Why? Group Explained

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]

Further reading

• Book: Avrich . Paul . Paul Avrich . . Introduction to Part Six . https://books.google.com/books?id=8z8mdUYp-6gC&pg=PA417 . 415– . 1995 . English . 978-0-691-03412-6 . Princeton University Press . Princeton . 68772773 . mdy-all .
• Cornell . Andrew . A New Anarchism Emerges, 1940-1954 . Journal for the Study of Radicalism . 5 . 1 . 105–131 . 2011 . 10.1353/jsr.2011.0002 . 1930-1189 . 41889949 . 144581597 . mdy-all .
• Book: Goyens . Tom . Cornell . Andrew . New Wind: The Why?/Resistance Group and the Roots of Contemporary Anarchism, 1942–1954 . . 122–141 . 2017 . 978-0-252-08254-2 . University of Illinois Press . Urbana . mdy-all .

External links

• Why?
• Resistance

Notes and References

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