ANARCHISM

Question 1

Emma Goldman’s description of the state

Answer 1

“cold and immoral monster”
“The state is the altar of political freedom, and like the religious alter, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice”

Question 2

Emma Goldman’s view on capitalism

Answer 2

capitalism is a system that robs workers, intellectuals, artists, and peasants of their productive, creative labor, transferring both profit and control of labor to owners.

Question 3

Emma Goldman on the women’s suffrage movement

Answer 3

she scorned the women’s suffrage movement, seeing any effort to reform rather than transform society as a useless distraction from more radical goals.

She focused her feminism on women’s bodies, demanding that women control their own reproduction and sexual autonomy

Question 4

emma goldman on religion

Answer 4

Organised religion supports this theft by teaching adherents to defer to authority and hope passively for reward in the next life.

Question 5

Max Stirner on property

Answer 5

“My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

Question 6

Max Stirner’s ‘egoism’

Answer 6

He wrote of a finite, empirical ego, which he saw as the motive force of every human action.
“The ego and its own” - 1844
“nothing is more to me than myself”

Question 7

emma goldman on state violence

Answer 7

The state uses organized violence to protect owners, suppress workers, and mobilize people’s loyalties and sense of home into a vicious, narrow patriotism that justifies and energizes war, which in turn furthers the profits and power of the capitalist class and its allies.

Question 8

collectivist anarchists

Answer 8

Proudhon
Kropotkin
Bakunin

Question 9

collectivist strands

Answer 9

anarcho communism
mutualism
anarcho syndacalism

Question 10

collectivist strands with their thinkers

Answer 10

anarcho communism - Kropotkin
mutualism - Prouhdon
anarcho syndacalism - Bakunin

Question 11

what are key terms for anarcho communism?

Answer 11

Kropotkin’s mutual aid, Altursim (opposite of egoism..), common ownership

Question 12

key terms for Mutualism

Answer 12

Proudhon’s autonomous mutual exchange, true value of labour…

Question 13

why is Proudhon’s stance complicated

Answer 13

• He emphasised personal autonomy and self-management.
• rejected communism
• didn’t advocate common ownership
• He supported free contracts between individuals
  BUT (both individual/collective)
• opposed private property and capitalism.
  -supported collective ownership of the means of production
• promoted cooperatives

Question 14

Mutualism explained

Answer 14

‘association between organisms of two different species in which each benefits’
proposes a society based on free, voluntary exchange between self-managing workers and cooperatives, (without capitalism or the state)
(PROUDHON)

Question 15

true value of labour theory explained

Answer 15

workers would receive the full product of their labour through self-managed cooperatives and interest-free credit.
(PROUDHON)

Question 16

Anarcho syndacalism key terms

Answer 16

Revolutionary trade unionism, Labour, collective ownership
- Marxist economics (worker collectivism) + Proudhon’s politics (Individual freedom)
-Federalism
Communities organised around labour

Question 17

Bakunin on human nature

Answer 17

We have an innate sense of justice and order…Abolition of the state will return humans to this nature
- Bakunin believed that humans are naturally social, not selfish or purely individualistic.
- People thrive in communities, not isolation.
- Cooperation and solidarity are natural instincts (no state needed)

Question 18

Proudhon’s stance on private property

Answer 18

“Property is theft” – rejects capitalist private property, but supports personal possession

Question 19

David Friedman’s on anarchocapitalism

Answer 19

others dont have a solution to anonymous large scale cooperation without the use of prices, capitalsim etc

Question 20

anarcho capitalism

Answer 20

state only exists for national defense and judiciary
everything else is profit incentivised

Question 21

conflicting distribution requirements within collectivism

Answer 21

mutualism - mutual credit systems, like labour notes
syndacalism - according to contribution
communism - according to needs

Question 22

alturism vs mutualism

Answer 22

Altruism involves a cost to the actor while benefiting another, whereas mutualism benefits both parties involved. In simpler terms, altruism is like a one-way street of kindness, while mutualism is a two-way street of cooperation