Communism and Anarchism

Professor Kozlowski continues testing the limits of algorithmic censorship with a discussion of Communism and Anarchism. No references to the Cookbook here, but we are going to look deeply at some widely varied ideas underlying Anarchist thought, and their justifications for fighting against the state, as well as the underpinning ideas of many 20th century activist movements (which we will discuss in the next lecture).

Today's readings are:

Lenin's What is to be Done? and The State and Revolution

Kropotkin's "Law and Authority"

Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You

Goldman's "Anarchism"

Additional Readings include:

Thoreau, "On Civil Disobedience"

Mills, The Sociological Imagination

Foucault, Discipline and Punish

The Chomsky Reader

Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

Huxley, Island

Sholokhov, And Quiet Flows the Don

LeGuin, The Dispossessed

And, of course, the preeminent masterpiece of video games about politics: Disco Elysium