Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Negating State Power
- The North Atlantic Region
- 15 Anarchism and Syndicalism in France
- 16 Spain in Revolt: The Revolutionary Legacy of Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
- 17 Anarchism and Syndicalism in Italy
- 18 Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United Kingdom
- 19 Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United States
- Africa, Asia, Latin America
- Worldwide Connections
- Index
- References
18 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United Kingdom
from The North Atlantic Region
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Negating State Power
- The North Atlantic Region
- 15 Anarchism and Syndicalism in France
- 16 Spain in Revolt: The Revolutionary Legacy of Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
- 17 Anarchism and Syndicalism in Italy
- 18 Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United Kingdom
- 19 Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United States
- Africa, Asia, Latin America
- Worldwide Connections
- Index
- References
Summary
For a century and a half anarchists have been overwhelmingly socialist, despite the concurrent existence of small numbers of individualists in Europe and the USA. Yet a fruitful, though neglected, approach to understanding anarchism is to recognize its thoroughly socialist critique of capitalism, while emphasizing that this has been combined with a liberal critique of socialism, anarchists being united with liberals in their advocacy of autonomous associations and the freedom of the individual, even exceeding them in their opposition to statism.
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- The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 444 - 465Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022