Channel Title: Zoe Baker Channel Description: I talk about the theory and history of anarchism, feminism and marxism. Author of Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States. PhD on the history of anarchism. For recommended reading and video scripts (with all my page references) see my blog. <video> Anarchism and Democracy Description: script + sources - https://anarchopac.com/2022/04/15/anarchism-and-democracy/ 0:00 democracy without the state 5:13 historical anarchist critique of democracy 22:30 how historical anarchists made decisions 39:58 conclusion Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Anarchist Counter Culture in Spain Description: script + sources - https://anarchopac.com/2022/12/01/anarchist-counter-culture-in-spain/ 0:00 intro 8:04 print culture 23:40 speaking tours + social events 28:58 ateneos 33:44 schools 38:38 lifestyles 46:17 conclusion anarchist animal drawings by https://www.instagram.com/airidescence/ ABC with Danny and Jim - https://anchor.fm/abcwithdannyandjim Their blog - https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/ Evans, Revolution and the State https://www.akpress.org/revolution-and-the-state.html Yeoman, Print Culture https://www.akpress.org/print-culture.html Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Zoe Baker is wrong about anarchism Description: https://twitter.com/anarchopac https://patreon.com/anarchopac Drawings by https://www.etsy.com/shop/AiridescenceArt Primary Sources Bulletin of the Jura Federation, 23rd September 1877, https://archivesautonomies.org/spip.php?article75. IWA, “Resolutions of the Saint-Imier Congress of the International Workers’ Association (1872)”. In Appendix to Social-Democracy and Anarchism in the International Workers’ Association 1864-1877, by René Berthier, 179–83. London: Anarres Editions, 2015. IWA, “Resolutions of the Verviers Congress of the International Workers’ Association” (1877). In Appendix to Social-Democracy and Anarchism in the International Workers’ Association 1864-1877, by René Berthier, 188–91. London: Anarres Editions, 2015. Guillaume. James. 1910. L’Internationale: Documents et Souvenirs (1864-1878) Tome IV. Paris. P.-V. Stock, Éditeur. Marx. Karl. 1990. Capital Volume 1. London: Penguin. Quoted preface available online at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p2.htm 1880 Programme of the French Workers Party, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/05/parti-ouvrier.htm Secondary Sources Berthier, René. 2015. Social-Democracy and Anarchism in the International Workers’ Association 1864-1877. London: Anarres Editions. Cahm, Caroline. 1989. Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available online at https://libcom.org/library/kropotkin-rise-revolutionary-anarchism-1872-1886-caroline-cahm Graham, Robert. 2015. We Do Not Fear Anarchy, We Invoke It: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement. Oakland, CA: AK Press. Eckhart, Wolfgang. 2016. The Fist Socialist Schism: Bakunin VS. Marx in the International Working Men’s Association. Oakland, CA: PM Press. Turcato, Davide. 2012. Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s Experiments With Revolution, 1889-1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Woodcock, George. 1986. Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideals and Movements. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Anarchism and Authority - Lecture Description: 0:00 what is authority 15:40 what authority is not 21:24 the emergence of authority 34:40 applying these ideas to history Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe For more talks on anarchism see @CenterForAnarchistTheory Bibliography A. L, Gordin, and Gordin V. L. “Pan-Anarchist Manifesto (1918).” In The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, edited by Paul Avrich, 49–52. London: Thames and Hudson, 1973. Baker, Zoe. Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2023. Bakunin, Michael. From Out of the Dustbin: Bakunin’s Basic Writings 1869-1871. Edited by Robert M. Cutler. Ann Arbor: Ardis Publishers, 1985. ———. God and the State. New York: Dover Publications, 1970. ———. Selected Writings. Edited by Arthur Lehning. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. Berkman, Alexander. What Is Anarchism? Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2003. Galleani, Luigi. The End of Anarchism? London: Elephant Editions, 2012. Goldman, Emma. Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years Volume One: Made for America, 1890-1901. Edited by Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, and Jessica Moran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ———. Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader. Edited by Alix Kates Shulman. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996. Hansen, Mogens Herman. The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles and Ideology. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991. Kinna, Ruth, and Alex Prichard. “Anarchism and Non-Domination.” Journal of Political Ideologies 24, no. 3 (2019): 221–40. Kropotkin, Peter. Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology. Edited by Iain McKay. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2014. ———. Modern Science and Anarchy. Edited by Iain McKay. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2018. ———. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2006. Malatesta, Errico. A Long and Patient Work: The Anarchist Socialism of L’Agitazione 1897-1898. Voume III of the Complete Works of Malatesta. Edited by Davide Turcato. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2016. ———. Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta. Edited by Vernon Richards. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015. ———. The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader. Edited by Davide Turcato. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2014. ———. Towards Anarchy: Malatesta in America 1899-1900. Volume IV of the Complete Works of Malatesta. Edited by Davide Turcato. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2019. Murray, James A. H., ed. A New English Dictionary On Historical Principles Volume I: A and B. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. Ober, Josiah. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Peirats, José. The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 1. Edited by Chris Ealham. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011. Reclus, Élisée. Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Élisée Reclus. Edited and translated by John Clark and Camille Martin. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2013. Rocker, Rudolf. “The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” In Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution, edited by Friends of Aron Baron, 47–56. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017. Skinner, Quentin. Liberty before Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ———. “The State.” In Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, edited by Terence Ball, James Farr, and Russell L. Hanson, 90–131. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. The Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad. “The Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (June 1926).” In Facing the Enemy: A History of Anarchist Organisation from Proudhon to May 1968, by Alexandre Skirda, 192–213. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2002. The Jura Federation. “The Sonvillier Circular (1871).” In Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One - From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939), edited by Robert Graham, 96–98. Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2005. Wilson, Charlotte. Anarchist Essays. Edited by Nicolas Walter. London: Freedom Press, 2000. Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd </video> <video> Malatesta's birthday and my multiverse of madness Description: Bibliography Fabbri, Luigi. 1936a. Life of Malatesta. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-fabbri-life-of-malatesta Fabbri, Luigi. 1936b. La vida de Malatesta. Barcelona: Guilda de Amigos del Libro. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/La_vida_de_Malatesta/LgoPAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Malatesta, Errico. 2014. The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader. Edited by Davide Turcato. Oakland, CA: AK Press. Malatesta, Errico. 2015. Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta. Edited by Vernon Richards. Oakland, CA: PM Press. Nettlau, Max. 1922a. Errico Malatesta: Vita E Pensieri. New York: Il Martello Publishing House. Nettlau, Max. 1922b. Errico Malatesta Das Leben eines Anarchisten. https://anarchistischebibliothek.org/library/max-nettlau-errico-malatesta Nettlau, Max. 1923. Errico Malatesta La Vida De Un Anarquista. Buenos Aires: La Protesta Nettlau, Max. 1924. Errico Malatesta: The Biography of An Anarchist. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-nettlau-errico-malatesta-the-biography-of-an-anarchist Nettlau, Max. 1932. “Sidelights on Errico Malatesta”, Freedom Bulletin, December 1932, 2-7. https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Freedom-Bulletin-1932-12.pdf Porter, Roy. 1999. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. London: Fontana Press. Turcato, Davide. 2012. Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s Experiments With Revolution, 1889-1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Birth records found here - https://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/?lang=en Drawings of raccoons by https://www.instagram.com/airidescence/ Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> I released a book Description: Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism between 1868 and 1939. I clearly and accessibly explain the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their views on direct action, revolution, organization, state socialism, reforms, and trade unions. Throughout I demonstrate that the reasons anarchists gave for supporting or opposing particular strategies were grounded in a theoretical framework — a theory of practice — which maintained that, as people engage in activity, they simultaneously change the world and themselves. This theoretical framework was the foundation for the anarchist commitment to the unity of means and ends: the means that revolutionaries propose to achieve social change have to involve forms of activity which transform people into individuals who are capable of, and driven to, both overthrow capitalism and the state and build a free society. The consistent heart of anarchism was the idea that anarchist ends can only be achieved through anarchist means. Cutting through misconceptions and historical inaccuracies, I draw upon a vast assortment of examples to show how this simple premise underpinned anarchist attempts to put theory into action. Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j For extracts from the book watch: Anarchism's Value System - https://youtu.be/XQmrB-2_VPg?si=xyokaMboLVxyJrgs The Unity of Means and Ends - https://youtu.be/syR0P-2uwp4?si=sxybHNeHaStFFeFB </video> <video> Engels' mustache club Description: A serious video about a serious topic. I cover almost everything Engels wrote about his mustache, beard, and facial hair in general. Bibliography Primary Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. Collected Works Volume 2. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976. ———. Collected Works, Volume 11. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1979. ———. Collected Works, Volume 40. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1983 ———. Collected Works, Volume 43. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1988. ———. Collected Works, Volume 44. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1989. ———. Collected Works, Volume 46. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1992. ———. Collected Works, Volume 49. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2001. ———. The Communist Manifesto. London: Penguin Books, 2002. Secondary Backhaus, Jürgen Georg, Günther Chaloupek, and Hans A. Frambach, eds. 200 Years of Friedrich Engels: A Critical Assessment of His Life and Scholarship. Springer, 2022. Carver, Terrell. The Life and Thought of Friedrich Engels. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Hunt, Tristram. Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009. Illner, Eberhard, Hans A. Frambach, and Norbert Koubek, eds. The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels: Emerging from Marx’s Shadow. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. McLellan, David. Friedrich Engels. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. Image of Engels' dad - https://search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/615248 Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> I wrote a book Description: Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Don't Believe Everything Academics Write Description: script + sources - https://anarchopac.com/2024/02/29/dont-believe-everything-academics-write/ Patch notes for my book - https://anarchopac.com/2023/08/29/patch-notes-for-means-and-ends/ Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> The Unity of Means and Ends | Anarchism 101 Description: 0:00 - intro 0:21 - unity of means and ends 7:26 - violence and freedom 11:48 - prefiguration Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. I clearly and accessibly explain the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their views on direct action, revolution, organization, state socialism, reforms, and trade unions. Throughout, I demonstrate that the reasons anarchists gave for supporting or opposing particular strategies were grounded in a theoretical framework—a theory of practice—which maintained that, as people engage in activity, they simultaneously change the world and themselves. This theoretical framework was the foundation for the anarchist commitment to the unity of means and ends: the means that revolutionaries propose to achieve social change have to involve forms of activity which transform people into individuals who are capable of, and driven to, both overthrow capitalism and the state and build a free society. The consistent heart of anarchism was the idea that anarchist ends can only be achieved through anarchist means. Cutting through misconceptions and historical inaccuracies, I draw upon a vast assortment of examples to show how this simple premise underpinned anarchist attempts to put theory into action. Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Pastries, Freedom, Love: A Malatesta Story Description: Animated, Directed, Scored - Airidescence Voice over - Zoe Baker Fabbri, Life of Malatesta - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/luigi-fabbri-life-of-malatesta https://linktr.ee/airidescence Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Writing History is a Nightmare Description: script + sources - https://anarchopac.com/2023/05/01/writing-history-is-a-nightmare/ Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Anarchists Are Not Naive About Human Nature Description: script + sources - https://anarchopac.com/2022/02/28/anarchists-are-not-naive-about-human-nature/ Raccoons drawn by https://twitter.com/airidescence Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> What is the Proletariat? Description: Watch to find out what the proletariat is and how the meaning of the word changed over time. 0:00 intro 1:31 from ancient rome to the french revolution 8:48 the working classes of the 19th century 29:47 the proletariat in early socialism 58:36 the proletariat in Marx and Engels 1:35:14 the proletariat in the 21st century script + full page references/bibliography - https://anarchopac.com/2024/05/10/what-is-the-proletariat/ Footnote 1: According to Draper, Marx thinks that only propertyless wage labourers who produce surplus value and thereby generate profits for a capitalist are proletarians (Draper 1978, 34). Propertyless wage labourers that do not produce surplus value are therefore not proletarians, such as teachers employed in state funded schools or road construction workers hired directly by the state. The best evidence I have found to support this view is a single sentence in the Communist Manifesto which claims “the proletariat” are “the class of modern workers who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital” (Marx and Engels 1996, 7). For Marx only productive labour, in the sense of labour that produces surplus value, increases capital (Marx 1990, 644). This sentence in the Communist Manifesto could be interpreted as a generalisation, rather than an attempt to establish the necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for being a proletarian. The pamphlet is after all full of generalisations. Unfortunately Marx’s other statements on the subject are vague and could be interpreted as either saying that the proletariat only includes productive workers or that all propertyless wage labourers who sell their labour power to an employer (rather than selling a labour service directly to a customer) are proletarians irrespective of whether or not they produce surplus value (MECW 34, 444-45). In Capital Volume 3 Marx claims that “commercial wage-labourers employed by the merchant capitalist . . . do not directly produce surplus-value ” but do ultimately enable their employer to generate a profit. In a footnote Engels refers to such workers as “the commercial proletariat” (Marx 1991, 406-407, 414-15). In the absence of definitive evidence I am agnostic on the matter, but I could have missed an important source or not seen an important detail when reading. Video features art from: https://www.instagram.com/workersartcollective/ https://www.instagram.com/airidescence/ Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video> <video> Anarchism's Value System | Means and Ends Description: 0:00 - intro 0:48 - freedom 11:28 - equality 16:23 - solidarity Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. I clearly and accessibly explain the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their views on direct action, revolution, organization, state socialism, reforms, and trade unions. Throughout, I demonstrate that the reasons anarchists gave for supporting or opposing particular strategies were grounded in a theoretical framework—a theory of practice—which maintained that, as people engage in activity, they simultaneously change the world and themselves. This theoretical framework was the foundation for the anarchist commitment to the unity of means and ends: the means that revolutionaries propose to achieve social change have to involve forms of activity which transform people into individuals who are capable of, and driven to, both overthrow capitalism and the state and build a free society. The consistent heart of anarchism was the idea that anarchist ends can only be achieved through anarchist means. Cutting through misconceptions and historical inaccuracies, I draw upon a vast assortment of examples to show how this simple premise underpinned anarchist attempts to put theory into action. Support me on patreon https://www.patreon.com/anarchozoe If you'd like to make a one time donation https://ko-fi.com/anarchozoe Follow me on social media: https://www.instagram.com/anarchozoe/ https://twitter.com/anarchopac Buy my book Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States: US shipping - https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html UK shipping - https://www.akuk.com/means-and-ends-the-revolutionary-practice-of-anarchism-in-europe-and-the-united-states.html audiobook - https://tantor.com/means-and-ends-zoe-baker.html Check out my other videos: anarchism and democracy https://youtu.be/3sfnwFV92XY?si=gKM30LY3gvJPYAYH anarchists are not naive about human nature https://youtu.be/vPzAn5fo60k?si=it3xKFnn_t2oJbN6 anarchism as a way of life https://youtu.be/VP31dPtbHLc?si=QRQyYrE05Lk0MMTb anarchist counter culture in Spain https://youtu.be/a30GiaJknU4?si=_448uHI9kEa_n2bd the best feminist you've never heard of: He-Yin Zhen https://youtu.be/phOdLapw6x8?si=gEjXgOZH-KB9Z-8j </video>

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I talk about the theory and history of anarchism, feminism and marxism. Author of Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States. PhD on the history of anarchism.

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