POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Change, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French Revolution
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Anarchism means against rule : rejection of all forms of government and the state, we as human beings should never dominate other humans and the state is dominating, belief that society and individuals would function well without them. When we create a state we make ourselves subject to it, we feel that we need to obey the state. Anarchist believes that they is no need to obey state or other people: there is no duty to obey others or state. Theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary. goldman. Revolutions to replace tyrannical governments often result in new tyrants. Conflict between individual and society has bene created. Individual and society can be harmonious but: by the state, religion, and property. Freedom: essence of human desire is for freedom, human potential can only be realized in conditions of freedom. Non-domination (no form of domination can be justified)