The Road To Anarchy

Author : Christophe Cieters
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151235354X

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The Road to Anarchy by Christophe Cieters Pdf

What is freedom? Is there such a thing as public goods, a social contract - a State? What is the common link between bees, a lighthouse, Friedrich Nietzsche and a haircut, and why does it matter? African hunters, New Zealand sheep, Antarctic expeditions, bootlegging gangsters and leather jackets, riots, hurricanes, gold coins and broken windows are just a few of the many intriguing cases that give us a look at how economies work and how they get destroyed. The Road to Anarchy takes us on a fast-paced journey from the very foundations of libertarian thought - self-ownership and the non-aggression principle - to its ultimate economic and philosophical conclusions. Chapters: 1. On Freedom: A look at "freedom", which along with "love" is perhaps the most over- and misused (as well as misunderstood) concept in human history. 2. Self-Ownership: Can one person own another? 3. Property & Homesteading: What is property, how is it acquired and is there such a thing as intellectual property rights? 4. On Morality: What is good and what is evil, what is right and what is wrong - and who is to say so? 5. Death and Taxes: A look at fascinating historic and present day cases that show us how economies work and how they get destroyed. 6. Show Me the Money: What is money? What does it mean when politicians talk of "lowering interest rates to stimulate the economy", and what makes it crash in the first place? 7. The Zarathustra Principle: Philosophy and economics on the wings of aerodynamics, bringing it all together. Like the book on facebook via https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Road-to-Anarchy/457030431120943?fref=ts Reviews are very much appreciated!

Author : Ángel Herrerín
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782846833

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The Road to Anarchy by Ángel Herrerín Pdf

The Road to Anarchy is the result of an exhaustive investigation into the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the democratic years of the Second Republic. By analysing the course of the CNT in terms of its role in the labour conflict and the internal life and approach of the organisation (its ideology, its practice, its internal conflicts, the role of the individual and the weight of history) this book dismantles the long-held view that the CNT orchestrated three insurrections against the Republic. Key is analysis not only of the violence of the anarchists, but also that of the state. Two crucial themes emerge: the political struggle within the organisation, and its involvement in the revolution of October 1934 and in the events of the spring of 1936. Ángel Herrerín investigates the controversial relations of the anarchists with other political formations, such as the republicans, the socialists, Communists and Catalans, with whom the anarchists fought on the republican side during the Civil War. Special attention is paid to the crucial relationship with the socialist trade unions, the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), as this evolved from one of competition for trade-union dominance to the acceptance of anarcho-syndicalist practices by the socialists and collaboration between the two organisations. The book is based on wide-ranging archival research, including the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the National Historical Archive in Spain, the Foreign Office Archives in France and other national archives related to the repression of the CNT, such as those of the Army and Civil Guard in Spain. The study of the CNT in this timeframe is long overdue; the last similar study was undertaken by the US Democratic Congressman John Brademas in the 1950s, a renowned scholar of Spains social revolution.

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990623076

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The Anarchist's Design Book by Christopher Schwarz Pdf

Author : Francois Tremblay
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1425769403

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But Who Will Build the Roads? by Francois Tremblay Pdf

Market Anarchy Explained lays down a fearless, logical, rigorous yet accessible case against the State, against the democratic system, and the case for Market Anarchy and complete, unbridled, stateless freedom. Tremblay gathers all the important arguments and pieces of evidence from the literature, and builds a much-needed bridge between the Market Anarchist academia and the common reader. To the freethinker, this book is a breath of fresh air in a propaganda-soaked society. Chapter 1 starts with a bang: by proving that the State's existence cannot be justified, and then detailing anti-State arguments. The premises of the democratic system are exposed and analyzed, and the State, in addition to being unjustifiable, is found to be supremely immoral. Other topics include: exploitation, propaganda, perpetual wars, the Non-Aggression Principle, the "social contract," the State as monopoly, State Capitalism, poverty, and "social justice." Chapter 2 defines Anarchy and dispels the illusions and hypocrites associated with the concept, shows that the State is the enemy of society, as well as some issues associated with the concept of Anarchy. Chapter 3 concerns the thorny issue of morality, and it also starts with a bang: by daring to disprove major conceptions of morality, proving the true nature of morality, and defeating Hume's famous "is-ought" problem. Not content with this task, it also proves that political rights are a necessary fact of society, and dismisses statism as an example of value-arrogance. Chapter 4 discusses Market Anarchy specifically, how Market Anarchist societies of the past functioned, and how the future Market Anarchist societies will function. Topics include: accountability, coordination, cost-driven policy, roads, police and courts, a new method of decision-making to replace democracy called Informed Consensus, and the general plan for Market Anarchist victory.

Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 9780631197805

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick Pdf

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.

Author : Robert Graham
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849352116

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We Do Not Fear Anarchy—We Invoke It by Robert Graham Pdf

From 1864 to 1880, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First International—a body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, the debates and experimentation during the International helped to refine and focus anarchist ideas into a doctrine of international working class self-liberation. An unprecedented analysis of an often misunderstood history.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526634016

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The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Pdf

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

Author : Stephen Bown
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385694094

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The Company by Stephen Bown Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.

Author : John Seven,Jana Christy
Publisher : Manic D Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781933149820

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A Rule is to Break by John Seven,Jana Christy Pdf

"A Rule Is To Break says: Go ahead and throw your best self a party! So glad it exists."—Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses "After encountering the lively little anarchist in John and Jana's delightful A Rule is To Break, I will always remember the playful little devil with a mind of her own. A children's book on anarchy seems somehow just right: an instinctive, intuitive sense of fairness, community, and interdependence sits naturally enough with a desire for participatory democracy, self-determination, and peace and global justice."—Bill Ayers, author of To Teach: The Journey in Comics and Fugitive Days Simply celebrating childhood: the joy, the wonder of discovery, the spontaneity, and strong emotions. . . . Wild Child is free to do as she pleases. A Rule Is To Break: A Child's Guide to Anarchy follows Wild Child as she learns about just being herself and how that translates into kid autonomy. It presents the ideas of challenging societal expectations and tradition and expressing yourself freely in kid-terms that are both funny and thought provoking—it even functions as a guidebook for adults to understand what it is to be a critically thinking, creative individual. Wild Child is the role model for disobedience that is sometimes civil. John Seven and Jana Christy's previous collaboration The Ocean Story won Creative Child magazine's 2011 Creative Child Award Seal of Excellence and was shortlisted for the 2012 Green Earth Book Award.

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Carpentry
ISBN : 0578084139

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Anarchist's Tool Chest by Christopher Schwarz Pdf

Author : Michael Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521270146

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Community, Anarchy and Liberty by Michael Taylor Pdf

Author argues for a viable and stable form of anarchic or stateless society, relying crucially on a form of community. He examines existing anarchic or semi-anarchic societies to show that it is possible to maintain ideals in a communitarian anarchy.

Author : James Treadwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451661682

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Anarchy by James Treadwell Pdf

When an accused murderer disappears from a locked cell on her watch, Corporal "Goose" Maculloch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracks the vanished girl through the wilderness of Vancouver Island.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Michael Malice
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798748719629

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The Anarchist Handbook by Anonim Pdf

Anarchism has been both a vision of a peaceful, cooperative society—and an ideology of revolutionary terror. Since the term itself—anarchism—is a negation, there is a great deal of disagreement on what the positive alternative would look like. The black flag comes in many colors. The Anarchist Handbook is an opportunity for all these many varied voices to speak for themselves, from across the decades. These were human beings who saw things differently from their fellow men. They fought and they loved. They lived and they died. They disagreed on much, but they all shared one vision: Freedom.

Author : Kalle Lasn
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0974680095

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Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn Pdf

Adbusters' Design Anarchy is a visual call to arms to resist the commercialization of everything from motherhood to masochism, and has spawned a new genre of "Reactionary Advertising." Each of the hundreds of images in this volume, many paired with notes, commentary and poetry, provokes thought and feeling. It is this feeling, this emotional "conversation" with the page that fuels Adbusters' vision: to prevent the deadening of society, everyman, us, me. You.

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400033034

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The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan Pdf

Robert Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, offers up scrupulous, far-ranging insights on the world to come in a spirited, rousing, and provocative book that has earned a place at the top of the reading lists of the world's policy makers. The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Volatile new democracies in Eastern Europe, fierce tribalism in Africa, civil war and ethnic violence in the Near East, and widespread famine and disease—not to mention the brutal rift developing as wealthy nations reap the benefits of seemingly boundless technology while other parts of the world slide into chaos—are among the issues Kaplan identifies as the most important for charting the future of geopolitics. Historical antecedents in Gibbon's Decline and Fall and in the legacies of statesmen such as Henry Kissinger contribute to this bracingly prophetic framework for addressing the new global reality. Bold, erudite, and profoundly important, The Coming Anarchy is a compelling must-read by one of today's most penetrating writers and provocative minds.