Libertarian Socialism

Alex Prichard, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Exeter, UK Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Theory, Loughborough University, UK Saku Pinta, Independent Scholar Dave Berry, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University UK

• Introduction; R.Kinna & A.Prichard The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy: Marxism, Anarchism and the Problem of Human Nature; P.Blackledge Anarchism, Individualism and Communism: William Morris's Critique of Anarcho-Communism; R.Kinna The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham Coalfield before 1914; L.H.Mates Georges Sorel's Anarcho-Marxism; R.Llorente Antonio Gramsci, Anarchism, Syndicalism and Sovversivismo; C.Levy Council Communist Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939; S.Pinta A 'Bohemian Freelancer'? C.L.R. James, his Early Relationship to Anarchism and the Intellectual Origins of Autonomism; C.Høgsbjerg 'White Skin, Black Masks': Marxist and Anti-Racist Roots of Contemporary U.S. Anarchism; A.Cornell The Search for a Libertarian Communism: Daniel Guérin and the 'Synthesis' of Marxism and Anarchism; D.Berry Socialisme ou Barbarie or the Partial Encounters between Critical Marxism and Libertarianism; B.Challand Beyond Black and Red: The Situationists and the Legacy of the Workers' Movement; J-C.Angaut Carnival and Class: Anarchism and Councilism in Australasia during the 1970s; T.Boraman Situating Hardt and Negri; D.Bates Conclusion; D.Berry   S.Pinta Bibliography

'Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Red and Black' is an invaluable contribution to historical scholarship and libertarian politics. The collection of essays contained in the book has the great virtue of offering both analytical perspectives on ideas, and historical perspectives on movements. The contributions examine classical themes in anarchist politics such as individual liberty, whilst also exploring more neglected thinkers and themes from a libertarian standpoint, such as C.L.R. James and race. There can be little doubt that the volume will be of major interest to historians, theorists, students and activists.'Darrow Schecter, Reader in Italian, School of History, Art History and Philosophy,University of SussexSeries Editor: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society, Continuum Books'Just what we need as we move into a new phase of revolt against the obscenity of capitalism: a recovery of the richness of our different traditions of struggle, with their weavings and bumpings. Time to move on, time to redeem the struggles of the past. A valuable and welcome collection.'John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power and professor of sociology, Autonomous University of Puebla.'This is a welcome and essential collection that is sure to spark debates and support ongoing efforts to build a liberatory movement in which Marxists and Anarchists can find common ground and practice mutual respect and humility. In this period of late-capitalism, survival itself is at stake. Theory and practice, whether Marxism or Anarchism in their many manifestations, lead to dead ends without careful assessment of the world as it is now.'Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, a native of rural Oklahoma is a teacher, historian and writer, and veteran of worker, feminist, and indigenous movements.An important, redemptive collection of essays that questions narratives of sectarian difference without resorting to easy answers. In exploring the productive frictions, convergences, agonisms and affinities that have created and re-created the 'black and red,' the contributors recover the neglected histories of a capacious Left, one that repudiated ideological rigidity and sterile orthodoxies without abandoning its socialist commons. Itself a model of such capaciousness, this is a stimulating and necessary workRaymond B. Craib, Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University