{"id":3311,"date":"2014-03-20T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2014-03-20T00:05:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T04:05:31","slug":"anarchism-its-philosophy-and-ideal-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/03\/20\/anarchism-its-philosophy-and-ideal-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Author: Peter Kropotkin was a\u00a0Russian philosopher, evolutionary theorist, and economist, promoter of anarchy- communism (looks to abolish capitalism, the state, and private property and promote common ownership in production),\u00a0influenced by Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and John Stuart Mill,\u00a0wealthy upbringing but rejected his &#8220;princely&#8221; title at a young age, influenced by republican readings and his time working under Tsar Alexander II, spent time working alongside the International Workingmen&#8217;s Association and other anarchist associations and was imprisoned for his activities<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Context: Tsar Nicholas II had his formal coronation to Russian leader in 1896, Tsar Nicholas had previously turned down attempts for some democracy and stated that he would do everything to maintain an absolute autocracy<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Language: Asks many questions in the beginning to force people to think critically about their society and these issues, his writing is not advanced and is at a level that is easy for most to read<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Audience: The common man, he uses his simple language to express to all the issues with the current state of society and how much bettered all would be without certain institutions<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Intent: To make people question the institutions of society which they take for granted and assume need to be in place (ex. questioning the usefulness of the police by showing how they have missed opportunities to protect the people)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Message: That men are corrupted by the institutions and that without these unnecessary objects of society there will not be places to harbor &#8220;coercion&#8221;\u00a0(ex. that state- run prisons have allowed for many crimes to occur within their walls), believes that institutions only cover up the issues within society and that they do not address the needs of the people, without the institutions people would more easily be able to address the root of human issues and create a better &#8220;means for preventing anti-social acts&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Peter Kropotkin was a\u00a0Russian philosopher, evolutionary theorist, and economist, promoter of anarchy- communism (looks to abolish capitalism, the state, and private property and promote common ownership in production),\u00a0influenced by Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and John Stuart Mill,\u00a0wealthy upbringing but rejected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/03\/20\/anarchism-its-philosophy-and-ideal-1896\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[94201,94200],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-anarchism","tag-peter-kropotkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}