Confessions of an anarchist

The author draws on a decade of close involvement with anarchist circles to offer a critical, confessional survey of anarchist theory and practice. He argues that anarchist doctrines deny responsibility and undermine morals, and recounts organizational dynamics, literature, and tactics including bomb-making, assassination, and propaganda by deed. Chapters examine police infiltration, the internal life of groups and conferences, experiments in communities, leading figures and precepts, and the relationship between socialism and anarchism. The book concludes with arguments for curbing violent anarchist organs and reflections on contradictions within the movement.