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The third chapter questions how radical geographers have been preoccupied with Marxism for four decades, largely ignoring earlier anarchist traditions that thrived a century before radical geography was claimed as Marxist in the 1970s. It deals with anarchism’s relationship to other social ideologies, specifically Marxism, but also such movements as neoliberalism and feminism. Anarchism has always been willfully excluded from its places in the socialist movement, and this is to the benefit of the Marxian perspective, as it presents their ideology as the only serious anticapitalist option. Anarchism, at its core, is not synonymous with chaos and collapse, nor is it opposed to organization. At its truth, it is about actively reinventing the everyday though a desire to create new forms of non-hierarchical organizations.

This chapter defines five theories of Englishness, which suggest the range of cultural and political discourses that challenge English identity. It looks at the efforts at postdevolutionary English revivalism and the persistent influence of George Orwell's anti-theories of Englishness and the Marxist analysis of England's absent national centre. It studies the contrasting critique of England's elusive identity, the gender politics of Englishness and English patriarchy.

This chapter presents Aoki’s return to grassroots activism. The twentieth and thirtieth anniversaries of the Third World strike and the launching of BPP commemorations, the growing social movements of the 1990s, and his own retirement in the late 1990s, facilitated his return to grassroots activism. Aoki as a social worker, sociologist, and radical continued to see a need for the far-reaching transformation of social structures. After 9/11, he was energized by the possibilities presented to him to engage in activist work no longer “too reformist” for his political proclivities. Aoki continued his Marxist analysis of war and imperialism but his experiences in the intervening two and a half decades left him with a more flexible approach to social change.

This chapter offers a compact analysis of the greed or money inscriptions made by Dave the Potter. “Cash wanted” and “Give me silver or; either Gold” are inscriptions in which the speaker brazenly announces a desire for cash despite the fact that slaves were not permitted to participate in a cash economy at the time. The announcement of economic desire brings into relief Dave’s status as an “ambiguous economic subject” whose relationship to commodity capitalism is challenged through his inscriptions. According to Santamarina, these rebellious inscriptions sallow Dave to challenge Lewis Miles’ ownership of himself and his jars. Through her analysis of the inscription’s engagement with commodity fantasy and economic reality, Santamarina demonstrates how Dave uses the inscription to make visible the “multivalent value-status” of his pots “in a space of contradiction between precapitalist and capitalist economies.” This space is then read back into the inscriptions not simply for its thematics but as a structuring principle of Dave the Potter’s inscriptive and ceramic practice.