Knowra Anarcho-pacifism Anarcho-pacifism Anarcho-pacifism rejects state authority and organized violence, advocating nonviolent resistance and voluntary, nonhierarchical forms of social organization.
Anarchism : A political philosophy opposing hierarchical authority and advocating voluntary association and self-governance. Anarcho-pacifism is a nonviolent current within this broader opposition to coercive rule.
Nonviolent resistance : Collective action that uses noncooperation, protest, or other nonviolent methods to oppose power. It describes the organized resistance central to anarcho-pacifist strategy.
Leo Tolstoy : A Russian novelist and Christian thinker whose writings condemned state violence and advocated nonresistance to evil. His religious anarchism deeply shaped later anarcho-pacifist arguments.
Catholic Worker Movement : A decentralized Catholic movement founded in the United States in 1933, combining hospitality, voluntary poverty, and pacifism. Its houses of hospitality and antiwar activism embody overlapping anarcho-pacifist commitments.
Anarcho-syndicalism : Anarchism that uses revolutionary trade unions and direct worker action to replace capitalism and the state. It shares anti-state aims but has historically included strategies compatible with armed struggle.
Pacifism : The ethical or political rejection of war and, in some forms, all violence. Anarcho-pacifism extends pacifist commitments to opposition to state power.
Boycott : A refusal to buy, use, or participate in something as a means of exerting pressure. Economic noncooperation can withdraw support from institutions anarcho-pacifists oppose.
Bart de Ligt : A Dutch anarchist and pacifist who organized against militarism and wrote on nonviolent resistance. He developed a systematic anarchist case for resisting war and military institutions.
War Resisters' International : An international network founded in 1921 that supports conscientious objection and resistance to war. It connects pacifist opposition to militarism with transnational organizing.
Christian anarchism : Anarchist thought grounded in Christian teachings, often rejecting state authority as incompatible with divine authority. It can overlap with anarcho-pacifism, but does not necessarily require absolute nonviolence.
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