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"Man was born free and is everywhere in chains." The nature of Anarchy.
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"Man was born free and is everywhere in chains." Rousseau.1 When someone today thinks about anarchy, it pictured as a chaotic Hobbseian state of nature in which it is everyone for themselves. However this is just the pejorative notion of anarchism and this essay will not be entertaining that notion. The ideology of anarchism was as rationally conceived as liberalism or Marxism and shall be analysised from an academic perspective. Anarchism is in truth, an intellectually processed theoretical alternative to just about all other political ideologies. There are still today many activists voicing its features today. The question being addressed in this essay is to "critically evaluate the anarchist claim that it is possible to create a society without compulsion". That it is possible to for people to exist without any centralised authority to govern their day-to-day life; to exist without rule in which humans manage themselves. The anarchist ideology was born...
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