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The fragile anarchist movement developed in India was more non-statist, rather than anti-statist. [204] Anarchism travelled to the Eastern Mediterranean along with other radical secular ideas in the cosmopolitan Ottoman Empire. Under the spell of Errico Malatesta, a group of Egyptian anarchists imported anarchism to Alexandria. It was in a ...
Anarchism is broadly used to describe the anti-authoritarian wing of the socialist movement. [13] [nb 1] Anarchism is contrasted to socialist forms which are state-oriented or from above. [17] Scholars of anarchism generally highlight anarchism's socialist credentials [18] and criticise attempts at creating dichotomies between the two. [19]
On 14 May 1912, Garnier and René Valet were killed in a shootout with French authorities when their safe house in Nogent-sur-Marne was raided by police. Armed with seven 9 mm Browning semi-automatics and two long-barreled Mausers, the two outlaws, who had barricaded themselves inside the rental house, faced 50 detectives, 250 police from Paris, Republican Guards, and 400 Zouaves from Nogent.
Anarcho-pacifism is a tendency within the anarchist movement which rejects the use of violence in the struggle for social change. [15] [82] The main early influences were the thought of Henry David Thoreau [15] and Leo Tolstoy while later the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi gained importance.
Ferrer movement; Strandzha Commune; Congress of Amsterdam; Tragic Week; ... This is a list of anarchist movements by region, both geographical and/or political. Africa
Polish resistance movement in World War II (many of these groups were a part of the Polish Underground State, the large guerrilla movement that initiated the Warsaw Uprising, as well as some other anti-Nazi partisan-warfare-based actions like the Zamość Uprising, the Battle of Osuchy, the Raid on Mittenheide, Operation Tempest, or Operation ...
A 1912 illustration of the Bonnot Gang stealing an automobile in the Forest of Senart. Illustration of the robbery of Société Générale Bank in Chantilly on 25 March 1912 The Bonnot Gang ( La Bande à Bonnot ), or The Tragic Bandits ( Les Bandes Tragiques ), was a French criminal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium during the ...
Contemporary news coverage which emphasizes black bloc demonstrations has reinforced anarchism's historical association with chaos and violence; however, its publicity has also led more scholars to engage with the anarchist movement, although contemporary anarchism favours actions over academic theory. [3] [15]