GOVT1641 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Lewis (Department Store), Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT1641
• Professor: Stewart Jackson

Document Summary

Some of the most notable critics of liberalism in the early modern period were proto- anarchists (winstanley) or doctrinal anarchists (godwin) Core argument: state was created to protect the rich from the poor rather than protecting the common good. They don"t want a separation between the ruling class and the rest. Primitive societies demonstrate that there is no necessity for the state. Small internal conflicts but no wars because there are no states. Tolstoy: the first populist peasant collective life. Cooperative and federal structures make the state redundant. Can have bureaucracy in federal structure (bottom up entity not up bottom) A professor should earn the same as a nurse because they are both important contributions to society. Stirner: state is based on numerous fictions that perpetuate inequality. A belief in the collective ownership of production, as opposed to private wealth. A response to the rise of capitalism and growing inequality.