The End of Anarchism?

The End of Anarchism Here translated for the first time into English is a new edition of The End of Anarchism by Luigi Galleani an anarchist militant in both Italy and North America who is best known for his activitie

Here, translated for the first time into English, is a new edition of The End of Anarchism by Luigi Galleani, an anarchist militant in both Italy and North America, who is best known for his activities as the editor of the US based Italian language journal, Cronaca Sovversiva , published between 1903 1918 From this paper sprang one of the largest and most enduring eleHere, translated for the first time into English, is a new edition of The End of Anarchism by Luigi Galleani, an anarchist militant in both Italy and North America, who is best known for his activities as the editor of the US based Italian language journal, Cronaca Sovversiva , published between 1903 1918 From this paper sprang one of the largest and most enduring elements of the anarchist movement in North America The End of Anarchism , first published as a volume in 1925, is an expanded version of a series of articles that appeared under the same title some twenty years earlier in Cronaca Sovversiva as a reply to an assertion by a former militant, Saverio Merlino, that the anarchist movement was no longer vital or significant Initially conceived as a rebuttal, it developed into an eloquent exposition of Galleani s own concept of anarchist communism, his most organic theoretical work a lucid statement of the ever present problems of anarchism in relation to the would be revolutionary movements in the words of Errico Malatesta This edition contains an introduction specially written for Cienfuegos Press by Max Sartin Raffaele Schiavina, 1894 1987 , a close collaborator of Galleani s and the editor of L Adunata dei Refrattari, the last major Italian anarchist journal published in the USA 1922 1971.The career of Luigi Galleani involves a paradox During the first two decades of the twentieth century, he was the