Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement.

From: Monthly Review | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: Epstein, Barbara | Copyright information

Many among today's young radical activists, especially those at the center of the anti-globalization and anti-corporate movements, call themselves anarchists. But the intellectual/philosophical perspective that holds sway in these circles might be better described as an anarchist sensibility than as anarchism per se. Unlike the Marxist radicals of the sixties, who devoured the writings of Lenin and Mao, today's anarchist activists are unlikely to pore over the works of Bakunin. For...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

ANARCHISM
Women & Environments International Magazine ; ... highlighting the role that anarchism plays in the contemporary anti-globalization movement. Sheehan, who has written ... lot of good insight into anarchism and anarchist involvement in the anti-globalization movement. However, it was obviously ... given the important role ...
Power to the People; It may be a dirty word, but "anarchism" is alive and well in Vermont
Seven Days ; ... largely in response to the 1999 anti-globalization protests in Seattle, Lady grew up ... Paradoxically, while the word "anarchism" evokes more than a century of negative ... influence on many of today's social movements - environmentalism, anti-globalization and the peace ...
Robert Graham, ed., Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism.(Book review)
Labour/Le Travail ; Robert Graham, ed., Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939) (Montreal: Black Rose Books 2005) ANARCHISM, as an anti-authoritarian political philosophy and revolutionary ... and rich history. Rather than being a unified doctrine, ...
Globalization Gives Anarchists a Stage; Movement's Anti-Government Views Spreading as Followers Fight Negative Image
The Washington Post ; ... But Lance and other experts believe anarchism is more widespread today than at any ... revival during the 1970s anti-nuclear movement. AK Press, a publisher of anarchist ... conferences and more scholarly work about anarchism is published, said Cindy Milstein ... student demand, Lance taught a class on ...
Today's Anti-War Movement Relies on Socialism of the Past
Human Events ; ... this crowd because it was composed almost entirely of young people. Catching sight of the red and black flag of anarchism, I realized I had fallen in with the hardcore anti-globalization gang. Finally. I might get to see some action. These protestors, clad almost entirely in black, menacingly ...