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Why should anyone obey a law simply because a government made it? That question has produced some odd companions in political thought: a Russian prince who watched animals cooperate in Siberia, a French printer who called property theft, and American economists who think courts and police could be bought on the open market.

The course follows the argument from Godwin and Proudhon through Barcelona in 1936 to Nozick and Rothbard, then lets Hobbes and the free-rider problem push back hard. Along the way you learn why left and right anti-statists so often refuse to share the word “anarchist.”

Levels

  1. 1 1. Skepticism of the State: The Problem of Political Obligation 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Classical Anarchism: Godwin, Proudhon and Bakunin 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Kropotkin, Goldman and Mutual Aid 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Anarchism in Practice 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Libertarianism: Locke, Mill and Nozick 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Anarcho-Capitalism, Left-Libertarianism and the Great Debates 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Critiques and Replies 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Influence Today 5-question quiz

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