Vernon Richards, ed. Life and Ideas. The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta.

CONTENTS

Foreword / Carl Levy

Editor’s Introduction to the First Edition [1965]

Editor’s Introduction to the Third Edition [1984]

PART ONE

Introduction: Anarchy and Anarchism

I

1 – Anarchist Schools of Thought

2 – Anarchist—Communism

3 – Anarchism and Science

4 – Anarchism and Freedom

5 – Anarchism and Violence

6 – Attentats

II

7 – Ends and Means

8 – Majorities and Minorities

9 – Mutual Aid

10 – Reformism

11 – Organisation

III

12 – Production and Distribution

13- The Land

14 – Money and Banks

15 – Property

16 – Crime and Punishment

IV

17 – Anarchists and the Working Class Movements

18- The Occupation of the Factories

19 – Workers and Intellectuals

20 – Anarchism, Socialism, and Communism

21 – Anarchists and the Limits of Political Co-Existence

V

22 – The Anarchist Revolution

23- The Insurrection

24 – Expropriation

25 – Defence of the Revolution

VI

26 – Anarchist Propaganda

27 – An Anarchist Programme

PART TWO

Notes for a Biography

Appendix I. Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles [1914]

Appendix II. Pro-Government Anarchists [1916]

Appendix III. Fact and Fiction on the Shooting Incident at a Meeting Addressed by Malatesta in West Hoboken in 1899

Appendix IV. Pietro Kropotkin—Ricordi E Critiche Di Un Vecchio Amico (Peter Kropotkin—Recollections and Criticisms of an Old Friend) [1931]

PART THREE

Malatesta’s Relevance for Anarchists Today