From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)
Anarchist Studies - ISSN 2633-8270
Volume 30 Number 2 (2022)
From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)
Spencer Beswick pages 31-54
DOI: 10.3898/AS.30.2.02
Abstract
After almost a century of Marxist predominance, how did anarchism develop from a marginal phenomenon into a force at the centre of the anti-globalisation movement? This article explores how anarchism was reborn in a counter-revolutionary age. Part one investigates how the New Right’s post-1960s counterrevolution defeated the New Left and remade US society, including by recuperating potentially liberatory elements of social movements. Part two examines how a new generation of radicals critiqued the failures of Marxism-Leninism and popularised the anarchist analysis and principles that provided the foundation for the anti-globalisation movement. The article discusses five examples of the development of anarchist theory and practice: Black/New Afrikan Anarchism, anarcha-feminism, eco-anarchism, punk anarchism, and revolutionary social anarchism. Ultimately, the article argues that anarchism was revitalised in the late twentieth century because it provided compelling answers to the new problems posed by the neoliberal counterrevolution and the crisis of state socialism.
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Spencer Beswick (2022) From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s), Anarchist Studies, 30(2), 31-54. https://doi.org/10.3898/AS.30.2.02