Reinventing Anarchy

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Reinventing Anarchy
Editor Howard J. Ehrlich, et al.
SubjectAnthology
Publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul
Publication date
1979
Pages371

Reinventing Anarchy: What Are Anarchists Thinking These Days? is a 1979 anthology of essays about anarchism edited by Howard Ehrlich, Carol Ehrlich, David de Leon, and Glenda Morris.

A review by historian Paul Avrich notes that while the editors claim to synthesize a new view of anarchism, in practice the anthology retreads old concepts, and excludes international perspectives, economics and education, and individualist anarchism. [1]

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References

  1. Avrich 1982, pp. 442–443.

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