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Insurrectionary anarchism - Quiz
Contributed by: Coles
  • 1. What is insurrectionary anarchism?
A) A peaceful philosophical society that avoids all political action
B) A revolutionary theory and tendency emphasizing insurrection as a revolutionary practice
C) A branch of state-sponsored socialism focused on nationalizing industries
D) A political party that participates in parliamentary elections
  • 2. How do insurrectionary anarchists view formal organizations like labor unions and federations?
A) They believe every anarchist should lead them
B) They are critical of them because they are based on political programs and periodic congresses
C) They consider them the ultimate model for a future society
D) They fund and actively manage them
  • 3. What type of organization do insurrectionary anarchists advocate instead of formal structures?
A) Large bureaucratic trade unions
B) Global parliamentary federations
C) Informal and small affinity group-based organization
D) Hierarchical military-style command chains
  • 4. What core concepts do insurrectionary anarchists put value in?
A) Collective bargaining, arbitration, and legal strikes
B) Compromise, patience, and collaboration with state authorities
C) Attack, permanent class conflict, and a refusal to negotiate or compromise with class enemies
D) Diplomacy, electoral politics, and peaceful legislative reforms
  • 5. With which movement is insurrectionary anarchism historically closely associated?
A) The British Fabian society
B) The American Federalist movement
C) The Italian anarchist movement
D) The Russian Bolshevik party
  • 6. Which groups are mentioned as having conducted bombing campaigns linked to insurrectionary anarchism?
A) The Galleanisti and Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)
B) The Red Army Faction and Weather Underground
C) The Carbonari and the Young Italy movement
D) The Industrial Workers of the World and the Knights of Labor
  • 7. Who wrote the 1845 book The Ego and Its Own, which served as an early inspiration?
A) Errico Malatesta
B) Marcus Graham
C) Max Stirner
D) Luigi Galleani
  • 8. How did Max Stirner distinguish between 'revolution' and 'insurrection'?
A) Revolution focuses on technology, while insurrection focuses on labor unions
B) Revolution is carried out by individuals, while insurrection is organized by governments
C) Revolution is violent, while insurrection is entirely peaceful and legal
D) Revolution aims for a new arrangement of society by a state, while insurrection aims to reject such arrangements and achieve free self-organisation
  • 9. During the 1870s, what did Italian anarchists initially mean by 'propaganda of the deed'?
A) Raising funds to build charitable hospitals and schools
B) Writing detailed theoretical books about economics
C) Small direct actions that would inspire others to carry out acts of insurrection
D) Running for public office to change laws from within
  • 10. What did insurrectionists view every riot or rebellion as?
A) A purely cultural event without political meaning
B) A dangerous distraction from proper trade union work
C) An inevitable failure caused by poor police planning
D) A kind of 'revolutionary gymnastics' leading to a generalised social revolution
  • 11. Which French President was assassinated by Italian individualist anarchists during the 1890s?
A) Raymond Poincaré
B) Emile Loubet
C) Sadi Carnot
D) Armand Fallières
  • 12. Which Spanish Prime Minister was assassinated during the 1890s by Italian individualist anarchists?
A) Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
B) José Canalejas
C) Eduardo Dato
D) Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
  • 13. Which Austrian Empress was killed as part of the assassinations carried out by Italian individualist anarchists in the 1890s?
A) Maria Theresa
B) Archduchess Sophie
C) Empress Sisi of Hungary
D) Elisabeth Wittelsbach
  • 14. Which Italian King was assassinated during the 1890s wave of individualist anarchist attacks?
A) Victor Emmanuel III
B) Umberto Savoy
C) Victor Emmanuel II
D) Carlo Alberto
  • 15. How did the question of organisation divide the Italian anarchist movement?
A) Between those wanting a monarchy and those wanting a republic
B) Between rural farmers and urban factory owners
C) Between syndicalists advocating labour organisation and insurrectionists emphasizing violent and illegal direct action
D) Between religious radicals and secular humanists
  • 16. What specific criticism did insurrectionary anarchists direct at the movement's reformist and activist tendencies?
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
  • 17. Which pro-organisationalists considered the insurrectionists to really constitute a tendency of individualist anarchism?
A) Max Stirner and Sadi Carnot
B) Francesco Saverio Merlino and Errico Malatesta
C) Luigi Galleani and Marcus Graham
D) Sacco and Vanzetti
  • 18. Why did pro-organisationalists view insurrectionists as a form of individualist anarchism?
A) Because they rejected all forms of reading and writing
B) Due to their belief in individual sovereignty and natural law
C) Because they worked closely with individual factory owners
D) Because they wanted to establish private property rights
  • 19. Who promoted insurrectionary anarchism in the United States through the newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva?
A) Errico Malatesta
B) Marcus Graham
C) Francesco Saverio Merlino
D) Luigi Galleani
  • 20. Why did Luigi Galleani oppose anarchist participation in the labour movement?
A) He wanted workers to focus exclusively on agricultural production
B) He felt it displayed reformist tendencies and a receptiveness to corruption
C) He was paid by factory owners to break up strikes
D) He believed workers were already too wealthy to care about revolution
  • 21. With which union did Galleani enter into a fierce polemic during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike?
A) The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
B) The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
C) The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
D) The Knights of Labor
  • 22. How did outside observers generally view the different anarchist factions during the conflicts surrounding strikes?
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
  • 23. What triggered the Galleanists to initiate a violent campaign against the American government?
A) The closing of public libraries in New York
B) The passing of a new tax law on small businesses
C) Political repression following American entry into WWI and the killing of Italian anarchists by police
D) The election of a new conservative president
  • 24. What specific event preceded the Galleanists' reprisal attack that caused a wave of arrests?
A) Several Italian immigrants were denied entry at Ellis Island
B) An anarchist newspaper office was burned down by unknown vigilantes
C) A peaceful labor protest was broken up by National Guard troops
D) Some Italian anarchists were killed by police for tearing down an American flag
  • 25. What type of bombs did the Galleanists send to industrialists, politicians, and lawyers?
A) Dynamite packages left on doorsteps
B) Car bombs
C) Letter bombs
D) Timed explosive devices hidden in books
  • 26. What was the result of the Galleanists' letter-bomb campaign targeting industrialists, politicians, and lawyers?
A) They were intercepted before leaving the post office without incident
B) None hit their targets, injuring a housekeeper and accidentally killing an insurrectionist conspirator
C) They killed multiple high-ranking politicians and industrialists
D) They successfully destroyed several major government buildings
  • 27. What event did the Galleanist bombings serve as justification for?
A) The repression of the 1919 strike wave
B) The passage of the Prohibition amendment
C) The creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) The entry of the United States into World War II
  • 28. On what charges were the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti arrested?
A) Arson and tax evasion
B) Counterfeiting currency
C) Treason and espionage
D) Armed robbery
  • 29. How did the Galleanists respond to the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti?
A) By negotiating a pardon with the governor of Massachusetts
B) By launching a peaceful petition drive signed by millions
C) By raising money to hire the best corporate defense lawyers
D) By carrying out the Wall Street bombing, which killed 38 people
  • 30. What publication did the Galleanists begin in 1922 to encourage breaking Sacco and Vanzetti out of prison?
A) Man!
B) L'Emancipazione
C) Cronaca Sovversiva
D) L'Adunata dei refrattari
  • 31. What did L'Adunata dei refrattari encourage its readers to do regarding Sacco and Vanzetti?
A) Raise funds to pay off the judges overseeing the trial
B) Organize a nationwide general strike in the manufacturing sector
C) Write letters of appeal to international human rights courts
D) Break the pair out of prison and carry out retributive violence against responsible state officials
  • 32. How did political repression primarily affect the insurrectionary anarchist movement?
A) It drove the movement underground to operate on a conspiratorial basis
B) It led them to form a legal lobbying group in Washington
C) It caused them to abandon anarchist theory entirely and embrace capitalism
D) It forced them to merge with mainstream political parties
  • 33. Where did Marcus Graham move during the late 1920s to become involved with insurrectionary anarchists?
A) San Francisco
B) Chicago
C) Boston
D) New York City
  • 34. Around which newspaper did Marcus Graham become involved in San Francisco?
A) L'Adunata dei refrattari
B) Fifth Estate
C) Cronaca Sovversiva
D) L'Emancipazione
  • 35. Why did the newspaper L'Emancipazione shift to publications in the English language during the late 1920s?
A) Because the government banned the use of foreign languages
B) Because the Great Depression limited their capacity
C) Because Italian immigrants had all returned to Europe
D) Because Marcus Graham did not know how to read Italian
  • 36. In January 1933, what newspaper was established to revive the Galleanism of the previous decade?
A) L'Emancipazione
B) L'Adunata dei refrattari
C) Man!
D) Cronaca Sovversiva
  • 37. According to Marcus Graham and his collaborators in Man!, how was the social revolution to be built?
A) By building massive industrial trade unions that could seize factories
B) Through the creation of state-run cooperative enterprises
C) Through winning a majority in parliamentary elections
D) On individuals achieving enlightenment that would break them from law, custom, and sham creeds
  • 38. How did the newspaper Man! view syndicalism and the labour movement?
A) As an outdated concept that needed to be modernized with new technology
B) As the primary engine of human liberation and equality
C) As inherently authoritarian, frequently criticising union officials for corruption
D) As a useful partner for achieving state-sponsored welfare reform
  • 39. What early precursor to anarcho-primitivism was formulated by Marcus Graham in Man!?
A) An argument in favor of industrial automation and factory work
B) A demand for the return of feudal land ownership structures
C) A criticism of technology and a call for the destruction of civilisation
D) A proposal to replace currency with digital cryptocurrencies
  • 40. Which two periodicals acted as the main expressions of insurrectionary anarchism throughout the 1930s?
A) Man! and L'Adunata dei refrattari
B) Cronaca Sovversiva and L'Emancipazione
C) Fifth Estate and Cronaca Sovversiva
D) L'Emancipazione and Fifth Estate
  • 41. What happened to the newspaper Man! in 1939?
A) It was bought out by a wealthy industrialist and turned into a commercial magazine
B) It merged with a major labor union publication to increase its readership
C) It ceased publication following Marcus Graham's arrest due to increasing police repression
D) It voluntarily shut down after achieving all of its revolutionary goals
  • 42. By the 1940s, what was the status of the insurrectionary anarchist movement?
A) It had transformed into a peaceful educational foundation
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 grown into the dominant political force in North America
  • 43. Which publication finally succeeded L'Adunata dei refrattari in the early 1970s?
A) Man!
B) L'Emancipazione
C) Fifth Estate
D) Cronaca Sovversiva
  • 44. What type of publication was Fifth Estate, which succeeded L'Adunata dei refrattari?
A) A religious missionary bulletin
B) An anti-authoritarian publication
C) A mainstream capitalist daily newspaper
D) A government-backed agricultural journal
  • 45. What did insurrectionary anarchists refuse to do with 'class enemies'?
A) Negotiate or compromise
B) Share meals or living spaces
C) Read their books or newspapers
D) Engage in polite conversation
  • 46. What form of action did insurrectionary anarchists emphasize in contrast to reformism?
A) Violent and illegal forms of self-organised direct action
B) Founding cooperative grocery stores and credit unions
C) Peaceful lobbying and voting in general elections
D) Writing petitions to the monarch or president
  • 47. Who was Francesco Saverio Merlino in relation to the insurrectionary movement?
A) The founder of the newspaper Man! in San Francisco
B) A famous Italian king assassinated by insurrectionists in the 1890s
C) An industrialist who received letter bombs from the Galleanists
D) A pro-organisationalist who considered insurrectionists to be a tendency of individualist anarchism
  • 48. What year was Max Stirner's book The Ego and Its Own published?
A) 1870
B) 1912
C) 1890
D) 1845
  • 49. What specific activity did Luigi Galleani's newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva promote?
A) Marxist-Leninist state socialism
B) American constitutional federalism
C) Insurrectionary anarchism
D) Social democratic welfare policies
  • 50. What network carried out propaganda of the deed throughout North America following Galleani's teachings?
A) A network of Galleanist cells usually consisting of close-knit individuals
B) A charitable organization funded by wealthy philanthropists
C) An open political party running candidates for local government
D) A massive bureaucratic trade union with thousands of dues-paying members
  • 51. Who published the book Armed Joy in 1977?
A) Alfredo Bonanno
B) Costantino Cavalleri
C) Wolfi Landstreicher
D) Romano Prodi
  • 52. What did the book Armed Joy espouse a critique of?
A) Capitalism
B) Globalisation
C) Work
D) Technology
  • 53. What was the status of Bonanno's proposed Anti-Authoritarian Insurrectionist International?
A) Temporarily active
B) Highly successful
C) Stillborn
D) Globally recognized
  • 54. When did the attacks by insurrectionary anarchists escalate into bombings and assaults?
A) Late 2000s
B) Early 1970s
C) Early 1980s
D) Late 1990s
  • 55. When did four insurrectionist groups merge into the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)?
A) December 1990
B) December 2012
C) December 1977
D) December 2003
  • 56. Who was the European President targeted by FAI letter bombs upon their formation?
A) Alfredo Cospito
B) Wolfi Landstreicher
C) Alfredo Bonanno
D) Romano Prodi
  • 57. What company's executive was kneecapped by a cell of the FAI in 2012?
A) Telecom Italia
B) Ansaldo Nucleare
C) Fiat
D) Enel
  • 58. Which arrested attacker was among those caught in the wave of arrests following the 2012 kneecapping?
A) Wolfi Landstreicher
B) Romano Prodi
C) Costantino Cavalleri
D) Alfredo Cospito
  • 59. What state did the FAI briefly enter following the wave of arrests in 2012?
A) Operational stasis
B) Total dissolution
C) Absolute surrender
D) International merger
  • 60. How many violent attacks did the FAI claim over a decade of active operations?
A) 20
B) 10
C) 100
D) 50
  • 61. How many deaths were caused by the FAI over their decade of active operations?
A) Fifty
B) Two
C) Ten
D) Zero
  • 62. According to the Italian government, who are insurrectionary anarchists considered second only to in dangerousness?
A) Islamic terrorists
B) Red Brigades
C) Drug cartels
D) Right-wing extremists
  • 63. What did the FAI and the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire launch together?
A) Global Anarchist Front
B) Red International
C) Anti-Authoritarian Insurrectionist International
D) Black International
  • 64. Which nationalist took up parts of Bonanno's insurrectionary programme?
A) Romano Prodi
B) Alfredo Cospito
C) Costantino Cavalleri
D) Wolfi Landstreicher
  • 65. What is Costantino Cavalleri's nationality or regional affiliation?
A) American
B) Sardinian
C) Italian
D) Greek
  • 66. Which American individualist took up parts of Bonanno's insurrectionary programme?
A) Alfredo Bonanno
B) Costantino Cavalleri
C) Romano Prodi
D) Wolfi Landstreicher
  • 67. What did insurrectionary anarchists ultimately fail to develop for the Occupy movement?
A) A long-term strategy
B) A legal defense fund
C) A financial backing system
D) A media relations team
  • 68. Which principle is generally upheld by insurrectionary anarchism?
A) Anti-authoritarianism
B) Pro-nationalism
C) State centralism
D) Representative democracy
  • 69. Which economic system does insurrectionary anarchism oppose?
A) Worker cooperatives
B) Gift economies
C) Mutual aid
D) Capitalism
  • 70. What religious or clerical stance does insurrectionary anarchism hold?
A) Pro-clericalism
B) Theocratic alignment
C) State religion support
D) Anti-clericalism
  • 71. Which form of imperialism is rejected by insurrectionary anarchism?
A) Only economic imperialism
B) All imperialism
C) Foreign military alliances
D) Only cultural imperialism
  • 72. What is the stance of insurrectionary anarchism regarding militarism?
A) Anti-militarism
B) Support for conscription
C) Advocacy for standing armies
D) National defense funding
  • 73. With which environmental movement has insurrectionary anarchism historically combined?
A) Conservation reform
B) Eco-taxation
C) Radical environmentalism
D) Green capitalism
  • 74. Which struggle has been historically combined with insurrectionary anarchism?
A) Imperial conquest
B) National liberation struggles
C) Colonial expansion
D) State consolidation
  • 75. How many basic types of direct action do insurrectionary anarchists generally undertake?
A) Four
B) Two
C) Five
D) Three
  • 76. What do insurrectionary anarchists consider participating in action to be a source of?
A) Joy
B) Boredom
C) Sorrow
D) Regret
  • 77. What decision-making process do insurrectionist groups utilise?
A) Consensus decision-making
B) Majority voting
C) Executive decree
D) Parliamentary procedure
  • 78. To what model has the insurrectionist organisational model been compared?
A) Vanguard partyism
B) Democratic centralism
C) Leaderless resistance
D) Representative syndicalism
  • 79. What degree of pluralism does the leaderless resistance model foster?
A) Religious fundamentalism
B) Ideological pluralism
C) Political conformity
D) Economic nationalism
  • 80. What is hampered by the compartmentalised structure of informal organisations?
A) Information sharing
B) Emotional release
C) Personal joy
D) Property destruction
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