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Peter Gelderloos: Anarchy Works (Paperback, 2010, Ardent Press)

Anarchism is the boldest of revolutionary social movements to emerge from the struggle against capitalism, …

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I picked up this book because I thought, based on the chapter names, that it would have sketches of how things would work in an anarchist society. Instead I got, mostly, a really long list of examples and stories, that don't answer the questions promised in the chapter names, but only hint at that an anarchist way is possible. I often found the book being too romantic, even though it tries not to be (no less in the few stories where I had prior knowledge), and I think its main usefulness is to convince people who are on the fence about anarchism, that it is not utopian. For me, already convinced that the inevitability of the status quo is bullshit, and looking for more concrete ideas about how society could be organized in a better world, it wasn't that useful.