Anarchism

Anarchism
No gods, no masters! There are no rules!
Basic Information
Aliases	Anarchism without adjectives Anarcho-Centrism Anarchy Chaosism (Pejoratively) Granny Annie Mama Annie Mother Anarchy Mummy Anarchy Mother Of all Things Anarchist Third Generation of the Political Defined Left (According to Gustavo Bueno and his followers) Lost in 1945-ism
Alignments	LibUnity Anarchists
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Jacobinism Mutualism
Influenced	Anarcho-Capitalism Anarcho-Communism Anarcho-Conservatism Anarcho-Fascism Anarcho-Individualism Anarcho-Monarchism Anarcho-Naturism Anarcho-Nihilism Anarcho-Primitivism Anarcho-Syndicalism Anarcho-Totalitarianism Buddhist Anarchism Catholic Workerism Christian Anarchism Techno-Anarchism Independence Anarchism Islamic Anarchism Jewish Anarchism Left-Wing Market Anarchism Panarchism Synthesis Anarchism
Ideological Information
Notable Theorists	This list of theorists contains "Right-Wing Anarchists", as the site considers the term, and other influential figures that aren't exactly anarchists. Europe William Godwin (1756-1836) UK Max Stirner (1806-1856) German Confederation (Not declared) Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), France Benoît Jules Mure (1809-1858) France Anselme Bellegarrigue (1813-1869) France Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), Russia Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) Belgium Joseph Déjacque (1821-1864) France Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russia Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) France François "Ravachol" Claudius Koënigstein (1859-1892) France Teobaldo Nieva (1834-1894) Spain Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) UK Dmitry Pisarev (1840-1868) Imperial Russia Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) Russia Carlo Cafiero (1846-1892) Italy Emilio Covelli (1846-1915) Italy Errico Malatesta (1853-1932) Italy Andrea Antonio Baldassarre Costa (1851-1910) Italy Jean Grave (1854-1939) France Émile Pouget (1860-1931) France Fritz Kater (1861-1945) Germany John Henry Mackay (1864-1933) Germany Gaetano Bresci (1869 - 1901) Italy Emma Goldman (1869-1940) Lithuania Alexander Berkman (1870-1936) USA/ Russia/ USSR Émile Armand (1872-1963) France Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958), Germany Adolf Brand (1874-1945) Germany Milly Witkop (1877-1955) Russia Martin Buber (1878-1965) Austria-Hungary Dora Marsden (1882-1960) England François Le Levé (1882-1945) France Etta Federn (1883-1951) Austria/ France Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Austria-Hungary Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) Ukraine Miguel Giménez Igualada (1888-1973) France Boris Yelensky (1889-1974) Russia Jan Wacław Machajski, 1899, Poland Renzo Novatore (1890-1922) Italy Herbert Read (1893-1968) England Gregori Maximoff (1893-1950) Russia Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) Germany Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936) Spain Halyna Kuzmenko (1897-1978) Germany/ France/ Russia/ USSR Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) Spain George Orwell (1903-1950) UK Daniel Guérin (1904-1988) France Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) France Ramón Álvarez Palomo (1913-2003) Austria Albert Camus (1913-1960) France Luis Mercier-Vega (1914-1977) Belgium Joaquín Delgado Martínez (1934-1963) Spain Alexey Dobrovolsky (1938-2013) USSR/ Russia Josep Asens Giol (19??-1985) Spain Raoul Vaneigem (1934-) Belgium Jacques Camatte (1935-) France Éric Hazan (1936-) France André Bernard (1937-) France Alfredo M. Bonanno (1937-) Italy Henri Lepage (1941-) France Aníbal Tobón (1947-2016) Colombia/ Sweden Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949-) Germany Alan Moore (1953-) UK Saul Newman (1972-) UK Lars Kragh Andersen (1980-) Jonas Nilsson (?-) Americas Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) USA Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) USA Emilio Arana (18??-1901) Argentina José Oiticica (1822-1957) Brazil Johann Most (1846-1906) Germany/ USA Michael Schwab (1853-1898) USA Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912), USA Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) USA Benjamin R. Tucker (1854-1939) USA Ricardo Flores Magón (1874-1922) Mexico Domingos Passos (18??-19??) Brazil Mario Anderson Pacheco (18??-1933) Argentina Gregorio Inglán Lafarga (18??-1929) Argentina Biófilo Panclasta (1879-1942) Colombia Martín Castro (1882-1971) Argentina James L. Walker (1845-1904) USA José María Vargas Vila (1860-1933) Colombia Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas (1887-1933) Peru Maria Lacerda de Moura (1887-1945) Brazil Dorothy Day (1897-1980), 1915, USA Petronila Infantes (1911-1991) Bolivia Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) USA Martin Sostre (1923-2015) USA Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) USA Noam Chomsky (1928-) USA Gary Snyder (1930-) USA Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), USA Jan Narveson (1936-) USA/ Canada Walter Block (1941-) USA John Zerzan (1943-) USA Hakim Bey (1945-2022), USA Kuwasi Balagoon (1946-1986) USA Samuel Edward Konkin III (1947-2004) USA Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (1947-) USA Llewellyn Rockwell (1944-) USA Carl Watner (1948-) USA Mary J. Ruwart (1949-) USA Wendy McElroy (1951-) Canada Miriam "Starhawk" Simos (1951-) USA Bob Black (1951-), USA J. Neil Schulman (1953-2019) USA Janet Biehl (1953-) USA Ashanti Alston (1954-) USA Chris Hedges (1956-) USA Vermin Supreme (1960-) USA David Graeber (1961-2020) USA Marius Manson (1962-) USA Kevin Carson (1963-), USA Roderick T. Long (1964-) USA João F. Benedan "João Gordo" (1964-) Brazil Stephan Kinsella (1965-) USA Stefan Molyneux (1966-) Canada Peter Turguniev (1968-) Brazil Max Cavaleira (1969-) Brazil Brad Will (1970-2006) USA Jack Donnovan (1974-) USA Tim Moen (1973/74-) Canada Peter T. Leeson (1979-) USA Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks "JPEGMAFIA" (1989-) USA Dave Smith (1982-) USA Sergio Urrego (1997-2014) Colombia Ronald Rivera Calderón (?-1971) Chile Aragorn! (?-2020) USA Wolfi Landstreicher (-) USA Taleed TJ. Brown (?-) USA Lipton Matthews Jr. (?-) USA Raphaël Lima (?-) Brazil Andrew Sage "Andrewnism" Trinidad and Tobago (?-) Zoé Samudzi (?-) Zimbabwe/ USA Taleed Brown (-?) Asia/ Oceania Shin Chae-ho (1880-1936) Korea Jun Tsuji (1884-1944), Japan Ōsugi Sakae (1885-1923) Japan Kanson Arahata (1887-1981) Japan Kim Chwa-chin (1889-1930) Korea Pak Yol (1902-1974) Korea Fumiko Kaneko (1903-1926) Japan Karen Alexander (1948-) Australia
Notable Examples	Past Republic of Cospaia (1440-1826) Diggers (1649-1650) Utopia (1847-1875) Modern Times (1851–1864) Canton of Cartagena (1872-1873) Cecília Colony (1890–1893) Home (1895–1905) Strandzha Commune (1903-1903) Baja Rebellion (1911-1911) Morelos Commune (1913-1917) Soviet Republic of Naissaar (1917-1918) Makhnovshchina (1918-1921) Patagonia Rebelde (1920-1922) Tambov Rebellion (1920-1921) Stapleton Colony (1921-2016) Kronstadt Rebellion (1921-1921) Life and Labor (1921-1939) Shinmin Prefecture (1929-1931) Revolutionary Catalonia (1936-1939) Regional Defence Council of Aragon (1936-1937) People's Republic of Korea (1945-1946) Oaxaca City (2006) Active Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement (1958-) Freetown Christiania (1971-) Exarcheia (1973-) CIPO-RFM (1980-) Dignity Village (2000-) Zone to Defend (2009-) Cherán (2011-)
Character Information
Likes	Her family Comforting her depressive sons Stopping fights between AnCom and AnCap Protecting AnPac from InsAn Her open relationship with Mutualist Anti-hierarchy organizations Sex Self determination Drugs Protesting Punk Rock Molotovs (when AnPac is not watching) Old Europeans W/ Beards
Dislikes	The State Statists Archies Fascists Authoritarians Tocracies Other Authorities
Song	Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons Baby, I'm an Anarchist! The ABCs of Anarchism The World Revolving Anarkia Oi! we are becoming desensitized to violence Crucificados Pelo Sistema Anarchy In The U.K - The Sex Pistols Ni Dios Ni Amo - El Noi del Sucre Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Soundtrack - 04. I'm My Own Master Now (Platinum Mix) I'm a Better Anarchist Than You - David Rovics L'Amour Anarchiste

Anarchism, also known as Anarchy, Anarchy without Adjectives or Mother Anarchy, is an ideology inhabiting the bottom of the political compass that advocates for a society without rulers or constituted authority, with a focus on the notion of freedom. One universal and defining aspect of anarchism is opposition to "the state" and centralized bureaucratic governance which they consider to be unjust.

Apart from this defining principle however, anarchists tend to diverge on several key issues (mostly regarding the organization of revolutionary struggle, the subject of anarchist critique and economic issues). Many left-wing anarchists consider anarchism to be in stark opposition and contrast to all vertically organized institutions (or all hierarchical institutions, basically) which manifests in various forms ( opposition to the capitalist mode of production, opposition to patriarchal hierarchy, opposition to anthropocentric hierarchy, opposition to heteronormative hierarchy etc.) and support left-wing notions of freedom such as sexual liberation and class liberation whereas right-wing anarchists consider anarchism to simply be the ultimate negation of the state and and bureaucracy and support certain right-wing notions of freedom such as free trade and freedom of the community and its culture from foreign influence. There are also individualist anarchists who believe anarchism to believe the ideology which places the liberation of the individual as its central focus and supports ideas such as self-sufficiency (although this type of rhetoric is common on both the left and right of anarchism with most individualist anarchists, who do not believe in either left-wing or right-wing beliefs, associating with post-left anarchism or egoist anarchism). Ultimately, the definition of anarchism is quite loose and can be used within several contexts, which is why it is have been synthesized with most mainstream and esoteric ideologies.

She is the mother of countless anarchist ideologies and is known to love all of her children except for some failed children. Unlike most other balls, whose gender is undefined, Anarchism is always female and wears a grey bow, as a reference to the Russo-Ukrainian anarchist song, Анархия-мама Сынов Своих Любит (Eng: Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons).[1]

History

Proto-Anarchism

The etymological roots of anarchism come from Ancient Greek (as with several political vocabulary) and roughly translate to "without rulers" and has existed in the English language since 1642. Yet despite this and the fact that Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first to call himself an anarchist, many scholars like to envision earlier philosophies as being a sort of "proto-anarchism".

Some such as Harold Barclay and David Graeber claim that before the existence of society, all humans lived in a state of anarchy (a state that would later be envisioned by anarcho-primitivists). The ancient philosophies of Taoist sages such as Lao Tzu and Zhuang Zhou as well as the Greek philosophies of the Cynics and the Stoics have often been portrayed as anarchic by certain scholars. Aristippus, one of the pupils of Socrates can also be considered one of the forerunners of anarchist thought due to his beliefs about rule and autonomy.

During the Middle Ages, various theological strains of Islam and Christianity developed that had anarchistic qualities such as the Mu'tazilite and Kharijites in Persia (who are considered by historian David Goodway to be a part of the historical anarchist tradition) and anticlerical movements such as the Brethren of the Free Spirit and proto-Protestants such as the Hussites. Historian James Joll describes this as the rise of a strand of anarchism based in the theological, zealotic and ascetic critique of institutions.

The early modern era in Europe saw the development of both secular anti-authoritarian thought as well as the divergence of anti-authoritarian theology within Christianity as part of the greater Renaissance and Reformation respectively. Several French thinkers used the concept of 'utopia' to bypass censorship and project their libertine political views, examples include François Rabelais, Gabriel de Foigny and François Fénelon. During the English Civil War, Diggers such as Gerrard Winstanley would develop a proto-communalistic view of society preaching values such as absolute egalitarianism, communal ownership of property and socioeconomic organization in small agrarian communities based on the Bible. Alongside this religious egalitarianism, more libertarian philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau would go on to develop understandings of freedom and equality that would strongly resonate with later anarchists.

WIP

The start of the Anarchist Theory

Anarchism has been used as a term a long time ago, and used to mean simply "without rulers", deriving from the greek word ἀναρχος (anarkhos), with great emphasis on its use during the French Revolution by Robespierre to disqualify more radical groups like the enragés, a group which inspired Socialism as a whole, but the term had mostly a negative connotation. The ideology took shape after Pierre-Joseph Proudhon self proclaimed himself as an anarchist formally, and because of the word's ambiguity, based his theory on organizing a society based on Anti-Authoritarianism and Socialism, and although he had differences with later Anarchists ideologies (a lot because of his emphasis on Market Socialism and individualism), still he laid the basic foundations of Anarchism. During the XVII century, different branches truly developed even more the ideology, to the way we're accustomed to in the Modern Age, Anarchism took two different paths, a more Marxist analysis, with notable names like Mikhail Bakunin and the Anarcho-Collectivism, Piotr Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta with Anarcho-Communism and the Social Anarchism umbrella term, for the more collectively minded anarchists ideologies, in contrast with the individually minded anarchists such as Benjamin Tucker and Lysander Spooner, marking as well economical differences, between Left-Wing Market Anarchism, or Mutualism and Gift Economy, and sparkling the first forms of Right-Anarchism in the end of the century, inspired by Austrian School, Chicago School and Libertarianism in general, as infamously Anarcho-Capitalism.

Anti-Capitalist or Not?

The first individuals to describe themselves as Anarchists without adjectives were thoroughly anti-capitalist, with Anarchist without Adjectives Voltairine de Cleyre saying in 1907:

The hells of capitalism create the desperate; the desperate act - desperately!

Malatesta, Errico, "Towards Anarchy" in: Turcato, Davide (ed.) 2014, "The Method of Freedom, AK Press, pp. 299

But it's important to take into consideration the meaning of the terms employed. Voltairine, after all, also said:

(Anarchists) are firm in the idea that the system of employer and employed, buying and selling, banking, and all the other essential institutions of Commercialism, centred upon private property, are in themselves good, and are rendered vicious merely by the interference of the State.

Voltairine de Cleyre, Anarchism. Originally published in Free Society, 13 October 1901. Published in Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre, edited by Sharon Presley, SUNY Press 2005, p. 224.

However historical context is necessary, as these statements predate modern Anarcho-Capitalism, and with modern Anarchists without adjectives such as Fred Woodworth instead saying:

I have no prefix or adjective for my anarchism. I think syndicalism can work, as can free-market anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, even anarcho-hermits, depending on the situation.

Fred Woodworth, An essay by Fred Woodworth in Avrich, Paul (2006). Anarchist Voices. Stirling: AK Press. p. 475.

Personality and Behaviour

Anarchy is a mother and therefore portrays quite motherly traits within the comics, but because she is anarchist, she can be quite lax in her parenting.

How to Draw

Flag of Anarchism

1. Draw a ball,
2. Fill it with dark, but not pure, black,
3. Draw a white circle with an 'A' in the middle,
4. Add a grey bow to the top,
5. Add the eyes, and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#202020	32, 32, 32
	White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255
	Grey	#434343	67, 67, 67

International Relations

Since world doesn't have any worldwide government, many theorists of international relations studies use the word anarchy to describe the order of the international system—independent states with no central authority above them. On this foundation was developed 4 schools of thought: Realism, Neorealism , Liberalism, Neoliberalism.

Relationships

Friendly (literally every anarchist)

• Mother Anarchy loves and the rest of her children.
• Autarchy - Even though you are not going as far as me, you're still my bestie.
• Mutualism - Dad, the original anarchist! <3 <3 <3
• Anti-Authoritarianism - A great moderate friend of mine.
• Direct Democracy - Best form of democracy.
• Democratic Confederalism - Non-anarchist but I support him in Syria.
• Diggerism - You fought the state, inequality, and clergy.
• Neozapatismo - You did good work in Mexico.
• Platformism - Your organization's obsession is cancer but Makhnovia was based.

Frenemies

• All libertarian ideologies - Distrust of the state? Good, but why do you want to keep it?
• Minarcho-Socialism & Minarchism - You hate the state even more yet you still want to keep it?
• Anarcho-Monarchism - My weird monarchist child.
• Hoppeanism - Even weirder monarcho-capitalist son.
• Anarcho-Fascism - What!?
• Federalism & Confederalism - Every local town, city, commune, etc. should have self-determination, but become anti-authority as a whole and we're good.
• Anarcho-Totalitarianism - Ok, I think this is starting to become a serious problem.
• Anti-Fascism - You hate fascists, yet you don't fully embrace Anti-Authoritarianism. Curious.
• Avaritionism - You took correct ideas, but your mental illness stands in your way to establish social bonds with other people and form a voluntary association that will help everyone in their long-term goals.
• Soulism - Getting rid of the laws of physics?! Odd and too utopian. Also, stop being so lazy and escapist loner, and think about something more realistic.
• Hydrarchy - You don't call yourself an anarchist, but your society really wasn't bad, to be honest.
• Anti-Japaneseism - Destroying the Japanese state? What about destroying all states? Also advocating for ethnic genocide is a pretty weird thing for an anarchist to do.
• Libertarian Possibilism - You can't abolish the state with reforms.
• Mao-Spontex - Huh?
• Futurism - Oh wow, you are... certainly interesting.... why are you following me?
• Marxism - You criticized me multiple times and you also kicked him out of the First Internationale. However, you also influenced one of my most successful son.
• Contrarianism - Likes to oppose the status quo like me, but for the sake of it. And I worry that you will also turn your back on me if I become the status quo too which will never happen.

Statists

• Fascism - Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everyone against the State. Now piss off! I'll forget that he exists
• Marxism–Leninism - I DON'T CARE IF YOU'LL "DISSOLVE", FUCK OFF!
• Totalitarianism - MY ARCH-NEMESIS! (Was going to do the same with them but too lazy.)
• Ingsoc - DON'T TOUCH ME!
• Authoritarianism - FUCK OFF GOVERNMENT!
• Police Statism - TAKE THE BULLET, PIG!
• Autocracy - LITERAL TYRANNY!
• American Model - The most oppressive regime in human history
• Kleptocracy - "No criminal enterprise in human history, an enterprise of theft, murder, and genocide has ever been successful as the state."
• Hobbessianism - You see the state exactly what it is, but want to keep it.
• Ethnonationalism - I hate EthnoSTATE's!!
• State Liberalism - DRINK YOUR OWN CORN SYRUP!
• State Atheism - I don't care if you're an atheist, you're still a STATIST!
• Theocracies - You use religion as a tool to build oppressive cults
• Absolute Monarchism - GUILLOTINE, NOW!
• Aristocracy - Kill all elites!
• Authoritarian Capitalism - Another archenemy!
• Financialism - Burn all banks down!
• Cameralism - Centralized economy for state's profit? Nightmare!
• Corporatocracy - Eat the molotov, pig!
• Fourth Theory - Totalitarian imperialist!
• Francoism - You killed anarchists in Spain, fascist scum!
• Kraterocracy - One of the most terrible ideologies.
• Hive-Mind Collectivism - Same as above but with a "collective" mask
• Kritarchy - You will not judge us!
• Monarcho-Fascism - AAAAHHHH!!!
• Ochlocracy - This is not anarchy, it's just tyranny!
• State Capitalism - Worst economy!
• Stratocracy - NO.
• Timocracy - Fuck landlords!
• Centralism - Fuck centralization!
• Lys Noir - Absolutely worst fake anarchist, the only thing I can consider anarchist in your ideology is decentralization.
• Odalism - At least you don't call yourself an anarchist like the guy above.
• Illuminatism - Anarchism worked on a grand scale, how many more people do I need to unite to prove you wrong?
• Kakistocracy - THIS IS WHAT EVERY GOVERNMENT BOILS DOWN TO! People who never read any of my philosophers think I'm you.

Further Information

Literature

• What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• An Anarchist FAQ
• Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
• The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer
• Tao Te Ching by Laozi
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• Critique of Democracy by Moxie Marlinspike and Windy Hart

Wikipedia

• Anarchism without adjectives
• Anarchism
• Anarchy
• Outline of Anarchism
• Anarchist Schools of Thought
• Issues in Anarchism
• History of Anarchism
• Anarchist Economics
• List of Anarchist Movements by Region
• Stateless Society
• Spontaneous Order

Videos

• Various schools of Anarchism explained with tacos by Srsly Wrong
• Alan Moore on Anarchism
• A Conversation With Anarchist David Graeber
• Chomsky explaining real anarchism
• POST-CAPITALISM: A Detailed Look at How It Could Work by LuckyBlackCat

YouTube Channels

• Anarco Cabritinho
• Anarco Individualismo
• Anark
• Antimídia
• Andrewnism
• Binho Silver - AnarcoBall
• Canal do Betão
• LuckyBlackCat
• O Mutualista
• Spookast
• Thought Slime
• Zoe Baker

Online Communities

• r/Anarchism
• r/Anarchy101
• DebateAnarchy
• r/NoRules
• 2b2t (Minecraft server)
• 4Chan/8Chan (Before /Pol)

International Organizations

• International of Anarchist Federations
• International Workers' Association
• Anarkismo

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