![]() ![]() Nathan Schneider is the author of Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse and God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet. 'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York TimesNoam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling and influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Gaza in Crisis, Making the Future and Occupy. Profoundly relevant to our times, it is a touchstone for political activists and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of anarchism, or of Chomsky's thought. There have been many styles of thought and action that have been referred to as anarchist. Refuting the notion of anarchism as a fixed idea, and disputing the traditional fault lines between anarchism and socialism, this is a book sure to challenge, provoke and inspire. A French writer, sympathetic to anarchism, wrote in the 1890s that anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anythingincluding, he noted those whose acts are such that a mortal enemy of anarchism could not have done better. ![]() ![]() The book gathers his essays and interviews to provide a short, accessible introduction to his distinctively optimistic brand of anarchism. As tall as the figure of Noam Chomsky stands in the tradition of Western political activism and the counterculture at large, recent releases have met with. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. PDFPrint For several years I worked closely with an anarchist youth collective in Indianapolis that ran a left-wing bookstore. On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. ![]()
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