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''Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1)'' is a book written by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt which deals with “the ideas, history and relevance of the broad anarchist tradition through a survey of 150 years of global history.”〔(Exchange on ''Black Flame'' in ''Anarchist Studies'' between Spencer Sunshine and Lucien van der Walt )〕 The book includes a preface by Scottish anarchist, and former political prisoner, Stuart Christie. It is the first of two volumes in the authors' ''Counter Power'' series. ''Black Flame'' is a thematic work, on the history and theory of global anarchism and syndicalism. The forthcoming sequel, ''Global Fire'', will provide a global narrative history of the movement. Lucien van der Walt has meanwhile also edited Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940. A German translation appeared in late 2013, entitled ''Schwarze Flamme: Revolutionäre Klassenpolitik im Anarchismus und Syndikalismus'',〔http://www.edition-nautilus.de/programm/politik/buch-978-3-89401-783-5.html〕 with Greek and Spanish translations nearing publication. == Global scope == In terms of scope, ''Black Flame'' takes a uniquely global approach which, while also analysing Western Europe and North America, takes the history of anarchism and syndicalism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia seriously.〔(Black flame : the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism by Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt (Review) )〕 These regions are knitted together into a single global account, which overviews core themes, developments and debates in the anarchist and syndicalist tradition. Van der Walt and Michael Schmidt criticise the "standard" works on the overall history and theory of anarchism and syndicalism for focusing on the North Atlantic region, and for insisting upon an indefensible "Spanish exceptionalism," the notion that in Spain alone were anarchism and syndicalism mass movements. A global view shows that Spain was by no means unique. According to Lucien van der Walt, "once you look globally, you find mass movements of comparable, sometimes even greater, influence in countries ranging from Argentina, to China, to Cuba, to Mexico, to Peru, to the Ukraine and so on. What gets a bit lost in studies that focus on Western Europe is that most of anarchist and syndicalist history took place elsewhere. In other words, you can’t understand anarchism unless you understand that much of its history was in the east and the south, not only in the north and the west."〔("Fanning the Flames" interview with Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt )〕 Therefore, besides movements like the Spanish Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the book examines movements like the Industrial Workers of the World, the Federacion Obrera Regional Argentina, the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, the Shinmin autonomous region founded by Korean anarchists, and the Ukrainian Free Territory of Makhnovism. Attention is also paid to figures and movements partially influenced by anarchism, like Augusto César Sandino, and the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union, in southern Africa. ''Black Flame'' also examines anarchist and syndicalist ideas and debates globally: for example, the account of anarchist debates on whether the Soviet Union was "state capitalist" includes the views of Asian anarchists, while sections on anarchism, syndicalism and race include coverage of Chinese, Mexican, Peruvian, and South African materials and movements. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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