One of the strangest things most anarchists become aware of when they go on-line is the existence of self-proclaimed capitalist “anarchists.” Mostly based in North America, this ideology claims to be anarchist while, at the same time, vigorously supporting laissez-faire capitalism. For almost all anarchists, this seems an utter oxymoron. …
Brainpolice To begin with, let me define my terms here. By “thin” libertarianism I refer to the treatment of the non-aggression principle as a groundless axoim, and as the only value that is relevant to libertarianism, beyond which point all other values are treated as either irrelevant or equal in …
source “It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it…” –Benjamin R. Tucker, 1888 “State Socialism and Anarchism” In the Capitalist social order, the great vast majority of people must take orders daily from their …
Benjamin R. Tucker 1888 SSA.1 Probably no agitation has ever attained the magnitude, either in the number of its recruits or the area of its influence, which has been attained by Modern Socialism, and at the same time been so little understood and so misunderstood, not only by the hostile and …
source just the intro is below: Introduction: The Recent Revival of Spontaneous Order B.1 The theory of spontaneous order has a long tradition in the history of social thought, yet it would be true to say that, until the last decade, it was all but eclipsed in the social science …
George H. Smith source Anarchism is a theory of the good society, in which justice and social order are maintained without the State (or government). Many anarchists in the libertarian movement (including myself) were heavily influenced by the epistemological and moral theories of Ayn Rand. According to these anarchists, Rand’s principles, …
Four Reasons for Humanistic Psychologists to Advocate Anarchism Dennis R. Fox 1986 Transformations, 2(1), 17-23 I wrote this short paper for my first American Psychological Association conference in 1984. Eight people showed up for the early morning session. They smiled. The paper was published by a now-defunct journal put out by the Society …
Noam Chomsky Taken from “For Reasons of State”, 1970 See more of Chomsky’s reflections on Anarchism @ www.zmag.org/chomsky/interviews/ A French writer, sympathetic to anarchism, wrote in the 1890s that “anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything”—including, he noted those whose acts are such that “a mortal enemy …
source Over at “Instead of a Blog”, Roman Pearah made a response to a statement by Stephan Kinsella about left-libertarians. I’d like to add the thoughts that this invokes for me on top of this. Firstly, it seems very obvious that Kinsella is engaging in some serious package-dealing, which I can only assume …
Roger Kropotkin* There is a great deal of confusion among anarchists in terms of what anarchism is and, more importantly, what anarchism is not. It is all too common for anarchists to mistake tactics for principles. Even worse, some mistake opponents for allies. Many anarchists need to be reminded that …