Sam
Dolgoff (1902-1994)
Sam Dolgoff played an important role in the anarchist movement since the early
1920s. He was a member of the Chicago Free Society Group in that decade,
and co-founded the New York Libertarian League in 1954. He also was
active in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He was also the
editor of the highly-acclaimed anthologies, Bakunin on Anarchy (1971;
revised 1980) and The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the
Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939 (1974), Dolgoff also wrote Ethics and
American Unionism (1958),
The Labor Party Illusion
(1961), The Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective (1974), A
Critique of Marxism (1983), and the autobiographical Fragments
(1986).
(From a blurb on the back of a pamphlet, The Relevence of Anarchism in Modern
Society)