Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street

270 Pages·2017·1.523 MB·English

by  Tom Goyens

Radical Gotham

Radical Gotham
Anarchism in New York City
from Schwab’s Saloon
to Occupy Wall Street
EditEd bY tOm GOYENS
© 2017 by the Board of Trustees
of the University of Illinois
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Goyens, Tom, 1972– editor.
Title: Radical Gotham : anarchism in New York city
from Schwab’s saloon to occupy Wall Street / edited
by Tom Goyens.
Description: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: lccn 2017007713 (print) | lccn
2017020906 (ebook) | isbn 9780252099595 () |
isbn 9780252041051 (hardback : alk. paper) | isbn
9780252082542 (paperback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Anarchism—New York (State)—New
York. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political
Ideologies / Anarchism. | HISTORY / United States /
State & Local / General. | HISTORY / United States
/ 20th Century.
Classification: lcc hx846.n7 (ebook) | lcc hx846.n7
r33 2017 (print) | ddc 335/.83097471—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007713
Cover photograph by Tony Fischer
In Memory of Nunzio Pernicone (1940–2013)
and Judith Malina (1926–2015)

Contents
Introduction 1
Tom Goyens
Johann Most and the German Anarchists 12
Tom Goyens
Saul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism on the Lower East Side 33
Kenyon Zimmer
Fired by the Ideal: Italian Anarchists in New York City, 1880s–1920s 54
Marcella Bencivenni
Times of Propaganda and Struggle: El Despertar
and Brooklyn’s Spanish Anarchists, 1890–1905 77
Christopher J. Castañeda
From Union Square to Heaven: Dorothy Day
and the Origin of Catholic Worker Anarchism 100
Anne Klejment
New Wind: The Why?/Resistance Group and the Roots
of Contemporary Anarchism, 1942–1954 122
Andrew Cornell
Poetic Tension: The Aesthetic Politics of the Living Theatre 142
Allan Antliff
Up against the Wall Motherfucker: Ideology and Action
in a “Street Gang with an Analysis” 161
Caitlin Casey
Gordon Matta- Clark’s Anarchitecture 180
Erin Wallace
ABC No Rio as an Anarchist Space 201
Alan W. Moore
The Influence of Anarchism in Occupy Wall Street 221
Heather Gautney
Contributors 241
Index 245
Radical Gotham