anarchism

Examples of anarchism in the following topics:

• Individualism

  • Individualism, sometimes closely associated with certain variants of anarchism or liberalism, typically takes it for granted that individuals know best and that public authority or society has no right to interfere in a person's decision-making process, unless a very compelling need to do so arises (and maybe not even in those circumstances).

• Individualism

  • Liberalism, existentialism and anarchism are examples of movements that take the human individual as a central unit of analysis.

• Anarchism

  • While anti-statism is central, anarchism also entails opposing authority or hierarchical organisation in the conduct of all human relations, including, but not limited to, the state system.

• Red Scare

  • The Red Scare of 1919–1920 had its origins in the hyper-nationalism of World War I and was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism.
  • Newspapers exacerbated those political fears into xenophobia, a fear of people from other nations, because varieties of radical anarchism were perceived as answers to poverty and anarchism's advocates were often recent European immigrants.

• The Development of Abstract Expressionism

  • Additionally, it has an image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic, and nihilistic.

• Surrealism

  • " To this goal, at various times Surrealists aligned with communism and anarchism.

• Bleeding Kansas

  • In a matter of months, armed guerrillas were fighting each other on the Missouri-Kansas border, and the territory was faced with a near-anarchic situation.

• "Mother" Jones

  • She joined the nascent labor movement and the Knights of Labor , a predecessor to the Industrial Workers of the World who where later dissolved after they were accused of anarchism after the Haymarket Affair.

• Spencer and Social Darwinism

  • Spencer questioned whether the evolution of society would result in peaceful anarchism (as he had first believed) or whether it pointed to a continued role for the state, albeit one reduced to minimal functions—the enforcement of contracts and external defense.

• Women's Activism

  • She joined the nascent labor movement and the Knights of Labor , a predecessor to the Industrial Workers of the World who where later dissolved after they were accused of anarchism after the Haymarket Affair.