Monday, November 10, 2008

Milstein on Anarchism


Cindy Milstein points out many ways in which Anarchism, Liberalism, and Socialism, have interacting themes, and she also points out how anarchism is not all negative. The three ideologies push for individualistic freedoms/impowerment. The difference between the three is how they recieve or achieve the freedom or sense of impowerment. Anarchism and Socialism are probably most similar in being that " All anarchist are socialist, but not every socialist is an anarchist". She states that "anarchist maintained that people could attempt to build the new world in the shell of the old", which is how anarchist difer from socialist, since socialist wait until the old world withers away. I do not believe this would work for anarchist because, I do not see how implimenting a new system into an old one would work. I do not see everyone accepting a new system because most people belive that there is nothing wrong with the old, and what's not broken does not need fixing.

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