
Originally Posted by
Uric
Hi There!
I´m a brazilian International Relations Student and a professor told me about the site and so, here I am.
I would like to know about International Anarchy. When and where this term was used for the very first time? Is there someone before Hedlley Bull who wrote about this?
I´m glad to meet the site and the community and I´m waiting for the answers. :)
Hello
As has been pointed out, and I believe rightfully so, we must start with the concept of Anarchism. When I think of Anarchism, what comes to my mind is the struggle between freedom and slavery.
La Boétie wrote the following essay while still a law student at the University of Orléans in the early 1550s.
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude.
“THESE WORDS Homer puts in the mouth of Ulysses,1 as he addresses the people. If he had said nothing further than "I see no good in having several lords," it would have been well spoken. For the sake of logic he should have maintained that the rule of several could not be good since the power of one man alone, as soon as he acquires the title of master, becomes abusive and unreasonable.
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie
But was not liberty Christ's message, and is that compatible with government; no, Jesus' life began in an- Act of Defiance to Government.
Consider Jesus' commandment of the Golden Rule, is that not anarchist; a free market, anarchist to be specific i.e. that no person or group of people may initiate the use of force against another, or threaten to initiate force against another.
Romans 13:8-10:
Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Luke 4:4-8: Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, "All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours." And Jesus answered and said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.' " (See also Matt. 4:1-11; Mark 1:12,13; Luke 4:1-13.)
So it is that Jesus was the first anarcho-capitalist.
Jesus Is an Anarchist, by James Redford -- anti-state.com
Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You [1] (1894) is a key text in modern Christian anarchism.
Christian anarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia