As a voluntaryist and individualist anarchist influenced most heavily by Lysander Spooner and Murray Rothbard, I was never much interested in socialist anarchism, and I particularly disdained those individuals calling themselves anarchists who practiced "propaganda of the deed" -- i.e., violence. Bringing it up to today, it dismays me that some black-clad antifa punk hurling a brick through a McDonalds window is called an anarchist, when he is nothing of the sort. Anarchism is NOT destructionism.
That said, this anthology has given me new appreciation for those 19th/early 20th century writers whose brand of anarchism might not have matched mine on all points (and sometimes on many points), but whose hatred for the state was both righteous and on-target. No one's anarchism, including the type that I find most congenial and "correct," has all the answers. We are all struggling to reach a clear picture of the power dynamics at play in the relationship of the state to the individual, and to forge a path forward out of the mess we find ourselves in.
I recommend this book to all who claim the anarchist label, or who are merely interested in this way of viewing the world and our societies. Coercion as a means to organize human beings and their economic and social relationships has created untold horrors. The more people who reject coercion, and especially that conducted so brutally by state actors, the better.
Some reviewers have mentioned typos in this book. Indeed, some of the essays are sprinkled with the kind of typos I have seen in texts that were scanned and then run through an optical character recognition program, with insufficient human "clean-up." However, they are not so many as to be unduly distracting and they do not impede reading.
Michael Malice is an interesting guy, by the way, even kind of weird in a good and funny way. I follow him on Twitter, and you should, too.
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There is so much anarchy packed into this book you will be amazed. It’s absolutely stunning how Dr Malice has gathered and presented this masterpiece. After buying it my life has improved exponentially. My wife loves me more, men envy me and women want me. My bank account has grown and I believe covid 19 has actually finally ended (outside of Florida where it’s been over for at least a year at this point) Seriously though this book will change the world and the more people who read it and share it the quicker the world will improve. I bought extra copies to share.
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