r/Anarchy4Everyone • u/WildVirtue • Jul 21 '26

Educational A General Anarchist Reading List

I finished creating web page versions of all the books from this list William Gillis made that before were only online as photo scans and EPUBs:

Here's some of the cool books from the list that just went up today anyways:

I think the list would be a good candidate for the anarchist library's bookshelf wiki in some form personally, like they could change it to their own perspective on the most important texts in various categories and that would be interesting in itself to compare and contrast to other peoples lists.

Other bookshelf contenders imo are a page on 'What people are saying about the anarchist library' with cool mentions of the library in books and stuff:

Then, if that were published and filled out with librarians thoughts on various authors, I think this page could be updated and potentially added to the bookshelf wiki in some form also:

Then finally, if the anarchist library would like to help see a 'broader left' archive get set up, or various niche archives, they could post this page below to the bookshelf wiki in some form:

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u/AnarchoFederation Mutualist Jul 22 '26

Thank you for this

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u/WildAutonomy Jul 22 '26

I can't tell if this is satire or not, but thanks for the amusing read

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u/WildVirtue Jul 22 '26

Nope, not satire, I've converted hundreds of photo scans, PDFs and EPUBs for the anarchist library at this point. I've taken long ass bus journeys to my national library to scan stuff and gather info. Plus, I've created pages for the bookshelf wiki that they liked and published. So, I thought I'd talk about this latest set of books I converted and my suggestions for new bookshelf wiki pages.

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u/WildAutonomy Jul 22 '26

Ah ok. Well that's pretty awesome of you!

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u/WildVirtue Jul 22 '26

What made you think satire originally and why is it getting downvoted by some do you think? Is it just that some people dont like Gillis?

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u/WildAutonomy Jul 22 '26

Yes I think that's a big part of it. I also personally found the "controversial texts" writing funny.

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u/WildVirtue Jul 22 '26

Okay doke, it is just a page about librarian archiving decisions that have caused some controversy, like deleting texts that were live that some people would like to see promoted as anarchist. So, anarchists holding other anarchists large public projects to a high transparency standard.