Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-09-02
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 98
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Mentioned: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 and Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 is an academic historical text that examines global anti-authoritarian movements outside of traditional Western centers.
Discussed“I've been reading this book called anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world. And there's a section uh um by a guy named Anthony Guman that I found really interesting.”
Where to get it
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Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin is a foundational anarchist text arguing that cooperation and mutual support, rather than strict competition, are the primary drivers of evolution and human society.
Discussed“if people uh like it's also in in Kokin's book mutual aid he talks about the value of like lifeboats and volunteer organizations such as your own that um like it's very foundational to people talk a lot about mutual aid”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Have you ever read any marks? Like that that that is a man whose writing is about 60% yelling at someone whose ideas he's also stolen like by volume. Like one of his most famous like one of the things that you you get assigned to read from Markx in college is the German ideology”