Portal:Anarchism/Did you know

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First selection
...that Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco? ...that the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers? ...that the term "spokescouncil" is named after the "spokes" of a bicycle wheel? ...that the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s? ...that the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States?

Second selection
...that despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the Jewish anarchist journal Germinal (pictured) had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration? ...that during the Spanish Civil War, Eduard Pons Prades falsified his identification pages so that he could join the Republican army at age 16? ...that French anarchist Théodule Meunier, responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard? ...that Christian anarchist Dave Andrews was excommunicated from the parachurch Youth With A Mission? ...that Fermin Rocker, son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker, once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger?		December 1906 edition of Germinal

Third selection
...that the anarchy symbol (pictured) can be seen as an embodiment of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's seemingly paradoxical maxim, "anarchy is order"? ...that the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Workers' Federation was the country's first national labor confederation? ...that German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln? ...that scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate? ...that the Cuban labor movement was predominantly anarchist until it was crushed first by President Machado, and then Fidel Castro?

Fourth selection
...that the physician Marie Equi (pictured) became an anarchist after being attacked by police while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World? ...that the slang word " scab" comes from the idea that people hired to replace striking workers are covering a wound? ...that when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort, he did not speak Yiddish? ...that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal? ...that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?

Fifth selection
...that the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured)? ...that Lewis Call developed an account of post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson? ...that John Turner was the first person to be ordered deported from the United States for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act? ...that Milly Witkop and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker, both notable anarchist activists and writers, were rejected admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally married? ...that the anarcho-capitalist contingent of the Young Americans for Freedom was excommunicated from the group after one of them burned a draft card during the 1969 convention, an event credited with spawning the modern libertarian movement?		Amilcare Cipriani

Sixth selection
...that just three years after it was founded, the Spanish labor union Solidaridad Obrera (pictured) morphed into the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo? ...that Paul Feyerabend's theory of epistemological anarchism in the philosophy of science led him to be labeled the "worst enemy of science" by his detractors? ...that Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates? ...that during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera, published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper? ...that prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II, there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable?

Seventh selection

... that in his book In Defense of Anarchism, anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate?
... that according to Franz Oppenheimer's book The State, the purpose of the political state is to establish and enforce class divisions between conquerors and the dominated?
...that Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski a.k.a. "the Unabomber" () as President of the United States?
...that although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914?
... that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk?

Eighth selection
... that the 1869 anarchist manifesto Catechism of a Revolutionary, which established the importance of Russian anarchist Sergey Nechayev (pictured), portrays the revolutionary as an amoral avenger? ... that Future Primitive and Other Essays by anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan is regarded as an underground classic by anarchists and technophobes alike? ... that many of the tendencies within anarchism criticized by Chaz Bufe in his pamphlet Listen, Anarchist! are thought to have stemmed from the movement's individualist, Stirnerite wing? ... that in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan, Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome? ... that rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive?

Ninth selection
... that the Russian anarchist-communist organisation Chernoe Znamia (pictured) were the first with a deliberate policy of terror against the established order? ... that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists? ... that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement? ... that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples? ... that Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War?

Tenth selection
... that the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda (header pictured) relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution? ... that Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I? ... that the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life accused French students of taking refuge from their ideological subservience in miserabilism and bohemianism? ... that there were two unrelated Jewish anarchists named Alexander Schapiro active in Russia during the civil war, one in the Bolshevik government and the other leading a cadre of anarchist revolutionaries against it? ... that post-anarchism theorist Saul Newman saw the publication of volume one of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas as a sign of a resurgent interest in anarchist philosophy?

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