Anarchist Writings

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Anarchist Writings (Identities and Issues in Literature)

Introduction

Anarchism in the literature of North America is rooted in the tradition of anarchist social and political writings. In their influence upon literature, anarchist writers fall roughly into two groups: collectivists and individualists. While collectivists emphasize the importance of systematic cooperation among members of society, individualists emphasize the importance of individual freedom above all else. Both groups reject authority and coercive control. Among collectivist anarchists, the ideas of writers such as Mikhail Bakunin and Pyotr Kropotkin have been most...

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