anarchist

Examples of anarchist in the following topics:

• Anarchism

  • Anarchists in the United States, who fought within and alongside labor unions for workers rights, helped stage a demonstration in Chicago in 1886 that resulted in a deadly bombing.
  • The International Workingmen's Association, often called the First International, was an international organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
  • The next day, May 4, anarchists staged a rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square.
  • Eight anarchists, directly and indirectly related to the organizers of the rally, were arrested and charged with the murder of the deceased officer.

• Red Scare

  • This concern was further inflamed following an anarchist bomb plot in 1919 to the point at which revolution and Bolshevism became the general explanation for all challenges to the social order used to excuse even such simple expressions of free speech as the display of certain flags and banners.
  • The raids were intended to round up and rid the nation of radical leftists, especially anarchists.
  • While both anarchists and communists were suspected, no one was indicted for the bombing.
  • The anti-immigrant, anti-anarchist Sedition Act of 1918 was approved in Congress to protect wartime morale by deporting people with undesirable politics.
  • A Red Scare depiction of a "European Anarchist" attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty.

• Functions of the State

  • Anarchists believe that the state is inherently an instrument of domination and repression, no matter who is in control of it.
  • Anarchists believe that the state apparatus should be completely dismantled and an alternative set of social relations created, which would be unrelated to state power.

• Justification of Government

  • The anarchists take this position, sometimes in the strongest possible way: there should be no government, period, now or ever.
  • Horowitz, ed., The Anarchists, N.Y.: Dell, 1964, p. 181. ):
  • Tucker's proposed organization would therefore produce involuntary associations, violating the anarchists' own rule that there should be no such associations in a decent society.
  • Anarchists, of course, might reply that these involuntary associations—produced in protecting people from robbers—are not as bad as those that would otherwise be produced by the robbers.

• The Law as an Instrument of Oppression

  • Anarchists and other libertarian socialists argue that police and laws themselves are oppression.

• The Haymarket Affair

  • Eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy and seven were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the Haymarket Affair.
  • In the internationally publicized legal proceedings that followed, eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy , although the prosecution conceded that none of the defendants had thrown the bomb.

• Toward Permanent Unions

  • As strikers rallied against the McCormick plant, a team of political anarchists, who were not Knights, tried to piggyback support among striking Knights workers.
  • The anarchists were blamed, and their spectacular trial gained national attention.
  • The Knights of Labor were seriously injured by the false accusation that the Knights promoted anarchistic violence.

• Labor and Domestic Tensions

  • The Knights avoided violence but their reputation collapsed in the wake of the Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago in 1886, when anarchists bombed the policemen dispersing a meeting.

• Peace

  • opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchist or libertarian pacifism)

• Introduction to Evaluating and Justifying Government

  • Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader, wrote: "All political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. " Anarchists, assuming that all involuntary associations are bad and seeing that governments are involuntary associations, conclude that there should be no government.