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15 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in France

from The North Atlantic Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Alexander Varias
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

‘The Communist’s emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist’s on liberty and equality.’ With these words George Orwell contrasted two allied forces alongside which he fought, attempting to save the republic from the fascist-supported army of Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Division between these ‘allies’ was strong, involving unresolvable differences, and convincing them to work in harmony was a formidable task. Orwell was not alone in his awareness of that division.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 357 - 379
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Halperin, Joan U., Félix Fénéon: Aesthete and Anarchist in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).Google Scholar
Herbert, Eugenia W., The Artist and Social Reform (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961).Google Scholar
Joll, James, The Anarchists (London: Methuen, 1969).Google Scholar
van der Linden, Marcel, and Thorpe, Wayne (eds.), Revolutionary Syndicalism: An International Perspective (Brookfield, VT: Gower Publishing Company, 1990).Google Scholar
Maitron, Jean, Le mouvement anarchiste en France, 2 vols. (Paris: François Maspero, 1983).Google Scholar
Merriman, John, The Dynamite Club (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009).Google Scholar
Mitchell, Barbara, The Practical Revolutionaries: A New Interpretation of the French Anarchosyndicalists (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987).Google Scholar
Sonn, Richard D., Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989).Google Scholar
Thomas, Edith, Louise Michel ou la Velleda de l’anarchie (Paris: Gallimard, 1971).Google Scholar
Varias, Alexander, Paris and the Anarchists: Aesthetes and Subversives during the Fin de Siècle (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1996).Google Scholar
Woodcock, George, Anarchism (New York: Penguin Books, 1962).Google Scholar

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