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    A Study Guide for Political Theories for Students: ANARCHISM
    A Study Guide for Political Theories for Students: ANARCHISM
    A Study Guide for Political Theories for Students: ANARCHISM
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    A Study Guide for Political Theories for Students: ANARCHISM

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    Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study guide examines major political theories and is organized into the following easily digestible sections: overview, history, theory in depth, theory in action, analysis and critical response, topics for further study, and bibliography.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJan 27, 2015
    ISBN9781535831031
    A Study Guide for Political Theories for Students: ANARCHISM

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      Political Theories for Students

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      Anarchism

      OVERVIEW

      The political theory of anarchism revolves around the ideal of noncoercion. Born with the rise of the nation–states in the eighteenth century, anarchism has developed four major strains including muualism, anarcho–individualism, anarcho–socialism, and anarcho–communism. In the late twentieth century, anarchism has been adapted to the student, women's, and environmentalist movements, among others. Anarchism has spawned experimental communities, peaceful protest, violent rebellion, and a wide and varied literature dedicated to the achievement of human liberty.

      HISTORY

      Popular use of the term anarchy tends to portray an image of chaos, of bombs and fires and looting, of crisis overtaking order. Hollywood dystopias and fringe rock bands have played into this stereotype with glee. Although some anarchists desired political revolution over political reform, many advocated peace. Equating anarchy with chaos obscures a rich and serious tradition of political thought and the subtle variations that have evolved from it.

      The ideas of anarchism began in the distant past. When Plato (428–348 B.C.) wrote his Republic in the fourth century B.C., he advocated a centralized government coordinating a communist society; his fellow Greek philosopher Zeno (c. 335–c. 263 B.C.), founder of the Stoa school, responded by championing a stateless society as the ideal way for humans to live together. The absence of government described by Zeno might be called one of the earliest articulations of anarchism. This theme found repetition among different peoples and eras for centuries.

      WHO CONTROLS GOVERNMENT? No government, the people rule

      HOW IS GOVERNMENT PUT INTO POWER? Not applicable

      WHAT ROLES DO THE PEOPLE HAVE? Keep informed; challenge any authority

      WHO CONTROLS PRODUCTION OF GOODS? The people

      WHO CONTROLS DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS? The people

      MAJOR FIGURES Emma Goldman; Mikhail Bukunin

      HISTORICAL EXAMPLE Anti–globalization movement of late 1990s

      CHRONOLOGY:

      1793: William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice is published.

      1840: What Is Property? by Pierre–Joseph Proudhon appears.

      1843: Phalanx, New Jersey, becomes the first Fourierist experimental community.

      1852: Josiah Warren's Practical Details in Equitable Commerce appears.

      1879: Peter Kropotkin founds the journal Le Révolté in Switzerland.

      1881: Benjamin Tucker founds the newspaper Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

      1882: Mikhail Bakunin's God and the State is published.

      1923: Emma Goldman's My Further Disillusionment with Russia appears.

      1927:

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