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An anarchist is a person who rejects of any form of compulsory government (cf. "state") and supports its elimination. Anarchism can be summarised as the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.
This is a list of individuals who have been identified as anarchists, by themselves, or by independent informed sources. This list only deals with real people notable for the reasons below.
This section of the list includes only people who have explicitly stated that they are anarchists. Persons who have merely expressed viewpoints critical of the state or those with anti-authoritarian stances are excluded. Such sentiments are insufficient to identity one as an anarchist.
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This section of the list includes people who have explicitly stated that they were anarchists for a time, but later abandoned it in favor of a different political and/or philosophical position.
This section of the list includes people who have not explicitly stated that they are anarchists, but have been considered anarchists by other sources. These people may not have identified as anarchists because they predated the term's popular usage, it was considered an epithet, they did not regard themselves as anarchists, they dislike specific ideological labels, or for a variety of other reasons. It is also possible that some of the listed individuals might have been anarchists, but a quote in which they self-identified as such was never recorded, and so only the commentary of third parties serves to identify them. The categorisation of many of these people as anarchists may be controversial.
Although Avrich calls himself an anarchist, he says that some kind of government is necessary. "I would like to say it could work, but people would have to get along with each other very well."
I was attracted to anarchism as a young teenager, as soon as I began to think about the world beyond a pretty narrow range, and haven't seen much reason to revise those early attitudes since.
I was an anarchist by instinct long before I was an anarchist by conviction. I believe all of us are, and that our anarchic impulses continually recur in our lives ... My kind of anarchism - philosophical anarchism - is to do with the liberation of the self rather than toppling governments.
I am much more political now than I was then — I'm an anarchist still, but I'd say now I am an anarchist communist which I wasn't then.
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I am a believer in the doctrines of the individualistic school of Anarchists, to which Garrison, Emerson, Proudhon, Thoreau, Spooner, Andrews, Warren and Tucker belong.
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Finally around 1973, after I had been locked up for about three years, I started receiving Anarchist literature and correspondence from Anarchists who had heard about my case. This began my slow metamorphosis to a confirmed Anarchist, and in fact it was not until a few years later that I came over.
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Maya is a self-described "anarchist" with leftist social and political-economic views.
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Geoff Mullen and I are both anarchists. We both believe that you must take personal responsibility for your actions and follow this wherever it leads you. We were both influenced by the Orwell of "Homage to Catalonia" and the collected essays. However the practical form of anarchism that I support, and which Geoff would reject as largely futile, is the anarchism that has always seen itself as the left-wing of the labour movement. This is the anarchism of Mikhail Bakunin's "libertarian socialism" of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists who carried out successful workers' control in 1936-37. It identifies with the popular movements that struggled for self-management against the Bolshevik counter-revolution 1917-21, and workers' councils of the Hungarian revolution 1956.
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It's difficult to get him to talk about his views, but essentially, Oosterman defines himself as an anarchist, or a libertarian socialist, and believes very strongly that people should act collaboratively to work towards social transformation.
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Since the age of 17, Mr. Singh was sympathetic to anarchism, but it was at Trinity College that he said he became a serious intellectual anarchist. "The label is not important to me. What is important is the spirit that promotes mutual aid and solidarity, anti-authoritarian ideas. I don't shy away from the label either. It's not chaos, it's not disorder, but a body of political idea."
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Under the influence of his new surroundings it was inevitable that Voline gradually altered his political and social views, with the result that in 1911 he separated himself from the Social Revolutionaries and joined the Anarchist movement.
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He called himself a 'philosophical anarchist'...
I have no prefix or adjective for my anarchism. I think syndicalism can work, as can free-market anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, even anarcho-hermits, depending on the situation. But I do have a strong individualist streak.
Also appearing on this stage were the "kings of the working- class pistol," to use anarchist Juan García Oliver's words
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I guess libertarian is a little too much government for me. I tend to be a little more anarcho-capitalist.
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I had similar mind expanding sensation when I was first introduced to anarchist ideas. Alexander Berkman's indictment of state violence and Emma Goldman's criticism of the way the Russian Revolution developed were good news to this left-winger who had always felt uneasy with the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. To hear of a form of organization that didn't involve leaders or hierarchies or forced obedience to party lines of any colour, offered an ideal worth fighting for.
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However, McCrossin also identified as an anarchist, with a long personal history of involvement in anarchist and left politics, and as such had worked, and continued to work, with both men and heterosexual women.
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'Yes, I am an anarchist,' says Judith Malina, the rabbi's daughter, born Kiel, Germany, June 4, 1926. 'Anarchists are looking for an alternative to the destruction of civilization. They like it this way.'
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I was an anarchist when I began the strip and I knew the story would make the government look bad. [...] But in doing all the research for this book, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, I learned a lot about general political theory. I came to realize that anarchy is completely unworkable, which I sort of suspected all along.
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But Biehl's objection to diversity is an odd one coming from an anarchist; and her confusion of diversity with contradiction is a poor lapse for a would-be "rationalist."
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I get called an anarchist lot. I think that's the most accurate way to say it, I get called an anarchist a lot, and I don't mind. Do I self identify as an anarchist? Sometimes. It's a label.
Thirty years ago the Austrian radical anarchist Ivan Illich proposed a "deschooling" of society, to benefit the poor.
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In another chapter of the book, Pawel refers to Kafka as a "metaphysical anarchist not much given to party politics" -- a definition which seems to me very much on the mark.
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SiTW: [...] Would you describe yourself as an anarchist?
Ursula: I don't, because I entirely lack the activist element, and so it seems phony or too easy. Like white people who say they are "part Cherokee."
SiTW: I hope you don't mind that a lot of us claim you, in approximately the same way that we claim Tolstoy. [...]
Ursula: Of course I don't mind! I am touched and feel unworthy.
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They've started calling you an anarchist.
Son of refugees from the defeat of the Spanish Revolution in the late 1930s, he (Serge Utgé-Royo) is an uncompromising anarchist who sings for revolutionary movements everywhere.
...Lao-Tze was an anarchist, not in the sense of being against kings, but against governing...
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Hearing his views, I could not help exclaiming:
"Why, Mr. Debs, you're an anarchist!"
"Not Mister, but Comrade," he corrected me; "won't you call me that?"
Clasping my hand warmly, he assured me that he felt very close to the anarchists, that anarchism was the goal to strive for, & that all socialists should also be anarchists. Socialism to him was only a stepping-stone to the ultimate ideal, which was anarchism.
"I know & love Kropotkin & his work," he said; "I admire him & I revere our murdered comrades who lie in Waldheim, as I do also all the other splendid fighters in your movement. You see, then, I am your comrade. I am with you in your struggle."— Emma Goldman, Living My Life