Five years after his death in 1972, Paul Goodman was characterized by
anarchist historian George Woodcock as "the only truly seminal
libertarian thinker in our generation." In this new PM Press initiative,
Goodman's literary executor Taylor Stoehr has gathered together nine
core texts from his anarchist legacy to future generations.
Here will be found the "utopian essays and practical proposals" that
inspired the dissident youth of the Sixties, influencing movement theory
and practice so profoundly that they have become underlying assumptions
of today's radicalism. Goodman's analyses of citizenship and civil
disobedience, decentralism and the organized system, show him Drawing
the Line Once Again, mindful of the long anarchist tradition, and
especially of the Jeffersonian democracy that resonated strongly in his
own political thought. This is a deeply American book, a potent antidote
to US global imperialism and domestic anomie.