Portal:Anarchism/Did you know/8
... that the 1869
anarchist
manifesto
Catechism of a Revolutionary
, which established the importance of
Russian anarchist
Sergey Nechayev
(pictured)
, portrays the
revolutionary
as an amoral avenger?
... that
Future Primitive and Other Essays
by
anarcho-primitivist
philosopher
John Zerzan
is regarded as an
underground
classic by
anarchists
and
technophobes
alike?
... that many of the tendencies within
anarchism
criticized by
Chaz Bufe
in his pamphlet
Listen, Anarchist!
are thought to have stemmed from the movement's
individualist
,
Stirnerite
wing?
... that in his 2001
post-anarchist
book
From Bakunin to Lacan
,
Saul Newman
questions how
classical anarchism
can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome?
... that rather than await execution,
Russian anarchist
assassin
Moishe Tokar
doused himself in
paraffin
from his prison cell lamp and
burned himself alive
?