Outline of anarchism explained

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anarchism:

Anarchism  - political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary and harmful,^{[1] [2]} or alternatively as opposing authority and hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]} Proponents of anarchism, known as anarchists, advocate stateless societies or non-hierarchical^{[3] [9] [10]} voluntary associations.^{[11] [12]}

Nature of anarchism

See main article: Anarchism.

Manifestos and expositions

See also: List of anarchist books. Anarchism is a living project which has continued to evolve as social conditions have changed. The following are examples of anarchist manifestos and essays produced during various time periods, each expressing different interpretations and proposals for anarchist philosophy.

(1840–1914)

• Anarchist Manifesto (1850) by Anselme Bellegarrigue
• State Socialism and Anarchism (1886) by Benjamin Tucker
• The Principles of Anarchism by Lucy Parsons
• Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta
• The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) by Oscar Wilde
• Anarchy Defended by Anarchists (1896) by Emma Goldman and Johann Most

(1914–1984)

• Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) (1926) by Dielo Truda
• What's Anarchism? (1932) by Hippolyte Havel
• The Philosophy of Anarchism (1940) by Herbert Read
• Anarchism: Past and Present (1980) by Murray Bookchin

(1985–present)

• Anarchism and Other Impediments to Anarchy (1985) by Bob Black
• Listen, Anarchist! (1987) by Chaz Bufe
• (1994) by Murray Bookchin
• The Anarchist Tension (1996) by Alfredo M. Bonanno

Anarchist schools of thought

Anarchism has many heterogeneous and diverse schools of thought, united by a common opposition to compulsory rule. Anarchist schools are characterized by "the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary", but may differ fundamentally, supporting anything from extreme individualism to complete collectivism.^[13] Regardless, some are viewed as being compatible, and it is not uncommon for individuals to subscribe to more than one. Some of the following terms do not refer to specific branches of anarchist thought, but rather are generic labels applied to various branches, they are marked as umbrella terms.

• Individualist anarchism (umbrella term) – several traditions of thought that emphasize the individual and their will over any kinds of external determinants such as groups, society, traditions and ideological systems.^{[14] [15]}
  • Philosophical anarchism – according to The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought, philosophical anarchism "is a component especially of individualist anarchism". This tendency contends that the state lacks moral legitimacy and there is no individual obligation or duty to obey the state, which conversely, has no right to command individuals, but does not advocates revolution to eliminate the state.^[16]
  • Egoist anarchism – a tendency originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner which is usually called "egoism". It rejects devotion to "a great idea, a cause, a doctrine, a system, a lofty calling", saying that the egoist has no political calling but rather "lives themselves out" without regard to "how well or ill humanity may fare thereby".^[17]
    • Illegalism – a tendency that developed primarily in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland during the early 1900s.^{[18] [19]} It embraces either openly or secretly criminality as a lifestyle, using Max Stirner's Egoism as a justification. Illegalism does not specify the type of crime, though it is associated with theft and shoplifting.
  • Anarcho-naturism – a tendency that unites anarchist and naturist philosophies,^{[20] [21] [22] [23]} that advocates vegetarianism, free love, hiking and an ecological world view within anarchist groups and outside them, also promoting small ecovillages, and most prominently nudism as a way to avoid the artificiality of the industrial mass society of modernity.
  • Existentialist anarchism – some observers believe existentialism forms a philosophical ground for anarchism. Anarchist historian Peter Marshall claims, "there is a close link between the existentialists' stress on the individual, free choice, and moral responsibility and the main tenets of anarchism".^[24]
• Mutualism – some see mutualism as between individualist and social forms of anarchism.^[25] This tendency concerns with reciprocity, free association, voluntary contract, federation and credit and currency reform. It states that a market without government intervention drives prices down to labor-costs, eliminating profit, rent and interest according to the labor theory of value forcing firms to compete over workers by raising the wages (instead of workers competing over firms).^{[26] [27]}
• Social anarchism (umbrella term) – several traditions of thought that emphasize the social life and relations.^[28] While individualists focus on personal autonomy and the rational nature of human beings, social anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid",^[29] aggregating tendencies that advocates the communitarian and cooperative aspects of anarchist theory and practice.^[28]
  • Collectivist anarchism – a revolutionary^[30] tendency most commonly associated with Mikhail Bakunin, Johann Most and the anti-authoritarian section of the First International.^[31] It opposes all private ownership of the means of production, instead advocating that ownership be collectivized. Some collectivists do not oppose the use of currency, supporting workers being paid based on the amount of time they contributed to production and purchasing commodities in a communal market.^[32] This contrasts with anarcho-communism where wages and currency would be abolished and where individuals would take freely from a storehouse of goods.
  • Anarcho-communism – tendency that advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, currency, wages and private property (while retaining respect for personal property),^[33] in favor of common ownership of the means of production,^{[34] [35]} direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".^{[36] [37]}
    • Magonism – magonistas were how Mexican government and the press of the early 20th century called people and groups who shared the ideas of Ricardo Flores Magón,^[38] an anarcho-communist who inspired the overthrow of the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and performed an economic and political revolution.^[39]

• Anarcha-feminism – a tendency that combines anarchism with feminism. It views patriarchy as a manifestation of involuntary coercive hierarchy that should be replaced by decentralized free association. It states that the struggle against patriarchy is an essential part of class struggle, and the anarchist struggle against the state.
• Green anarchism – a tendency that puts a particular emphasis on environmental issues. It extends anarchist ideology beyond a critique of human interactions, including a critique of the interactions between humans and non-humans,^[40] which culminates in a revolutionary praxis that is not merely dedicated to human liberation, but also to interspecies liberation,^[41] aiming to bring about an environmentally sustainable anarchist society.
  • Anarcho-primitivism – tendency that critiques the origins and progress of civilization, which states that the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural subsistence gave rise to social stratification, coercion, alienation, and population growth.
  • Social ecology – a theory associated with Murray Bookchin through his work.^[42] It is a utopian philosophy of human evolution that combines the nature of biology and society into a third "thinking nature" beyond biochemistry and physiology, which is argued as a more complete, conscious, ethical, and rational nature, that view humanity as the latest development from the long history of organic development on Earth. It proposes ethical principles for replacing a society's propensity for hierarchy and domination with that of democracy and freedom.^[43]
• Anarcho-pacifism – tendency within the anarchist movement that rejects the use of violence in the struggle for social change and the abolition of the state.^{[44] [45]}
• Insurrectionary anarchism – revolutionary tendency and practice that emphasizes insurrection within anarchist practice^{[46] [47]} and criticize formal organizations such as labor unions and federations that are based on a political programme and periodic congresses,^[46] advocating informal organization and small affinity group based organization.^{[46] [47]} Insurrectionary anarchists put value in attack, permanent class conflict and a refusal to negotiate or with class enemies.^{[46] [47]}
• Religious anarchism (umbrella term) – religious anarchists view organised religion mostly as authoritarian and hierarchical that has strayed from its humble origins.
  • Buddhist anarchism – tendency that notes Buddhist scriptures such as the Kalama Sutta to have an inherently libertarian emphasis, placing a priority on the questioning of all authority and dogma, with properly informed personal choice as final arbiter. The Indian revolutionary atheist Har Dayal, influenced by Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, moved to Oakland and established the Bakunin Institute of California, described as "the first monastery of anarchism".^{[48] [49]}
  • Christian anarchism – tendency that advocates that there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus. It states that freedom from government or Church is justified spiritually and will only be guided by the grace of God if Man shows compassion to others and turns the other cheek when confronted with violence.
  • Jewish anarchism – tendency that combines contemporary radical ideas with traditional Judaism. Some Jewish mystical groups were based on anti-authoritarian principles, somewhat similar to the Christian Quakers and Dukhobors. Martin Buber, a deeply religious philosopher, had frequently referred to the Hasidic tradition. The Orthodox Kabbalist rabbi Yehuda Ashlag believed in a religious version of libertarian communism, based on principles of Kabbalah, which he called altruist communism.^[50]
• Anarchism without adjectives – in the words of historian George Esenwein, "referred to an unhyphenated form of anarchism, that is, a doctrine without any qualifying labels such as communist, collectivist, mutualist, or individualist. For others, ... [it] was simply understood as an attitude that tolerated the coexistence of different anarchist schools."^[51] It served as basis for the synthesis anarchism federation.

• Black anarchism – a loose term sometimes applied to group together a number of people of African descent who identify with anarchism opposing the existence of the state, the subjugation and domination of black people, and other groups, and favor a non-hierarchical organization of society. It argues for class struggle while stressing the importance of ending racial and national oppression, opposing white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism, rejecting narrow or vulgar forms of "anarchism" that ignore issues of race and national oppression.^[52]
• Crypto-anarchism – a tendency of anarchy accomplished through computer technology,^[53] employing cryptographic software to evade persecution and harassment while sending and receiving information over computer networks, in an effort to protect their privacy, their political freedom, and their economic freedom.
• Free-market anarchism (umbrella term) – a tendency that advocate an economic system based on voluntary market interactions without the involvement of the state. There is a branch of market anarchism which is left-wing market anarchism (such as mutualists) that is anti-capitalist and self-identify as part of the socialist movement^[54] and there is another branch who identify as anarcho-capitalists stress the legitimacy and priority of private property, describing it as an integral component of individual rights and a free market economy (though it is disputed if anarcho-capitalism is a form of anarchism, due to anarchists's anti-capitalism^{[55] [56] [57]}). Thus, the term may refer either to libertarian socialists (like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Benjamin Tucker) or to anarcho-capitalists (like Murray Rothbard^[58] and David D. Friedman).^[59]
  • Agorism – a tendency that advocates the creation of a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging with aspects of peaceful revolution, proposed by the libertarian philosopher Samuel Edward Konkin III.^{[60] [61]}
  • Anarcho-capitalism – political philosophy which advocates the elimination of the state in favor of individual sovereignty, private property, and open markets. Anarcho-capitalists believe that in the absence of statute (law by decree or legislation), society would improve itself through the discipline of the free market (or what its proponents describe as a "voluntary society").^{[62] [63]} See anarchism and capitalism. A strong current within anarchism does not consider anarcho-capitalism to be part of the anarchist movement because anarchism has historically been an anti-capitalist movement and for definitional reasons which see anarchism as incompatible with capitalist forms.^{[64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69]}
  • Left-wing market anarchism – a tendency of individualist anarchism^[70] which stress the value of radically free markets, termed "freed markets" to distinguish them from the common conception which libertarians believe to be riddled with statist and capitalist privileges.^[71] also referred to as market-oriented left-libertarians,^[72] proponents of this approach strongly affirm the classical liberal ideas of self-ownership and free markets while maintaining that taken to their logical conclusions these ideas support anti-capitalist,^{[73] [74]} anti-corporatist, anti-hierarchical and pro-labor positions in economics; anti-imperialism in foreign policy; and radical views regarding such cultural issues as gender, sexuality and race. Left-libertarians who support private property do so under the condition that recompense is offered to the local community.
• Postcolonial anarchism – a tendency strongly influenced by indigenism, anti-state forms of nationalism and Anarchist People of Color, that aims to bring together disparate aspects and tendencies within the anarchist movement and re-envision them in an explicitly anti-imperialist framework. Since traditional anarchism is a movement arising from the struggles of proletarians in industrialized western European nations – and thus sees history from their perspective – post-colonial anarchism approaches the same principles (mutual aid, class struggle, opposition to social hierarchy, community-level self-management, libertarian municipalism, and self-determination but from the perspective of colonized peoples throughout the world and seeking to add what it sees as a unique and important perspective.^[75]
• Post-anarchism – political philosophy that employs post-structuralist and postmodernist approaches (the term post-structuralist anarchism is used as well, so as not to suggest having moved beyond anarchism). Post-anarchism is not a single coherent theory, but rather refers to the combined works of any number of post-modernists and post-structuralists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard; postmodern feminists such as Judith Butler; and alongside those of classical anarchist and libertarian philosophers such as Zhuang Zhou, Emma Goldman, Max Stirner, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Thus, the terminology can vary widely in both approach and outcome.
• Post-left anarchy – a recent current in anarchist thought that promotes a critique of anarchism's relationship to traditional leftism. Influenced by the work of Max Stirner and by the Situationist International, post-left anarchy is marked by a focus on social insurrection and a diminution of leftist social organisation.^[76]
• Queer anarchism – a tendency that advocates anarchism and social revolution as a means of queer liberation and abolition of homophobia, lesbophobia, transmisogyny, biphobia, transphobia, heteronormativity, heterosexism, patriarchy and the gender binary. LGBT and anarchism who campaigned for LGBT rights both outside and inside the anarchist and LGBT movements include John Henry Mackay,^[77] Daniel Guérin^[78] and the individualist Adolf Brand who published Der Eigene, the first publication dedicated to gay issues in the world.^{[79] [80]}
• Anarcho-transhumanism – the philosophy that social liberty is inherently bound up with material liberty, and that freedom is ultimately a matter of expanding people's capacity and opportunities to engage with the world around them through technology. It is the realization that one's resistance against those social forces that would subjugate and limit us is but part of a spectrum of efforts to expand human agency, to facilitate our inquiry and creativity.

Affinity groups

See main article: Affinity group. Anarchists creates different forms of organizations, structured around the principles of anarchism, to meet each other, share information, organize struggles and trace ways to spread the anarchist ideas through the world, since they understand that the only way to achieve a free and egalitarian society in the end is through equally free and egalitarian means.^[81]

• Platformist federation – a form of anarchist organization that seeks unity among its participants, having as a defining characteristic the idea that each platformist organization should only include members who are fully aligned with the group ideas, rejecting people with any degree of conflicting ideas, different tendencies, or adherence to different schools of anarchist thought.^[82]
• Synthesis federation – a form of anarchist organization that seeks diversity among its participants, joining anarchists of different tendencies under the principles of anarchism without adjectives.^[83] In the 1920s it brought together anarchists of three main tendencies, individualist anarchism, anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism^[84] and it is the main principle behind the anarchist federations grouped around the contemporary global International of Anarchist Federations.
• Anarcho-syndicalist union – a form of anarchist organization focused on the labour movement that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and, with that control, influence in broader society, with the basic principles being: solidarity, direct action and direct democracy, or workers' self-management. The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery.^[85]

History of anarchism

See main article: History of anarchism. Although social movements and philosophies with anarchic qualities predate anarchism, anarchism as a specific political philosophy began in 1840 with the publication of What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. In the following decades it spread from Western Europe to various regions, countries, and continents, impacting local social movements. The success of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia initiated a decline in prominence for anarchism in the mid-20th century,^[86] roughly coinciding with the time period referred to by historians as The short twentieth century. Since the late 1980s, anarchism has begun a gradual return to the world stage.

Timeline of major events

Historic precedents and background events (pre-1840)

• 1793 – William Godwin publishes Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, implicitly establishing the philosophical foundations of anarchism.^[87]
• 1827 – Josiah Warren opens the Cincinnati Time Store, an early experiment in mutualist economics.

Early stages (1840-1870)

• 1840 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon publishes What Is Property? and becomes history's first self-proclaimed anarchist.
• 1844 – The Ego and Its Own published by Max Stirner.
• 1845 – Ramón de la Sagra founds the first anarchist journal in Spain.
• 1850 – Anarchist Manifesto published by Anselme Bellegarrigue.
• 1864 – International Workingmen's Association (IWA) founded.
• 1867–69 – Julio López Chávez revolt in Mexico.

Classical era (1870–1913)

• 1870–71 – Paris Commune, Lyon Commune and Besançon Commune in France.
• 1872 – Hague Congress in the Netherlands.
• 1872 – St. Imier Congress in Switzerland.
• 1873–74 – Cantonal rebellion and Petroleum Revolution in Spain.
• 1874 – Bologna insurrection in Italy.
• 1877 – Banda del Matese active in Italy.
• 1878 – Assassination attempt against Kaiser Wilhelm I by Max Hödel.
• 1882–83 – Mano Negra affair in Spain.
• 1886 – Strike of 1886 in Belgium.
• 1886 – Haymarket affair in the USA. Leads to International Workers' Day/May Day.
• 1887 – Sociedad Cosmopolita de Resistencia y Colocación de Obreros Panaderos established in Argentina.
• 1891 – Clichy Affair in France.
• 1892 – The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin is published.
• 1892 – Jerez uprising in Spain.
• 1892 – Walsall Anarchists in Britain.
• 1893 – Liceu bombing in Spain.
• 1894 – Lunigiana revolt in Italy.
• 1894 – Omladina Trial in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
• 1894 – Assassination of French President Sadi Carnot by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• 1894 – Trial of the Thirty in France.
• 1896 – Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing and Montjuïc trial in Spain.
• 1897 – Assassination of Spanish PM Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.
• 1898 – Assassination of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
• 1898–1903 – Boatmen of Thessaloniki active in the Ottoman Empire.
• 1900 – Assassination of King Umberto I of Italy.
• 1900 – PLM established in Mexico.
• 1901 – Assassination of US President William McKinley.
• 1901 – FORA established in Argentina.
• 1903 – Strandzha Commune in the Ottoman Empire.
• 1903 – Immigration Act of 1903 in the USA.
• 1907 – International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
• 1907 – Tenants' strike in Argentina.
• 1908 – Red Flag Incident in Japan.
• 1909 – Assassination of Chief of Police Ramón Lorenzo Falcón.
• 1909 – Francisco Ferrer executed in Spain.
• 1910 – SAC established in Sweden.
• 1910 – CNT established in Spain.
• 1910–14 – Rewolucyjni Mściciele active in Poland.
• 1910–11 – High Treason Incident in Japan.
• 1910–11 – Chinese Assassination Corps active in China.
• 1911 – Magonista rebellion in Mexico.
• 1911–12 – Bonnot Gang active in France.
• 1912 – Assassination of Spanish PM José Canalejas y Méndez.
• 1912–27 – The Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement in China and France.
• 1912 – COM established in Mexico.
• 1912 – USI established in Italy.
• 1913 – Assassination of George I of Greece.

World War I, Interwar period and World War II (1914 – 1945)

• 1914–16 – Red Battalions active in Mexico.
• 1916 – NSF established in Norway.
• 1916 – Manifesto of the Sixteen published.
• 1916 – Serifos miners strike in Greece.
• 1917–21 – the Makhnovshchina/Makhnovists active in Ukraine.
• 1918–20 – Constitution Protection Region of Southern Fujian in China.
• 1918 – Explosion in Leontievsky Lane in Russia.
• 1918 – First Republic of Pińczów established in Poland.
• 1918 – Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection in Brazil.
• 1919 – Tragic Week in Argentina.
• 1919 – CGT established in Portugal.
• 1919 – La Canadenca strike in Spain.
• 1919–28 – Heroic Corps active in Korea.
• 1919–25 – Red Legion active in Portugal.
• 1919 – United States anarchist bombings.
• 1919 – FAUD established in Germany.
• 1919–20 – First Red Scare and Palmer Raids in the USA.
• 1919–20 – Biennio Rosso in Italy.
• 1920–22 – Patagonia Rebelde and La Forestral massacre in Argentina.
• 1920 – Wall Street bombing in the USA.
• 1921 – Assassination of Spanish PM Eduardo Dato.
• 1922 – IWA–AIT established.
• 1923 – Kantō Massacre and Amakasu Incident in Japan.
• 1926 – Gino Lucetti attempts to assassinate Benito Mussolini in Italy.
• 1926–28 – Severino Di Giovanni bombing campaign in Argentina.
• 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed in the USA.
• 1927 – FAI established in Spain.
• 1929–31 – Korean People's Association in Manchuria in China.
• 1929–33 – The Black Band is active in Germany.
• 1931 – Taking of Encarnación in Paraguay.
• 1932 – Anarchist insurrection of Alt Llobregat in Spain.
• 1933 – Anarchist insurrection of January 1933 and Casas Viejas incident in Spain.
• 1933 – Anarchist insurrection of December 1933 in Spain.
• 1934 – Erich Mühsam murdered in a Nazi concentration camp.
• 1934 – Asturian miners' strike of 1934 in Spain.
• 1936–39 – the Spanish Civil War and Spanish Revolution.
• 1937 – May Days in Spain.
• 1942–43 – Green Guard operates in Ukraine.
• 1943 – Carlo Tresca assassinated in the USA.
• 1943–45 – Anarchist brigades in the Italian Resistance.
• 1944–45 – Syndicalist Brigade active in Poland.

Cold War era (1946 – 1989)

• 1955 – Pierre Morain becomes the first French activist jailed for supporting Algerian independence.
• 1956 – FAU established in Uruguay.
• 1963 – Spies for Peace active in Britain.
• 1968 – May 68 in France.
• 1969 – Piazza Fontana bombing and death of Giuseppe Pinelli in Italy.
• 1970 – Barracks anarchists killed in Italy.
• 1970–72 – The Angry Brigade is active in Britain.
• 1971 – Chomsky–Foucault debate the Netherlands.
• 1972–75 – East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front active.
• 1972–80 – 2 June Movement active in Germany.
• 1974–78 – Resistencia Libertaria active in Argentina.
• 1977 – FAU established in Germany.
• 1978 – Scala case in Spain.
• 1979–87 – Action Directe active in France.
• 1980 – Faurisson affair in France.
• 1980–83 – CLODO active in France.
• 1980 – Wanganui Computer Centre bombing in New Zealand.
• 1982 – Litton Industries bombing in Canada.
• 1986 – Battle of Ryesgade in Denmark.

Post-Cold War era resurgence (1990 – present)

• 1994–2020 – Zapatista uprising and Chiapas conflict in Mexico.
• 1997 – CIPO-RFM established in Mexico.
• 1999 – Murder of Björn Söderberg in Sweden.
• 1999 – Seattle WTO protests in the USA.
• 2001 – Katie Sierra free speech case in the USA.
• 2003 – Anarchists Against the Wall established in Israel.
• 2006 4F case in Spain.
• 2008 Tarnac Nine arrested in France.
• 2008 Greek riots.
• 2011 Occupy movement begins.
• 2012 ongoing Rojava conflict
• 2016 Audrey Tang appointed Minister without portfolio in Taiwan.
• 2017 Catalan general strike in Spain.
• 2017 18 International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces active in Syria.
• 2018 Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing in Russia.
• 2019 – Tacoma attack in the USA.
• 2022 ongoing The Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists is active in Russia and Belarus.
• 2023 Killing of Tortuguita in the USA.
• 2024 – Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell in the USA.

History of anarchism by region

See main article: List of anarchist movements by region.

Historians

• Paul Avrich
• David Goodway
• Daniel Guérin
• Peter Marshall
• Max Nettlau
• George Woodcock

Historical societies

• Anarchy Archives
• Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme
• Kate Sharpley Library
• Labadie Collection

General anarchism concepts

See main article: Anarchist terminology. These are concepts which, although not exclusive to anarchism, are significant in historical and/or modern anarchist circles. As the anarchist milieu is philosophically heterogeneous, there is disagreement over which of these concepts should play a role in anarchism.

Organizations

Notable organizations

Formal anarchist organizational initiatives date back to the mid-19th century. The oldest surviving anarchist organizations include Freedom Press (est. 1886) of England, the Industrial Workers of the World (est. 1905), Anarchist Black Cross (est. 1906), Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden (est. 1910) and the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (est. 1910) of Spain.

Structures

Anarchist organizations come in a variety of forms, largely based upon common anarchist principles of voluntary cooperation, mutual aid, and direct action. They are also largely informed by anarchist social theory and philosophy, tending towards participation and decentralization.

• Affinity group (e.g. Black bloc)
• Adhocracy
• Collective
• Federation
• Participatory organization
• Popular assembly
• Security culture
• Spokescouncil

Anarchist literature

• List of anarchist books
• List of anarchist periodicals

See also: List of anarchist musicians and List of Jewish anarchists.

Influential non-anarchists

Places named after anarchists

• Action Directe (climb), Germany
• Anarchist Mountain, Canada
• Doctor Moisés Bertoni, Paraguay
• Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Mexico
• Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, USA
• Louise Michel station, France
• Kropotkin, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
• Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
• Kropotkin Range, Russia
• Kropotkinskaya, Russia
• Mount Kropotkin, Antarctica
• Parc Georges-Brassens, France
• Ricardo Flores Magón metro station, Mexico
• Teotitlán de Flores Magón, Mexico

Related philosophies

• • • Absurdism Communalism Democratic confederalism
      • • • • Existentialism Inclusive Democracy Libertarian Marxism Libertarian socialism Neozapatismo Nihilism Panarchism^[88]
• Voluntaryism

See also

• Anti-globalization/Globalization
• Anti-fascism
• Anti-war
• Civil rights
• Labour movement
• Tax resistance

Further reading

• Encyclopedia: Caplan . Bryan. Bryan Caplan. Ronald . Hamowy . Ronald Hamowy . The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism . Anarchism . 2008 . SAGE. Thousand Oaks, CA . 978-1-4129-6580-4 . 750831024. 2008009151 . 10–13 .

External links

• "Anarchism", entry from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, (1910) by Peter Kropotkin.

Notes and References

1. Malatesta. Errico. Towards Anarchism. Man!. International Group of San Francisco. Los Angeles. 3930443. Errico Malatesta. News: Working for The Man . . 2008-04-14 . Agrell . Siri . 2007-05-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070516094548/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070514.wxlanarchist14/BNStory/lifeWork/home . 2007-05-16 . Encyclopedia: Anarchism. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. 2006-08-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20061214085638/https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9117285. 14 December 2006. 2005. Anarchism. The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 14. Anarchism is the view that a society without the state, or government, is both possible and desirable.. The following sources cite anarchism as a political philosophy:Book: Mclaughlin, Paul . Anarchism and Authority . Ashgate . Aldershot . 2007 . 978-0-7546-6196-2 . 59. Book: Johnston, R. . The Dictionary of Human Geography . Blackwell Publishers . Cambridge . 2000 . 0-631-20561-6 . 24.
2. Slevin, Carl. "Anarchism." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics. Ed. Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford University Press, 2003.
3. "The IAF – IFA fights for : the abolition of all forms of authority whether economical, political, social, religious, cultural or sexual.""Principles of The International of Anarchist Federations"
4. "Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations." Emma Goldman. "What it Really Stands for Anarchy" in Anarchism and Other Essays.
5. Individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker defined anarchism as opposition to authority as follows "They found that they must turn either to the right or to the left, — follow either the path of Authority or the path of Liberty. Marx went one way; Warren and Proudhon the other. Thus were born State Socialism and Anarchism...Authority, takes many shapes, but, broadly speaking, her enemies divide themselves into three classes: first, those who abhor her both as a means and as an end of progress, opposing her openly, avowedly, sincerely, consistently, universally; second, those who profess to believe in her as a means of progress, but who accept her only so far as they think she will subserve their own selfish interests, denying her and her blessings to the rest of the world; third, those who distrust her as a means of progress, believing in her only as an end to be obtained by first trampling upon, violating, and outraging her. These three phases of opposition to Liberty are met in almost every sphere of thought and human activity. Good representatives of the first are seen in the Catholic Church and the Russian autocracy; of the second, in the Protestant Church and the Manchester school of politics and political economy; of the third, in the atheism of Gambetta and the socialism of the socialism off Karl Marg." Benjamin Tucker. Individual Liberty.
6. Web site: Anarchism as a Theory of Organization. Ward. Colin. 1966. 1 March 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100325081119/http://www.panarchy.org/ward/organization.1966.html. 25 March 2010.
7. Anarchist historian George Woodcock report of Mikhail Bakunin's anti-authoritarianism and shows opposition to both state and non-state forms of authority as follows: "All anarchists deny authority; many of them fight against it." (pg. 9)...Bakunin did not convert the League's central committee to his full program, but he did persuade them to accept a remarkably radical recommendation to the Berne Congress of September 1868, demanding economic equality and implicitly attacking authority in both Church and State."
8. Book: Brown, L. Susan . Anarchism as a Political Philosophy of Existential Individualism: Implications for Feminism . The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism . Black Rose Books Ltd. Publishing . 2002 . 106.
9. "That is why Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement — at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist." Peter Kropotkin. Anarchism: its philosophy and ideal
10. "anarchists are opposed to irrational (e.g., illegitimate) authority, in other words, hierarchy — hierarchy being the institutionalisation of authority within a society." "B.1 Why are anarchists against authority and hierarchy?" in An Anarchist FAQ.
11. "ANARCHISM, a social philosophy that rejects authoritarian government and maintains that voluntary institutions are best suited to express man's natural social tendencies." George Woodcock. "Anarchism" at The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
12. "In a society developed on these lines, the voluntary associations which already now begin to cover all the fields of human activity would take a still greater extension so as to substitute themselves for the state in all its functions." Peter Kropotkin. "Anarchism" from the Encyclopædia Britannica
13. Slevin, Carl. "Anarchism". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics. Ed. Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford University Press, 2003.
14. "What do I mean by individualism? I mean by individualism the moral doctrine which, relying on no dogma, no tradition, no external determination, appeals only to the individual conscience."Mini-Manual of Individualism by Han Ryner
15. "I do not admit anything except the existence of the individual, as a condition of his sovereignty. To say that the sovereignty of the individual is conditioned by Liberty is simply another way of saying that it is conditioned by itself.""Anarchism and the State" in Individual Liberty
16. Outhwaite, William & Tourain, Alain (Eds.). (2003). Anarchism. The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (2nd Edition, p. 12). Blackwell Publishing
17. Moggach, Douglas. The New Hegelians. Cambridge University Press, 2006 p. 183
18. "The illegalisis in this study,...As anarchist individualists, they came from a milieu whose most important theoretical inspiration was undoubtedly Max Stimer—whose work The Ego and Its Own remains the most powerful negation of the State, and affirniation of the individual, to date."—Richard Parry, The Bonnot Gang: the history of the French illegalists
19. "Parallel to the social, collectivist anarchist current there was an individualist one whose partisans emphasized their individual freedom and advised other individuals to do the same...Some individualists rebelled by withdrawing from the economy and forming voluntary associations to achieve self-sufficiency. Others took the route of illegalism, attacking the economy through the direct individual reappropriation of wealth. Thus theft, counterfeiting, swindling and robbery became a way of life for hundreds of individualists, as it was already for countless thousands of proletarians.—"The "Illegalists"" by Doug Imrie (from , Fall-Winter, 1994–95)
20. "Anarchism and the different Naturist views have always been related.""Anarchism – Nudism, Naturism" by Carlos Ortega at Asociacion para el Desarrollo Naturista de la Comunidad de Madrid. Published on Revista ADN. Winter 2003
21. http://www.soliobrera.org/pdefs/cuaderno4.pdf#search=%22Antonia%20Maym%C3%B3n%22 EL NATURISMO LIBERTARIO EN LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA (1890–1939) by Jose Maria Rosello
22. http://www.naturismo.org/adn/ediciones/2003/invierno/7e.html "Anarchism – Nudism, Naturism"
23. "In many of the alternative communities established in Britain in the early 1900s nudism, anarchism, vegetarianism and free love were accepted as part of a politically radical way of life. In the 1920s the inhabitants of the anarchist community at Whiteway, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, shocked the conservative residents of the area with their shameless nudity.""Nudism the radical tradition" by Terry Phillips
24. Marshall, Peter. . pg.580
25. Avrich, Paul. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, Princeton University Press 1996, p. 6Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought, Blackwell Publishing 1991, p. 11
26. Book: Carson, Kevin. Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. BookSurge Publishing. 2007. 978-1-4196-5869-3. Preface. http://www.mutualist.org/id112.html. https://archive.today/20240525032737/https://www.webcitation.org/5v8wrbTrn?url=http://www.mutualist.org/id112.html. 25 May 2024. dead. dmy-all.
27. "Under the mutual system, each individual will receive the just and exact pay for his work; services equivalent in cost being exchangeable for services equivalent in cost, without profit or discount; and so much as the individual laborer will then get over and above what he has earned will come to him as his share in the general prosperity of the community of which he is an individual member." From "Communism versus Mutualism", Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic and Financial Fragments. (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1875) by William Batchelder Greene
28. "Are there different types of social anarchism? ", An Anarchist FAQ. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
29. Suissa, Judith(2001) "Anarchism, Utopias and Philosophy of Education", Journal of Philosophy of Education 35 (4), 627–46.
30. Patsouras, Louis. 2005. Marx in Context. iUniverse. p. 54
31. Avrich, Paul. 2006. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. AK Press. p. 5
32. Bakunin, Mikhail. Bakunin on Anarchism. Black Rose Books. 1980. p. 369
33. "The revolution abolishes private ownership of the means of production and distribution, and with it goes capitalistic business. Personal possession remains only in the things you use. Thus, your watch is your own, but the watch factory belongs to the people." Alexander Berkman. "What Is Communist Anarchism?" http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=1138
34. Book: From Politics Past to Politics Future: An Integrated Analysis of Current and Emergent Paradigms Alan James Mayne Published 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 316 pages ISBN 0-275-96151-6 . 2010-09-20. 978-0-275-96151-0. 1999. Mayne . Alan James .
35. Book: Anarchism for Know-It-Alls By Know-It-Alls For Know-It-Alls, For Know-It-Alls . Filiquarian Publishing, LLC. . January 2008. 2010-09-20. 978-1-59986-218-7.
36. Fabbri, Luigi. "Anarchism and Communism." Northeastern Anarchist #4. 1922. 13 October 2002. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/worldwidemovements/fabbrianarandcom.html
37. Makhno, Mett, Arshinov, Valevski, Linski (Dielo Trouda). "The Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists". 1926. Constructive Section: available here
38. Magonismo, anarquismo en México
39. National Archive of Mexico, Governance Branch: Revoltosos Magonistas (1906)
40. http://freedomnews.org.uk/green-anarchism-towards-the-abolition-of-hierarchy/ 'Green Anarchism: Towards the Abolition of Hierarchy'
41. https://drstevebest.wordpress.com/category/total-liberation-2/ 'Steve Best on total liberation'
42. Book: Light, Andrew. Social Ecology After Bookchin. Guilford Press. 1998. 978-1-57230-379-9. 5.
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46. http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sasha-k-some-notes-on-insurrectionary-anarchism "Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism"
47. Web site: A-Infos (en) Ireland, Red & Black Revolution #11 – Anarchism, insurrections and insurrectionalism by Joe Black – WSM. https://web.archive.org/web/20101206162459/http://www.ainfos.ca/06/jul/ainfos00232.html. 6 December 2010. dead. 15 December 2015. dmy-all.
48. Anarchist Portraits by Paul Avrich, Princeton University Press, 1988, p30
49. Ghadar Movement: Ideology, Organisation and Strategy by Karish K. Puri, Guru Nanak Dev University Press, 1983
50. Web site: Building the Future Society. Baal HaSulam. World Wide Kabbalah Academy. 2010-05-15.
51. Esenwein, George Richard "Anarchist Ideology and the Working Class Movement in Spain, 1868–1898" [p. 135]
52. Pedro Ribeiro|Reflections on APOC and the fate of Black Anarchism
53. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3079241 Crypto-anarchism
54. Gary Chartier has joined Kevin Carson, Charles Johnson, and others (echoing the language of Benjamin Tucker and Thomas Hodgskin) in maintaining that, because of its heritage and its emancipatory goals and potential, radical market anarchism should be seen—by its proponents and by others—as part of the socialist tradition, and that market anarchists can and should call themselves "socialists." See Gary Chartier, "Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism," "Free-Market Anti-Capitalism?" session, annual conference, Association of Private Enterprise Education (Cæsar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV, April 13, 2010); Gary Chartier, "Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace 'Anti-Capitalism'"; Gary Chartier, Socialist Ends, Market Means: Five Essays. Cp. Tucker, "Socialism."
55. Marshall, Peter (1992). Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. London: HarperCollins. pp. 564–565. . "Anarcho-capitalists are against the State simply because they are capitalists first and foremost. [...] They are not concerned with the social consequences of capitalism for the weak, powerless and ignorant. [...] As such, anarcho-capitalism overlooks the egalitarian implications of traditional individualist anarchists like Spooner and Tucker. In fact, few anarchists would accept the 'anarcho-capitalists' into the anarchist camp since they do not share a concern for economic equality and social justice. Their self-interested, calculating market men would be incapable of practising voluntary cooperation and mutual aid. Anarcho-capitalists, even if they do reject the state, might therefore best be called right-wing libertarians rather than anarchists."
56. Goodway, David (2006). . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 4. "'Libertarian' and 'libertarianism' are frequently employed by anarchists as synonyms for 'anarchist' and 'anarchism', largely as an attempt to distance themselves from the negative connotations of 'anarchy' and its derivatives. The situation has been vastly complicated in recent decades with the rise of anarcho-capitalism, 'minimal statism' and an extreme right-wing laissez-faire philosophy advocated by such theorists as Rothbard and Nozick and their adoption of the words 'libertarian' and 'libertarianism'. It has therefore now become necessary to distinguish between their right libertarianism and the left libertarianism of the anarchist tradition."
57. Newman, Saul (2010). The Politics of Postanarchism. Edinburgh University Press. p. 43. "It is important to distinguish between anarchism and certain strands of right-wing libertarianism which at times go by the same name (for example, Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism)." .
58. Editor's note in "Taxation: Voluntary or Compulsory". Formulations. Free Nation Foundation. Summer 1995 Web site: Heritage. https://web.archive.org/web/20101228054225/http://libertariannation.org/a/f24r1.html. 2010-12-28. dead. 2008-03-15.
59. Gerald F. Gaus, Chandran Kukathas. 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. Sage Publications. pp. 118–119. Source refers to David D. Friedman's philosophy as "market anarchism."
60. Web site: Last Whole Introduction to Agorism. Konkin III. Samuel Edward. agorism.eu.org. May 4, 2022. 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427030909/https://agorism.eu.org/docs/LastWholeIntroductiontoAgorism.pdf. April 27, 2022.
61. [David Gordon (philosopher)|Gordon, David]
62. Encyclopedia: Morris . Andrew . Anarcho-Capitalism . Ronald . Hamowy . Ronald Hamowy . The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism . 2008 . SAGE. Thousand Oaks, CA . 10.4135/9781412965811.n8. 978-1-4129-6580-4 . 750831024. 2008009151 . 13–14 .
63. Edward Stringham, Anarchy and the law: the political economy of choice, p. 51
64. "The philosophy of "anarcho-capitalism" dreamed up by the "libertarian" New Right, has nothing to do with Anarchism as known by the Anarchist movement proper."Meltzer, Albert. Anarchism: Arguments For and Against AK Press, (2000) p. 50
65. "In fact, few anarchists would accept the 'anarcho-capitalists' into the anarchist camp since they do not share a concern for economic equality and social justice, Their self-interested, calculating market men would be incapable of practising voluntary co-operation and mutual aid. Anarcho-capitalists, even if they do reject the State, might therefore best be called right-wing libertarians rather than anarchists." Peter Marshall. . Harper Perennial. London. 2008. p. 565
66. "It is important to distinguish between anarchism and certain strands of right-wing libertarianism which at times go by the same name (for example, Murray Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism)."Saul Newman, The Politics of Postanarchism, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 43
67. http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secFcon.html Section F – Is "anarcho"-capitalism a type of anarchism?
68. "‘Libertarian’ and ‘libertarianism’ are frequently employed by anarchists as synonyms for ‘anarchist’ and ‘anarchism’, largely as an attempt to distance themselves from the negative connotations of ‘anarchy’ and its derivatives. The situation has been vastly complicated in recent decades with the rise of anarcho-capitalism, ‘minimal statism’ and an extreme right-wing laissez-faire philosophy advocated by such theorists as Murray Rothbard and Robert Nozick and their adoption of the words ‘libertarian’ and ‘libertarianism’. It has therefore now become necessary to distinguish between their right libertarianism and the left libertarianism of the anarchist tradition." by David Goodway. Liverpool University Press. Liverpool. 2006. p. 4
69. "Within Libertarianism, Rothbard represents a minority perspective that actually argues for the total elimination of the state. However Rothbard's claim as an anarchist is quickly voided when it is shown that he only wants an end to the public state. In its place he allows countless private states, with each person supplying their own police force, army, and law, or else purchasing these services from capitalist venders...so what remains is shrill anti-statism conjoined to a vacuous freedom in hackneyed defense of capitalism. In sum, the "anarchy" of Libertarianism reduces to a liberal fraud."Libertarianism: Bogus Anarchy" by Peter Sabatini in issue #41 (Fall/Winter 1994–95) of
70. Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (2011). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn, NY:Minor Compositions/Autonomedia
71. Gillis, William (2011). "The Freed Market." In Chartier, Gary and Johnson, Charles. Markets Not Capitalism. Brooklyn, NY: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. pp. 19–20.
72. Sheldon Richman (3 February 2011). "Libertarian Left: Free-market anti-capitalism, the unknown ideal ." The American Conservative. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
73. Gary Chartier and Charles W. Johnson (eds). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Minor Compositions; 1st edition (November 5, 2011
74. Gary Chartier has joined Kevin Carson, Charles Johnson, and others (echoing the language of Benjamin Tucker and Thomas Hodgskin) in maintaining that because of its heritage and its emancipatory goals and potential, radical market anarchism should be seen – by its proponents and by others – as part of the socialist tradition, and that market anarchists can and should call themselves "socialists." See Gary Chartier, "Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism," "Free-Market Anti-Capitalism?" session, annual conference, Association of Private Enterprise Education (Cæsar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV, April 13, 2010); Gary Chartier, "Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace 'Anti-Capitalism'"; Gary Chartier, Socialist Ends, Market Means: Five Essays. Cp. Tucker, "Socialism."
75. Book: Post Colonial Anarchism Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999–2004. White. Roger. Jailbreak Press. Oakland California. 9 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20060103114336/http://colours.mahost.org/articles/Post-Colonial%20Anarchism.pdf. 3 January 2006. bot: unknown.
76. Book: Macphee, Josh. Introduction. Realizing the Impossible. AK Press. Stirling. 2007. 978-1-904859-32-1.
77. "The story of one person's struggle against intolerance and repression during the early 20th century homosexual emancipation movement in Germany. Mackay is a very interesting figure in both anarchist and homosexual circles."Hubert Kennedy. Anarchist Of Love: The Secret Life Of John Henry Mackay.
78. "Although by 1968 he could be seen as the “grandfather of the French homosexual movement”, Daniel Guérin has always been better known outside gay circles for his rôle in the revolutionary movement. On the revolutionary left of the Socialist Party in the 1930s, he was later heavily influenced by Trotsky, before becoming attracted to the libertarian communist wing of the anarchist movement." David Berry. "For a dialectic of homosexuality and revolution"
79. [Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]
80. Web site: Hubert Kennedy. Anarchist Of Love: The Secret Life Of John Henry Mackay.pg. 7 . 2019-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032544/http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Hubert_kennedy.pdf . 2016-03-04 . dead .
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82. Web site: J.3 What kinds of organisation do anarchists build? Anarchist Writers. anarchism.pageabode.com. 2019-01-31.
83. http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secJ3.html#secj32 "J.3.2 What are "synthesis" federations?"
84. "The remedy has been found: libertarian communism."http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=3280Sébastien Faure. "Libertarian Communism"
85. Jeremy Jennings, Syndicalism in France (St Martin's Press, 1990)
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