Name: Community, Anarchy and Liberty
ISBN: 9780521270144

Michael Taylor

Author argues for a viable and stable form of anarchic or stateless society, relying crucially on a form of community. He examines existing anarchic or semi-anarchic societies to show that it is possible to maintain ideals in a communitarian anarchy.

Community, Anarchy and Liberty

Sophie Shrimpton

Read the first few chapters for Politics 249 (State and Freedom) for an essay on anarchism.

Thought it was interesting. Was concerned by some of the archaic language around 'primitive' societies. Thought it was insightful in terms of the social controls that various empirical anarchies use to ensure social order. Not sure how much these empirical anarchies lend to anarchist theory - it's all well and good to critique empirical anarchies for structures they actually produce, but it's a different story when critiquing anarchist theory and when considering what could be possible in different contexts in the future.

Community, Anarchy and Liberty

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