The Great Anarchists
Twenty to thirty minutes each through the greatest philosophers and theorists of anarchism, including Josiah Warren, Peter Kropotkin, and David Graeber.
Podcasting since 2025 • 19 episodes
The Great Anarchists
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Noam Chomsky: The Last Anarchist Professor
The fascinating linguist and research-heavy political commentator who helped get anarchist theory through a particularly fallow period.
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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33:04
The Decline of Anarchism in the 20th Century
In the 20th century, anarchism ceased as a mass revolutionary movement (except perhaps in Spain in the 1930s). Why? I give three reasons here: the internal momentum of the state, reaching its culmination as a war and genocide machine; the inter...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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23:06
Leo Tolstoy (and William Lloyd Garrison): Anarchism, Pacifism, and Christianity
Can you be a religious anarchist? Bakunin probobly thought not; Emma Goldman thought so. But any way you look at it, Tolstoy was a beautiful writer with a beautiful Christian vision. I agree with him, and Petr Chelčický, and William Lloyd Garri...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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26:12
Art of Anarchism: Emma Goldman
The brilliant speaker and inspiring visionary (1869-1940): from Haymarket to the McKinley assassination, from confronting Lenin in his office to the Spanish Civil War. Alexander Berkman. Nestor Makhno.
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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32:36
Anarchism Without Adjectives (But With Great Passion): Voltairine de Cleyre
The great American feminist and anarchist emerged from the American individualist tradition into the communist anarchist movement of Johann Most and Emma Goldman. Voltairine de Cleyre was also the greatest anarchist prose stylist this side of T...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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26:30