Anarchism: From theory to Practice
by Daniel Guerin

Introduction - Notes on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

Preface

1 The Basic Ideas of Anarchism

• A Matter of Words
• A Visceral Revolt
• Horror of the State
• Hostility to Bourgeois Democracy
• Critique of Authoritarian Socialism
• Sources of Inspiration: the Individual
• Sources of Inspiration: the Masses

2 In Search of a New Society

• Anarchism is not Utopian
• The Need for Organisation
• Self-Management
• The Bases of Exchange
• Competition
• Centralization and Planning
• Complete Socialization?
• Trade Unions
• The Communes
• The Disputed Term "State"
• How Should the Public Services be Managed?
• Federalism
• Internationalism
• Decolonization

3 Anarchism in Revolutionary Practice

1880-1914

• Anarchism becomes Isolated from the Working-Class Movement
• Social-Democratic Condemnation of Anarchism
• Anarchists in the Trade Unions

Anarchism in the Russian Revolution

• A Libertarian Revolution
• An Authoritarian Revolution
• The Part Played by the Anarchists
• The Makhnovtchina
• Kronstadt
• Anarchism Living and Dead

Anarchism in the Italian Factory Councils

Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution

• The Soviet Mirage
• The Anarchist Tradition in Spain
• Theory
• An "Apolitical" Revolution
• Anarchists in Government
• Self-Management in Agriculuture
• Self-Management in Industry
• Self-Management Undermined

By Way of Conclusion

Footnotes