Zoe Baker

“I have often read writings that attempt to discredit my ideas, but which merely repeat, using different terminology, what I myself have argued and argue.

Introduction Very few words are as misunderstood as communism.

In 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Manifesto of the Communist Party.

One of the main skills that an academic education teaches people is the ability to talk about subjects they know barely anything about whilst sounding like an expert.

My book Means and Ends, like most books of its size and scope, contains a few minor errors.

When reading history books it is easy to assume that any sentence with an endnote must be true.

People are often drawn to the study of labour history because they want to understand how to change the world.

Anarchism is a social movement which advocates the abolition of all forms of domination and exploitation in favour of a society based on freedom, equality and co-operation.

In the popular imagination anarchists are assumed to be naive optimists.

Michael Bakunin was one of the early influential theorists of the anarchist movement and played a key role in developing and spreading its ideas.