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diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the
greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in
the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment,
it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has
failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its
own creation."
- Emma Goldman
this emma goldman quote explains perfectly the anarchist motive, to fight
what they consider the worst of the worst criminal, The Government.
Anarchism
Anarchy is defined by dictionary.com to be
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of
the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
3. a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political
ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and
groups as the principal mode of organized society.
4. confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.
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The philosophy goes on to say that humans are social beings and as social
beings they will gather into societies that share their views, and even
though they have no government the people will live by a moral and ethical
code that will allow them to stay in that society. thus creating order
The Origin of Anarchism
William Godwin
Edmund Burke
centered particularly around the ideals of William Godwin although William Godwin was inspired by some of
the ideas Voiced by Edmund Burke in his essay A Vindication of Natural Society
In Which, Edmund Burke asserts that the rise of civil society is often accompanied by misery and suffering he
upholds his opinions by contrasting it to the enlightenment notion of a natural society. a natural society by
enlightenment views was basically the romantic view of nature made to fit humans
i n An Inquiry concerning Politcal Justice he argued that government is a corrupting force in society, perpetuating
dependence and ignorance, but that it will be rendered increasingly unnecessary and powerless by the gradual spread
of knowledge.
and in
He might sound familiar, because his daughter was mary Godwin later to
become mary shelley
Pierre Proudhon (Jan,15,1809 - Jan,19,1865)
Although Anarchy has mostly been experienced when a country falls into a leaderless
state there have been a very few times that countries and societies have been made into
or have just developed into a anarchistic society. For instance most tribal hunter gatherer
societies are or were anarchistic in nature because they had no formal leadership.
Rhode Island
Links To Today
Today anarchists are active at almost every political protest and
at human rights rallies.