Fall 2024

Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works, edited by Howard Zinn. New York: William Morrow & Co. 367 pp. Years ago a character in the Pogo comic strip proclaimed that “all freedom is academic.” The same is true …

Revolutionary Justice: The Social and Political Theory of P.-J. Proudhon, by Robert L. Hoffman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 429 pp. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s intellectual bones have been claimed by such varied inheritors—anarchists and fascists, syndicalists and individualists, progressives and reactionaries—that …

Post-Scarcity Anarchism, by Murray Bookchin. Berkeley: Ramparts Press. 288 pp., $2.95. Anarchists are frequently on the defensive. The most shrill revolutionary faction, they seem always to occupy the losing side of history. Hounded by the state they reject, repelled by the …