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Every book Margaret Kiljoy recommended on podcasts
Margaret Kiljoy is a writer, musician, and podcaster. On Behind the Bastards, Kiljoy discussed and recommended several works focused on history, anarchism, and social movements. She recommended Kaneko Fumiko's The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman, praising it as a premier entry in the genre of feminist prison literature while recounting the author's refusal of a pardon and subsequent imprisonment. Kiljoy also strongly recommended John Crump's Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan, noting that it introduced her to anarchism and citing its accounts of Hatta Shūzō's sermons, factional disputes at a 1928 anarchist conference, and the development of the concept of the propertyless masses. Additionally, Kiljoy discussed Sho Konishi's Anarchist Modernity, highlighting its arguments regarding Russian anarchist Lev Mechikov's experiences in Japan and their influence on mutual aid concepts. She also examined Kōtoku Shūsui's Imperialism: Monster of the Twentieth Century, noting its significance as an early critique of nationalism, war, and imperialism in Japan.
Books recommended by Margaret Kiljoy
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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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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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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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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| It Could Happen Here Weekly 32 | Behind the Bastards | 2022-04-30 | 7 |
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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.”