Social_Anarchism_and_the_Rejection_of_Mo-2
Benjamin Franks
Outside philosophy departments, most self-identified anarchists are
social anarchists who reject both the legitimacy of the state and
private property. By contrast, most anarchist philosophers are of
the pro-market variety. As a result, a philosopher has yet to write
an analytic defense of social anarchism. Jesse Spafford fills this gap by
arguing that social anarchism is a coherent philosophical position that
follows from a more basic, plausible principle that constrains which
moral theories are acceptable. In the process of articulating and
defending social anarchism Spafford stakes out a number of bold
and original positions (e.g., that people own themselves and nothing
else), while providing novel solutions to some of the classic problems
of political philosophy (e.g., luck egalitarianism’s problem of stakes).
His distinctive study offers an overarching, unified political theory
while also advancing many of the more fine-grained debates that
occupy political philosophers
