Portal:Anarchism

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THE NARCHISM PORTAL Selected Anarchism-related content Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, this reading of anarchism is placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism). Although traces of anarchist ideas are found all throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more, growing in popularity and influence within anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-globalisation movements. (Full article...) Selected article Pável Dimítrievich Turchanínov (died September 21, 1921), known by the pseudonym Lev Chernyi, was a Russian anarchist theorist, activist and poet, and a leading figure of the Third Russian Revolution. His early thought was individualist, rejecting anarcho-communism as a threat to individual liberty. In 1917, Chernyi was released from his political imprisonment by the Imperial Russian regime, and swiftly became one of the leading figures in Russian anarchism. After strongly denouncing the new Bolshevik government in various anarchist publications and joining several underground resistance movements, Chernyi was arrested by the Cheka on a charge of counterfeiting and in 1921 was executed without trial. (read more...) More selected articles Selected image Oscar Wilde, famed Irish playwright, poet, and anarchist. c. 1882 Oscar Wilde, novelist, poet and playwright, was so enchanted by the work of Peter Kropotkin that he converted to anarchism and wrote the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism. Did you know? ... that in his book In Defense of Anarchism, anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate? ... that according to Franz Oppenheimer's book The State, the purpose of the political state is to establish and enforce class divisions between conquerors and the dominated? ...that Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski a.k.a. "the Unabomber" (pictured) as President of the United States? ...that although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914? ... that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk? Selected quote Anniversaries for April 26 1905 - French anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo was born. 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