#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #UK #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #UK, ACG: The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future. New book out by Nick Heath. - Erica Malatesta (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Published by Just Books in Belfast, Nick Heath's new book is a timely addition to

the literature on Anarchist Communism. ---- Anarchist communism often hides in
the shadows in the general works on anarchism available, only clearly emerging
when the ideas of Kropotkin, Reclus and Malatesta are discussed. All too often,
apart from the worthless speculations on various philosophers outside of the
historic anarchist movement, anarchist communism is rejected as a poor relation
to the mass movements launched by anarchosyndicalism and revolutionary
syndicalism.  Others state that the accommodation of anarchist communism to
syndicalism, made it a simple variant of anarcho-syndicalism, that it failed to
discover the causes of the counter-revolution initiated by the Bolsheviks, and
that it died as a credible current with the aftermaths of the Mexican and Russian
Revolutions and that it was absorbed or replaced by anarchosyndicalism. This book
will seek to counter these assertions. Anarchist communism, as opposed to
anarchist collectivism, is the only anarchist current that specifically argues
for the end of the market economy and of exchange value. It has survived down to
the present day and features as an important current in Russia, France, Latin
America, Ukraine, China and Japan amongst other countries. This book seeks to
rehabilitate the current of anarchist-communism and make it better known and
understood; and to renovate and modernise it. It offers a prehistory of the idea,
its origins in the First International and extensive chapters on the history of
anarchist communism in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. As such it will be the
first comprehensive work on anarchist communism, one where it is not sidelined or
where it ends up as a footnote. As Brian Morris has correctly asserted, anarchist
communism has been the main current within the body of anarchism and this book
aims to stress that and to bring it out of the shadows.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2022/09/23/the-idea-anarchist-communism-past-present-and-future-new-book-out-by-nick-heath/
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