So in the context of OWS, I’ve been doing some reading on anarchism lately, and I thought I’d periodically note down some of my findings here.

One thing that’s struck me so far is that the most acute critiques of anarchism have come from anarchists themselves, of which there is no shortage of thoughtful and intelligent examples.

Here’s a quote from Luigi Fabbri, an Italian anarchist who died in 1935. A close collaborator with Errico Malatesta (one of the greats in the anarchist pantheon), and a delegate to the 1907 anarchist congress in Amsterdam (one of the movement’s famous lieux de mémoire), Fabbri was charged with “defeatism” in WWI and died in exile.