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Political theory and history: The case of anarchism

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posted on 2016-07-26, 09:52 authored by Matthew AdamsMatthew Adams, Nathan J. Jun
This essay critically examines one of the dominant tendencies in recent theoretical discussions of anarchism, postanarchism, and argues that this tradition fails to engage sufficiently with anarchism’s history. Through an examination of late 19th-century anarchist political thought—as represented by one of its foremost exponents, Peter Kropotkin—we demonstrate the extent to which postanarchism has tended to oversimplify and misrepresent the historical tradition of anarchism. The article concludes by arguing that all political-theoretical discussions of anarchism going forward should begin with a fresh appraisal of the actual content of anarchist political thought, based on a rigorous analysis of its political, social, and cultural history.

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  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

Published in

Journal of Political Ideologies

Volume

20

Issue

3

Pages

244 - 262

Citation

ADAMS, M.S. and JUN, N.J., 2015. Political theory and history: The case of anarchism. Journal of Political Ideologies, 20(3), pp. 244-262.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2015-01-01

Publication date

2015

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Political Ideologies on 25th November 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13569317.2015.1075263.

ISSN

1469-9613

Language

  • en

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