Insurrectionary anarchism - Quiz
A) A revolutionary theory and tendency emphasizing insurrection as a revolutionary practice B) A political party that participates in parliamentary elections C) A branch of state-sponsored socialism focused on nationalizing industries D) A peaceful philosophical society that avoids all political action
A) They are critical of them because they are based on political programs and periodic congresses B) They consider them the ultimate model for a future society C) They believe every anarchist should lead them D) They fund and actively manage them
A) Informal and small affinity group-based organization B) Hierarchical military-style command chains C) Large bureaucratic trade unions D) Global parliamentary federations
A) Collective bargaining, arbitration, and legal strikes B) Diplomacy, electoral politics, and peaceful legislative reforms C) Compromise, patience, and collaboration with state authorities D) Attack, permanent class conflict, and a refusal to negotiate or compromise with class enemies
A) The Russian Bolshevik party B) The Italian anarchist movement C) The British Fabian society D) The American Federalist movement
A) The Carbonari and the Young Italy movement B) The Galleanisti and Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) C) The Industrial Workers of the World and the Knights of Labor D) The Red Army Faction and Weather Underground
A) Max Stirner B) Luigi Galleani C) Marcus Graham D) Errico Malatesta
A) Revolution is violent, while insurrection is entirely peaceful and legal B) Revolution aims for a new arrangement of society by a state, while insurrection aims to reject such arrangements and achieve free self-organisation C) Revolution is carried out by individuals, while insurrection is organized by governments D) Revolution focuses on technology, while insurrection focuses on labor unions
A) Small direct actions that would inspire others to carry out acts of insurrection B) Raising funds to build charitable hospitals and schools C) Writing detailed theoretical books about economics D) Running for public office to change laws from within
A) A dangerous distraction from proper trade union work B) A purely cultural event without political meaning C) An inevitable failure caused by poor police planning D) A kind of 'revolutionary gymnastics' leading to a generalised social revolution
A) Sadi Carnot B) Armand Fallières C) Raymond Poincaré D) Emile Loubet
A) Antonio Cánovas del Castillo B) Eduardo Dato C) Práxedes Mateo Sagasta D) José Canalejas
A) Elisabeth Wittelsbach B) Maria Theresa C) Archduchess Sophie D) Empress Sisi of Hungary
A) Umberto Savoy B) Victor Emmanuel II C) Victor Emmanuel III D) Carlo Alberto
A) Between those wanting a monarchy and those wanting a republic B) Between religious radicals and secular humanists C) Between rural farmers and urban factory owners D) Between syndicalists advocating labour organisation and insurrectionists emphasizing violent and illegal direct action
A) They were too violent and reckless B) They failed to take 'immediate action' C) They refused to cooperate with capitalist corporations D) They spent too much time reading Max Stirner
A) Francesco Saverio Merlino and Errico Malatesta B) Luigi Galleani and Marcus Graham C) Max Stirner and Sadi Carnot D) Sacco and Vanzetti
A) Because they rejected all forms of reading and writing B) Because they worked closely with individual factory owners C) Because they wanted to establish private property rights D) Due to their belief in individual sovereignty and natural law
A) Luigi Galleani B) Francesco Saverio Merlino C) Marcus Graham D) Errico Malatesta
A) He believed workers were already too wealthy to care about revolution B) He wanted workers to focus exclusively on agricultural production C) He was paid by factory owners to break up strikes D) He felt it displayed reformist tendencies and a receptiveness to corruption
A) The American Federation of Labor (AFL) B) The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) C) The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) D) The Knights of Labor
A) As loyal supporters of the American government B) As a legitimate branch of the local police force C) As part of the same 'amorphous inscrutable threat' D) As peaceful legal reformers seeking better wages
A) The closing of public libraries in New York B) Political repression following American entry into WWI and the killing of Italian anarchists by police C) The election of a new conservative president D) The passing of a new tax law on small businesses
A) Several Italian immigrants were denied entry at Ellis Island B) A peaceful labor protest was broken up by National Guard troops C) An anarchist newspaper office was burned down by unknown vigilantes D) Some Italian anarchists were killed by police for tearing down an American flag
A) Dynamite packages left on doorsteps B) Letter bombs C) Timed explosive devices hidden in books D) Car bombs
A) None hit their targets, injuring a housekeeper and accidentally killing an insurrectionist conspirator B) They killed multiple high-ranking politicians and industrialists C) They successfully destroyed several major government buildings D) They were intercepted before leaving the post office without incident
A) The creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation B) The entry of the United States into World War II C) The passage of the Prohibition amendment D) The repression of the 1919 strike wave
A) Counterfeiting currency B) Arson and tax evasion C) Armed robbery D) Treason and espionage
A) By carrying out the Wall Street bombing, which killed 38 people B) By raising money to hire the best corporate defense lawyers C) By launching a peaceful petition drive signed by millions D) By negotiating a pardon with the governor of Massachusetts
A) L'Adunata dei refrattari B) L'Emancipazione C) Cronaca Sovversiva D) Man!
A) Raise funds to pay off the judges overseeing the trial B) Break the pair out of prison and carry out retributive violence against responsible state officials C) Organize a nationwide general strike in the manufacturing sector D) Write letters of appeal to international human rights courts
A) It caused them to abandon anarchist theory entirely and embrace capitalism B) It forced them to merge with mainstream political parties C) It led them to form a legal lobbying group in Washington D) It drove the movement underground to operate on a conspiratorial basis
A) New York City B) Boston C) Chicago D) San Francisco
A) L'Adunata dei refrattari B) Cronaca Sovversiva C) Fifth Estate D) L'Emancipazione
A) Because Marcus Graham did not know how to read Italian B) Because the Great Depression limited their capacity C) Because Italian immigrants had all returned to Europe D) Because the government banned the use of foreign languages
A) L'Adunata dei refrattari B) L'Emancipazione C) Cronaca Sovversiva D) Man!
A) By building massive industrial trade unions that could seize factories B) On individuals achieving enlightenment that would break them from law, custom, and sham creeds C) Through the creation of state-run cooperative enterprises D) Through winning a majority in parliamentary elections
A) As an outdated concept that needed to be modernized with new technology B) As a useful partner for achieving state-sponsored welfare reform C) As inherently authoritarian, frequently criticising union officials for corruption D) As the primary engine of human liberation and equality
A) A demand for the return of feudal land ownership structures B) An argument in favor of industrial automation and factory work C) A proposal to replace currency with digital cryptocurrencies D) A criticism of technology and a call for the destruction of civilisation
A) L'Emancipazione and Fifth Estate B) Fifth Estate and Cronaca Sovversiva C) Cronaca Sovversiva and L'Emancipazione D) Man! and L'Adunata dei refrattari
A) It voluntarily shut down after achieving all of its revolutionary goals B) It ceased publication following Marcus Graham's arrest due to increasing police repression C) It was bought out by a wealthy industrialist and turned into a commercial magazine D) It merged with a major labor union publication to increase its readership
A) It had grown into the dominant political force in North America B) It had completely vanished with no surviving groups anywhere C) It was only a marginal force concentrated around L'Adunata dei refrattari in New York D) It had transformed into a peaceful educational foundation
A) Man! B) Cronaca Sovversiva C) Fifth Estate D) L'Emancipazione
A) An anti-authoritarian publication B) A government-backed agricultural journal C) A religious missionary bulletin D) A mainstream capitalist daily newspaper
A) Read their books or newspapers B) Share meals or living spaces C) Negotiate or compromise D) Engage in polite conversation
A) Writing petitions to the monarch or president B) Peaceful lobbying and voting in general elections C) Founding cooperative grocery stores and credit unions D) Violent and illegal forms of self-organised direct action
A) An industrialist who received letter bombs from the Galleanists B) The founder of the newspaper Man! in San Francisco C) A pro-organisationalist who considered insurrectionists to be a tendency of individualist anarchism D) A famous Italian king assassinated by insurrectionists in the 1890s
A) 1890 B) 1912 C) 1870 D) 1845
A) Marxist-Leninist state socialism B) Insurrectionary anarchism C) Social democratic welfare policies D) American constitutional federalism
A) An open political party running candidates for local government B) A network of Galleanist cells usually consisting of close-knit individuals C) A charitable organization funded by wealthy philanthropists D) A massive bureaucratic trade union with thousands of dues-paying members
A) Wolfi Landstreicher B) Romano Prodi C) Costantino Cavalleri D) Alfredo Bonanno
A) Technology B) Capitalism C) Work D) Globalisation
A) Highly successful B) Globally recognized C) Stillborn D) Temporarily active
A) Late 1990s B) Late 2000s C) Early 1970s D) Early 1980s
A) December 1977 B) December 2012 C) December 2003 D) December 1990
A) Romano Prodi B) Alfredo Bonanno C) Alfredo Cospito D) Wolfi Landstreicher
A) Telecom Italia B) Fiat C) Enel D) Ansaldo Nucleare
A) Costantino Cavalleri B) Alfredo Cospito C) Wolfi Landstreicher D) Romano Prodi
A) Operational stasis B) International merger C) Total dissolution D) Absolute surrender
A) 10 B) 100 C) 50 D) 20
A) Two B) Zero C) Fifty D) Ten
A) Right-wing extremists B) Drug cartels C) Islamic terrorists D) Red Brigades
A) Black International B) Red International C) Global Anarchist Front D) Anti-Authoritarian Insurrectionist International
A) Alfredo Cospito B) Costantino Cavalleri C) Romano Prodi D) Wolfi Landstreicher
A) Italian B) American C) Greek D) Sardinian
A) Alfredo Bonanno B) Costantino Cavalleri C) Romano Prodi D) Wolfi Landstreicher
A) A legal defense fund B) A long-term strategy C) A financial backing system D) A media relations team
A) Anti-authoritarianism B) State centralism C) Pro-nationalism D) Representative democracy
A) Capitalism B) Mutual aid C) Worker cooperatives D) Gift economies
A) Theocratic alignment B) State religion support C) Pro-clericalism D) Anti-clericalism
A) Only cultural imperialism B) All imperialism C) Foreign military alliances D) Only economic imperialism
A) Advocacy for standing armies B) Anti-militarism C) National defense funding D) Support for conscription
A) Eco-taxation B) Green capitalism C) Conservation reform D) Radical environmentalism
A) Colonial expansion B) National liberation struggles C) State consolidation D) Imperial conquest
A) Three B) Two C) Five D) Four
A) Boredom B) Regret C) Joy D) Sorrow
A) Majority voting B) Parliamentary procedure C) Executive decree D) Consensus decision-making
A) Democratic centralism B) Vanguard partyism C) Leaderless resistance D) Representative syndicalism
A) Economic nationalism B) Ideological pluralism C) Political conformity D) Religious fundamentalism
A) Information sharing B) Emotional release C) Personal joy D) Property destruction |
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