What would be the definitive book on Anarchism that one would recommend to read as an introduction to the basic ideas.
"The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a science fiction book that basically compares an Archic and an Anarchic society. It's cool because it's fiction so if you're not into all that classical Anarchist literature like Proudhon and Kropotkin then this is the book for you. Although the author claims to be neutral, I definitly got the impression that she was in favour of Anarchy but either way it's still a great read.
i would also read her left hand of darkness and word for world is forrest. the science in leguine's science fiction is anthropology which she approaches as a true and objective science. while we're in such a realm i'd also mention some of r.a.lafferty's silly little short stories which are perhapse not so silly, though the best of them are indeed among the shortest. my favorite collections are strainge doings and 900 gradmothers. how anarchist are any of these. i make no claim to being any sort of judge of that. but i think some of the cameroi stories, especialy the one about the parent teacher apparatus, is in the spirit. well one of lafferty's parrents was native american and the other was eirish catholic. leguine's father was a.l.krober and she grew up in the house with ishi, then spent her normal working years as an english teacher. =^^= .../\...
I would go out into a forest naked, or clothed, its up to you, and do whatever you feel like, and then run around shouting "FUCK YOU GOVERNMENT, FUCK YOU!", then I would sit down quietly and look at how the sunlight filters through the leaves, and how the wind blows the dust around in random chaotic spirals, and how peaceful you feel and tink about what it means to be free. Um, not really, I think even Masanobu is a good start. And like I said in another thread, daniel quinn. I'm hard pressed to get other anarchists to go along with the idea (because they all seem to take the whole thing so seriosly) but anarchism is such a universal idea that you can find it echoing in all kinds of literature, and the word need not be present, nor does the author have to be an anarchist. Hell, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest is a great example.
