Essay #6: Tom Goyens, 'Frederico Kniestedt and the Possibilities of Resistance'

In this essay, Tom Goyens takes a look at anarchist possibilities in the face of transnational militarism and fascism during the 1920s and 1930s through the largely forgotten figure of Frederico Kniestedt, a German-born anarchist and labour activist in Brazil who set out to fight the Kaiser and ended up fighting Hitlerism through peaceful direct action and the printed word. 

Tom Goyens is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA. His research focuses on immigrant anarchism in the United States. He is the author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 (2007) and editor of Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street (2017). He is currently writing a new biography of Johann Most. For more information see https://txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens 

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