1. Anarchism
Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. “I must tell you first of all what anarchism
is not. It is not bombs, disorder, or chaos.
It is not robbery or murder. It is not a war
of each against all. It is not a return to
barbarism or to the wild state of man.
Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.”
– Alexander Berkman, American anarchist,
1929

4. ?

6. Anarchism
The philosophy of a new social
order based on liberty
unrestricted by man-made law;
the theory that all forms of
government rest on violence and
are therefore wrong and harmful,
as well as unnecessary.

8. Enragés

11. Order is the genus:
Government is the species

12. anarchos

13. Anarchism is not as systematic an
ideology as liberalism or Marxism

14. Liberty
Equality
Solidarity

15. Liberalism
Anarchism
Marxism

16. freedom and equality are
complementary, not
contradictory

17. Progress & History

19. Linear

20. Dialectic

21. Dualistic

22. HOPE, not certainty

23. A little of column A,
A little of column B

24. The Individual and
Society

25. The individual is the basic
unit of society…

26. …but full humanity can only
be achieved by membership in
a community/ society.

27. Individual-in-Community

28. “Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it
humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything,
man is nothing, says religion. But out of that
nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so
tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught
but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world
since gods began. Anarchism rouses man to
rebellion against this black monster. Break your
mental fetters, says anarchism to man, for not until
you think and judge for yourself will you get rid of
the dominion of darkness, the greatest obstacle to
all progress.”
- Emma Goldman

29. The
Public Goods
Game

30. Human Nature

31. 2
basic impulses

32. “Kill the social sense in man – and
you get a savage orangutan; kill
egoism in him and he will become a
tame monkey.”
- Alexander Herzen

33. Self-interested impulse to subdue
others for individual purposes

34. An impulse to help others
(Mutual Aid)

35. Human Malleability

36. HOPE

37. Goals

38. Anarchism “seeks the complete
development of individuality
combined with the highest
development of voluntary
association in all respects, in all
possible degrees for all imaginable
ends.”
~Kropotkin

39. The highest level of individual
freedom possible for the
individual, the fulfillment of each
individual’s full human potential,
while at the same time developing
human society to the highest
degree possible.

40. The Problem of
The State

41. “Of all the things which interfere
with the free activity of the
individual, which reduce liberty
and compel us to act in ways
different from those we would
choose, the most powerful and
pervasive is the state.” (Jennings)

42. The essential function of the state
is to maintain the existing
inequalities in society…

43. The Problem of
Private Property

44. Godwin: each article of property
ought to belong to the individual
whose possession of it would yield
the greatest good for the greatest
number; thus, property should be
distributed according to claims of
need.

45. “Property is Theft”
(Proudhon)

46. “The only demand that property
recognizes is its own gluttonous
appetite for greater wealth,
because wealth means power; the
power to subdue, to crush, to
exploit, the power to enslave, to
outrage, to degrade.”
- Emma Goldman

47. The Problem of
Democracy

48. “All voting is a sort of gaming, like
checkers, or backgammon, a playing with
right and wrong; its obligation never
exceeds that of expediency. Even voting
for the right thing does nothing for it. A
wise man will not leave the right to the
mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail
through the power of the majority.”
- Henry David Thoreau

49. Decision-making by
Consensus

50. The Problem of
Conventional
Institutions

56. 4 Approaches to Anarchism
• Armed and Violent Revolution
• Civil Disobedience
• Propaganda by the Deed
• Transvaluation

57. 4 Approaches to Anarchism
• Armed and Violent Revolution
• Civil Disobedience
• Propaganda by the Deed
• Transvaluation

58. 4 Approaches to Anarchism
• Armed and Violent Revolution
• Civil Disobedience
• Propaganda by the Deed
• Transvaluation

60. 4 Approaches to Anarchism
• Armed and Violent Revolution
• Civil Disobedience
• Propaganda by the Deed
• Transvaluation