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Anarchism: Core Values
| Views of Human Nature: Optimistic in general although Stirner’s views differ from those of other anarchists
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Natural Order: the claim that individuals are most likely to create social order without government and that government itself promotes social disorder.
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Living in tune with nature |
Economic Freedom [3]. Opposition to state
ownership and control of the means of production as in USSR “State Socialism |
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| Emphasis on the rationality and sovereignty of the individual |
Core Values of Anarchism |
Economic Freedom [2] Support for laissez –faire, minimal Government and some economic Inequality
= Anarcho-Capitalism |
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| Very strong emphasis on individual liberty although it is important to clarify the meaning of liberty for anarchists. | Opposition to Authority of all kinds: opposition especially to states of all kinds, to law, religion and nationalism.
What about attitudes to expert authority? What about attitudes to public opinion or traditional norms or values? |
Economic Freedom [1] Opposition to capitalist inequality and opposition to private property.
Support for: Mutualism [Proudhon], Collectivism [Bakunin] or Communism [Kropotkin] |
Core values of Anarchism influence the strategies by which anarchist societies are to be achieved and subsequently organised.