great anarchist characters of our age

[Bernie Gunther]

The Bonnot Gang?

Netchaev? He might have died before 20th C though, don't know.

Kropotkin is my pick though, he made it through to the 20th C. and lasted long enough to annoy Lenin. (and definitely had the best beard)

 

[Random]

nechaev wasn't really an anarchist, he just wanked off bakunin a few times

 

[Bakunin]

nechaev wasn't really an anarchist, he just wanked off bakunin a few times

He most certainly did not, thank you.

I'm strictly a butter-side-up man, I'll have you know.

 

[Random]

He most certainly did not, thank you.

I'm strictly a butter-side-up man, I'll have you know.

that wasn't butter!

 

[Bakunin]

that wasn't butter!

Well, it was creamy, and it tasted salty anyway.

 

[JimW]

Antonio Garcia Baron

 

[dennisr]

Antonio Garcia Baron

Now that was some story - humbling - what a fine fella - if i had a hat i would take it off to him

thanks for the link

 

[dennisr]

he wins by a mile

 

[TopCat]

Indeed.

 

[DotCommunist]

thread won by a country mile.

 

[butchersapron]

Wouldn't be so sure - how about Lucio Urtubia

Lucio’s life is the stuff of legend. As an activist in 1950s Paris he counted André Breton and Albert Camus amongst his friends, worked with anarchist guerrilla Francisco Sabate in attempting to bring down Franco’s fascist regime and carried out numerous bank robberies to fund the struggle to free Spain. In 1977, after having his earlier scheme to destabilise the US economy by forgery rejected by Che Guevara, he put his plan into action. Lucio successfully forged 20 million dollars of Citibank travellers cheques to fund guerrilla groups in Latin America, bringing the bank to its knees in the process. In between he helped organise the kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie from his hideout in Bolivia, aided the escape of Black Panthers from the US and not surprisingly was targeted by the CIA. Lucio has defended his life’s work saying… ‘we are bricklayers, painters, electricians - we do not need the state for anything’.

 

[dennisr]

Wouldn't be so sure - how about Lucio Urtubia

superb - and - as a skilled forger - my hat is doubly-tipped to him

 

[JimW]

Wouldn't be so sure - how about Lucio Urtubia

Good shout. Also still alive I think: Antonia Fontanillas and also http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=41783
Also like Costantini's illustrations: http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/zkh260

 

[barney_pig]

Ian Bone.

Martin from LARC/WAG.

The cute No Pretence in their sexy black hoodies.

Darren from Reading; mad as a box of hat repairmen, a nice bloke as well, and mostly right.

Iain MacKay. A right laugh, go drinking with him and you never know where you might end up. (Probably leaving the Calthorpe Arms in plenty of time to get the last bus home and have a cup of tea with your partner before bed at about 12.30).

 

[e19896]

e19896 joke

 

[JHE]

I don't think there can be a great anarchist without a great anarchist movement, so I don't suppose there are any great anarchists of our age. There are just strange men and their cider.

 

[JHE]

There is, however, a character that some think is anarchist (though it's definitely not anarchist in origin) and which has come into greatness in our time: the arroba, a little character that has had greatness thrust upon it in the age of email:

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[Pickman's model]

e19896 is a joke

*corrected*

 

[audiotech]

Lofty.

 

[imposs1904]

Half Wit from this year's Big Brother.

 

[DotCommunist]

Half Wit from Big Brother.

you'll have to narrow it down mate.

 

[albionism]

Donald Rooum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rooum

 

[Steve Booth]

Colin Ward?

Donald Rooum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rooum

If we're on the Freedom people, why not Colin Ward?

Anarchism suffers from a respectability deficit, a problem of achieving a threshold level of credibility in the eyes of non-anarchists. One anarchist thinker who has grappled persistently with this problem over 60 years of activism is the influential post-war British anarchist, Colin Ward. Responding directly to the respectability deficit, Ward helped to develop a 'pragmatist' anarchism characterized by direct engagement with urgent social problems. The paper explains the nature of this pragmatist anarchism, and places it in its historical intellectual context. It discusses how far Ward has indeed succeeded in producing a social philosophy that is at once genuinely anarchist and 'intellectually respectable'.

Stuart White, Journal of Political Ideologies, 1st February 2007

 

[chico enrico]

Boner and Wrighty.

tho Aussie Darren probably deserves an honourable mention after the caper he got up to a few years back

 

[scumbalina]

Half Wit from this year's Big Brother.

Surely there can only be one BB contestant that springs to mind...

 

[imposs1904]

Surely there can only be one BB contestant that springs to mind...

she was a trot. (AWL, I believe).

No, 'half wit' was/is a self-described Tory Anarchist on this year's BB. He had to change his name by deed poll to 'half wit' to stay on the show. His real name is 'posh tory wanker'.

 

[rich!]

making sure knots were tied properley.

I thought he was a tunneller not a climber?

 

[PeterTCA]

Jonathan Simcock. editor of Total Liberty. Not a tub-thumper but quitely working away plate spinning in the background. And Colin Ward, now firmly into old age.

 

[Random]

Jonathan Simcock. editor of Total Liberty. Not a tub-thumper but quitely working away plate spinning in the background.

Shame that he supports anarcho-capitalist 'libertarians'.

 

[butchersapron]

Quitely spinning plates in his own privately guarded asylum.