Making Sense of Anarchism Errico Malatesta's Experiments with Revolution, 1889–1900

Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that question as it investigates the ideas and action of one of the most prominent and underrated anarchists of all times: the Italian, Errico Malatesta.

DAVIDE TURCATO is Italian and lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is a computational linguist with an interest in history. He has published several articles on Errico Malatesta and Italian anarchism, and he is the editor of Malatesta's collected works, a ten-volume project currently under way in Italy.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Anarchism, a Simple and Odd Business?
The First International: A Lasting Heritage
An 'Anarchist Rarity' Reappears, 1889
A Short-Lived, Momentous Periodical, 1889–90
Opaque Insurrectionary Trials, 1890–92
Open-Ended Popular Movements, 1892–94
Patient Work in the Light of Day, 1894–98
From the Other Side of the Atlantic Ocean, 1899–1900
Malatesta's Anarchism: A Charitable Interpretation
Conclusion: A Complex, Rational Business
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