Introduction to Political Theory

Free-market anarchists Nineteenth-century Americans like Spooner and Tucker argued for an anarchism that was an extension of lib ...

association is needed to bring the offending individual to book, and make them change their ways. The principle of the minimal s ...

Proudhon aroused the wrath of Marx who wrote his Poverty of Philosophy (1847) against Proudhon’s Philosophy of Poverty (1846). M ...

not bothering with politics (Marshall, 1993: 441). The general strike is seen as the best weapon for ushering in the new order. ...

anarcho-syndicalism), and it was also strong among the impoverished peasantry in the south. When a Spanish Communist Party was f ...

was almost the automatic consequence of executions (1974: 106–7). In September 1936 the anarchists entered the Catalan governmen ...

The problem of violence The question of violence is linked to the question of transition – how gradual is the movement towards a ...

syndicalist Sorel that violence is the revolutionary whirlwind that energises ‘sluggish hearts’ (Hoffman, 1995: 126). The proble ...

he argues, is a ‘complex of life’, charged with ethical meaning. Nature is essentially creative, directive, mutualistic and fecu ...

The problem of organisation and relationships It has been said that anarchism ‘owes more to conventional liberalism than some of ...

The problem of hierarchy Anarchists in general use the term ‘hierarchy’ in a negative way, but hierarchy itself is part and parc ...

What makes emancipatory concepts absolute as well as relative is the fact that our relationships with other humans, like our rel ...

the state’ have been abolished (Marshall, 1993: 286), he learnt that it takes more than words to overthrow a despotic state, and ...

and a modest redistribution of income and resources has been introduced. But these reforms are vulnerable and can be reversed, a ...

Questions Should those who seek to replace the market with the state be called ‘anarchists’? Discuss the proposition that the n ...

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Chapter 12 Nationalism Introduction Nationalism has been a powerful force in modern history. It arouses strong feelings – for so ...

Immigration and open borders N o country in the world operates an ‘open borders’ policy. All control their borders. But the exte ...

Nations and nationalism In the period from around 1850 to the start of the First World War in 1914 there was a marked rise in po ...

[A nation is] a named human population that shares myths and memories, a mass public culture, a designated homeland, economic un ...