The Great Anarchists
Twenty to thirty minutes each through the greatest philosophers and theorists of anarchism, including Josiah Warren, Peter Kropotkin, and David Graeber.
The Great Anarchists
Anarchism and Human Nature
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crispin sartwell
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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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 anarchism follows from Hobbes's view too, believe it or not. Or if Hobbes is right about human nature, anarchism is just as or more valid than if we're all benevolent Godwinians.