What is Anarchism?
, p. 44]). Benjamin Tucker, for example — the anarchist most influenced by liberalism (as we will discuss later) — called his ideas “Anarchistic-Socialism” and denounced capitalism as a system based upon “the usurer, the receiver of interest, rent and profit.” Tucker held that in an anarchist, non-capitalist, free-market society, capitalists will become redundant and exploitation of labour by capital would cease, since “labour. . . will. . . secure its natural wage, its entire product.” [The Individualist Anarchists, p. 82 and p. 85] Such an economy will be based on mutual banking and the free exchange of products between co-operatives, artisans and peasants. For Tucker, and other Individualist anarchists, capitalism is not a true free market, being marked by various laws and monopolies which ensure that capitalists have the advantage over working people, so ensuring the latters exploitation via profit, interest and rent (see section G for a fuller discussion). Even Max Stirner, the
“Real anarchists” tell me that the “Anarchist Cookbook” has nothing to do with anarchism. Anarchism is a movement for a radicaly democratic and libertarian society. “Defining Anarchism” says: 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 barbarianism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that. More information on anarchism is available at http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/defanar.html and in the Anarchist FAQ at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931 On the other hand, the interesting and somewhat academic book “Inside Terrorism” (first chapter here) describes the violent history of anarchism, and makes the interesting observation: Much as the `information revolution’ of the late twentieth century is alleged to have made the means and methods of bomb-making and other types of terrorist activity more readily available via th
