Hunters are 'serial killers'.

[Aenlic]

Aenlic, do you have a recommended reading list for your philosophy? I know Bakunin, but would appreciate some other authors on the subject. It seems to me to be worth understanding more fully.

There's a complete bibliography at the end of the Anarchist FAQ here. By complete, I mean really excessively complete. Mind-numbingly, incredibly complete.

My favorite author in the subject would have to be Murray Bookchin. His The Ecology of Freedom: the emergence and dissolution of hierachy is a great discussion of many of the more important themes in anarchist theory, particularly social ecology. Anything else by him would do as well; but the above is certainly his best.

Anything by Noam Chomsky in the political and economic vein.

I'm also fond of a book written by one of the anarchist communists who opposed Lenin's Marxist takeover of the Russian Revolution. Peter Kropotkin was born a privileged member of the boyar class. Prince Kropotkin even entered the Corps of Pages in St. Petersburg and served as a page to Czar Alexander II. But he became exposed to more radical thought when visiting Switzerland in the 1870's and eventually ended up connected to the very radical Jura federation. He returned to Russia and became involved with the Circle of Tchaikovsky. His radical ideas got him arrested in 1873 but he escaped and fled to England. He then returned to Switzerland, but was expelled by the Swiss government when Alexander II was assassinated because he was known to have affiliations with the Narodnaya Volya group which carried out the assassination. He spent time in England and France, was arrested in France too for his radical views. He eventually returned to Russia after the February revolution and served as an advisor to Kerensky. He turned his back on government and the revolution altogether when the Bolsheviks took control, even having been credited with saying "This buries the revolution."

Sorry for the rather long synopsis; but I really admire this guy. His best book by far is The Conquest of Bread.

And, of course, George Orwell's tribute to the anarcho-communists of Barcelona in 1936-1939 in Homage to Catalonia.

It's nice to see an interest. One doesn't have to agree with differing opinions; but it certainly is nice to see those who seek to at least learn something more of them than can be had in the usual thin-veneer of standard education. Most people have no idea how widespread the opposition to Marx was among communists in Europe in the late 19th century, with the Jura federation and the International Workers Association and many more who were expelled from the First Communist International at the Hague Congress in 1872 for opposing Marx's totalitarian and statist views. Cheers!

[Banquo's Ghost]

Thank you for the recommendations, Aenlic. That should fill my reading list nicely.