Anarchism and Other Essays vs Roads to Freedom: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Anarchism and anarchists, Anarchism, Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction
Anarchism and Other Essays
“The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.”
"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of…
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Roads to Freedom
THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose Republic''…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Anarchism and Other Essays has the widest readership — 7401 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Anarchism and Other Essays | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (7401) | 3.9 (1064) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (20) | 4.0 (2) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (27) | 4.0 (14) |
Reception
| Anarchism and Other Essays | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 7401 | 1064 |
| Editions | 91 | 59 |
| Citations | — | 33 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 19667 | 3470 |
| Reading it now | 1053 | 174 |
| Written reviews | 524 | 115 |
| Wikipedia attention | 653 | 1448 |
| Pages | 197 | 158 |