Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, or otherwise undesirable, and favour instead a stateless society or anarchy. Individual anarchists may have additional criteria for what they conceive to be anarchism, and there is often broad disagreement concerning these broader conceptions. According to The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, "there is no single defining pos...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. ,
- People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ,
- The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a vanguard party, or a State bureaucracy. ,
- Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man. ,
- My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. ,
- The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
Periodicals:
- Anarchist Studies ,
- Abolishing the Borders from Below ,
- Alternative Green ,
- Alternative Press Review ,
- Anarcho-Syndicalist Review ,
- Anarchy Magazine ,
- Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed ,
- The Arousal ,
- Black Flag ,
- The Blast
Works Written About This Topic:
- Homage to Catalonia ,
- Living My Life ,
- Endgame ,
- The Rebel ,
- The State is Your Enemy ,
- Democracy: The God That Failed ,
- Man, Economy, and State ,
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution ,
- Letters of Insurgents ,
- The Machinery of Freedom
Also known as:
- Anarchismus
