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Page 1: Anarchism - Weebly•Anarchism will continue to survive. Title: Anarchism Created Date: 9/9/2019 10:35:28 PM

Anarchism

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Intro

•Greek-“without rule”

•Negative view sense French Revolution

•Positive view around 1840

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Origins• Trace Ideas back to Buddhism or

Taoism

• Combined with Socialism in 19th Century

• Authoritarianism undermines anarchism

• Never achieved national power

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Origins

•Traditional Societies and Mir looked up too

• Ideology restricted by ends and mean

•People want freedom

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Core Themes• States are bad

• People manage their own affairs with voluntary agreement

• Anarchists DO NOT think humans are good

• Environment is what produces humans

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Core Themes

•Overlap of Socialism and Liberalism

•Extremes of either one

•4 Core Themes

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1. Anti-Statism

• Authority goes against human freedom

• Damages and corrupts everyone

• Being subject to authority suppresses nature

• Those who are in authority go to far

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Anti-Statism• Pierre Joseph Proudhon is most influential

• State is Sovereign

• State is Compulsory

• State is Coercive

• State is Exploitive

• State is Destructive

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2. Natural Order• Government is completely unnecessary

• Humans follow natural laws

• We want to live peacefully and harmoniously

• Government and unnatural laws cause problems

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Natural Order

•Tends to lean towards utopianism

•Anarchists look at human potential

•Social institutions foster human potential

•Collectivist vs individualist

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3. Anti-Clericalism

• Church is just as bad as Government

• Reject religion due to obedience

• People don’t need to be told what is moral

• Mystic aspect is present

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4.Economic Freedom

• Challenging structures of life important

• Capitalism/Classes frowned upon

• Comparable to Socialism

• All disapprove of managed economy

• Collectivist vs Individualist

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Collectivist Anarchism

• Rooted in Socialism

• Humans are sociable and cooperative

• Common Humanity negates government

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Collectivist Anarchism• Parallels Socialism

1. Reject Capitalism

2. Revolution for Change

3. Collective Ownership

4. Full Communism=No Government

5. Humans can handle own affairs

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Collective Anarchism

• Anarchists rejects Parliamentary Socialism

• State and Government are evil by nature

• Emerges in 3 Forms

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1. Mutualism

• Social solidarity justifies cooperative

• “Property is theft”

• Small communities of artisans and peasants are ideal

• Social interaction is all voluntary

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2. Anarcho-Syndicalism

•Revolutionary Trade Union

•Emerges all over world

•Class War is what will achieve success

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Anarcho-Syndicalism• Syndicates want to overthrow

government

• Power Achieved through “General Strike”

• Direct Action is most effective

• Syndicates have no hierarchy

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3. Anarcho-Communism•Human Potential

through “mutual aid”

•Self managing communes were best

•Direct democracy would work best

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Individualist Anarchism

• Pushes liberalism to extreme

• Individual Sovereignty vital

• Liberalism vs Anarchism?

• 3 Forms

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1. Egoism•People are self

centered/interested

•People Act how they want regardless

•Can break down into nihilism

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2. Libertarianism

•Popularized by Thoreau

•Civil Disobedience is acceptable

•People can work together

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Anarcho-Capitalism• Free Market pushed to extreme

• People will enter contracts for benefit

• Competition is good because it provides a choice

• Already seen with Neighborhood watches

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Roads to Anarchy

•State is evil

•No conventional method to achieve

•3 Accepted methods

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1. Revolutionary Violence

•Oppressed Masses Revolt

•Lost support after 19th Century

•Turns to Terrorism/ assassinations in 20th Century

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Revolutionary Violence

• Become more Anti-Capitalism and Globalism

• Violence is strategic and ethical

• Concept has been counter-productive

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2. Direct Action

•Passive Resistance to Terrorism

•Gets people engaged

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Direct Action

• Viewed as most productive

• Government hasn’t interfered

• People make the decision

• Public support is always a factor to be taken into account

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3. Anarcho-Pacificism

• Violence does more harm than good

• Humans are moral, violence is unacceptable

• Pacifism is viewed as morally strong

• Shows Cooperation and mutual respect

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Anarchism in Global Age

• Very hard to judge

• Capitalism fit anarchism, but it didn’t

• Best example of reemergence: Battle of Seattle

• Anarchism will continue to survive