Anarchism

Origins

• 19th C belief that mankind is capable of being made morally perfect if society were reformed and based on liberty

Anarchism

ideas/movement based on the belief that the state should be abolished either because its exploitative/evil or because it’s unnecessary and mankind can live and cooperate w/o need of law enforcement

collective anarchists

• a belief that mankind is naturally social and prefers to achieve goals collectively rather than individually

key beliefs of collective anarchists

• human nature is social

• prefers to achieve goals collectively

• society should be based on equality

Mikhail Bakunin Quote

“society is the true freedom and liberty is it’s fruit”

Mikhail Bakunin

believed individuals were born with equal intelligence, moral sense and capacity for thought

• the state threatens individual liberty by distorting human nature and natural arrangement of society

Propaganda by the deed (Bakunin)

specific violent political action which would spark revolution + overthrow the state

what did Bakunin advocate for?

• advocated for the abolition of the state and immediate transition to stateless society

• a system of federalism in which workers would divide themselves into communities where there would be no private property + total economic equality

anarcho-communism

• based on the idea that mankind is inherently social

• advocates the replacement of the centralized state by small-scale natural communes where membership is voluntary, property is held communally and communes would trade with each other on a mutually beneficial basis