What comes to mind when one hears the words ‘anarchism’ or ‘anarchy’? Maybe lawlessness, survival of the fittest, or people throwing bricks through storefront windows and Molotov cocktails at the police. There is, however, the political theory of anarchism which proclaims that everyone has the right to be free, and if this freedom is curtailed, then only for legitimate reasons. That sounds like it would lead to chaos or law of the jungle, but it does not, because social anarchists believe in a highly organized […]
Freedom, what does it mean?
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
