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“Anarchy stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and the liberation of the human body from the coercion of property, liberation from the shackles and restraints of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals.”
The preceding quote is attributed to Emma Goldman, a notable “free-thinking, rebel woman” in the first half of the 20th Century. Goldman played an integral role in the development of the anarchist political philosophy movement in North America. She didn’t see anarchy as everyone for themselves and no rules, merely as something that allowed the freedom of choice. Not like now, where you are free to choose as long as you stay inside the parameters, but pure freedom. …show more content…

This concept has been around a long time. One of the earliest expressions of liberalism can be seen in The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Martin Luther. He didn’t like what he saw in the world, so he decided to come up with a new plan for it. While Luther was not what we would call a liberal, he did accidentally pave the way for liberalism to come to the forefront of the political movement. The first significant text concerning liberalism was written by Thomas Hobbes in 1651 (Ball 57). This work was called Leviathan. Hobbes believed that all men are equal, and no one on this earth, above it, or below it has the right to rule another without his/her consent. Hobbes’ beliefs lead him to a conclusion that did not fit with liberalism. Liberal ideologies say that in order for man to have security he must give up some of his own sovereignty and be ruled by another. Good thing liberal ideas didn’t stop …show more content…

Doctor Ellis told his class to write an essay about a political ideology. Tell what it was about, its major contributors, its modern proponents, how has it evolved and how it fits into the modern world. I feel I’ve done that, I expressed what needed to be expressed, and I made it my own. That’s what anarchism is, choosing how we want it to look, choosing the words and phrases, choosing sources and outing it all together in the manner we see fit. However, the good doctor may see that I did not meet his criteria, and that’s acceptable, I could have withdrawn from with class, I could have chosen a different major or even school. All along I made the choice, and while I was limited by certain parameters that we must always abide by, I also chose to follow those parameters. So freedom and anarchy and liberalism doesn’t mean no government, it doesn’t mean the destabilization of countries and it doesn’t mean no rules. It merely means the ability to choose what rules to follow. You have the right to abolish a government that you feel is not doing what it is supposed to, or you can just move. Remember though that they also have the right to do what they have to defend themselves and the country that other choose to live in and the government that they elected to

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