Anarchism

Anarchism is the name for both a political philosophy and political movement, derived from the Greek αναρχία ("without archons" or "without rulers"). Thus "anarchism," in its most general meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished. While all anarchists consider the state to be authoritarian, some would expand this to include capitalism and various other forms of hierarchical "power." The word "anarchy", as most anarchists use it, does not imply chaos, nihilism, or anomie, but rather a harmonious anti-authoritarian society that is based on voluntary association of free individuals in autonomous communities, mutual aid, and self-governance.

Origins

Main article: Origins of anarchism

The word "anarchist" was originally used as a term of abuse. It was adopted as a positive label by self-defined anarchists in the 19th century. The earliest known essay to condemn "artificial society" was Edmund Burke's Vindication of Natural Society, which Godwin praised as "a treatise, in which the evils of the existing political institutions are displayed with incomparable force of reasoning and lustre of eloquence." William Godwin, in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), was "the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his remarkable work." But at this point no anarchist movement yet existed, and the term "anarchiste" was known mainly as an insult hurled by the bourgeois Girondins at more radical elements in the French Revolution.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Main article: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is regarded as the first self-proclaimed anarchist, a label which he adopted in his 1840 work What is Property?. It is for this reason that some claim Proudhon as the founder of modern anarchist theory. He developed the theory of spontaneous order in society, where organization emerges without any central authority, a "positive anarchy" in which order arises from every individual "doing what he wishes and only what he wishes."

His opposition to capitalism, the state, and organised religion inspired subsequent anarchists, and made him one of the leading socialist thinkers of his time. For Proudhon:

The economic idea of capitalism, the politics of government or of authority, and the theological idea of the Church are three identical ideas, linked in various ways. To attack one of them is equivalent to attacking all of them . . . What capital does to labour, and the State to liberty, the Church does to the spirit. This trinity of absolutism is as baneful in practice as it is in philosophy. The most effective means for oppressing the people would be simultaneously to enslave its body, its will and its reason.

Anarchism and workers' revolution

Mikhail Bakunin 1814-1876

Main article: [[:International Workingmen's Association, Anarchism and Marxism]]

In Europe, harsh reaction followed the revolutions of 1848. Twenty years later in 1864 the International Workingmen's Association, sometimes called the 'First International', united some diverse European revolutionary currents, including French followers of Proudhon, Blanquists, English trade unionists, socialists and social democrats. Due to its genuine links to active workers movements the International became a significant organization.

Karl Marx was a leading figure in the International and a member of its General Council. Proudhon's followers, the Mutualists, opposed Marx's state socialism, advocating political abstentionism and small property holdings. Mikhail Bakunin joined in 1868, allying with the anti-authoritarian socialist sections of the International, who advocated the revolutionary overthrow of the state and the collectivization of property. At first, the collectivists worked with the Marxists to push the First International into a more revolutionary socialist direction. Subsequently, the International became polarised into two camps, with Marx and Bakunin as their respective figureheads.

Bakunin characterised Marx's ideas as authoritarian, and predicted that if a Marxist party came to power its leaders would simply take the place of the ruling class they had fought against. In 1872 the conflict climaxed with a final split between the two groups, when at the Hague Congress Marx engineered the expulsion of Bakunin and James Guillaume from the International and had its headquarters transferred to New York. In response, the anti-authoritarian sections formed their own International at the St. Imier Congress, adopting a revolutionary anarchist program.[4]

Anarchist communism

Main article: Anarchist communism

Although the collectivist anarchists advocated remuneration for labor, they held out the possibility of a post-revolutionary transition to a communist system of distribution according to need. Bakunin's associate, James Guillaume, put it this way in his essay, Ideas on Social Organization(1876):

When… production comes to outstrip consumption… [e]veryone will draw what he needs from the abundant social reserve of commodities, without fear of depletion; and the moral sentiment which will be more highly developed among free and equal workers will prevent, or greatly reduce, abuse and waste.

An early anarchist communist was Joseph Déjacque, the first person to describe himself as "libertarian". Unlike Proudhon, he argued that "it is not the product of his or her labor that the worker has a right to, but to the satisfaction of his or her needs, whatever may be their nature."[5]

Other important anarchist communists include Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and Errico Malatesta. Many in the anarcho-syndicalist movements (see below) saw anarchist communism as their objective. Isaac Puente's 1932 El comunismo libertario [6] was adopted by the Spanish CNT as its manifesto for a post-revolutionary society.

Kropotkin

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Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin, often seen as the most important theorist of anarchist communism, outlined his economic ideas in The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops. Kropotkin felt co-operation to be more beneficial than competition, arguing in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution that this was illustrated in nature. He advocated the abolition of private property through the "expropriation of the whole of social wealth" by the people themselves, and for the economy to be co-ordinated through a horizontal network of voluntary associations. He maintained that in anarcho-communism:

...houses, fields, and factories will no longer be private property, and that they will belong to the commune or the nation and money, wages, and trade would be abolished.

Individuals and groups would use and control whatever resources they needed as the aim of anarchist-communism was to place "the product reaped or manufactured at the disposal of all, leaving to each the liberty to consume them as he pleases in his own home." Moreover, he repeatedly stressed (like other communist-anarchists) that individuals would not be forced into communism, arguing that the peasant "who is in possession of just the amount of land he can cultivate," the family "inhabiting a house which affords them just enough space… considered necessary for that number of people" and the artisan "working with their own tools or handloom" would be free to live as they saw fit.

Anarchism and organized labor

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CNT poster from April 2004. Reads: Don't let the politicians rule our lives/ You vote and they decide/ Don't allow it/ Unity, Action, Self-management.

Main articles: Anarcho-syndicalism and Anarchism in Spain

Anarcho-syndicalism is a form of anarchism which looks to the labor movement as the catalyst for revolutionary change ("syndicalism" being derived from the French syndicalisme, meaning "trade unionism"). Anarcho-syndicalists advocate the creation of revolutionary trade unions to fight for better working conditions, to seize control of the means of production, and to overthrow the State by means of direct action and the general strike. Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system and private ownership of the means of production, which they believe result in class division, exploitation and domination.

The anti-authoritarian sections of the First International were the precursors of the anarcho-syndicalists, seeking to "replace the privilege and authority of the State" with the "free and spontaneous organization of labor."

The Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour, CGT), formed in France in 1895, was the first major anarcho-syndicalist movement, but it had been preceded by the Spanish Workers Federation in 1881. Anarchist trade union federations were of special importance in Spain. The most successful was the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour: CNT), founded in 1910. Before the 1940s the CNT was the major force in Spanish working class politics, and played a major role in the Spanish Civil War. The CNT was affiliated with the International Workers Association, a federation of anarcho-syndicalist trade unions founded in 1922, with delegates representing two million workers from 15 countries in Europe and Latin America. There were mass based anarcho-syndicalist movements in Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Cuba and Japan.

The largest organised anarchist movement today is in Spain, in the form of the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) and the CNT. The CGT claims a paid-up membership of 60,000, and received over a million votes in Spanish syndical elections. Other active syndicalist movements include the US Workers Solidarity Alliance, and the UK Solidarity Federation. The revolutionary industrial unionist Industrial Workers of the World, claiming 2,000 paid members, and the International Workers Association, an anarcho-syndicalist successor to the First International, also remain active.

The Russian Revolution

Main article: Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a seismic event in the development of anarchism as a movement and as a philosophy.

Anarchists participated alongside the Bolsheviks in both February and October revolutions, many anarchists initially supporting the Bolshevik coup. However the Bolsheviks soon turned against the anarchists and other left-wing opposition, a conflict which culminated in the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion. Anarchists in central Russia were imprisoned or driven underground, or joined the victorious Bolsheviks. In Ukraine anarchists fought in the civil war against both Whites and Bolsheviks within the Makhnovshchina peasant army led by Nestor Makhno.

Expelled American anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman before leaving Russia were amongst those agitating in response to Bolshevik policy and the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising. Both wrote classic accounts of their experiences in Russia, aiming to expose the reality of Bolshevik control. For them, Bakunin's predictions about the consequences of Marxist rule had proved all too true.

The victory of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution and the resulting Russian Civil War did serious damage to anarchist movements internationally. Many workers and activists saw Bolshevik success as setting an example; Communist parties grew at the expense of anarchism and other socialist movements. In France and the US for example, the major syndicalist movements of the CGT and IWW began to realign themselves away from anarchism and towards the Communist International.

In Paris, the Dielo Truda group of Russian anarchist exiles which included Nestor Makhno concluded that anarchists needed to develop new forms of organisation in response to the structures of Bolshevism. Their 1926 manifesto, known as the Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists , was supported by some communist anarchists, though opposed by many others. Platformist groups today include the Workers Solidarity Movement in Ireland and the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists of North America

The fight against fascism

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Spain, 1936. Members of the CNT construct armoured cars to fight against the fascists in one of the collectivised factories.

Main article: [[:Anti-fascism and Anarchism in Spain]]

In the 1920s and 1930s the familiar dynamics of anarchism's conflict with the state were transformed by the rise of fascism in Europe. In many cases, European anarchists faced difficult choices - should they join in popular fronts with reformist democrats and Soviet-led Communists against a common fascist enemy.

Italy saw the first struggles between anarchists and fascists. Anarchists played a key role in the anti-fascist organisation Arditi del Popolo. This group was strongest in areas with anarchist traditions and marked up numerous successful victories, including the total humiliation of thousands of Blackshirts in the anarchist stronghold of Parma in August 1922. Unfortunately, anarchist calls for a united front against fascism were ignored by the socialists and communists until it was too late. In France, where the fascists came close to insurrection in the February 1934 riots, anarchists divided over a 'united front' policy.[7] In Spain, the CNT initially refused to join a popular front electoral alliance, and abstention by CNT supporters led to a right wing election victory. But in 1936, the CNT changed its policy and anarchist votes helped bring the popular front back to power. Months later, the ruling class responded with an attempted coup, and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) was underway.

In response to the army rebellion, an anarchist-inspired movement of peasants and workers, supported by armed militias, took control of Barcelona and of large areas of rural Spain where they collectivized the land. But even before the eventual fascist victory in 1939, the anarchists were losing ground in a bitter struggle with the Stalinists. The CNT leadership often appeared confused and divided, with some members controversially entering the government. Stalinist-led troops suppressed the collectives, and persecuted both dissident Marxists and anarchists.

Anarchism and the individual

Max Stirner's egoism

Main article: [[:Max Stirner and Psychological egoism]]

Around the same time as Proudhon's most famous work was published, Max Stirner argued in The Ego and Its Own, that most commonly accepted social institutions - including the notion of State, property as a right, natural rights in general, and the very notion of society - were mere illusions or ghosts in the mind, saying of society that "the individuals are its reality." He advocated egoism and a form of amoralism, in which individuals would unite in 'associations of egoists' only when it was in their self interest to do so. For him, property simply comes about through might: "Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property." And, "What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing."

Stirner never called himself an anarchist - he accepted only the label 'egoist'. Nevertheless, he is considered by most to be an anarchist because of his rejection of the state, law and government, and his ideas influenced many anarchists, although interpretations of his thought are diverse. Anarchists including Benjamin Tucker, Federica Montseny and the Bonnot Gang claimed him as an influence, and Emma Goldman gave lectures on his thought.

Individualist anarchism

Main articles: Individualist anarchism and American individualist anarchism

Benjamin Tucker

After an experiment with utopian socialism at New Harmony, Josiah Warren dedicated himself to promoting economic cooperation on the basis of individual liberty and self-ownership, or what he termed "sovereignty of the individual." Perhaps the most successful of his experiments in liberty were the Cincinatti Time Store and the Modern Times intentional community. Other nineteenth century individualists included Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, Stephen Pearl Andrews, and Victor Yarros.

These thinkers held that the state was the foremost source of inequality and oppression. They argued that a network of market exchange between voluntary cooperatives could supplant all functions of the state, including police services and military defense.. At the heart of individualist anarchism was not only opposition to the state, but also adherence to the labor theory of value. Since they believed that the working man ought to enjoy the full fruit of his labor, many individualists, such as Tucker and Warren, described their position as "socialism." However, by the modern meaning of the term, they were not socialist.

Tucker blamed the poor condition of American workers on four state-maintained monopolies: the money monopoly of control over currency and credit by state-sanctioned banks; the land monopoly of state-protected land-titles for absentee owners; patents, prohibiting competition by state-granted privilege; tariffs, restricting competition in favor of established firms. Without these interlocking "invasions", Tucker maintained, individuals would be free to determine their own economic lives through mutual banking, labor notes, cooperative manufacture, and other voluntary pursuits. His commitment to individual sovereignty led him to oppose both state socialism and the communist principle from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Anarcho-capitalism, inspired by the self-ownership principle of individualist anarchism, diverges by rejecting labor theory of value and the label of socialism in favor of the subjective theory of value and a broader notion of private property.

Issues in anarchism

Ends and means

Main article: [[:Propaganda of the deed and direct action]]

In general, anarchists advocate direct action and oppose voting in elections. They argue that taking part in elections has always resulted in radicals becoming part of the system they oppose, rather than ending it. Most anarchists feel that real change is not possible through voting. Further, voting amounts to condoning the state.

Direct action may be violent or non-violent. While some anarchists believe violence is justified in overthrowing existing authority, most anarchists reject terrorism as authoritarian. Mikhail Bakunin and Errico Malatesta, for example, wrote of violence as necessary in revolutionary settings but denounced terrorism as counter-revolutionary.

Anarchists have often been portrayed as dangerous and violent, due mainly to a number of high-profile violent acts, including riots, assassinations, insurrections, and terrorism by some anarchists. Many anarchists do not see the destruction of property to be violent. Anarchists see war, however, as an activity in which the state seeks to gain and consolidate power, both domestically and in foreign lands, and subscribe to Randolph Bourne's view that "war is the health of the state".

Capitalism

Main article: Anarchism and capitalism

Throughout most of its history, anarchism has been defined by its proponents in as a Left movement opposed to capitalism, which they believe can be maintained only by state violence. Today, capitalism has continued to be a central issue in anarchist debate. The newest element in this discourse has been a school of thought called anarcho-capitalism, which argues for a stateless, laissez-faire capitalist society. Its reception among scholars and advocates of traditional anarchism has been mixed. Anarcho-capitalism is typically denounced by those anarchists who believe that capitalism is inherently oppressive and hierarchical.

Anarcho-capitalism

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Murray Rothbard (1926-1995)

Main article: [[:Anarcho-capitalism and Anarchism and anarcho-capitalism]]

Anarcho-capitalism is a predominantly United States-based theoretical tradition that promotes an economic system of stateless free market capitalism. In such a society those services traditionally provided by state monopoly - such law enforcement, arbitration and military defense - would be provided through private markets. Anarcho-capitalism has been influenced by non-anarchist libertarians such as Frederic Bastiat, Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick; unlike other forms of anarchism, it does not oppose profit, rent, interest, or wage-labor.

Murray Rothbard's synthesis of classical liberalism and Austrian economics, along with the anarchist critiques of the state, was germinal for the development of contemporary anarcho-capitalist theory. Rothbard believes that property can only legitimately originate by the application of labor to unowned resources rather than by mere claim or seizure, and that it may then only be transferred by voluntary trade or gift. While Rothbard bases anarcho-capitalism on natural rights, others such as David D. Friedman, author of The Machinery of Freedom, prefer to justify it on a utilitarian basis. Some minarchists, such as Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick, have also influenced anarcho-capitalism. Anarcho-capitalism is typically founded on the Non-aggression principle (or NAP), which states that the initiation of violence is not permissible.

Most anarcho-capitalists believe that in the absence of state coercion, free capitalism would naturally and inevitably develop. Hence, Rothbard's statement that "capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism."

Some anarcho-capitalists, calling themselves agorists, have adopted "leftist" critiques of presently-existing corporate capitalism, and favor strategies of resistance such as counter-economics.

Neocolonialism and Globalization

Virtually all anarchists oppose neocolonialism as an attempt to use coercion on a global scale, carried out through state institutions such as the World Bank, World Trade Organization, Group of Eight, and the World Economic Forum. Many participate actively in the anti-globalization movement, equating globalization with neocolonialism. Here, as elsewhere, anarchists have differences of opinion over tactics; thus the black blocs are prepared to engage in property destruction, while the others advocate more peaceful means. Others see globalization not as coercion, but simply the division of labor expanded to a global level. Several prominent anarcho-capitalists, such as Wendy McElroy and Lew Rockwell, are outspoken against the WTO and World Bank; they tend to be suspicious, however, of the anti-capitalist motivations of the anti-globalization movement, and often prefer to characterize their position as opposition to protectionism or "world government" rather than "globalization".

Post-left and poststructuralism

Main article: Post-left anarchy

A movement called post-left anarchy seeks to distance itself from the traditional "left" - communists, socialists, social democrats, etc. - and to escape the confines of ideology in general. While post-leftists are strongly opposed to capitalism, they argue that anarchism has been weakened by its long attachment to contrary "leftist" movements and single issue causes (anti-war, anti-nuclear, etc.). It calls for a synthesis of anarchist thought and a specifically anti-authoritarian revolutionary movement outside of the leftist milieu. Important groups and individuals associated with Post-left anarchy include: CrimethInc, the magazine Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed and its editor Jason McQuinn, Bob Black, Hakim Bey and others.

The term postanarchism was originated by Saul Newman, first receiving popular attention in his book From Bakunin to Lacan, a synthesis of classical anarchist theory and poststructuralist thought. Post-anarchists critique what they see are contradictions in anarchism, particularly those ideas they consider to be essentialist.

Feminism and Anti-racism

Main articles: Anarcha-feminism and Antifa

Anarcha-feminism is a kind of radical feminism that espouses the belief that patriarchy is a fundamental problem in society. However, it was not explicitly formulated as anarcha-feminism until early 1970s, during the second-wave feminist movement. Anarcha-feminism, views patriarchy as the first manifestation of hierarchy in human history; thus, the first form of oppression occurred in the dominance of male over female.

Black anarchism opposes the existence of a state, capitalism, and subjugation and domination of people of color, and favors a non-hierarchical organization of society. Theorists include Ashanti Alston, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, and Sam Mbah.

Since the late 1970s anarchists have been involved in fighting the rise of neo-fascist groups. In Germany and the United Kingdom some anarchists worked within militant anti-fascist groups alongside members of the Marxist left. They advocated directly combating fascists with physical force rather than relying on the state. Since the late 1990s, a similar tendency has developed within US anarchism.

The environment

See also: Green anarchism, Eco-anarchism, Social ecology, Anarcho-primitivism, Ecofeminism, and Green syndicalism

Since the late 1970s anarchists in Anglosphere and European countries have been agitating for the natural environment. Eco-anarchists or green anarchists believe in deep ecology. This is a worldview that embraces biodiversity and sustainability. Eco-anarchists often use direct action against what they see as earth-destroying institutions. Of particular importance is the Earth First! movement, that takes action such as tree sitting. Another important component is ecofeminism, which sees the domination of nature as a metaphor for the domination of women.

Primitivism is a predominantly Western philosophy that advocates a return to a pre-industrial and usually pre-agricultural society. It develops a critique of industrial civilization. In this critique technology and development have alienated people from the natural world. This philosophy develops themes present in the political action of the Luddites and the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Religion

Main article: [[:Anarchism and religion, Buddhist anarchism, Christian anarchism, and Islam and anarchism]]

From Proudhon and Bakunin to the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists, Anarchists have traditionally been skeptical about and opposed to organized religion, believing that most organized religions are hierarchical in nature and, more often than not, aligned with contemporary power structures like state and capital.

On the other hand, Christian anarchists believe that there is no higher authority than God, and oppose earthly authority such as government and established churches. They believe that Jesus' teachings and the practice of the early church were clearly anarchistic, but were corrupted when "Christianity" was declared the official religion of Rome. Chinese anarchism was most influential in the 1920s. Strands of Chinese anarchism included Taixu's Buddhist anarchism which was influenced by Tolstoy and the well-field system.

Criticisms of anarchism

Main article: Criticisms of anarchism

The theory and practice of anarchism has been controversial since it came to prominence in the 19th century. Some of the criticisms made of anarchism come from the interests it opposes, such as governments. Other criticisms have been made internally of other anarchists or by political movements that appear to share similar goals, such as Marxism.

Cultural phenomena

Noam Chomsky (1928–)

The kind of anarchism that is most easily encountered in popular culture is represented by celebrities who publicly identify themselves as anarchists. Although some anarchists reject any focus on such famous living individuals as inherently élitist, the following figures are examples of prominent publicly self-avowed anarchists:

• the MIT professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky
• the social historian Howard Zinn [8]
• author Edward Abbey
• author Robert Anton Wilson
• graphic novelist Alan Moore
• UFC fighter and champion Jeff Monson
• feminist, author and critic Germaine Greer
• Hans Alfredson, actor, film director, writer and comedian.

In Denmark, the Freetown Christiania was created in downtown Copenhagen. The housing and employment crisis in most of Western Europe led to the formation of communes and squatter movements like the one still thriving in Barcelona, in Catalonia. Although not always explicitly anarchist, militant resistance to neo-Nazi groups in places like Germany, and the uprisings of autonomous Marxism, situationist, and Autonomist groups in France and Italy also helped to give popularity to anti-authoritarian, non-capitalist ideas.

In various musical styles, anarchism rose in popularity. Most famous for the linking of anarchist ideas and music has been punk rock, although in the modern age, hip hop, and folk music are also becoming important mediums for the spreading of the anarchist message. In the UK this was associated with the punk movement; the band Crass is celebrated for its anarchist and pacifist ideas. For further details, see anarcho-punk and list of anarchist musicians.

Recent technological developments have made the anarchist cause both easier to advance and more conceivable to people. Many people use the Internet to form on-line communities. Intellectual property is undermined and a gift-culture supported by sharing music files, collaborative software development, and free software (also called open-source software). These cyber-communities include the GNU, Linux, Indymedia, and Wiki. Others use technology to remain anonymous, communicate securely using public key cryptography, and maintain financial privacy through digital currency. See also: Crypto-anarchism and Cypherpunk.

See also

There are many concepts relevant to the topic of anarchism, this is a brief summary. There is also a more extensive list of anarchist concepts.

• individualist anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-capitalism, mutualism, Christian anarchism, anarcha-feminism, green anarchism, nihilist anarchism, black anarchism, post-anarchism, post-left anarchism
• Libertarian Socialism
• Anarchist symbolism
• List of anarchists
• List of anarchist organizations
• Major conflicts within anarchist thought
• Criticisms of anarchism
• Past and present anarchist communities

Historical events

• Paris Commune (1871)
• Haymarket Riot (1886)
• Ukrainian Revolution (1918-1922) (see also The Free Territory)
• Kronstadt rebellion (1921)
• Amakasu Incident (1923)
• Spanish Revolution (1936) (see also Anarchism in Spain)
• May 1968, France (1968)
• WTO Meeting in Seattle (1999)
• Argentine riots (2001)

Anarchism by region/culture

• African Anarchism
• Anarchism in France
• Anarchism in Mexico
• Anarchism in Spain
• Anarchism in the United States
• Anarchism in the English tradition
• Chinese anarchism
• Islam and anarchism
• Jewish anarchism
• Russian anarchism

Books

Main article: List of anarchist books

• Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State [9]
• Emma Goldman, Anarchism & Other Essays [10]
• Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid [11]
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? [12]
• Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism [13]
• Murray Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State [14]
• Max Stirner, The Ego And Its Own [15]
• Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You [16]
• John Zerzan, Future Primitive

Notes and References

1. [17]
2. [18]
3. Against Politics - Appleton - Boston Anarchists
4. Yarros, Victor Liberty VII, January 2 1892.
5. Noam Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

External links

The overwhelming diversity and number of links relating to anarchism exist, below are but a few.

• "An Anarchist FAQ" version 11.4 at Infoshop.org - "An Anarchist FAQ" written by a group of social(ist) anarchists.
• "Anarchist Theory FAQ" - a FAQ written by anarcho-capitalist economics professor Bryan Caplan.
• Anarchoblogs Blogs by Anarchists.
• Anarchy Archives extensively archives information relating to famous anarchists. This includes many of their books and other publications.
• 1,500+ anarchists listed, with short bios, links & dedicated pages at the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
• Infoshop.org (wikipedia page)

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