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Mikhail Bakunin and Collectivist Anarchism: Mikhail Bakunin was the Russian father of the strain of anarchism known as collectivist anarchism. He was initially loosely associated with both Karl Marx and Pierre Joseph Proudhon, and eventually he developed anarcho-collectivism using both of them...
Posted Sat, Jan 31 2009 by Brainpolice | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Anarchism, Collectivism, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism, Philosophy, Free Association, History, Marxism, Communism, Proudhon, Bakunin, Mikhail Bakunin

Remembering Proudhon: Many contemporary libertarians may be mystified at Proudhon being considered a libertarian, but Proudhon was undoubtably the first genuinely libertarian socialist. Proudhon's political philosophy represents a synthesis of sorts between classical liberalism...
Posted Tue, Jan 27 2009 by Brainpolice | 20 comment(s)
Filed under: Anarchism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Philosophy, History, Mutualism, Communism, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Bakunin

Rejecting The Natural/Synthetic Dichotomy: I reject the natural/synthetic dichotomy. The natural/synthetic dichotomy is manifested in two fundamental ways: (1) the assumption that humans and/or human constructs are separate from nature and (2) the assumption that certain human constructs are "natural"...
Posted Sat, Oct 11 2008 by Brainpolice | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: Anarchism, Racism, Social Evolution, Social Contract, Religion, Socialism, Philosophy, Human Nature, conservatism, Environmentalism, History, Primitivism

Resolving Anarchist Conflict: Conflict between the socialist oriented and market oriented camps within anarchism can get very tedious. Many anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists appear to emphatically claim that market anarchism isn't truly anarchism, that opposition to...
Posted Mon, May 5 2008 by Brainpolice | 8 comment(s)
Filed under: Anarchism, Competition, Subjective Value, Capitalism, Socialism, Economics, Philosophy, Free Association, Labor, History

The Nail in the Coffin of "The Right": It is common for many libertarians, especially those in America, to assume that they have a natural alliance with "the right". This is based on certain assumptions, such as the notion that contemporary libertarianism grew out of the old American...
Posted Fri, Apr 25 2008 by Brainpolice | 5 comment(s)
Filed under: Racism, Collectivism, Religion, Capitalism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, Philosophy, conservatism, Corporatism, liberalism, Nationalism, History