It's been the strongest current of radical politics to emerge in North America since the early 1990s. Anarchist organizer and scholar Chris Dixon discusses anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and non-sectarian politics, exploring the sources of its strengths and the problems that beset it.  He also talks about how anti-authoritarian ideas and practices have shaped the Occupy movement.

Few attempts at radical social transformation are as inspiring as the Spanish Revolution, which was launched in response to a fascist coup in 1936. Yet it fell apart tragically. Anarchist writer Stuart Christie, who was imprisoned for attempting to assassinate the dictator Francisco Franco, discusses the social forces at play in the Spanish Revolution, its disintegration, and anarchist resistance to Franco in its aftermath.

He's one of the most influential intellectuals of our age -- cited in more academic works than almost any other living scholar -- and yet many progressives are not familiar with his libertarian socialist ideas. Noam Chomsky talks about anarchism, the state, conspiracy theories, science and the Enlightenment.

The First International was founded in 1864, but a decade later the anarchists, led by Mikhail Bakunin, and the socialists, led by Karl Marx, rancorously parted ways -- and anarchism and socialism have since been uneasy allies and often outright antagonists. Yet at a moment when capitalism is unraveling, as Andrej Grubacic argues, perhaps it's time to see what common ground can be found between the two most potent tendencies within the radical left.

Anarchists, with their goal of abolishing the state, and Marxists, who have often sought state power to achieve their ends, have been at odds for a long time. Veteran dissident Staughton Lynd and anarchist historian Andrej Grubacic have sought a synthesis of sorts between the two radical disciplines; their collaboration has resulted in the new book Wobblies and Zapatistas.

Leo Tolstoy was much more than a novelist. He also spoke out against state authority, war, laws, patriotism, and economic exploitation. Many of Tolstoy's anarcho-pacifist views were informed by his mid-life conversion to Christianity. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos discusses Tolstoy's Christian anarchism.