Why? Group

The Why? Group published several anarchist magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. Why? An Anarchist Bulletin and its successor, Resistance, ran between 1942 and 1952. Members of the group included Paul Goodman, Dwight Macdonald, Kenneth Rexroth, and Kenneth Patchen. Another magazine, Retort, ran between 1942 and 1947 and was related to the group.^[1]

References

1. Veysey, Laurence R. (1978). The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth Century America. University of Chicago Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-226-85458-8.

Further reading

• Avrich, Paul (1995). "Introduction to Part Six". Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 415–. ISBN 978-0-691-03412-6. OCLC 68772773.
• Cornell, Andrew (2011). "A New Anarchism Emerges, 1940-1954". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 5 (1): 105–131. doi:10.1353/jsr.2011.0002. ISSN 1930-1189. JSTOR 41889949. S2CID 144581597.
• Cornell, Andrew (2017). "New Wind: The Why?/Resistance Group and the Roots of Contemporary Anarchism, 1942–1954". In Goyens, Tom (ed.). Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 122–141. ISBN 978-0-252-08254-2.

External links

• Why? OCLC 3434284
• Resistance OCLC 478400463