Prompted by a bomb thrown in the French Chamber of Deputies, the Austrian journalist Ernst Zenker set out to explain what anarchism really was. He traces its forerunners and its founding thinkers, Proudhon and Max Stirner, its Russian strand with Bakunin, Nechayev and Kropotkin, and the propaganda and violence of the movement in his own day, ending with a critique of its theory.
A clear, even-handed early history for anyone studying radical politics. Download the free EPUB.