Essays on Anarchism

In order to ensure peace and prosperity of a country, most governments have employed the use of stringent rules and regulations to govern people. However, some people stray away from the common perception of government and embrace anarchy. Anarchy is basically opposite of what the government stands for, anarchism is a political ideology (Carter, 1971) that holds the state undesirable and harmful while advocating for stateless institutions. The view of anarchists stray away from the commons masses and more often they tend to go extreme and cause social disturbance and unrest (Gage, 2009)as was the case of the ...

Philosophy

With the advent of the Scientific Revolution, there was an increased level of comfort in the society which led to probing the ancient notions or the beliefs that were long held by the majority. A majority of philosophers started giving out their own opinions about a variety of subjects like politics, government, social order, economics, and religion among others. The Era of Enlightenment started with this new found curiosity about scholarly or philosophical opinion becoming popular in the entire Europe. The Enlightenment Era was a time period in the 18th century Europe, which was a movement where philosophers applied ...

Anarchism and revolutionary events in the 19th century played an important role in shaping the European politics. In every country an anarchist though was developing differently and was associated with different events that had an impact on the overall European politics of the 19th century, and below some of these countries and their anarchism will be described. In France, for example, the development of the anarchist thought is associated with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. He was the son of peasants and lived in the Eastern France, where he worked as a printer that was considered to be a common occupation among ...