The Great Anarchists
Twenty to thirty minutes each through the greatest philosophers and theorists of anarchism, including Josiah Warren, Peter Kropotkin, and David Graeber.
Podcasting since 2025 • 10 episodes
The Great Anarchists
Latest Episodes
Henry David Thoreau: State and Slavery
Our best writer, maybe. The assertion that he's an (individualist) anarchist is based on "Civil Disibedience," but Thoreay expresses these positions throughout his authorship.
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Episode 9
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29:19
Proudhon: from Rousseau to Marx
The first person to call himself an 'anarchist' (that we know of), and a central transitional figure between Rousseau and Marx. His 'mutualism' might still be a decent way between individualism and collectivism.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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29:45
Warren 2: The Concept of Self-Sovereignty
supplement to the Warren episode. Abolitionism as the source of American anarchism. John Stuart Mill.
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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8:10
Josiah Warren: the Practical Anarchist
The continuity with Godwin is provided by Robert Owen and the astonishing Frances (Fanny) Wright. Warren (1798-1874) was the founder of American individualist anarchism, but...let's talk about the meaning of individualism and collectivism.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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34:59
Anarchism and Human Nature
A supplement to the Godwin episode. I argue that anarchists need not have a naively positive view of human nature. Not at all, though Godwin and Emma Goldman did, and though for example absolutist Thomas Hobbes had a very negative one. But anar...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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13:40