ANARCHISM AND THE STATE

Question 1

Areas of agreement over the state in terms of rejection

Answer 1

The state should be rejected in any form as it is unjust, controlling, coercive and corrupting

Question 2

Areas of agreement over the state in terms of society

Answer 2

Without a state there will be a society of natural order and harmony

Question 3

Areas of agreement over the state in terms of liberty

Answer 3

The rejection of the state is necessary to create liberty

Question 4

Areas of agreement over the state in terms of attempts to capture it

Answer 4

The rejection of the state means that any attempt to capture it through elections or the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is doomed to fail

Question 5

How do individualist anarchist view the state in terms of control

Answer 5

individualists see the states as coercive and controlling, limiting the autonomy of the individual

Question 6

How do individualist anarchist view the state in terms of stirner

Answer 6

Was opposed to the state in all forms. he argued for self-liberation where the individual stops believing in fixed ideals and authority. This will collapse the state and bring the union of egotists

Question 7

How do individualist anarchist view the state in terms of anarcho-capitalists

Answer 7

See the state as a predatory body that doesn’t produce anything but steals from those who fo. It seizes wealth through taxation

Question 8

How do collectivist anarchists view the state in terms of private property

Answer 8

The state develops a body to protect private property and the inequalities between the few and many. Its coercive

Question 9

How do collectivist anarchists view the state in terms of power

Answer 9

The power of the state is always corrupting of human nature for governing class and governed

Question 10

How do collectivist anarchists view the state in terms of capitalism

Answer 10

Bakunin saw the capitalist state as guaranteeing the power and right of the few to exploit the many.

Question 11

How do collectivist anarchists view the state in terms of proudhon

Answer 11

He argued that the overthrowing of the state would be non-violent and evolutionary. He believed that the building of cooperatives and the peoples bank would create the shell for the future society

Question 12

How do collectivist anarchists view the state in terms of direct action

Answer 12

Kropotkin, goldman , bakunin saw direct action like strikes as a way to create a spirit of revolt which when tied to misery and oppression by the capitalist state will create revolution that will get rid of the state and private property

Question 13

How do collectivist anarchists view the state in terms of anarcho-syndicalists

Answer 13

See trade unions as the key associations that will bring down the state through the mass strike and form the basis of a new society