{"id":11629,"date":"2009-11-08T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2009-11-08T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T14:04:21","slug":"mandisi-majavu-reviewing-black-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11629","title":{"rendered":"Mandisi Majavu: Reviewing Black Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mandisi Majavu, ZSpace, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/zspace\/commentaries\/4034\">4 November 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Flame-Revolutionary-Syndicalism-Counter-Power\/dp\/190485916X\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11640\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=11640\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/BLACKFLAME.jpg?fit=159%2C237\" data-orig-size=\"159,237\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BLACKFLAME\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/BLACKFLAME.jpg?fit=159%2C237\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/BLACKFLAME.jpg?fit=159%2C237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/BLACKFLAME.jpg?resize=159%2C237\" alt=\"BLACKFLAME\" title=\"BLACKFLAME\" width=\"159\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/BLACKFLAME.jpg?w=159 159w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/BLACKFLAME.jpg?resize=100%2C150 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a>In writing &#8216;<em>Black Flame: The revolutionary politics of anarchism and syndicalism<\/em>&#8216;, Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt set themselves an ambitious task of writing a history of anarchism. I use the word ambitious mainly because, as Guerin (1970) once pointed out, it is difficult to trace the outlines of anarchism. <\/p>\n<p>Its master thinkers rarely condensed their ideas into systematic works. If, on occasion, they tried to do so, it was only in thin pamphlets designed for propaganda and popularization in which only fragments of their ideas can be observed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/zspace\/commentaries\/4034\">Read the review<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandisi Majavu, ZSpace, 4 November 2009 In writing &#8216;Black Flame: The revolutionary politics of anarchism and syndicalism&#8216;, Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt set themselves an ambitious task of writing a history of anarchism. I use the word ambitious &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11629\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-31z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11629"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11643,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions\/11643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}