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An anarchist is a person who is against any kind of imposed government

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What is an example sentence for the word anarchist?

Lenna does not think that she has became an anarchist Utopian.


Who said property is theft?

The phrase "property is theft" is commonly attributed to French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. He used this statement to critique private ownership of resources and believed that it led to exploitation and inequality.


What are synonyms of anarchist?

-libertarian socialist-anti-state anti-capitalist-directly democratic socialist-anti-authoritarian commnunist/socialist


What are the rights that people have in anarchy?

I guess this depends on what you mean by "anarchy." In the colloquial sense of chaos and disorder, there are no rights. The "anarchy" to which most anarchists refer, however, is a society in which people have a liberty that is consistent with natural rights, even if they aren't supporters of deontology or natural rights. "Anarchy," in this case, is the absence of rule, be it a semi-permanent institution like the government or individual transgressions upon one's life or liberty. The main difference between an anarchist society and the liberal democracies with which many of us are familiar, aside from the absence of the state, is private property. Historically, anarchists are socialists and therefore don't accept the legitimacy of private property, though a relatively recent group of anarchists support laissez-faire capitalism (anarcho-capitalists). For social anarchists (aka socialist anarchists, left anarchists, libertarian socialists, left libertarians), natural resources cannot be owned as private property, but used in common by usufructuaries. This would result in laborers being permitted to use the means of production to create personal property, which they can use or trade as they see fit. Libertarian socialists also want the workplace to be democratic instead of hierarchical, and prefer industries to be managed by worker cooperatives (see syndicalism) instead of bosses whose will must be followed merely because they have the legal right of ownership in private property.


What is the phlosophy of Jean-Paul sartre?

It's a bit difficult to sum up Sartre's philosophy, but I hope this would be a good abridged version: Sartre is most identified with his contributions to existentialism, he codified the aforementioned philosophy with his revelation that "existence precedes essence." This statement rejects the notion held by many philosophers and theologians since the time of Plato that consciousness first has an essence or archetype before it exists, because consciousness (or being) is a negation (this is not to say that existentialism is necessarily atheistic, but Sartre was an atheist existentialist). Man, to Sartre, is "condemned to be free." Existentialism is a philosophy that gives priority to subjectivity, or consciousness; this priority stemming from Descartes famous statement "I think, therefore I am." (The mind/body duality that this statement sets up isn't as important to existential thought then the duality between subjective/reality). Also, existentialism can be traced back to nihilism, in fact one could say that it is a response to it. In short, nihilism's basic premise is that life/reality has no intrinsic meaning or value, existentialists agree with this but add that the subjective meaning is important in life, this sentiment is reflected in existential literature in that that human will usually conquers existential despair through the act of creating something or taking hold of one's life. Lastly, existentialism is related to determinism, asserting that human's possess free will (in the existentialist world this is known as "abandonment"). A simple way to understand this is that deterministic philosophy looks at the objective factors in the decision-making process, whereas existentialists (as stated earlier) look at the subjective act of choice, and thus state that man is responsible for his actions. Sartre's phenomenology centers around existentialism, but includes a lot more than what I've mentioned earlier; separating consciousness into being-for-itself and being-in-itself, and also delving into psychoanalysis of interpersonal relations (separating the being-for-others, when you become the object of someone else's consciousness, and "the Other," which represents an other conscious being); another quote he is famous for regarding his phenomenology, from his play 'No Exit,' is that "hell is other people," embodying the existential struggle that occurs during interpersonal contact. Outside of this Sartre is known for his political philosophy. He was a member of the radical left and a Marxist theorist, but declared himself an anarchist. (Anarchism and feminism being political schools of thought that existentialism heavily influenced afterward.) Hope this helped ;)