This document provides an overview of the key concepts and principles of anarchism. It discusses that anarchism is not about disorder or chaos, but rather is a philosophy based on liberty without government. The document outlines some of the main goals of anarchism such as overthrowing the state, ending private property and repressive social structures, and achieving the highest level of individual freedom combined with voluntary association. It also discusses different approaches to achieving anarchism such as armed revolution, civil disobedience, and propaganda, as well as designing systems for managing shared resources without centralized authority.

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

18. Dialectic
Linear
Dualistic

19. HOPE, not certainty

20. A little of column A,
A little of column B

21. Anarchist Conception
of Freedom

22. Agent

23. The individual is the basic
unit of society…

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

25. Individual-in-Community

26. Human Nature

27. 2
basic impulses

28. “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

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

30. An impulse to help others
(Mutual Aid)

31. Human Malleability

32. HOPE

33. Obstacle(s)

34. The State (!)

35. “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)

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

37. Private Property

38. 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.

39. “Property is Theft”
(Proudhon)

40. “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

41. Democracy (?)

42. Decision-making by
Consensus

43. The Problem of
Conventional Institutions

48. Goal

49. 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.

50. 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

51. A few goals…
• Overthrow of the State
• End of private property
• The end of “democracy”
• The end of repressive social
structures and values
( “transvaluation” of human values)
• Full and rewarding work and leisure

52. The Anarchist Conception of Freedom

53. 4 Approaches to Anarchism
• Armed and Violent Revolution
• Civil Disobedience
• Propaganda by the Deed
• Transvaluation

54. 4 Approaches to Anarchism
• Armed and Violent Revolution
• Civil Disobedience
• Propaganda by the Deed
• Transvaluation

55. 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. Rebellion
vs.
Revolution

59. Rebellions MUST be:
• Voluntary
• Spontaneous
• Total
 Ιnternational

60. DISOBEY

61. Designing for Management
of the Commons

62. Design principles for managing
the commons in the absence of a
centralized authority:
• Group boundaries are clearly defined
• Rules governing the use of collective goods
are well matched to local needs and
conditions.
• Most individuals affected by these rules can
participate in modifying the rules.
• The rights of community members to devise
their own rules is respected by external
authorities.

63. Design principles for managing
the commons in the absence of a
centralized authority:
• A system for monitoring members’ behavior exists;
the community members themselves undertake
this monitoring.
• A graduated system of sanctions is used.
• Community members have access to low-cost
conflict resolution systems.
• For CPRs that are parts of larger systems,
appropriation, provision, monitoring, enforcement,
conflict resolution and governance activities are
organized in multiple layers of nested enterprises.

64. The Coming Anarchism

65. p2p Technologies and Anarchism

69. MojoNation’s 3 major fixes:
• Cooperation is structurally encouraged
by requiring users to contribute at
least as much as they take away.
• Queries are anonymous and
NOBODY knows where specific files
are stored.
• Swarm Distribution breaks up files into
large numbers of small segments,
distributed throughout the network.

70. /.

71. The “karma” system

72. jury duty

73. “Anonymous Coward”

74. Filters

75. Four design goals
• Promote quality, discourage crap.
• Make Slashdot as readable as possible
for as many people as possible.
• Do not require a huge amount of time
from any single moderator.
• Do not allow a single monitor a “reign of
terror.”

76. Four design goals
• Promote quality, discourage crap.
• Make Slashdot as readable as possible
for as many people as possible.
• Do not require a huge amount of time
from any single moderator.
• Do not allow a single monitor a “reign of
terror.”

77. Four design goals
• Promote quality, discourage crap.
• Make Slashdot as readable as possible
for as many people as possible.
• Do not require a huge amount of time
from any single moderator.
• Do not allow a single monitor a “reign of
terror.”

78. Four design goals
• Promote quality, discourage crap.
• Make Slashdot as readable as possible
for as many people as possible.
• Do not require a huge amount of time
from any single moderator.
• Do not allow a single monitor a “reign of
terror.”

80. Craigslist