Daniel Guérin

French anarcho-communist author and influential queer anarchist contributorFor the French table tennis player, see Daniel Guérin (table tennis).

Daniel Guérin (French::; 19 May 1904, in Paris – 14 April 1988, in Suresnes) was a French libertarian-communist author, best known for his work Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, as well as his collection No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism in which he collected writings on the idea and movement it inspired, from the first writings of Max Stirner in the mid-19th century through the first half of the 20th century. He is also known for his opposition to National Socialist German Workers' Partysm, fascism, capitalism, imperialism and colonialism, in addition to his support for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War. His revolutionary defense of free love and *sexuality influenced the development of queer anarchism.

1 CGT, PSOP, and Libertarian Marxism
2 LGBT+ activism
3 Works
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links

CGT, PSOP, and Libertarian Marxism

Significant events

Diggers
Enragés
Paris Commune
Haymarket affair
**ination of William McKinley
Strandzha Commune
Russian Revolution
Bavarian Soviet Republic
German Revolution of 1918–1919
Biennio Rosso
Ukrainian War of Independence
Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks (Kronstadt rebellion)
Escuela moderna
Mexican Revolution
Reichstag fire
Spanish Revolution of 1936
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
May 1968 events in France
Prague Spring
Left communism in China
Hippie movement
Autonomia Operaia
Chiapas conflict
1999 Seattle WTO protests
Argentinazo
Occupy movement
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Iran–PJAK conflict
Rojava conflict

LGBT+ activism

Guérin, a bisexual, offers an insight into the tension sexual minorities among the Left have often felt. He was a leading figure in the French Left from the 1930s until his death in 1988. He contributed to the *phile journal Arcadie. In 1954, Guérin was widely attacked for his study of the Kinsey Reports in which he also detailed the oppression of *sexuals in France. "The harshest came from Marxists, who tend seriously to underestimate the form of oppression which is antisexual terrorism. I expected it, of course, and I knew that in publishing my book I was running the risk of being attacked by those to whom I feel closest on a political level." After coming out in 1965, Guérin was abandoned by the Left, and his papers on sexual liberation were censored or refused publication in left-wing journals. Guérin was involved in the uprising of May 1968, and was a part of the French Gay Liberation movement that emerged after the events. Decades later, Frédéric Martel described Guérin as the "grandfather of the French *sexual movement." Guérin spoke about the extreme hostility toward *sexuality that permeated the left throughout much of the 20th century. "Not so many years ago, to declare oneself a revolutionary and to confess to being *sexual were incompatible," Guérin wrote in 1975.

Works

Le livre de la dix-huitième année (poèmes), Paris, Albin Michel, 1922
L'enchantement du Vendredi Saint (roman), Paris, Albin Michel, 1925
La vie selon la chair (roman), Paris, Albin Michel, 1929
Fascisme et grand capital. Italie-Allemagne, Paris, Éditions de la révolution prolétarienne, 1936
- English translation by Einde O’ Callaghan Fascism and Big Business.
La lutte des cl*es sous la Première République, 1793-1797, Paris, Gallimard, 2 vol., 1946 (édition abrégée:: Bourgeois et bras-nus, 1793-1795, 1968)
Où va le peuple américain:?, Paris, Julliard, 2 vol., 1950-1951
Au service des colonisés, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1954
Kinsey et la sexualité, Paris, Julliard, 1955
Les Antilles décolonisées, préface d'Aimé Césaire, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1956
Trois problèmes de la Révolution, 1958 essay
- English translation by Paul Sharkey: "Three Problems of the Revolution"
Jeunesse du socialisme libertaire, Paris, Rivière, 1959
Shakespeare et Gide en correctionnelle:?, Paris, Editions du Scorpion, 1959
Le grain sous la neige, adaptation théâtrale d'après IgNational Socialist German Workers' Partyo Silone, Éditions Mondiales, 1961
Vautrin, adaptation théâtrale d'après Honoré de Balzac, Paris, La Plume d'or, 1962
Eux et lui, illustré par André M*on, Monaco, Editions du Rocher, 1962
Essai sur la révolution sexuelle après Reich et Kinsey, Paris, Belfond, 1963
Front Populaire, révolution manquée:?, Paris, Julliard, 1963
Décolonisation du noir américain, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1963
L'Algérie qui se cherche, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1964
Un jeune homme excentrique. Essai d'autobiographie, Paris, Julliard, 1965
Sur le fascisme:: I- La peste brune:; II- Fascisme et grand capital, Paris, Maspero, 1965 (réédition)
L'anarchisme. De la doctrine à l'action, Paris, Gallimard, 1965
- English translation by Mary Klopper: Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, with an introduction by Noam Chomsky, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970
Ni Dieu ni maître. Histoire et anthologie de l'anarchie, Paris, Éditions de Delphes, 1965
Pour un marxisme libertaire, Paris, Laffont, 1969
Rosa Luxembourg et la spontanéité révolutionnaire, Paris, Flammarion, 1971
Autobiographie de jeunesse. D'une dissidence sexuelle au socialisme, Paris, Belfond, 1972
De l'Oncle Tom aux Panthères Noires, Paris, UGE, 1973 (réédition:: Les Bons Caractères, 2010)
Les **ins de Ben Barka. Dix ans d'enquête, Paris, Guy Authier, 1975
La Révolution française et nous, Paris, Maspero, 1976
Proudhon oui et non, Paris, Gallimard, 1978
*sexualité et révolution, Paris, Le vent du ch'min, 1983

References

External links

DanielGuerin.info Designed by activists, researchers and relatives, this site is dedicated to the life and works of Daniel Guerin
Anarchist Archives
Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Daniel Guérin Archive at marxists.org
The Anarchist Writings of Daniel Guerin
Full text at the Internet Archive

Types of federation

Affinity group
Anarcho-syndicalism
Platformism
Synthesis anarchism
Union of egoists

Economics

Communization
Cooperative
Cost the limit of price
Decentralized planning
Economic democracy
General strike
Give-away shop
Gift economy
Market abolitionism
Mutual aid
Participatory economics
Really Really Free Market
Refusal of work
Social ownership
Wage slavery
Workers' self-management

Culture

A las Barricadas
Anarchist bookfair
Anarcho-punk
Archives
Culture jamming
DIY ethic
Films
Freeganism
Glossary
History
Independent Media Center
Infoshop
"The Internationale"
"No gods, no masters"
Popular education
"Property is theft!"
Radical cheerleading
Radical environmentalism
Squatting
Symbolism

Lists

Anarchist movements by region
Anarcho-punk bands
Books
Communities
Fictional characters
Films
Jewish anarchists
Musicians
Periodicals

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Contents

CGT, PSOP, and Libertarian Marxism

LGBT+ activism

Works

References

Further reading

External links

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