Anarchism

Woodcock, George

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“…The frequent scholarly response is not that anarchism cannot work but that its proponents have not demonstrated that it can, especially in societies of scale. Woodcock's classic (1971) study, Anarchism, concluded that, however principled, anarchist refusal to provide such detail had encouraged its limited support (1). Takis Fotopoulos' Towards An Inclusive Democracy (2) fills in a number of these gaps, proposing with clarity, thoughtfulness and originality the key mechanisms that might enable and sustain such a polity.…”

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“…Three, expressed in First Principles, democracies need a vibrant public sphere, and the advocacy of a multiplicity of versions of the good life, around which conversations and policy preferences gradually crystallise. This is so (or at least ought be) whether one supports the case for representative government(10) [1] or regards 'representative democracy' as oxymoronic, insisting instead with Fotopoulos that 'democracy' is necessarily a synonym for 'direct democracy'. Every politics must contain prognosis (including strategy and detail), and not only diagnosis.…”

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Inclusive Democracy and its Prospects

Freeman¹

2003

Democracy & Nature

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Takis Fotopoulos' inclusive democracy project has generated one of the most interesting and ambitious undertakings within contemporary political philosophy. Fotopoulos synthesises what he regards as the principal contributions of five discrete traditions, retrieves classical Athens as democratic exemplar, thinks through and extrapolates the implications of his vision for daily life, and seeks to anticipate and resolve conundrums likely to follow. Any one of these dimensions would render his project noteworthy. Nonetheless, his project occurs within a historic moment that limits its prospects of consideration beyond its own political constituency. However unfairly, Fotopoulos' proposals will struggle for mass attention for reasons not principally of his creation. A leading reason for this is the widespread and probably reasonable leeriness toward large-scale alternatives borne of the pathological nature of much 20th century political radicalism.

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Inclusive Democracy and its Prospects

Freeman¹

2003

Democracy & Nature

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Anarchism

Pauli

2017

The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory

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Anarchism is distinguished by its rejection of the state as a mode of social organization and its emphasis on small, self‐governing communities linked through voluntary federation. Anarchism has its roots in radical strains of Enlightenment thought. From the 1860s on, the evolution of anarchist thought was closely tied to the history and ideas of the revolutionary socialist movement. Although the period of “classical” anarchist thought came to an end with the effective dissolution of the international anarchist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, in the wake of the 1960s, a new “wave” of anarchist thinkers has helped to revitalize anarchist thought and develop it in new directions.

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Anarchism

Stone

2014

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

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Anarchism, like most political ideologies, has long been the subject of vigorous dispute regarding its most fundamental ideals. The ideology gets its name from the Greek word anarchos , which means “without rulers.” In English, anarchy was used as a term of abuse from at least the sixteenth century, denoting a state of chaos. It was first used in a positive manner by the Frenchman Pierre‐Joseph Proudhon, who described himself as an anarchist in his book What Is Property? (1840). Proudhon, together with Russians Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin, are widely regarded as the founding fathers of anarchism as a political ideology, although many anarchists trace the tradition back to the Enlightenment philosopher William Godwin and his book An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793). As the term's etymology implies, all anarchists stand opposed to political relationships of command and obedience, and reject the idea that some people ought to rule while others obey. Beyond this, however, the disagreements commence. To understand the sources of these disagreements is to understand anarchism as an ideology.

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