Anarchism: A history of libertarian ideas and movements (Pelican books)

by George Woodcock

Book Overview

To what degree can anarchism be an effective organized movement? Is it realistic to think of anarchist ideas ever forming the basis for social life itself? These questions are widely being asked again... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140206221
• ISBN13: 9780140206227
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Incisive Survey

Though it has now been supplanted, or to put it more mildly, updated, by Peter Marshall's more recent "Demanding the Impossible", Woodcock's history remains nonetheless an incisive and extremely readable survey. A superb introduction to anarchist thought.