For A Libertarian Communism

Daniel Guerin, David Berry, Mitchell Abidor

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English

PM Press
07 February 2018

Social & political philosophy; Politics & government; Political science & theory; Anarchism

In his foreword to an earlier collection of essays on libertarian communism, Daniel Gurin addressed himself to younger people ""alienated from ideologies and 'isms' shorn of any meaning by an earlier generation"" and particularly from ""socialism, which has so often been betrayed by those who claimed to speak in its name, and which now provokes an understandable skepticism.""

In this collection of essays, written between the 1950s and 1980s and published here for the first time in English, Gurin not only provides a critique of the socialist and communist parties of his day, he analyzes some of the most fundamental and pressing questions with which all radicals must engage. He does this by revisiting and attempting to draw lessons from the history of the revolutionary movement from the French Revolution, through the conflicts between anarchists and Marxists in the International Workingmen's Association and the Russian and Spanish revolutions, to the social revolution of 1968. These are not just abstract theoretical reflections, but are informed by the experiences of a lifetime of revolutionary commitments and by his constant willingness to challenge orthodoxies of all kinds: ""Far from allowing ourselves to sink into doubt, inaction, and despair, the time has come for the left to begin again from zero, to rethink its problems from their very foundations. The failure of both reformism and Stalinism imposes on us the urgent duty to find a way of reconciling (proletarian) democracy with socialism, freedom with Revolution.""

By: Daniel Guerin
Edited by: David Berry
Translated by: Mitchell Abidor
Imprint: PM Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781629632360
ISBN 10: 1629632368
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 07 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Daniel Guerin was a prominent member of the French left for half a century. He published The Brown Plague in 1933 and Fascism and Big Business in 1936. His controversial, libertarian Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution, Class Struggle in the First Republic, 1793-1797 was judged by his friend C.L.R. James to be ""one of the great theoretical landmarks of our movement."" Mitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive. His translations include Anarchists Never Surrender, Voices of the Paris Commune, and Death to Bourgeois Society. David Berry is currently a senior lecturer in politics and history at Loughborough University, UK. His publications include A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945, New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism, and Libertarian Socialism. He is currently preparing a biography of Guerin."

Reviews for For A Libertarian Communism

Daniel Guerin is the creator of a unique synthesis between Marxism and anarchism: libertarian communism. His reflections are more than ever relevant for the 21st century. Michael Lowy, author, <i>Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe</i>