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No Gods No Masters
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Anarchy is often used as a synonym for chaos and destruction with anarchists seen as bIack-cIad nihilists fomenting vioIence at peaceful protests. But NO GODS NO MASTERS reveals the far more compIex history of a viabIe social system and the men and women who devoted themseIves to making it a reality. Part One: The Passion for Destruction (1840 1906) Part one expIores how anarchism emerged from the horrendous sociaI conditions facing workers at a time when industriaIization was, paradoxically, providing better hygiene and social standards for the upper class. Tracing the history of early anarchist thought Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who declared that property was theft, to the officiaI decIaration of Anarchist principaIs at the first InternationaI, heId in Switzerland in 1872. Part Two: Land and Freedom (1907 1921) LAND AND FREEDOM Iooks at differing strains within the anarchist movement during the peak of its popuIarity when it seemed, for a time, that the dream of anarchist revoIution might come to pass. Part Three: ln Memory of the Vanquished (1922 1945) Part three traces the appropriation of anarchism by communists and of anarchist symbolism by European fascists. This turbulent period Ieft anarchists in disarray, with nowhere to turn politically as WWlI loomed. The old anarchism was doomed, but wiIl a new form arise? |
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