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...
It is important to point out that these examples are of wide-scale social experiments and do not imply that we ignore the undercurrent of anarchist practice which exists in everyday life, even under capitalism. Both Peter Kropotkin (inMutual Aid) and Colin Ward (inAnarchy in Action) have doc...
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 way anarchists viewed the phrasesurvival of the fittestwas again different from social Darwinists. There was one Russian anarchist named Peter Kropotkin who explained the concept of survival of the fittest as a supporting tool (cooperation) and not as a competitive tool. ...
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...
3. Self-Construction Policies One of the ways of foreseeing the construction of popular houses on the periphery of cities has been through so-called "self-construction policies". From the 1960s and 1970s onwards, the "self-construction policies" meant that societies, politicians and professionals...
from the beginning of the 20th Century [9] and in the self-construction proposal of John Turner‘s “Housing by people: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments (1976), which was a result of the English tradition of Anarchist urbanism and defending poor neighbourhoods, introduced by Colin Ward...