As one of the best-known examples of a modern anarchist organization, the Occupy movement opposeseconomic inequalityresulting from what its members consider cases of “false democracy.” Inspired in part by theArab Springuprisings of 2011, the Occupy movement strives to advance economic equality and...
Can anarchist societies provide a viable alternative to traditional forms of governance? Pros and cons of deterrence theory in contemporary international relations Comparing the impact of the French Revolution and World War II on the political landscape of Europe The role of the ruling political party...
Anarchistand activist anthropologist David Graeber offers a reason why majoritarian democratic government is so rare in the historical record. He suggests that majoritarianism democracy cannot exist unless two factors coincide: “1. a feeling that people should have equal say in making group decisions,...
the social Darwinists would intrude and intervene claiming it to be against the natural processes. They would claim that biological selection is always in favor of unrestricted and cut-throat competition between biological beings. Hence, human societies too, need to be in continuous...
Neither Tolstoy’s religion nor his pacifism was shared by the earlier flamboyant Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, who held that religion, capitalism, and the state are forms of oppression that must be smashed if people are ever to be free. As he stated in an early essay, “The Reaction ...
Radical feminists challenged the single-minded focus on suffrage as the sine qua non of women’s liberation.Emma Goldman, the nation’s leading anarchist, mocked the notion that the ballot could secure equality for women, since it hardly accomplished that for the majority of American men. Women...
Some scholars take a stringent libertarian, even anarchist, position on such matters: Political authority is onlylegitimateinsofar as it is grounded in the express consent of those affected by its exercise. Others allow that some actions can be taken as evidence ofimplicitagreement, but they nonethe...