Basically MOST Expected Reading In The Modern Movement
Post-left Anarchy & Insurrectionary Anarchy
Mutualism / Left-Market Classic
Primitivism And General Anticiv
Particularly Notable Non-Anarchist Leftist Influences & Occasional Travellers
Below is a quickly sketched map of texts with importance and influence in anarchist spaces. As such we have included texts that all the librarians dislike, but texts we recognize have a lot of influence on anarchists.
Too often bibliographies of anarchism are wildly biased documents clearly pushing a specific party line or actively trying to re-write history by ignoring major texts and inflating minor ones. This is an attempt to map out anarchism warts-and-all, not anarchism as we might like it to eventually sort out. We believe in providing people with accurate maps to expand their agency, and perhaps that will better inform conversations. Especially as so many new people interested in anarchism today are so disconnected from the prior culture and movement.
Why Misogynists Make Great Informants — Courtney Desiree Morris
How Nonviolence Protects The State — CrimethInc.
Betrayal — Words to Fire Press
Come Hell Or High Water — Delfina Vannuci & Richard Singer
Against The Logic Of The Guillotine — CrimethInc
10 Points On The Black Bloc — Harsha Walia
Continuing Appeal Of Nationalism — Fredy Perlman
The Black Bloc Papers — The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective, et al.
Anarchy Works — Peter Gelderloos
From Democracy To Freedom — CrimethInc.
Anarchism And Other Essays — Emma Goldman
Anarchy: What It Is and Why Pop Culture Loves It — Kim Kelly
Anarchism And Its Aspirations — Cindy Milstein
Life Without Law: An introduction to anarchist politics — Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! — David Graeber
Anarchy 101 — dot matrix
Living My Life — Emma Goldman
Durruti — Abel Paz
The First International and the Birth of the Anarchist Movement — Robert Graham
Prison Memoirs Of An Anarchist — Alexander Berkman
To Destroy Domination In All Its Forms — Julia Tanenbaum
A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front — Anthony J. Nocella, et al.
A Shorter History of a Northwest E.L.F. Cell — Tides of Flame
Mutual Aid — Peter Kropotkin
Ethics: Origin and Development — Pëtr Kropotkin
Nationalism and Culture — Rudolf Rocker
Revolution and Other Writings — Gustav Landauer
God and the State — Michail Bakunin
The Possibility Of Cooperation — Michael Taylor
Utopia Of Rules — David Graeber
Debt — David Graeber
The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber and David Wengrow
Seeing Like A State — James C. Scott
Weapons Of The Weak — James C. Scott
Worshipping Power — Peter Gelderloos
In Defense of Anarchism — Robert Paul Wolff
The Politics Of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism — L Susan Brown
People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy — Harold Barclay
Marx: A Radical Critique — Alan Carter
Anarchism: A Theoretical Analysis — Alan Ritter
Home Rule — Nandita Sharma
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas — Ursula K. Le Guin
Joyful Militancy — carla bergman and Nick Montgomery
Armed Joy — Alfredo M. Bonanno
The Anarchist Tension — Alfredo M. Bonanno
Anarchy In The Age Of Dinosaurs — The Curious George Brigade
Days Of War Nights Of Love — CrimethInc.
Insurrectional Anarchism: A Reader — The Bakto Group
Killing King Abacus (zine/mag)
The Master’s Tools — Tom Nomad
The Abolition of Work — Bob Black
TAZ — Hakim Bey
Queer Ultraviolence — Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli
At Daggers Drawn with the Existent, its Defenders and its False Critics — Anonymous
Stories of the Bear and Racoon People — Aragorn!
¡Punky Mauri Presente!: 10 Years After the Death in Action of Mauricio Morales — Publicación Madre Tierra
The Prison Letters of Luciano “Tortuga” Pitronello — Luciano Pitronello
The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007–2013 — Alejandro de Acosta
Insurgencies (mag)
Murder Of Crows (mag)
AJODA (mag)
The Anvil Review (mag)
What Is Anarcho-communism — Alexander Berkman
At The Cafe — Errico Malatesta
An Anarchist Programme — Errico Malatesta
Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism — Rudolf Rocker
Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice — Tom Wetzel
Fighting for ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle — Solidarity Federation
An Anarchist FAQ — The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective
Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists — Dielo Truda (Workers’ Cause)
Manifesto of Libertarian Communism — Federation Communiste Libertaire
About the Platform — Barikád Kollektíva
Towards a Fresh Revolution — Friends of Durruti
Black Anarchism: A Reader — Jon Bekken
The Strategy of Especifismo — Juan Carlos Mechoso (Uruguayan Anarchist Federation–FAU)
The Global Influence of Platformism Today — Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists
Social Anarchism and Organisation — Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro
Proudhon Reader — Iain McKay (ed.)
Instead Of A Book — Benjamin R. Tucker
No Treason — Lysander Spooner
What Is Mutualism — Clarence Lee Swartz, in collaboration with The Mutualist Associates
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand — Kevin Carson
Studies In Mutualist Political Economy — Kevin Carson
Organization Theory — Kevin Carson
Markets Not Capitalism — Various Authors
Homebrew Industrial Revolution — Kevin Carson
Exodus — Kevin Carson
What I Believe — Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom Of God Is Within You — Leo Tolstoy
Jesus Was An Anarchist — Elbert Hubbard
Loaves and Fishes — Dorothy Day
The Book Of Ammon — Ammon Hennacy
Anarchy and Christianity — Jacques Ellul
The Technological Society — Jacques Ellul
Against His-story, Against Leviathan — Fredy Perlman
The Reproduction of Daily Life — Fredy Perlman
Elements Of Refusal — John Zerzan
Future Primitive — John Zerzan
Against Civilization — ed. John Zerzan
Running On Emptiness — John Zerzan
Against The Megamachine — David Watson
Green Anarchist — Of GANDALF trial infamy. This publication is on the library’s wishlist
Green Anarchy — Anthologized as Uncivilized
Black Seed — Anthologized as Not on Any Map and Where the Absence Is
Do or Die! — Voices from the ecological resistance, 1993–2003. Desert followed. Anthologized as Cracks in a Grey Sky
Return Fire (magazine)
Letters of Insurgents — Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vochek
Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years — Lorraine Perlman
Land and Freedom: An Open Invitation — Seaweed
Those Who Marry Do Ill — Voltairine De Cleyre
Anarchy and the Sex Question — Emma Goldman
Marriage and Love — Emma Goldman (1914)
Sex Slavery — Voltairine de Cleyre
The Red Virgin — Louise Michel
Rebel in a Black Dress — Séverine
Uncivil Liberty — Ezra Heywood
Charlotte Wilson, the “Woman Question”, and the Meanings of Anarchist Socialism in Late Victorian Radicalism — Susan Hinely
Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader — Dark Star (ed.)
Socialism, Anarchism and Feminism — Carol Ehrlich
Breaking the Waves — Romina Akemi and Bree Busk
Insurrections at the Intersections — Abbey Volcano and J. Rogue
Coming to Terms — Theresa Warburton
Against the Gendered Nightmare — baedan
The Revolution Starts at Home edited by Ching-In Chen, Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Confronting Manarchism — Anonymous
Anti-Fascism Against Machismo — Petronella Lee
Post-Scarcity Anarchism — Murray Bookchin
The Ecology of Freedom — Murray Bookchin
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism — Murray Bookchin
Ecofascism — Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier
The Unique And It’s Property — Max Stirner
Stirner’s Critics — Max Stirner
The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century — John Henry Mackay
Toward the Creative Nothing — Renzo Novatore
The Right To Be Greedy: Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything — For Ourselves
Against The Logic Of Submission — Wolfi Landstreicher
Willful Disobedience — Wolfi Landstreicher
I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite! — John Moore
Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century — Aragorn!
Pistols Drawn (publisher)
Little Black Cart (publisher)
Desert — Anonymous
Blessed Is The Flame — Serafinski
baeden — baedan
Atentat — Various Authors
Society Of The Spectacle — Guy Debord
The Revolution of Everyday Life — Raoul Vaneigem
Caliban & The Witch — Silvia Federici
The Many Headed Hydra — Linebaugh and Rediker
Change The World Without Taking Power — John Holloway
The Coming Insurrection — Invisible Committee
Theory Of Bloom — Tiqqun
Empire — Hardt & Negri
Everything Must Go!: The Abolition of Value — Bruno Astarian & Gilles Dauvé
Nihilist Communism — Monsieur Dupont
Democratic Confederalism — Abdullah Öcalan
Capital As Power — Bichler & Nitzan
Xenofeminism — Laboria Cuboniks
A Cyborg Manifesto — Donna Haraway
To our friends — The Invisible Committe
When Insurrections Die, 1917–1937 — Gilles Dauvé
Ediciones Inéditas Anthology — Ediciones Inéditas
The Self-Abolition of the Proletariat As the End of the Capitalist World — Proletarios Revolucionarios