PHIL 153 Lecture Notes - Emma Goldman, Russian Nihilist Movement, Human Nature
19 Nov 2012
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Relates anarchm to liberation from 3 forms of bondage (private property, etc. : explain bondage. The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary. Coercion is wrong, harmful, unnecessary and avoidable. People should be in harmony but government structure is a cause of wrong (bad environment) Government uses violence to keep institution in place (forcefully imposed) while anarchism only uses violence to break institution. Voluntary associations with agreeable terms and nothing is imposed. Individual"s good is to fulfill his/her role in the collective (kidney to the body) Anarchy dissolves age-old conflict between individual and collective. Anarchism frees the man from religion, property, government. Impractical: practical since wilde says practical is anything capable of being enacted, human nature is capable of this idea, she joined the spanish war.
