Anarcho-Conservatism

Anarcho-Conservatism, shortened to AnCon, is an ideology occupying a variable position in bottom 2 quadrants that advocates for a stateless society that upholds Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Traditional values and respects traditional hierarchies.

Conceptions and History

Religious Conservative Anarchism

The term 'conservative anarchism has been used in regard to a number of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationreligious anarchists who support conservative cultural doctrines and norms out of religious belief. The core of these types of thinkers have been Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationChristian notably Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationCatholic but also have included Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationJewish figures, it could theoretically include practically any religious doctrine.

Jewish

One of the earliest people the term has been used to refer to has been the pre-Mishnaic Jewish rabbinic sage Shemaiah, who instructed in Avot 1:10 to 'Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government.'

Another Jewish anarcho-conservative figure includes the third century rabbi Gamaliel III who instructed in Avot 2:3 to 'Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it is beneficial to them, but they do not stand by a person at the time of his distress.'

Christian

One of the first Christians to be regarded to be described as such is the spiritual leader and author Peter Chelcicky who influenced the Bohemian Reformation. Chelcicky supported non-violence as a social principle and believed that '... he who obeys God needs no other authority.'^[1] with the full quote being:

The Church, having lost the capacity for patience and long-suffering, has also lost God. Authority based on compulsion and the love of Christ are incompatible terms. The state sovereignty does not admit the possibility of standing under the moral judgment of God. But he who obeys God needs no other authority. “Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”[356] For the deeds of faith consist in loving God and one’s neighbor, and the fullness of the law is love; the secular authority cannot produce this love by its sword, but it descends from above from the Father of Lights into the hearts of good will to whom it is a delight to love God, to do His will, and to obey His commandments.
Peter Chelcicky, The Net of Faith (1443)

Chelcicky is also regarded as an early Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationChristian communist.^[2]

Bourgeois Conservative Anarchism

The term 'Conservative Anarchism' has been used to describe a set of views which combine the support of values commonly associated with the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationbourgeois socio-economic class while also being sceptical towards the power of the state, including but not limited to: private property, a strict work ethic and nuclear or nuclear-like family structures.

One of the first uses of the term with this definition in mind have been in the relation to the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationclassical liberal thinker Herbert Spencer, with Russian Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationmarxist theorist Georgi Plekhanov calling him '... nothing but a conservative Anarchist" in his book Anarchism and Socialism^[3]. With the full quote being:

The “father of Anarchy”, the “immortal” Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationProudhon, bitterly mocked at those people for whom the revolution consisted of acts of violence, the exchange of blows, the shedding of blood. The descendants of the “father”, the modern Anarchists, understand by revolution only this brutally childish method. Everything that is not violence is a betrayal of the cause, a foul compromise with “authority”. The sacred bourgeoisie does not know what to do against them. In the domain of theory they are absolutely impotent with regard to the Anarchists, who are their own “enfants terribles”. The bourgeoisie was the first to propagate the theory of “laissez faire”, of dishevelled individualism. Their most eminent philosopher of today, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationHerbert Spencer, is nothing but a conservative Anarchist. The “companions” are active and zealous persons, who carry the bourgeois reasoning to its logical conclusion.
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov, Anarchism and Socialism (1895)

This later meaning was later used to describe the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationOld Right libertarian author Albert Jay Nock, who favoured a form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationphilosophical anarchism while also being a staunch supporter of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationclassical liberalism believing the so-called 'Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationliberalism' of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationFranklin Delano Roosevelt was a betrayal of the doctrine. Nock was the first person to use the term 'Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationlibertarian' within a right-wing context.

One of the most well-known supporters of this type of anarcho-conservatism is the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationGerman economist of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationAustrian school Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationHans-Hermann Hoppe.

Personality and Behavior

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Further Information

Literature

Articles

References

↑ The Net of Faith, Chapter 26 by Peter Chelcicky
↑ Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation, p. 105-106 by Karl Kautsky
↑ The Bourgeois, Anarchism, and Socialism by Georgi Plekhanov

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[1] The Net of Faith, Chapter 26 by Peter Chelcicky

[2] Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation, p. 105-106 by Karl Kautsky

[3] The Bourgeois, Anarchism, and Socialism by Georgi Plekhanov

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