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CSCH 3019: Anarchy in the USA (3 cr.)

This course is designed to uncover the hidden

history of a rarely-studied dimension of

political and philosophical radicalism: anarchism

in the United States. We will examine the origins

of anti-State and anarchist thought in North

America, various collective anarchist utopian

experiments and important events in the history

of American anarchism such as the Haymarket Riot,

the assassination of President McKinley and the

trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. We will also read

important American anarchist writers such as

Josiah Warren, Emma Goldman and Dorothy Day and

examine the historical and intellectual context

of their lives and ideas. A central question

throughout will be that of the relationship of

anarchism to collective action, and the related

philosophical and political tension between the

ideal of pacifism and the strategy of violence.

The course will conclude with an examination of

the recent resurgence of anarchism in the U.S. as

part of the anti-globalization and Occupy Wall

Street movements.

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