Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility

The Colin Ward Reader

Paperback, 337 pages

English language

Published Oct. 31, 2011 by AK Press.

ISBN:
978-1-84935-020-4
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OCLC Number:
601121195
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Widely regarded as Britain’s most influential anarchist thinker for over half a century, Colin Ward’s work ranges in scope from urban planning to deschooling, from mutualism to geography, from Kropotkin to Buber, to cotters, squatters, and beyond. Drawing inspiration from the everyday creativity of ordinary people, Ward championed a unique social and environmental politics premised on the possibilities of democratic self-organisation and self-management from below.

Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility provides a wide-ranging overview of Ward’s earliest journalism and his later work, including seminal essays and extracts from his most important books.

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The book is a little repetitive at times. And it will very much help if you are interested in housing and urban planning - as much of what he writes is centered on that. But it has been so long since I read a straight up anarchist text and Ward's approach to anarchism (and life) resonates with me more than most. Anarchy isn't some magical end goal. It is just us doing our thing with laser-like focus on the centrality of community, cooperation, and the individual agency and creativity of everyday people. The more we can push for that, the better our lives will be every day.

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