Patterns of Anarchy: A Collection of Writings on the Anarchist Tradition (1966) [PDF]

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It is the aim of this book to clarify and analyze the various traditions that together make up the corpus of anarchist thought and inform anarchists' recommendations for the renovation of society.Grouping writings by past and present libertarians, both European and American, around topics of central interest to all of them, the editors have illuminated both the variety and the underlying unity of anarchist traditions. One section brings together criticisms that anarchists of different schools have made of socialism, defining the distance that separates anarchism from a movement with which it has often been mistakenly confounded. Another portion of the book is devoted to critiques and proposals relating to education, a field of great concern to libertarian thinkers and one in which their ideas have utmost relevance today. And, to facilitate a just appraisal, the editors have included a number of cogent attacks upon various anarchist positions.