Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Proposed Roads To Freedom - Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
By Bertrand Russell
1918, Cornwall Press, Inc, Cornwall NY
Contents
Introduction
Part I.
Historical
I. Max And Socialist Doctrine
Ii. Bakunin And Anarchism
Iii. The Syndicalist Revolt
Part II.
Problems Of The Future
Iv. Work And Pay
V. Government And Law
Vi. International Relations
Vii. Science And Art Under Socialism
Viii.The World As It Could Be Made
Index
Anarchism, as its derivation indicates, is the theory which is opposed to every kind of forcible government. It is opposed to the State as the embodiment of the force employed in the government of the community. Such government as Anarchism can tolerate must be free government, not merely in the sense that it is that of a majority, but in the sense that it is that assented to by all. Anarchists object to such institutions as the police and the criminal law, by means of which the will of one part of the community is forced upon another part. In their view, the democratic form of government is not very enormously preferable to other forms so long as minorities are compelled by force or its potentiality to submit to the will of majorities. Liberty is the supreme good in the Anarchist creed, and liberty is sought by the direct road of abolishing all forcible control over the individual by the community.
Bertrand Russell
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