No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms

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mimicked? Was it perpetually at odds with other currents of the Left? The authors in this collection take up these questions of geographical and political peripheries. Building on recent research that has emphasized the plural origins of anarchist thought and practice, they reflect on the histories and cultures of the antistatist mutual aid movements of the last century beyond the boundaries of an artificially coherent Europe. At the same time, they reexamine the historical relationships between anarchism and communism without starting from the position of sectarian difference (Marxism versus anarchism). Rather, they look at how anarchism and communism intersected; how the insurgent Left could appear—and in fact was—much more ecumenical, capacious, and eclectic than frequently portrayed; and reveal that such capaciousness is a hallmark of anarchist practice, which is prefigurative in its politics and antihierarchical and antidogmatic in its ethics. Copublished the with Institute for Comparative Modernities, this collection includes contributions by Gavin Arnall, Mohammed Bamyeh, Bruno Bosteels, Raymond Craib, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Silvia Federici, Steven J. Hirsch, Adrienne Carey Hurley, Hilary Klein, Peter Linebaugh, Barry Maxwell, David Porter, Maia Ramnath, Penelope Rosemont, and Bahia Shehab. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Raymond Craib A Foreword LEARNING FROM INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE: ANARCHISM AND INDIGENEITY Is there a Native philosophical alternative? And what might one achieve by standing against the further entrenchment of institutions modeled on the state? —Taiaiake Alfred Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui The Ch’ixi Identity of a Mestizo: Regarding an Anarchist Manifesto of 1929 Hilary Klein The Zapatista Movement: Blending Indigenous Traditions with Revolutionary Praxis Maia Ramnath No Gods, No Masters, No Brahmins: An Anarchist Inquiry on Caste, Race, and Indigeneity in India INTERVENTION Peter Linebaugh Ypsilanti Vampire May Day A THOUSAND LINKS: TRANSNATIONAL LINES IN AN ANARCHIST AGE We never live only by our own efforts, we never live only for ourselves; our most intimate, our most personal thinking is connected by a thousand links with that of the world. —Victor Serge Adrienne Hurley Let’s Ditch School and Be Unmanageable David Porter Kabylia’s 2001 Horizontalist Insurrection THE HORIZON AT THE CENTRE: NO PERIPHERIES Social space... is the horizon at the centre of which they place themselves and in which they live. —Henri Lefebvre Raymond Craib Anarchism and Alterity: The Expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile in 1920 Geoffroy de Laforcade The Ghosts of Insurgencies Past: Waterfront Labor, Working-Class Memory, and the Contentious Emergence of the National- Popular State in Argentina Steven J. Hirsch Anarchism, the Subaltern, and Repertoires of Resistance in Northern Peru, 1898–1922 INTERVENTION Bahia Shehab Spraying NO THE BLACK MIRROR: ANARCHISM, SURREALISM, AND THE SITUATIONISTS It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognized itself. —André Breton Penelope Rosemont Surrealism and Situationism: An attempt at a comparison and critique by an Admirer and Participant, including a brief look at a seemingly faraway place in space and time; or, King Kong meets Godzilla ... How New Thoughts are let loose in the World Barry Maxwell Blackened Syllabus: Will Alexander’s Figure of the King Gavin Arnall Masters without Slaves: Raoul Vaneigem’s Détournement of Nietzsche BLACK, RED, AND GREY: ANARCHISM, COMMUNISM, AND POLITICAL THEORY All theory is grey. —the Devil Mohammed A. Bamyeh Anarchist Method, Liberal Intention, Authoritarian Lesson: The Arab Spring between Three Enlightenments Bruno Bosteels Neither Proletarian nor Vanguard: On a Certain Underground Current of Anarchist Socialism in Mexico Silvia Federici Global Anarchism: Provocations Barry Maxwell Afterword, Beginning with “A” Notes on Contributors Index