Anarchism

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ANARCHISM Sean M. Sheehan London: Reaktion Books, 2003. 175 pp. $26.95

Anarchism, by Sean M. Sheehan, provides an informative historical analysis of anarchism, highlighting the role that anarchism plays in the contemporary anti-globalization movement. Sheehan, who has written a number of history and travel books and a study of Wittgenstein, is a sympathetic observer of this movement and especially of anarchist tendencies therein.

Sheehan starts with a summary of what has happened in the anti-globalization movement since the antiWTO (World Trade Organization] protests in Seattle in November 1999. Anarchists have been prominent in this movement and since most people have, at …