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Exploring Anarchism: A Quiz on Its Principles and History

Test your knowledge of anarchism, its principles, and historical context with this engaging quiz.

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1 It is often combined with other branches of anarchism, and anarcho-syndicalists often subscribe to anarchist communist or ________ economic systems.

2 [30][93] Godwin advocated extreme ________, proposing that all cooperation in labour be eliminated on the premise that this would be most conducive with the general good.

3 The revolutionary industrial unionist ________, claiming 2,000 paying members, and the International Workers Association, an anarcho-syndicalist successor to the First International, also remain active.

4 However, anarchism has always included an individualist strain [10] supporting a ________ and private property, or morally unrestrained egoism.

5 [65] In France, where the ________ came close to insurrection in the February 1934 riots, anarchists divided over a united front policy.

6 In Europe the main propagandist of free love within individualist anarchism was ________.

7 Social anarchism calls for a system with public ownership of means of production and democratic control of all organizations, without any government authority or ________.

8 [46] On 3 May, in Chicago, a fight broke out when ________ attempted to cross the picket line, and two workers died when police opened fire upon the crowd.

9 ________ thus wrote that year in Le Révolté that "a structure based on centuries of history cannot be destroyed with a few kilos of dynamite."

10 [70] In the United Kingdom this was associated with the punk rock movement, as exemplified by bands such as ________ and the Sex Pistols.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States.
  • the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists.
  • the appearance of Raphael Friedeberg at the Monte Verità sanatorium turned Ascona into a center for itinerant anarchists.
  • the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured).
  • the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers.
  • the physician Marie Equi became an anarchist after being attacked by police, while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World.
  • Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club.
  • in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan, Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome.
  • many of the tendencies within anarchism criticized by Chaz Bufe in his pamphlet Listen, Anarchist! are thought to have stemmed from the movement's individualist, Stirnerite wing.
  • prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II, there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable.
  • anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction.
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