The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anarchism:
Nature
Schools of thought
Classical Mutualism Individualist anarchism Philosophical anarchism Egoist anarchism Illegalism Social anarchism Collectivist anarchism Anarchist communism Magonism
Post-classical Anarcha-feminism Green anarchism Anarcho-primitivism Social ecology Anarcho-pacifism Insurrectionary anarchism Religious anarchism Buddhist anarchism Christian anarchism Jewish anarchism Anarchism without adjectives
Contemporary Black anarchism Crypto-anarchism Market anarchism Postcolonial anarchism Post-anarchism Post-left anarchy Queer anarchism Anarcho-transhumanism
Organizational forms Platformism Anarchist synthesis Anarcho-syndicalism
History
Timeline of major events Historic precedents and background events (pre-1840) 1793 – William Godwin publishes Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, implicitly establishing the philosophical foundations of anarchism.Peter Kropotkin, "Anarchism", Encyclopædia Britannica 1910 1827 – Josiah Warren opens the Cincinnati Time Store, an early experiment in mutualist economics.
Early stages (1840–1870) 1840 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon publishes What Is Property? and becomes history's first self-proclaimed anarchist. 1844 – The Ego and Its Own published by Max Stirner. 1845 – Ramón de la Sagra founds the first anarchist journal in Spain. 1850 – Anarchist Manifesto published by Anselme Bellegarrigue. 1864 – International Workingmen's Association (IWA) founded. 1867–69 – Julio López Chávez revolt in Mexico.
Classical era (1870–1913) 1870–71 – Paris Commune, Lyon Commune and Besançon Commune in France. 1872 – Hague Congress in the Netherlands. 1872 – St. Imier Congress in Switzerland. 1873–74 – Cantonal rebellion and Petroleum Revolution in Spain. 1874 – Bologna insurrection in Italy. 1877 – Matese insurrection in Italy. 1878 – Assassination attempt against Kaiser Wilhelm I by Max Hödel. 1882–83 – Mano Negra affair in Spain. 1886 – Strike of 1886 in Belgium. 1886 – Haymarket affair in the US. Leads to International Workers' Day/May Day. 1891 – Clichy Affair in France. 1892 – The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin is published. 1892 – Jerez uprising in Spain. 1892 – Walsall Anarchists in Britain. 1893 – Liceu bombing in Spain. 1894 – Lunigiana revolt in Italy. 1894 – Omladina Trial in the Austro-Hungarian empire. 1894 – Assassination of French President Sadi Carnot by Sante Geronimo Caserio. 1894 – Trial of the Thirty in France. 1896 – Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing and Montjuïc trial in Spain. 1897 – Assassination of Spanish PM Antonio Cánovas del Castillo. 1898 – Assassination of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. 1900 – Assassination of King Umberto I of Italy. 1901 – Assassination of US President William McKinley. 1903 – Strandzha Commune in the Ottoman Empire. 1903 – Immigration Act of 1903 in the US. 1907 – International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. 1907 – Tenants' strike in Argentina. 1908 – Red Flag Incident in Japan. 1909 – Assassination of Chief of Police Ramón Lorenzo Falcón. 1909 – Francisco Ferrer executed in Spain. 1910–11 – High Treason Incident in Japan. 1911 – Magonista rebellion in Mexico. 1912 – Assassination of Spanish PM José Canalejas y Méndez. 1912–27 – The Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement in China and France. 1913 – Assassination of George I of Greece. World War I, Interwar period and World War II (1914 – 1945) 1916 – Manifesto of the Sixteen published. 1916 – Serifos miners strike in Greece. 1917–21 – the Makhnovshchina is active in Ukraine. 1918–20 – Constitution Protection Region of Southern Fujian in China. 1918 – Explosion in Leontievsky Lane in Russia. 1918 – First Republic of Pińczów established in Poland. 1918 – Rio de Janeiro anarchist insurrection in Brazil. 1919 – Tragic Week in Argentina. 1919 – La Canadenca strike in Spain. 1919 – United States anarchist bombings. 1919–20 – First Red Scare and Palmer Raids in the US. 1919–20 – Biennio Rosso in Italy. 1920–22 – Patagonia Rebelde and La Forestal massacre in Argentina. 1920 – Wall Street bombing in the US. 1921 – Assassination of Spanish PM Eduardo Dato. 1923 – Kantō Massacre and Amakasu Incident in Japan. 1926 – Gino Lucetti attempts to assassinate Benito Mussolini in Italy. 1926–28 – Severino Di Giovanni bombing campaign in Argentina. 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed in the US. 1929–31 – Korean People's Association in Manchuria in China. 1931 – Taking of Encarnación in Paraguay. 1932 – Alt Llobregat insurrection in Spain. 1933 – Anarchist insurrection of January 1933 and Casas Viejas incident in Spain. 1933 – Anarchist insurrection of December 1933 in Spain. 1934 – Erich Mühsam murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. 1934 – Asturian miners' strike of 1934 in Spain. 1936–39 – the Spanish Civil War and Spanish Revolution. 1937 – May Days in Spain. 1943 – Carlo Tresca assassinated in the US.
Cold War era (1946 – 1989) 1955 – Pierre Morain becomes the first French activist jailed for supporting Algerian independence. 1968 – May 68 in France. 1969 – Piazza Fontana bombing and death of Giuseppe Pinelli in Italy. 1970 – Barracks anarchists killed in Italy. 1971 – Chomsky–Foucault debate the Netherlands. 1978 – Scala case in Spain. 1980 – Faurisson affair in France. 1980 – Wanganui Computer Centre bombing in New Zealand. 1982 – Litton Industries bombing in Canada. 1986 – Battle of Ryesgade in Denmark.
Post-Cold War era resurgence (1990 – present) 1994–2020 – Zapatista uprising and Chiapas conflict in Mexico. 1999 – Murder of Björn Söderberg in Sweden. 1999 – Seattle WTO protests in the US. 2001 – Katie Sierra free speech case in the US. 2006 – 4F case in Spain. 2008 – Tarnac Nine arrested in France. 2008 – Greek riots. 2011 – Occupy movement begins. 2012 – Rojava conflict begins. 2016 – Audrey Tang appointed Minister without portfolio in Taiwan. 2017 – Catalan general strike in Spain. 2018 – Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing in Russia. 2019 – Tacoma attack in the US. 2023 – Killing of Tortuguita in the US. 2024 – Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell in the US.
History by region
Historians
Paul Avrich David Goodway Daniel Guérin Peter Marshall Max Nettlau George Woodcock Historical societies Anarchy Archives Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme Kate Sharpley Library Labadie Collection
Organizations Notable organizations Political internationals
Platformist federations
Syndicalist federations
Synthesis federations
Militant groups
Others
Structures Affinity group (e.g. Black bloc) Adhocracy Collective Cooperative Federation Participatory organization Popular assembly Security culture Spokescouncil Syndicate Union of egoists Workers' council
Literature
Manifestos and expositions (1840–1914) Anarchist Manifesto (1850) by Anselme Bellegarrigue The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (1851) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon The Principles of Anarchism () by Lucy Parsons The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) by Oscar Wilde The Conquest of Bread (1892) by Peter Kropotkin Anarchy Defended by Anarchists (1896) by Emma Goldman and Johann Most (1914–1984) Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (1965) by Daniel Guérin (1985–present) Listen, Anarchist! (1987) by Chaz Bufe Anarchy Alive! (2007) by Uri Gordon The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism (2019) by Ruth Kinna
Non-anarchists influential on anarchism
Places named after anarchists
Action Directe (climb), Germany Anarchist Mountain, Canada Collège Louise-Michel in Paris, France Doctor Moisés Bertoni, Paraguay Dorothy Day homeless shelter, United States Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Mexico Fred Hollows Reserve, Australia Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, US Georg von Rauch Haus, Germany Golets Kropotkin, Russia Louise Michel station, France Kropotkin, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai, Russia Kropotkin Range, Russia Kropotkinskaya, Russia Medical University of Varna "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov", Bulgaria Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Hungary Mount Kropotkin, Antarctica Parc Georges-Brassens, France Práxedis G. Guerrero Municipality, Mexico Práxedis Gilberto Guerrero, Chihuahua, Mexico Red Emma's, United States Ricardo Flores Magón metro station, Mexico Scientific Monument Moises Bertoni, Paraguay Soviet monitor Zhelezniakov, Ukraine Teotitlán de Flores Magón, Mexico Tolstoy, United States
Related philosophies Absurdism Existentialism Libertarian socialism Democratic confederalism Neozapatismo Nihilism PanarchismP. E. de Puydt. "Panarchy". First published in French in the Revue Trimestrielle, Bruxelles, July 1860. Voluntaryism
See also
Anti-globalization/Globalization Anti-fascism Anti-war Civil rights Labour movement Tax resistance
Footnotes
Further reading
External links "Anarchism", entry from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, (1910) by Peter Kropotkin.