These short introductions delve into the anarchist
canon to recover some of the distinctive ideas that
historical anarchists advanced to address problems
relevant to their circumstances. Although these contexts were
special, many of the issues the anarchists wrestled with still
plague our lives. Anarchists developed a body of writing about
power, domination, injustice and exploitation, education,
prisons and a lot more besides. Honing in on different facets
of the anarchist canon is not just an interesting archaeological
exercise. The persistence, development and adaptation of
anarchist traditions depends on our surveying the historical
landscape of ideas and drawing on the resources it contains.
The theoretical toolbox that this small assortment of anarchists
helped to construct is there to use, amend and adapt.
Educate! Agitate! Organise!