In this episode we discuss Sho Konishi’s brilliant Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 2013). This book has been on our radar for a long time, and it was a pleasure to spend some time discussing Konishi’s framing of anarchism as an alternative vision of modernity, as exemplified in the exchanges between radical thinkers and activists in Japan and Russia from 1880 to 1920.

The Anarchist Library:

Anarchist Modernity | Dr. Sho Konishi of Oxford on Japan, Russia and Anarchism | Dr. Sho Konishi interviewed by Matt Dagher-margosian