Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-04-30
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 32
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Nicholas Scott discussed Weavers of Revolution by Peter Winn. Margaret Kiljoy recommended The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman by Kaneko Fumiko and others and Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan by John Crump, and discussed Anarchist Modernity by Sho Konishi and Monster of the Twentieth Century by Robert Thomas Tierney and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Weavers of Revolution
Discussed“and the historian Peter Wyn uh who published the sort of landmark study uh that really dominated the field of the history and historioggraphy of the popular unity years he published a book called weavers of revolution”
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Anarchist Modernity
Discussed“there's a a a modern historian named uh Shonoshi who writes this book called uh anarchist modern anarchist modernity cooperism and Japanese uh Russian intellectual relations in modern Japan and he makes the argument basically”
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Monster of the Twentieth Century
Discussed“So, I in 1900, Kotu writes this book called Imperialism Monster of the 20th Century, which is like a better title. Good title. Yeah. Great title. And this is significant for a number of reasons.”
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The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman by Kaneko Fumiko, translated and edited by Mikiso Hane and Jean Inglis, is an autobiographical account of an anarchist dissident in early twentieth-century Japan.
Recommended“And so she tears out the pardon and so she goes to prison and she lives long enough to write like the greatest entry in in the genre of a narco feminist a Japanese narco feminist prison memoirs which is an entire genre.”
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Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan
Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan by John Crump is a detailed historical study examining the evolution of anarchist thought in Japan through the lens of theorist Hatta Shūzō.
Recommended“I mean there there was a sort of like renaissance in in Hariso scholarship when this one guy named John Crup wrote this book called Harsho Hareso and pure anarchism in ancient war Japan which is a mouthful of a title but I'm just going to keep plugging this”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he's friends with Kpotkin and after after his his sort of like thought starts to change about mutual aid you start to see a lot of the same stuff like you know like this is like he he's there before Kpockin writes mutual aid”
“And he translates like Kpaka's work in Japanese. He translates the like the the communist manifesto. He does labor organizing.”