Title: Some Definitions
Date: Originally published in Mother Earth, Vol. V, no. 2, April 1910.
Topics: introductory
Source: Retrieved on March 19, 2012 from en.wikisource.orgThe philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
Absence of government; disbelief in, and disregard of, invasion and authority based on coercion and force; a condition of society regulated by voluntary agreement instead of government.
A believer in Anarchism; one opposed to all forms of coercive government and invasive authority; an advocate of Anarchy, or absence of government, as the ideal of political liberty and social harmony.
Voluntary economic co-operation of all towards the needs of each. A social arrangement based on the principle: To each according to his needs; from each according to his ability.
Conscious individual or collective effort to protest against, or remedy, social conditions through the systematic assertion of the economic power of the workers.