{"id":179732,"date":"2021-02-22T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=179732"},"modified":"2021-02-20T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T08:40:30","slug":"what-is-anarchism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/what-is-anarchism\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Anarchism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Anarchism is a longstanding political, economic, and social tradition based in struggle against top-down systems and institutions, such as states, capitalism, and racial and gender domination.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/vimeo.com\/153869579<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sub.media\/c\/a-is-for-anarchy\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Watch more at Sub.Media\u2019s A is for Anarchy series<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anarchists aim to build an ecologically sustainable and deeply participatory society in which all people have access to the things they need, decisions are made by those most directly affected by them, and all people are free and equal.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the core tenets of anarchism are mutual aid, direct action, voluntary association, decentralization, and self determination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnarchy\u201d is often attributed to Greek words meaning \u201cwithout rulers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more information about anarchism and anarchist ideas check out some of these introductory materials from others in the movement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/bob-black-anarchy-101\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anarchy 101<\/a> (Bob Black)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/a-history-of-anarchism\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Brief History of Anarchism<\/a> (Noam Chomsky, In These Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Anarchist FAQ<\/a> (Infoshop)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dwardmac.pitzer.edu\/anarchist_archives\/goldman\/whatibelieve.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What I Believe<\/a> (Emma Goldman)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blackrosefed.org\/black-anarchism-a-reader\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Anarchism Reader<\/a> (Black Rose Anarchist Federation)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crimethinc.com\/tools\/ffol.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fighting for Our Lives<\/a> (Crimethinc)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/207935414\/Autonomy-Creating-Spaces-for-Freedom\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/LoveAndFreedomAGentleIntroductionToAnarchy\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love And Freedom: A Gentle Introduction to Anarchy<\/a> (Jamie Heckert)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You<\/a> (David Graeber):<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatisanarchism.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Anarchism?<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/anarchist-agency-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-169885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/anarchist-agency-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anarchismdocumentary.net\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anarchism: A Documentary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tangledwilderness.org\/life-without-law\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life Without Law<\/a> (Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chomsky.info\/20130528\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What\u2019s Wrong with Libertarians<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anarchism\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anarchism<\/a> (Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/skateraw\/docs\/aboutanarchism\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About Anarchism<\/a> (Nicolas Walter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/donald-rooum-and-freedom-press-ed-what-is-anarchism-an-introduction\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Anarchism?<\/a> (Donald Rooum et al)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/errico-malatesta-anarchy\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anarchy<\/a> (Errico Malatesta)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blackrosefed.org\/who-are-the-anarchists-and-what-is-anarchism\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who Are the Anarchists and What is Anarchism?<\/a> (Thomas Giovanni)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism \u2013 Peter Marshall<\/li>\n<li>Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction \u2013 Colin Ward<\/li>\n<li>Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 \u2013 Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt<\/li>\n<li>ABC of Anarchist Communism \u2013 Alexander Berkman<\/li>\n<li>Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism \u2013 Lucien van der Walt<\/li>\n<li>The Dispossessed \u2013 Ursula K Leguin<\/li>\n<li>Against the Day \u2013 Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li>The Fifth Sacred Thing \u2013 Starhawk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zinelibrary.info\/anarchy-alive\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anarchy Alive<\/a> \u2013 Uri Gordon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anarchistagency.com\/what-is-anarchism\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; anarchistagency.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anarchism is a longstanding political, economic, and social tradition based in struggle against top-down systems and institutions, such as states, capitalism, and racial and gender domination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":106044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[873],"class_list":["post-179732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anarchism","tag-anarchism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}