Anarchism core ideas/ key beliefs/ principles
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- Anarchism core ideas/ key beliefs/ principles
- The soveriegnty of the individual
- each individual is independent and free from any other individual/organisation
- If given free will, we will form our own natural communities which run in our own interests.
- Bakunin however, felt that due to NATURAL LAW, we have a naturally social nature.
- We have a right to INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, noone can exercise power over another
- each individual is independent and free from any other individual/organisation
- The Nature of liberty
- We are all born FREE
- Anarchists reject negative liberty
- This is because they do not believe in any EXTERNAL RESTRAINT
- They hold optimistic view of human nature
- Godwin named it "Private judgement" or internal restraint
- This means that we don't need laws to govern us as we have our own internal restraint
- Godwin felt that we could all become perfectly rational/moral humans with the right education.
- Godwin named it "Private judgement" or internal restraint
- Critique of the state
- The state is corrupting
- The state is unnatural
- The state removes freedom
- The state is oppressive
- The state is corrupting
- Critique of private property
- Some anarchists, such as anarcho capitalists (nozick) accept private property
- Proudhon felt that it was a necessary evil/justified as long as distribution of property is not too unequal
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- Critique of capitalism
- Anarcho capitalists support freee market capitalism
- Anarchists see it as root of social inequality
- Because it exploits people, therefore hindering TRUE FREEDOM.
- Bakunin and Kropotkin saw the workers as victims of this in its truest sense.
- Because it exploits people, therefore hindering TRUE FREEDOM.
- The soveriegnty of the individual
- We are all born FREE
- The state is oppressive
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