Damned Fools In Utopia

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Nicolas Walter was drawn to Anarchism through the twin jolts of Suez and the Hungarian Revolution during his student years, followed by his participation in the resulting New Left and nuclear disarmament movement. Concurrently with his activism, he was acutely and lucidly analysing the history, practice and theory of these intertwined movements - and it is such writings, including the seminal 'Non-Violent Resistance and the Spies for Peace and After', that form the core of this collection. Scorning the pomp of academic prose, his writing is accessible and clear.

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"[Nicolas Walter was] one of the most interesting left intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain."
--Professor Richard Taylor, University of Cambridge

"David Goodway has done his usual excellent job of selecting an interesting and varied collection [and] contributed a most useful and informative introduction..."
--Richard Alexander, Freedom on The Anarchist Past

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Nicolas Walter was one of the best-known and mostly widely read anarchist writers of the last half century. He is the author of About Anarchism. David Goodway is a British social and cultural historian who has written principally on anarchism and libertarian socialism for 20 years. He is the editor of various collections and the author of For Workers' Powers.