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Book SynopsisThe central claim of anarchism is that government must be replaced by a stateless society of strongly independent persons who are strongly bound together in a group. The main purpose of this 1980 book is to vindicate this argument as presented by leading anarchists: William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Liberty and public censure in anarchist thought; 2. The goal of anarchism: communal individuality; 3. Varieties of anarchy; 4. The anarchists as critics of established institutions; 5. Anarchist strategy: the dilemma of means and ends; 6. The place of anarchism in the spectrum of political ideas; 7. Evaluating anarchism; Notes; Index.
