1. Against Anarchism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   A critical theory of the public sphere should incorporate neo-anarchism’s best insights, while rejecting wholesale anarchism. Neo-anarchism fails to sustain the tension between fact and norm required by a critical theory.
2. Anarchism: How Not to Make a Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1997
   Some see anarchims as the most radical of doctrines. Lenin called it "the politics of despair." Who is rights? Paul D'Amato looks at anarchism -- its theory and practice -- and finds that it falls far short of its professed ideals.
3. Anarchism in the Rear-view Mirror
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   This is not an attack on the militancy of our libertarian comrades. This text is an attempt to clarify our practices to avoid repeating the historical mistakes of the labor movement, addresses the comrades who are beginning to make a synthesis between Marxism and anarchism.
4. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1978
   Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
5. The "Anarcho-Liberal"
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   The diversity of the global justice movement is undeniable, but to the extent its prominent intellectual voices represented broader trends, we can see the crystallization of a new type of radical that would come to prominence on the Left. The reconfiguration of the Left at the end of the twentieth century created a void. The “anarcho-liberal” filled it.
6. Bakunin vs. Marx 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1978
   The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
7. The Bakuninists at Work
   An account of the Spanish revolt in the summer of 1873
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1873
   This series of articles was written in the wake of the events in Spain during the summer of 1873, which were the culmination of the Spanish bourgeois revolution of 1868-74. Engels focused his attention on the involvement of the Spanish Bakuninists in the abortive cantonal revolts organised in the south and south-east of the country by the Intransigents, an extremist republican grouping that advocated the partition of Spain into independent cantons.
8. Black Bloc
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   People who engage in protests wearing black clothing and masks and engaging in property damage. The tactic was developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, and was subsequently adopted by some anarchists, as well as some right-wing groups such as the autonomous nationalists of Europe. Black blocs lend themselves to infiltration by police and agents provocateurs, and it has often been alleged that their primary function, whether intentional or not, is to provide a pretext for police repression.
9. The Conflict between Marx & Bakunin
   Resource Type: Article
   
10. Conspectus of Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1874   Published: 1875
    Marx's notes on Bakunin's recent book Statism and Anarchy.
11. Contemporary anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Contemporary anarchism has some important differences, but also a great deal of continuity, with historical anarchism. Where it focuses on building an alternative in the “interstices” of capitalism, it accommodates to, rather than challenges, capitalism; and where it fetishizes street tactics, it generates more press than tangible success in either building the struggle or in challenging the state.
12. A Critique of Anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    Like liberalism, of which it is merely a stronger version, anarchism in reality can only serve as a cloak behind which real goals and real desires can be hidden. Thus when a movement is unsure of itself, it hides behind bland calls for freedom of expression (democracy) and freedom of action (anarchy). This can be as much true for subversive movements as for reactionary movements.
13. Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1998
    Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
14. Debating how to change the world
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
15. The Enemies of Anarchy: A Critical Summary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    
16. Fictitious Splits in the International
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1872
    
17. The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by an anarchist group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'diversity of tactics'. However, the original idea behind a diversity of tactics, that is, a variety of approaches to organizing for change, has been appropriated by activists devoted to property destruction as a media spectacle, who feel that they should be exempted from criticism by other activists, no matter how much their tactics serve to undermine the building of a broad-based movement against capitalism.
18. The Historical Failure of Anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Day examines anarchism's failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. "Anti-capitalism doesn't do the victims of capitalism any good if you don't actually destroy capitalism," Day writes. 'Anti-statism' doesn't do the victims of the state any good if you don't actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don't develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
19. In Defense of Leninism: Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists.
20. Jeremy Brecher responds 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Jeremy Brecher responds to Murray Bookchin's critical response of Brecher's review of Bookchin's book.
21. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
22. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
23. Listen Anarchist!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    Bufe criticizes many of the failings of the anarchist movement in North America, in theory and in practice.
24. Marx, Bakunin, and the question of authoritarianism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Marx characterized the International as "a bond of union rather than a controlling force" and considered it "the business of the International Working Men's Association to combine and generalize the spontaneous movements of the working classes, but not to dictate or impose any doctrinary system whatever."
25. Marx versus Bakunin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
26. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
    From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
27. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
    1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
28. Marx's Marginal Notes on the Program and Rules of Bakunin's International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1868
    
29. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906
    Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
30. Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    
31. Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    
32. A Movement Without Demands?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
33. No Cheers For Anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and yes, even leadership, to actually get things done, none of which appeal to anarchists.
34. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
35. Our Generation
    Volume 11 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    
36. Our Generation
    Volume 12 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    
37. Our Generation
    Volume 17 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    
38. Our Generation
    Volume 18 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
39. Our Generation
    Volume 18 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
40. Our Generation
    Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
41. Platformism & Bolshevism
    Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency: A polemic against platformist anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    
42. The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    An activist and writer based in Chicago, Nair is one of the founders of Against Equality, a group that was born in 2009, initially as an online archive of pieces that were critical of the gay-marriage movement and mainstream gay politics.
43. The Politics of Impatience: An open letter from anarchists to the anarchist movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Militancy and dramatic tactics require trust, and trust is built by humbly listening to people who have their own ideas and plans for their liberation. It is now more than ever, exactly because of the urgency of the crisis created by capitalism, that we need to be careful that our actions are as respectful, strategic, and collectively discussed and agreed-on as possible.
44. A post-affluence critique 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22.
45. The problem of autonomism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Direct action is crucial to win – but it needs to be orientated to building a mass movement, through strikes, civil disobedience and occupation.
46. Red Menace #3
    Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
47. Red Menace #4
    Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
48. Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
    Resource Type: Article
    The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
49. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
50. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
51. Slippery Slopes (the Anarchists in Spain)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1939   Published: 2014
    Written in 1939 by a member of FORU (Regional Workers Federation of Uruguay), this book — a scathing indictment of the leaders of the Spanish CNT and FAI for their “betrayal” of anarchist principles — contains, in addition to official documents and proclamations of the CNT and FAI and articles from the Spanish and international anarchosyndicalist press.
52. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism an Unbridgeable Chasm
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    For some two centuries, anarchism -- a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas -- developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a personalistic commitment to individual autonomy and a collectivist commitment to social freedom. These tendencies have by no means been reconciled in the history of libertarian thought. Indeed, for much of the last century, they simply coexisted within anarchism as a minimalist credo of opposition tothe State rather than as a maximalist credo that articulated the kind of new society that had to becreated in its place.
53. Socialism and Anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1889
    Morris repudiates the anarchist view that freedom from authority means the individual doing what he pleases under all circumstances. This, he says is "an absolute negation of society".
    
54. The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism 
    How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn't), Then and Now
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Looking at the Spanish Revolution, arguably the richest and deepest social revolution of the twentieth century.
55. Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution
    Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    
56. The Two Main Trends in Anarchism
    Alternate Tendencies of Anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The broad anarchist tradition of class struggle anarchism overlaps with libertarian interpretations of Marx.
57. Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1911
    A strike, even of modest size, has social consequences: strengthening of the workers’ self-confidence, growth of the trade union, and not infrequently even an improvement in productive technology. The murder of a factory owner produces effects of a police nature only, or a change of proprietors devoid of any social significance. Whether a terrorist attempt, even a ‘successful’ one throws the ruling class into confusion depends on the concrete political circumstances. In any case the confusion can only be shortlived; the capitalist state does not base itself on government ministers and cannot be eliminated with them. The classes it serves will always find new people; the mechanism remains intact and continues to function.

Experts on Critiques de l'anarchisme in the Sources Directory

1. Ulli Diemer