CKUT Radio: Benedict Anderson - "Anarchism and Anti-Colonialism"

Listen to a lecture on anarchism and its relationship to anti-colonial struggles, given by professor Benedict Anderson of Cornell University. Recorded at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).

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This talk, entitles "Anarchism and Anti-Colonialism" was given by Benedict Anderson, a professor at Cornell University and the author of the book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Professor Anderson recently published Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination.

In this talk, Anderson looks at anti-colonial struggles in three places, the Phillipines, South Africa, and Cuba, and examines how these movements related and interplayed with the growing anarchist movements of Eastern and Western Europe. Particular attention is paid to "propaganda by the deed", an era of anarchism when numerous assassination attempts of political leaders were carried out by anarchists.

This talk was presented by the Montreal Institute for International Studies at UQAM (University of Quebec in Montreal).

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