Freedom and hope in motion: from the classical revolutions to today's anti-capitalist, anti-systematic upheavals.

This book examines Kropotkin as the man who became the chief exponent of the ideas of the European anarchist movement.

Includes "Law and Authority," arguing social control through custom and education, and "Prisons and Their Moral Influence on Prisoners," expressing the evils of the prison system, and other documents.

The First World War was a painful ordeal for anarchists and revolutionary syndicalists. Preventing its onset, as they had planned, proved beyond their means. The anarchist movement was too weak, and the syndicalists--too disunited --to organize a general anti-militarist strike. The impotence of ideologically "neutral" syndicalism and the growth of revolutionary sentiment during the war among the labouring masses (as predicted by the anarchists) made changes in the syndicalist movement all the more urgent. . . . To many activists it became clear that syndicalism alone is not enough, that you need to connect the self-organized labour movement and direct action with clear revolutionary ideas. The choice in the years of the post-war revolutionary upsurge was between Bolshevism and anarcho-syndicalism. - Vadim Damier

Explores an elaborate genealogy of anti-authoritarian thought.