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Anarchy in Action is a book exploring anarchist thought and practice, written by Colin Ward and first published in 1973. The book is a seminal introduction to anarchism but differs considerably to others by concentrating on the possibility of an anarchism rooted in everyday experience, and not necessarily linked to industrial and ...
- Colin Ward
- 1973
- Introduction to The Second Edition
- Preface
- Chapter I. Anarchy and The State
- Chapter II. The Theory of Spontaneous Order
- Chapter III. The Dissolution of Leadership
- Chapter IV. Harmony Through Complexity
- Chapter VI. Who Is to Plan?
- Chapter VII. We House, You Are Housed, They Are Homeless
- Chapter VIII. Open and Closed Families
- Chapter IX. Schools No Longer
Anarchism as a political and social ideology has two separate origins. Itcan be seen as an ultimate derivative of liberalism or as a final end forsocialism. In either case, the problems that face the anarchist propagandistare the same. The ideas he is putting forward are so much at variancewith ordinary political assumptions, and the solutions he o...
How would you feel if you discovered that the society in which youwould really like to live was already here, apart from a few little, localdifficulties like exploitation, war, dictatorship and starvation? Theargument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organisesitself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed be...
If you look at the history of socialism, reflecting on the melancholydifference between promise and performance, both in those countrieswhere socialist parties have triumphed in the struggle for political power,and in those where they have never attained it, you are bound to askyourself what went wrong, when and why. Some would see the Russianrevol...
An important component of the anarchist approach to organisation iswhat we might call the theory of spontaneous order: the theory that,given a common need, a collection of people will, by trial and error, byimprovisation and experiment, evolve order out of the situation — thisorder being more durable and more closely related to their needs thanany ...
Take me to your leader! This is the first demand made by Martians toEarthlings, policemen to demonstrators, journalists to revolutionaries.“Some journalists”, said one of them to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, “havedescribed you as the leader of the revolution ...” He replied, “Let themwrite their rubbish. These people will never be able to understandthat the...
One of the most frequently met reasons for dismissing anarchism as asocial theory is the argument that while one can imagine it existing in asmall, isolated, primitive community it cannot possibly be conceived inthe context of large, complex, industrial societies. This view misunderstandsboth the nature of anarchism and the nature of tribal societi...
Contemporary town planning had its origins in the sanitary reform andpublic health movements of the nineteenth century, overlaid by architecturalnotions about civic design, economic notions about thelocation of industry, and above all by engineering notions abouthighway planning. Today, when there are close links between officialplanners and specul...
Ours is a society in which, in every field, one group of people makesdecisions, exercises control, limits choices, while the great majority haveto accept these decisions, submit to this control and act within the limitsof these externally imposed choices. Nowhere is this more evident thanin the field of housing: one of those basic human needs which...
One essentially anarchist revolution that has advanced enormously inour own day is the sexual revolution. It is anarchist precisely because itinvolves denying the authority of the regulations laid down by the stateand by various religious enterprises over the activities of the individual.And we can claim that it has advanced, not because of the “br...
Ultimately the social function of education is to perpetuate society: it isthesocialising function. Society guarantees its future by rearing itschildren in its own image. In traditional societies the peasant rears hissons to cultivate the soil, the man of power rears his to wield power, andthe priest instructs them all in the necessity of a priesth...
3 de abr. de 2024 · AnarchyinAction.org is a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when anarchy can work. Anarchy, coming from the Greek words an (without) and archos (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy. Here are many examples of anarchy in practice.
10 de abr. de 2020 · Unlike most political movements, anarchists reject the notion that change can come from electing better politicians. Rather change must come from below, by means of solidarity and direct action – strikes, boycotts, occupations, etc. In this way we build the new world while fighting the old.
“In Anarchy in Action, Colin Ward set out his belief that an anarchist society was not an end goal. . . . Ward saw all distant goals as a form of tyranny and believed that anarchist principles could be discerned in everyday human relations and impulses.
9 de mar. de 2021 · Includes bibliographical references and index. Vendor-supplied metadata. The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and ...
Anarchy is chaos, when law and order collapse and the destructive passions of man run riot. Anarchy is nihilism, the abandonment of all moral values and the twilight of reason. This is the spectre of anarchy that haunts the judge’s bench and the government cabinet.
