This collection presents not only Liberating Society from the State: What is Communist Anarchism?, Erich Mhsam's main political pamphlet and one of the key texts in the history of German anarchism, but also some of his best-known poems, unbending defenses of political prisoners, passionate calls for solidarity with the lumpenproletariat, recollections of the utopian community of Monte Verit..., debates on the rights of homosexuals and women, excerpts from his journals and essays contemplating German politics and anarchist theory.