1st Edition
Political Economy from Below Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914
By Rob Knowles
Copyright 2004
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
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Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists of the nineteenth century developed and articulated a distinct tradition of economic thought. The... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Demanding the Possible: Unraveling the State and ‘Economic Thought’; Chapter 3 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: From Caricatures to a Portrait; Chapter 4 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: ‘A Continual Apostleship’; Chapter 5 Positively Proudhon: His Economic Ideas; Chapter 6 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The ‘Agro-Industrial Federation’; Chapter 7 Alexander Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin: “intelligentsia i narod”; Chapter 8 Elisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin: Evolution and Revolution; Chapter 9 Jean Grave: “Society on the Morrow of the Revolution”; Chapter 10 Leo Tolstoy: The ‘Ant Brotherhood’ and the Green Stick; Chapter 11 Conclusion: A Living Tradition;
Biography
Rob Knowles
'We must congratulate Knowles for making anarchist economics known once again to economists.' - History of Economics Review
