The Great Anarchists

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Twenty to thirty minutes each through the greatest philosophers and theorists of anarchism, including Josiah Warren, Peter Kropotkin, and David Graeber.

  1. Leo Tolstoy (and William Lloyd Garrison): Anarchism, Pacifism, and Christianity

    3D AGO

    Leo Tolstoy (and William Lloyd Garrison): Anarchism, Pacifism, and Christianity

    Can you be a religious anarchist? Bakunin probobly thought not; Emma Goldman thought so. But any way you look at it, Tolstoy was a beautiful writer with a beautiful Christian vision. I agree with him, and Petr Chelčický, and William Lloyd Garrison, that Christianity is incompatible with human government. PS pacifism entails antistatism

    26 min
  2. Art of Anarchism: Emma Goldman

    6D AGO

    Art of Anarchism: Emma Goldman

    The brilliant speaker and inspiring visionary (1869-1940): from Haymarket to the McKinley assassination, from confronting Lenin in his office to the Spanish Civil War. Alexander Berkman. Nestor Makhno.

    33 min
  3. Anarchism Without Adjectives (But With Great Passion): Voltairine de Cleyre

    12/28/2025

    Anarchism Without Adjectives (But With Great Passion): Voltairine de Cleyre

    The great American feminist and anarchist emerged from the American individualist tradition into the communist anarchist movement of Johann Most and Emma Goldman. Voltairine de Cleyre was also the greatest anarchist prose stylist this side of Thoreau.

    27 min
  4. Peter Kropotkin, Greatest of the Anarchist Thinkers

    12/17/2025

    Peter Kropotkin, Greatest of the Anarchist Thinkers

    Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a fine scientist as well as revolutionary: perhaps the greatest anarchist intellectual.

    32 min
  5. Mikhail Bakunin: Anti-Authoritarian and Anti-Marxist Leftist

    12/09/2025

    Mikhail Bakunin: Anti-Authoritarian and Anti-Marxist Leftist

    The split between Bakunin and Marx, between "authoritarian communism" and "collectivist socialism" (in Bakunin's terms) represents the key moment in the history, and the tragedy, of the left.

    30 min
  6. Max Stirner and Egoist Anarchism

    11/25/2025

    Max Stirner and Egoist Anarchism

    A wild and bizarre genius whose one book garnered momentary attention, especially from Marx and Engels. He's very closely connected to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, in my view.  I quote a blog entry from Alexander Green: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-green-stirner-and-marx

    29 min
  7. Lysander Spooner Kicks Your Ass

    11/20/2025

    Lysander Spooner Kicks Your Ass

    From basic American or Lockean or classical liberal values, Spooner (1808-1887) proves that anarchism follows. Proves it, I say. The killerest of the American individualists. If we have equal unalienable rights, anarchism follows immediately and obviously. lysanderspooner.org

    30 min
  8. Henry David Thoreau: State and Slavery

    11/13/2025

    Henry David Thoreau: State and Slavery

    Our best writer, maybe. The assertion that he's an (individualist) anarchist is based on "Civil Disibedience," but Thoreay expresses these positions throughout his authorship.

    29 min
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Twenty to thirty minutes each through the greatest philosophers and theorists of anarchism, including Josiah Warren, Peter Kropotkin, and David Graeber.

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  • Creator
    crispin sartwell
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Great Anarchists
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