This collection presents not only Liberating Society from the State: What is Communist Anarchism?, Erich M hsam'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.