readings:
+ Chris Cutrone, "On anarchism and Marxism" (2008)
+ Trevor Bark, "Half-time team talk" (response to Cutrone) (2008)
+ Cutrone, "Against dogmatic abstraction" (2010)
Week 1 | Jun. 23, 2022
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840)
+ Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own (1845)
Week 2 | Jun. 30, 2022
• Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1871)
+ Bakunin, A Critique of the German Social-Democratic Program (1870)
+ Bakunin, Marxism, Freedom and the State (1872)
+ Ferdinand Lassalle, Open letter to the German workers’ movement (1863)
Week 3 | Jul. 7, 2022
• Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Communism (1909)
+ Kropotkin, “The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government” (1919)
+ Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, especially Chapters 3, 11 and 12 (1906)
Week 4 | Jul. 14, 2022
• Errico Malatesta, Syndicalism and Anarchism (1926)
• Malatesta and Nestor Makhno, About the Platform (1927-29)
Week 5 | Jul. 21, 2022
• Murray Bookchin, Listen, Marxist! (1969)
Additional Resources
Platypus Review
+ Herb Gamberg Anarchism through Bakunin: A Marxist Assessment (PR#64 March 2014)
+ Liam Swenson The Leninist Protests Too Much: A response to Herb Gamberg (PR#65 April 2014)
+ Wayne Price In defense of anarchism: A response to Herb Gamberg (PR#65 April 2014)
+ Herb Gamberg On Anarchism and Marxism: In response to Price and Swenson (PR#66 May 2014)
Panels
+ Christoph Lichtenberg, Alex Khasnabish, Chris Parsons, Eva Curry Radical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchism (PR#65 April 2014)
Anarchist Literature
Anarchism in Australia @ Red & Black Notes
Artwork from Clifford Harper
