The May Pamphlet
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The May Pamphlet is a collection of six anarchist essays written and published by Paul Goodman in 1945. Goodman discusses the problems of living in a society that represses individual instinct through
The author in the late 1940s
Why?, April 1944
Retort, Winter 1947
Politics, December 1945
Anarcho-pacifism
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Anarcho-pacifism, also referred to as anarchist pacifism and pacifist anarchism, is a school of thought in anarchism that advocates for the use of peaceful, ethical, and non-violent forms of resistanc
The May Pamphlet
…anarchists of his time, Paul Goodman first articulated his political beliefs in the 1940s. Propelled by his rejection of the World War II draft, his anarcho-pacifist peers, and the ugliness of wartime social conditions, Goodman authored the essays that would become The May Pamphlet in May and early June 1945, with…
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Henry David Thoreau
Bart de Ligt, influential Dutch anarcho-pacifist writer of the theoretical work The Conquest of Violence
Dorothy Day, American Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist