2015/01/01 by Laura Galián · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Anarchism and Radical Politics #Political Economy and Marxism #Islamic Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1057/9781137530868_15
openalex publication_date 2015/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Anarchism has a long history of contentious politics. Some authors, such as Peter Marshall, have seen in the philosophy of the Taoist Lao-Tzu the beginning of an anarchist thought, since he was opposed to any form of authority. 1 However, it was the French thinker Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) who was the first to use the sobriquet “anarchist.” Proudhon made a call to build a State-free society and he was ardently opposed to private property. His thought was the beginning for anticapitalist criticism used by other authors such as Mijail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Errico Malatesta. All of them were opposed to hierarchy and decentralization and compromise with freedom and autonomy. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.