The Great Anarchists

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• Noam Chomsky: The Last Anarchist Professor

  February 3, 2026 · 33 min

  The fascinating linguist and research-heavy political commentator who helped get anarchist theory through a particularly fallow period.

• The Decline of Anarchism in the 20th Century

  January 15, 2026 · 23 min

  In the 20th century, anarchism ceased as a mass revolutionary movement (except perhaps in Spain in the 1930s). Why? I give three reasons here: the internal momentum of the state, reaching its culmination as a war and genocide machine; the…

• Leo Tolstoy (and William Lloyd Garrison): Anarchism, Pacifism, and Christianity

  January 6, 2026 · 26 min

  Can you be a religious anarchist? Bakunin probobly thought not; Emma Goldman thought so. But any way you look at it, Tolstoy was a beautiful writer with a beautiful Christian vision. I agree with him, and Petr Chelčický, and William Lloyd…

• Art of Anarchism: Emma Goldman

  January 3, 2026 · 33 min

  The brilliant speaker and inspiring visionary (1869-1940): from Haymarket to the McKinley assassination, from confronting Lenin in his office to the Spanish Civil War. Alexander Berkman. Nestor Makhno.

• Anarchism Without Adjectives (But With Great Passion): Voltairine de Cleyre

  December 28, 2025 · 27 min

  The great American feminist and anarchist emerged from the American individualist tradition into the communist anarchist movement of Johann Most and Emma Goldman. Voltairine de Cleyre was also the greatest anarchist prose stylist this side…

• Peter Kropotkin, Greatest of the Anarchist Thinkers

  December 17, 2025 · 32 min

  Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a fine scientist as well as revolutionary: perhaps the greatest anarchist intellectual.

• Mikhail Bakunin: Anti-Authoritarian and Anti-Marxist Leftist

  December 9, 2025 · 30 min

  The split between Bakunin and Marx, between "authoritarian communism" and "collectivist socialism" (in Bakunin's terms) represents the key moment in the history, and the tragedy, of the left.

• Max Stirner and Egoist Anarchism

  November 25, 2025 · 29 min

  A wild and bizarre genius whose one book garnered momentary attention, especially from Marx and Engels. He's very closely connected to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, in my view.  I quote a blog entry from Alexander Green: ht…