ABSTRACT
Anarchism, published in 1962, has enjoyed a modest continuing popularity, with editions appearing in Italy, Sweden, now Japan, which the chapter suspects has as much to do with the fortunes of the doctrine it discusses as with the book's own merits. In North America, in all the kaleidoscope of New Radical organizations, with names compounded of initials impossible to remember, there is no such obvious revival of anarchism as one finds in Britain and Holland. But only if one seeks explicit statements or anarchistic loyalties. Probably the best study of the movement from the inside is Jack Newfield's A Prophetic Minority, and Newfield has no hesitation in placing anarchism, with pacifism and socialism, as one of the three basic influences on the New Left. The new anarchists in Britain, and this applies as much to the Provos in Holland and the New Radicals in the United States, are a movement of dissident middle class youth.
