Politics: Anarchism - The Economy

This is a quiz based on how Anarchists view human nature, which is covered in the AQA A-Level Politics Specification: Max Stirner (1806-1856) Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
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Josiah Warren (1798-1874)
 
Noam Chomsky (1928-)
 
Max Stirner (1806-1856)
This key thinker argues the accumulation and retention of property is our main economic motivation:
-He believed that the individual was entitled to anything they could find in the world.
-Furthermore, it was the right to use one's ego to use other people for one's own purposes.
-He claimed people are capable of altruism, of fellow feeling, but this would show itself only if a person's ego saw altruism as being in their own interests.
-Egoists (his followers) didn't develop coherent economic ideas, save for the notion that free individuals would find a way to trade with each other on the basis of their rational self-interest.
-Egoist conception of economic life is very much associated with the accumulation of property.
-We all have a drive to obtain possessions and, having obtained them, to retain them.
Robert Nozick (1938-2002)
 
Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
This key thinker argues the market system of exchange was to be abolished and replaced by exchange based on the true value of labour and goods:
-In his early life his ideas were close to those of Marx - he opposed capitalism and the existence of private property, seeing them both as oppressive.
-Furthermore, he agreed with the Marxists that the state was the agent of capitalism - therefore both capitalism and the state had to be abolished.
-He saw the 1871 Paris Commune as an anarchist revolt, aiming to replace the oppressive state with a commune where there was to be common ownership of property, economic equality and direct democracy in place of political rule.
-His visions of an ordered society, based on the laws of nature, were known as federalism.
-He saw groups of workers or peasants joining together (spontaneously) in voluntary communities of any size.
-As long as people group themselves in such communes, with common ownership of property and equal distribution of rewards on a voluntary basis, there is no coercion.
-The relationships between these communes or federations were to be conducted on the basis of mutual benefit.
-There was to be no capitalist market system, which would promote inequality, but rather a system of free negotiation and exchange on the basis of the true value of goods and services.
-He saw no contradiction between economic freedom and collective ownership.
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