Radical Politics: Anarchism and Socialism

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

A consideration of classic anarchist and socialist texts, which pose direct challenges to capitalism and liberalism—e.g., Proudhon, Marx, Bakunin, Lenin, Kropotkin, and Luxemburg. We then turn to discuss more recent developments in anarchist and socialist thought. Topics include inter alia: theory of property, the relation of work to self, the nature of political institutions, globalism, human sociality.