Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, this reading of anarchism is placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement ( libertarian socialism). Although traces of anarchist ideas are found all throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more, growing in popularity and influence within anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-globalisation movements. ( Full article...)
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Pável Dimítrievich Turchanínov (died September 21, 1921), known by the pseudonym Lev Chernyi, was a
Russian
anarchist theorist, activist and
poet, and a leading figure of the
Third Russian Revolution. His early thought was
individualist, rejecting
anarcho-communism as a threat to individual liberty. In 1917, Chernyi was released from his
political imprisonment by the
Imperial Russian regime, and swiftly became one of the leading figures in
Russian anarchism. After strongly denouncing the new
Bolshevik government in various anarchist publications and joining several underground resistance movements, Chernyi was arrested by the
Cheka on a charge of
counterfeiting and in 1921 was executed without trial. (
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