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
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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
1. Introduction: Explaining the Study, Actors and Context, and Histories of Economic Thought 2. Demanding the Possible: Unraveling the State and Economic Thought 3. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: From Caricatures to a Portrait 4. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A Continual Apostleship 5. Positively Proudhon: His Economic Ideas 6. Proudhon: The Agro-Industrial Federation 7. Alexander Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin: Intelligentsia I Narod 8. Elisee Reclus and Peter Kropotkin: Evolution and Revolution 9. Jean Grave: Society on the Morrow of the Revolution 10. Leo Tolstoy: The Ant Brotherhood and the Green Stick 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
