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Index | What's New | Links | Introduction | Bibliography
Introduction
Here is a list of all the new additions to the FAQ. An list of older
changes can found here.
The version number of the FAQ changes as follows. A major change
results in then the version number is increased by one (from version
10.2 to version 11, for example). If a minor change is being made
then the current version is increased by 0.1 (for example,
from version 10.2 to 10.3).
As far as new anarchist and libertarian links are concerned, we will add them
when we get enough to make an update worthwhile. These updates have no
effect on the FAQ version number as we don't want to inflate it higher than
the content deserves.
We hope that this makes it clear to visitors!
What's New in the FAQ?
| Version | Date | What's New |
11.10 |
01-MAY-2007 |
Section E
Major revision of section E ( "What do anarchists think causes
ecological problems?"). Massively expanded and improved, with many new
sub-sections and arguments.
Section C.12
Major revision of section C.12. Think Hong Kong is an example of "free market"
capitalism? Think again...
This is part of the process of getting the FAQ ready for being published by AK Press.
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11.9 |
01-MAR-2007 |
Section D
Major revision of section D ( "How does statism and capitalism affect society?")
to fix typos and expand and improve some of the sections.
Section D.1.4
New sub-section on why laissez-faire capitalism is not without state
intervention.
Section D.1.5
New sub-section on whether anarchists support state intervention or not.
Section D.11
New section discussing if politics and economics can be separated
from each other, using the example of Pinochet's Chile. The original
section D.11 has now become a sub-section of
section D.9.
Section C.10
Major revision of section C.10, including new subsections
on neo-liberalism, growth, labour's share in nation income and
lots more.
Section C.11
Major revision of section C.11, including new subsections.
Find out the true failure of the first experiment in neo-liberalism,
Pinochet's Chile.
This is part of the process of getting the FAQ ready for being published by AK Press.
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11.8 |
11-NOV-2006 |
Section C.3
Revision of section C.3
Section C.4
Revision of section C.4
Section C.5
Revision of section C.5
Section C.6
Revision of section C.6
Section A
Slight changes to section A, fixing typos and making
a few slight additions here and there (e.g., some new additions
on Tolstoy's religious anarchism).
Section B
Slight changes to section B, fixing typos and making
a few slight additions here and there (mostly to section
B.1).
Section C
Slight changes to the introduction, C.1 and C.2,
fixing typos and making a few slight additions here and
there.
Appendix 2
Slight addition to the appendix on the symbols of
Anarchy.
This is part of the process of getting the FAQ ready for being published by
AK Press.
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11.7 |
19-JUL-2006 |
Section C
Revised introduction to Section C
Section C.1
Totally revised and expanded revision of section
C.1, now entitled "What is wrong with Economics?".
Explains why mainstream economics is not a science and not value
free as well as how it presents a radically false picture of
capitalism.
Section C.2
Totally revised and expanded revision of section
C.2, now entitled " Why is capitalism exploitative?".
Explains why anarchists, like other socialists, think capitalism
is exploitative. It also critiques many of the standard mainstream
economics defences of profit, interest and rent (such as marginal
productivity theory, waiting, risk and innovation).
Section C.9.1
Addition to the section on "Would cutting wages reduce unemployment?"
to note that there is no theoretical or empirical reason to support the standard economic
assertion of an upward sloping supply curve for labour and so its arguments on what causes
unemployment (i.e. wages being too high).
This is part of the process of getting the FAQ ready for being published by
AK Press.
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11.6 |
13-MAY-2006 |
Section F
New, smaller, section on "anarcho"-capitalism is not anarchism.
This is an edited version of the original section F (which has been
put into an appendix).
Appendix -- Is "anarcho"-capitalism a type of anarchism?
The old section F (with some very slight changes here and there).
This is part of the process of getting the FAQ ready for being
published by AK Press. Not only does this change mean that the AK
Press proof-readers have less to look at, it puts "anarcho"-capitalism
more into context. If it were not for some academics taking their
claims at face value, this section would not even be needed.
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11.5 |
22-APR-2006 |
Section F.7
New section on the history of "anarcho"-capitalism and how it
always (rightly) rejected the term "anarchist." Discusses how a
"right-wing anarchism" is impossible (it would just be rule by
the rich).
Section F.11
The old section F.7 (on "Natural Law")
Section F.9
Yet more evidence on why Viking Iceland was not an
"anarcho"-capitalist system. As far as it was anarchic, it
was not capitalist. As it became capitalistic, it became
statist.
Section F.1
A rewrite of the first section to summarise the rest of the
section F to show how "anarcho"-capitalism's own definition of
the state refutes its claim to be anarchist.
Section F.1.4
Some of what was originally in section F.1, plus some new bits
and pieces on how individualist anarchism is not really related to
"anarcho"-capitalism.
Section F.2.6
A few changes on right "libertarian" support for voluntary
slavery and how its exposes its contradictions.
Section F --Introduction
Slight change to the introduction to Section F
Section F.1.3
A few additions on the non-scientific nature of most kinds
of right-wing libertarianism and how it produces authoritarian
politics.
This is part of the process of getting the FAQ ready for being
published by AK Press. The next stage will be moving section F
into an appendix and replacing it with a much more edited version.
This because "anarcho"-capitalism is not important and it takes
up too much space in an FAQ about anarchism.
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11.4 |
15-FEB-2006 |
Appendix -- The symbols of Anarchy
Revision of the appendix on the symbols of anarchy to fix
typos and improve it. This is part of the process
of getting the FAQ ready for being published by
AK Press.
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11.3 |
31-JAN-2006 |
Section A
Minor changes to section A to change the references
for Murray Bookchin's "The Ecology of Freedom" to the most
recent edition, including new works by Voltairine de Cleyre
and Lucy Parsons, and make a few minor additions here and
there (mostly to sections A.2, A.2.1, A.2.18, A.3, A.3.1,
A.3.5, A.3.8, A.4, A.5.2, and A.5.5).
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11.2 |
19-JUL-2005 |
Section B
Major revision of section B to fix typos and improve
some of the sections. This is part of the process
of getting the FAQ ready for being published by
AK Press.
Section B.1.6
New sub-section on how hierarchy can be overcome.
Section B.2.6
New sub-section on how the state can be an independent power
within society
Section B.3.5
New sub-section on why state owned property is basically
the same as private property.
Section B.7.2
New sub-section on social mobility in capitalism and why
it does not make class or inequality irrelevant. The rest
of section B.7 has been reorganised to take the new section
into account.
Section A
Slight changes to section A to change the references
for Murray Bookchin's "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" and Martha
A. Ackelsberg's "Free Women of Spain" to the most
recent edition and make a few minor additions here
and there (mostly to section A.4).
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11.1 |
10-JAN-2005 |
Section A
Slight changes to section A to fix a few typos, change
the references for Rudolf Rocker's "Anarcho-Syndicalism"
to the most recent edition and make a few minor additions
here and there (mostly to section A.1).
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11.0 |
03-OCT-2004 |
Section A
Revision of section A to fix typos and improve
some of the sections. This is part of the process
of getting the FAQ ready for being published by
AK Press.
Section A.2.20
New section on why most anarchists are atheists.
Discusses the anti-anarchist nature of religion as
well as its social role in aiding the powerful and
making the oppressed accept their lot in life.
Section A.3.9
New section on "anarcho-primitivism," explaining
what it stands for and why most anarchists reject it.
Section A.4.1
Section A.4.2
Section A.4.3
Section A.4.4
New sub-sections on thinkers who are close to
anarchism but are not, in fact, anarchists. They
include liberals, socialists and marxists as well as
others not so easily categorised.
Section H.3.15
New section on why the Leninist argument that
"objective factors" rather than Bolshevik ideology
caused the failure of the Russian revolution.
Section H.3.16
New section which summarises the impact of
Bolshevik ideology on the outcome of the Russian
revolution.
Appendix: The Symbols of Anarchy
Slight additions to the history of the Black Flag.
Appendix: The Russian Revolution
New appendix for the various sub-sections of
section H which discuss the Russian Revolution
(namely sections H.6 to 11).
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