Summary of Michael Malice, Murray Rothbard, Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, David Friedman, Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Lysander Spooner, Emma Goldman & Louis Lingg's The Anarchist Handbook

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#1 It is impossible to have a radical philosophy without first sounding like a lunatic or a moron. Most radical philosophies are lunacy, and the rest are moronic. To proclaim earnestly that the status quo needs to be changed drastically is an enormously high task.

#2 All anarchy does is solve one major problem in interpersonal relationships: the forceful interjection of the state. If government was a useful mechanism for adjudicating disputes, lawsuits would be as common and as easily resolved as returning an item to the store.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822523661

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Insights on Michael Malice, Murray Rothbard, Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, David Friedman, Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Lysander Spooner and Emma Goldman & Louis Lingg's The Anarchist Handbook

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

It is impossible to have a radical philosophy without first sounding like a lunatic or a moron. Most radical philosophies are lunacy, and the rest are moronic. To proclaim earnestly that the status quo needs to be changed drastically is an enormously high task.

#2

All anarchy does is solve one major problem in interpersonal relationships: the forceful interjection of the state. If government was a useful mechanism for adjudicating disputes, lawsuits would be as common and as easily resolved as returning an item to the store.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The first statement of the system of a social contract presents many difficulties. Who are the parties to this contract. For whom did they consent, for themselves only, or for others. How long is this contract to be considered as binding. If the consent of every individual is necessary, in what manner is that consent to be given.

#2

The social contract requires of me more than just my consent to the laws that are currently on the books. It requires of me my consent to all the laws that will be made in the future as well. This is a very difficult requirement to meet.

#3

If government is based on the consent of the people, it cannot have power over any individual who refuses that consent. If a tacit consent is not enough, neither can I be deemed to have consented to a measure on which I put an express negative.

#4

All right is foreign law. Some make me out to be in the right, but I don’t like to receive it from them. I am seeking sultanic right, not my right. The State does not allow me to pitch into each other man to man, but it does oppose the duel.

#5

I am to respect sultanic law in the sultanate, popular law in republics, and canon law in Catholic communities. I am to subordinate myself to these laws, and consider them sacred. The right of all is to go before my right.

#6

I am entitled to everything that I have in my power. I am not entitled to anything that I do not do with a free cheer, which means that if something is right for me, it is right. Everything else is the concern of the others, not mine.

#7

The conflict over the right of property is a commotion in the Communist Party. They say that equal labor entitles man to equal enjoyment. But enjoyment alone entitles you to equal enjoyment. If you take the enjoyment, it is your right; if you only pine for it without laying hands on it, it remains as before, a well-earned right of those who are privileged for enjoyment.

#8

The old combat of the birthrights of man and well-earned rights is still ongoing today. You must remain on the ground of right if you want to remain in Rechthaberei. The other cannot give you your right, and he cannot mete out right to you.

#9

The commonwealth of right asks that officeholders be removable only by the judge, not by the administration. But the judge is lost when he ceases to be mechanical. Then he