1. The Death of Politics
(Concept/Roots)

... voluntarily to form communities or governments on the same ethical basis, libertarianism could be called anarchy. Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of...

2. Gift(wrap)ing New Media (in an Authentic Chilkat Blanket)
(Concept/Anarchism)

...but not giving back. In tandem with this "cyberselfishness," some camps put forward theories of anarchy and information as a naturally open system. Unlike the traditional libertarians, wh...

3. Transformational Society
(Concept/Anarchism)

...unks seek independence, and do not want to control others. This new civilization integrates assumptions of anarchy, rebelliousness, and liberation through technology. In the cyberhippie travelogu...

4. Steal this Book
(Concept/Roots)

... paint it a dark color before using it and you'll be less conspicuous. Our fashion consultants suggest anarchy black. Construction helmets or "hard hats" run between $8.00 and $10....

5. Poverty
(Concept/Roots)

...g legislative enact­ments, which annually come upon us like visitations from some incarnated spirit of anarchy amid injustice, to elevate, depress, and change the relative values of different kind...

6. The Role of Information Systems in Governments
(Concept/Polemics)

...overnment” principle can be found in the anarchist ideology. While most people equate the concept of anarchy with people wearing balaclavas and throwing rocks at the police, this is a misconcept...

7. Getting to grips with the economy
(Concept/Anarchism)

...on. It hasn't always been so. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was among the first thinkers to use the term Anarchy positively, founding a large part of his proposals for social transformation on econo...

8. Anarchy and Christianity
(Concept/Anarchism)

  Jacques Ellul: Anarchy and Christianity. (1991.) I. Anarchy from a Christian Standpoint 1. What is Anarchy? There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must,

9. Libertarian Communism
(Concept/Roots)

...ual needs and aspirations. It is no utopian scheme, though it is the means by which to reach the utopia of anarchy. In December 1933, Puente, Cipriano Mera and Durruti constituted the committee t...

10. The Wage System
(Concept/Roots)

...we throw down we shall be building," as Proudhon said; we shall build in the name of Communism and of Anarchy. ------------------ * The Spanish Anarchists, who continue to call thems...

11. The new first Principle for the first Time in Human History : A Firm Foundation
(Concept/Roots)

...ual freedom for all is synonymous with non-domination, and such a condition is described by the word "anarchy" in its proper sense. Goethe, too, said on this: "Why, in the new worl...

12. Commoners as an Emerging Political Force
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...t can’t be controlled by a bureaucracy or party. It’s “out of control.” It’s anarchy! Even many of our liberal friends don’t trust decentralized citizenship, perhap...

13. The Paradox of Anarchism
(Concept/Roots)

... of Anarchism. (1941.)   The highest perfection if society is found in the union if order and anarchy. Proudhon It has been the fashion, especially among orthodox Marxists, to hold ...

14. Indivualist or Philosophical Anarchism
(Concept/Roots)

... 'the State' and government of man, by man. They seek to bring about a state of perfect freedom of anarchy. Definition and Statement To comprehend the precise import of this statemen...

15. Anarchism as a Theory of Organization
(Concept/Roots)

...may think in describing anarchism as a theory of organisation I am propounding a deliberate paradox: "anarchy" you may consider to be, by definition, the opposite of organisation. In fact, h...

16. Yugoslavia's Workers Self-Management
(Concept/Polemics)

... Paris Commune, the legacy of Serbian social democracy at the end of the nineteenth century, the legacy of anarchy, which was later very important for the critique of Stalinism. These anarchistic and ...

17. Anarchist Consensual Democracy
(Concept/Anarchism)

...st principle of consensus based on "how?", "why?" and "what can it achieve?" Anarchy and consensus is a very broad theme and as a whole does not touch upon the entire spe...

18. The Communitarian Anarchism of Gustav Landauer
(Concept/Roots)

...nd mutual aid. As with Proudhon, his individualism was social individualism. Or as Erich Muhsam put it, ...anarchy, the essence of which is characterized by Gustav Landauer as being social order found...

19. Anarchism and the Cooperative Ideal
(Concept/Anarchism)

...way? Like any threat to the established order, anarchism has a bad reputation within mainstream discourse. Anarchy is often used as a synonym for chaos, disorder, lack of rules; the popular image of a...

20. A "Political" Program for Anarchists
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ed the risk that "you might end up like the folks at Waco."  In an earlier work,  Sane Anarchy , he suggested a few items for the agenda of such a movement.  I now submit a li...

21. Counterculture, Cyberculture and Innovation
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ock of the Long Now, has a telling quote that might be a rebuff to that notion, "Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network". Or, more likely, they're on the same page,...

22. Is Web 2.0 a Manifesto for Anarchism?
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ss Collaboration Changes Everything? Nope, it was the book on the left: a 1982 reprint of Colin Ward's Anarchy in Action, originally published in 1973.   David Jennings: Is Web 2.0 a Manifest...

23. Panarchy : The Forgotten Idea of 1860
(Concept/Roots)

Max Nettlau: Panarchy : The Forgotten Idea of 1860. (1909.)   For a long time I have been fascinated by the thought how wonderful it would be if at last, in public opinion on the successio

24. Radio Sermonettes
(Concept/Anarchism)

...Fourier's Gastrosophy--Surrealism--Native American--Black & Red (all food black or red in honor of anarchy)--etc. iii. The banquet should be carried out with a certain degree of formality...

25. The New Anarchists
(Concept/Anarchism)

... that if the same people had tried the same thing twenty years ago, they would simply have been shot. Anarchy and peace However you choose to trace their origins, these new tactics are perfe...

26. The New Frontier
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ortray the internet as something dangerous - rather than liberating. To them, the internet represents anarchy. And that is true, for anarchy means "no government." It doesn't necess...

27. In Community, Intentionally
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...#39;ve seen reasonably well-functioning examples of communities using consensus, majority voting, inspired anarchy, and benevolent dictatorships. I've also seen examples of each of those styles th...

28. Panarchy
(Concept/Roots)

Paul Emile De Puydt: Panarchy. (1860.)     I. Preface A contemporary has said: "If the truth were in my hands, I should be careful not to open them." This is

29. Mailing Their Way into Anarchy
(Concept/Anarchism)

Bob Black: Mailing Their Way into Anarchy. (1986.)   Reproduced with the permission of Boston Review. Today’s counterculture is even more decentralized and participatory than its f

30. Regulation of Cyber- A Space or a medium
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ajor premises that is made about cyberspace consist of the image of cyberspace as a lawless frontier where anarchy prevails.[2]   This mode of constructing cyberspace has been constructed as...