Editor’s introduction

Abstract

Welcome to the first issue of our 11th year of JSR. In this issue, we include a collection of articles focusing first on different aspects of anarchism and revolutionary violent movements. Anarchism and revolutionary violence, of course, sometimes overlap but are not contiguous. And we include a group of articles focusing on radicalism as it appears in literature, beginning with a theoretical approach, followed by analyses of how radicalism appears in some Greek and Indian literature, with a final article on the nonfiction author Christopher Lasch. Our first three articles in this issue include Alice Poma and Tommaso Gravante’s “Beyond the State and Capitalism: The Current Anarchist Movement in Italy” and Choonib Lee’s “Women’s Liberation and Sixties Armed Resistance,” which focuses on the Weatherman or Weather Underground revolutionary movement and its women members in particular, looking through a feminist lens at this dramatic period in American history. We also include Mark Grueter’s “Red Scare Scholarship, Class Conflict, and the Case of the Anarchist Union of Russian Workers, 1919” in this first section that considers together the themes of anarchism, revolutionary violence, and fear of violence. The second four articles can be grouped under the broad theme of radicalism in literature. The first of these is Dani Spinosa’s “Postanarchist Literary Theory and the Experiment: Some Preliminary Notes,” an article that considers the academic as radical, underscoring the extent to which