Was the historical Jesus an anarchist?^163- Though what constitutes “violence” is itself far from self- evident.
For a discussion of definitional problems see Willem Schinkel,
Aspects of Violence: A Critical Theory (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010),
pp. 16–83. - See Ruth Kinna, Anarchism: A Beginner’s Guide (Oxford:
Oneworld Publications, 2009), pp. 158–164. See also Peter Gelderloos,
How Nonviolence Protects the State (Cambridge: South End Press,
- and Uri Gordon, Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics
From Practice to Theory (London: Pluto Press, 2008), pp. 78–108.
- See, for example, Cindy Milstein, Anarchism and its Aspirations
(Oakland: AK Press, 2010). - George Richard Esenwein, Anarchist Ideology and the Working-
Class Movement in Spain: 1868–1898 (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1989), p. 135. - Murray Bookchin, Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: An
Unbridgeable Chasm (Oakland: AK Press, 1996), p. 4. - E.g. Woodcock, Anarchism, p. 8.
- A point made by Marshall, Demanding, p. 3.
- Brian Morris, Anthropology and Anarchism: Their Elective
Affinity (London: Goldsmiths College, 2005), p. 6. - David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography (Oakland: AK
Press, 2009), p. 214. - Graeber, Direct Action, p. 214.
- For Graeber, anarchism does not equate to any of these things
and is best thought of “as that movement back and forth between
these three.” (Direct Action, p. 215). - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer: A Description of the Modes
of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1940), p. 6. - Peter Arshinov, History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918–21,
2nd edn (London: Freedom Press, 2005). - Murray Bookchin, To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and
Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 (Oakland: AK Press, 1995); Stuart
Christie, We the Anarchists: A Study of the Iberian Anarchist