anarchism

One of the key persons who greatly influenced fascism, the French revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel was greatly influenced by anarchism and contributed to the fusion of anarchism and syndicalism together into anarcho syndicalism.

On anarchism, Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier: " I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

* Christian anarchism

* Egoist anarchism

Hierarchies and hierarchical thinking has been criticized by many people, including Susan McClary and one political philosophy which is vehemently opposed to hierarchical organization: anarchism is generally opposed to hierarchical organization in any form of human relations.

In this setting Michael Bakunin would emerge as the father of anarchism.

This represented the ascendancy of anarchism in Russia as a powerful revolutionary force.

Individualist anarchism refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and his or her will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems.

Individualist anarchism is not a single philosophy but refers to a group of individualistic philosophies that sometimes are in conflict.

Among the early influences on individualist anarchism were William Godwin, Henry David Thoreau ( transcendentalism ), Josiah Warren (" sovereignty of the individual "), Lysander Spooner (" natural law "), Pierre Joseph Proudhon ( mutualism ), Anselme Bellegarrigue, Herbert Spencer (" law of equal liberty "), and Max Stirner ( egoism ).

Individualist anarchism of different kinds have a few things in common.

The view that relationships with other persons or things can be in one's own interest only and can be as transitory and without compromises as desired since in individualist anarchism sacrifice is usually rejected.

The egoist form of individualist anarchism, derived from the philosophy of Max Stirner, supports the individual doing exactly what he pleases – taking no notice of God, state, or moral rules.

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster, american individualist anarchism " stresses the isolation of the individual — his right to his own tools, his mind, his body, and to the products of his labor.

To the artist who embraces this philosophy it is " aesthetic " anarchism, to the reformer, ethical anarchism, to the independent mechanic, economic anarchism.

The economic anarchist is concerned with constructing a society on the basis of anarchism.

" It is for this reason that it has been suggested that in order to understand American individualist anarchism one must take into account " the social context of their ideas, namely the transformation of America from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist society ... the non-capitalist nature of the early U. S. can be seen from the early dominance of self-employment ( artisan and peasant production ).

" and so " Individualist anarchism is clearly a form of artisanal socialism ... while communist anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism are forms of industrial ( or proletarian ) socialism.

In European individualist anarchism a different social context helped the rise of European individualist illegalism and as such " The illegalists were proletarians who had nothing to sell but their labour power, and nothing to discard but their dignity ; if they disdained waged-work, it was because of its compulsive nature.

" And so a European tendency of individualist anarchism advocated violent individual acts of individual reclamation, propaganda by the deed and criticism of organization.

In France, Spain, and the United States, individualistic anarchists committed acts of terrorism that gave anarchism its reputation as a violently sinister conspiracy.