Anarchism
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anarchism · anarchist · anarchistic philosophy · anarchy · pacific anarchism
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The Genius of the Common Law
Doctrine envisioning the abolition of formal state and legal institutions, examined through Morris's and Tolstoy's utopias.
agreeing herein, in principle, with socialism as against anarchism, though differing with modern socialist projects as to the possible or expedient amount of regulation.
Anarchism raises a much more curious problem, whether William Morris’s or Tolstoy’s Utopia would really succeed in getting rid of law so neatly or completely as the inventor thought.
Law in a Free State
The doctrine holding that the State should ultimately be abolished in favour of voluntary combination among individuals.
That is to say, philosophical anarchists do not pretend that the anarchy of the wild beasts is conceivable among sane men, still less desirable,—though they are usually credited with this imbecile notion.
in other words, it is only when the people learn to value liberty, and to understand the truths of the anarchistic philosophy, that the question of practically abolishing the State looms up and acquires significance.