15 definitions
Anarchism (n.) is not a closed social system but a direction in human history: the push for the free unfolding of every individual and social force against the guardianship of church and government.
Anarchism (n.) is the libertarian wing of socialism, set against the exploitation of man by man and against the dominion of man over man as well.
Anarchism (n.) is where the two great currents of the French Revolution meet: socialism and liberalism.
Anarcho-syndicalism (n.) puts industrial organization where government used to be, and has the workers' unions build the facts of the future society inside the old one.
Democracy (n.) promised equality before the law and liberalism promised each person rule over himself, but both were wrecked on the realities of capitalist economy.
Dictatorship (n.) is the most extreme form of tyranny and can never lead to social liberation; preaching its "necessity" to the workers only smoothed the road for fascism.
The Dictatorship of the proletariat (n.) led in Russia not to socialism but to a new bureaucracy ruling the proletariat and everyone else — one vast fraud ending in Stalin.
Freedom (n.) is for the anarchist no abstract philosophical idea but each person's concrete chance to develop every power nature gave him and put it to social use; and it keeps widening.
Freedom of speech (n.) was what most surprised visitors to revolutionary Barcelona: fighting a pitiless enemy, the anarchists still set up nothing to suppress opinion.
Liberalism (n.) ran aground on capitalist economics, its right of each person over himself wrecked along with democracy's equality before the law.
Political right (n.) are not born in parliaments but forced upon them from outside; they truly exist only once they have become a people's habit.
A Right (n.) set down on paper guarantees nothing; it lives only where any attempt to impair it will meet the violent resistance of the people.