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  • 1. What is another name for social anarchism?
A) Anarcho-capitalism
B) Individualist anarchism
C) Left-wing anarchism
D) Orthodox Marxism
  • 2. What two concepts does social anarchism see as interlinked?
A) Individual liberty and social solidarity
B) Private property and hierarchy
C) Wage systems and profit motives
D) State power and capitalism
  • 3. Who are two historical figures identified with the socialist tradition of social anarchism?
A) Adam Smith and David Ricardo
B) Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin
C) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
D) Max Stirner and Benjamin Tucker
  • 4. What is the primary goal of the social revolution advocated by social anarchism?
A) To enforce wage systems
B) To expand transnational corporations
C) To eliminate hierarchical power structures
D) To increase state control
  • 5. What are the core principles of social anarchism?
A) State centralization and proletariat dictatorship
B) Anti-capitalism, anti-statism and prefigurative politics
C) Individualism and free-market capitalism
D) Private property and market competition
  • 6. How do social anarchists propose organizing production?
A) Through competitive capitalist markets
B) Through worker cooperatives and labor syndicates
C) Through corporate monopolies
D) Through state-run agencies
  • 7. Why do social anarchists oppose private property?
A) It creates mutual aid networks
B) It is considered the principal source of social inequality
C) It encourages worker cooperatives
D) It promotes individual agency
  • 8. What does social anarchism prioritize in place of capitalist markets?
A) Collective ownership
B) Wage-based labor
C) Centralized planning
D) Profit-seeking motives
  • 9. Which forms of social organization do social anarchists envision?
A) Popular assemblies and worker cooperatives
B) Private owner syndicates
C) Transnational corporate boards
D) State bureaucracy
  • 10. How does social anarchism view the revolutionary potential of society?
A) It only focuses on the proletariat
B) It identifies potential in the socially excluded segments
C) It ignores all segments of society
D) It relies solely on capitalist leaders
  • 11. What is the social anarchist view on the State?
A) It is a hierarchical structure that must be eliminated
B) It is the primary provider of mutual aid
C) It should be reformed to protect the poor
D) It is necessary to maintain order
  • 12. What ideology is social anarchism frequently contrasted with?
A) Individualist anarchism
B) Democratic socialism
C) Utopian socialism
D) Authoritarian socialism
  • 13. What does social anarchism advocate to ensure individual freedom?
A) The abolition of private property
B) A stronger federal government
C) The expansion of monopolies
D) Increased private ownership
  • 14. What role does mutual aid play in social anarchism?
A) It is rejected in favor of profit
B) It is a form of state welfare
C) It serves as the basis for a federal society
D) It replaces worker cooperatives
  • 15. How does social anarchism relate to Marxist thought?
A) It draws from Marxist critiques of capitalism but rejects its statism
B) It is identical to Orthodox Marxism
C) It fully embraces the proletariat-centered revolutionary strategy
D) It ignores Marxist theory entirely
  • 16. What is the primary ideological position of social anarchism regarding the State?
A) Pro-monarchist
B) Anti-statist
C) Statist
D) Technocratic
  • 17. Which social anarchist is mentioned as sometimes preferring state hierarchy over economic hierarchy?
A) Karl Marx
B) Noam Chomsky
C) John Locke
D) Adam Smith
  • 18. Which decision-making process is promoted by social anarchism to generate diverse political values?
A) Consensus decision-making
B) Parliamentary debate
C) Vanguard leadership
D) Representative voting
  • 19. Which school of thought is considered the first within social anarchism?
A) Anarcho-communism
B) Social ecology
C) Mutualism
D) Anarcho-syndicalism
  • 20. What was the mechanism for worker compensation in Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's mutualism?
A) Gold currency
B) Market-indexed shares
C) Government wages
D) Labour vouchers
  • 21. What served as the basis for a new socialist economy according to syndicalism?
A) State bureaus
B) Trade unions
C) People's banks
D) Political parties
  • 22. What philosophy infused anarchism with socialistic tendencies over time?
A) Neoclassicism
B) Left Hegelianism
C) Individualism
D) Liberalism
  • 23. Which individualist philosopher inspired some social anarchists like Emma Goldman?
A) Roderick T. Long
B) Benjamin Tucker
C) Lysander Spooner
D) Max Stirner
  • 24. What concept emphasizes both individual freedom and community strength?
A) Communal individuality
B) Capitalist hierarchy
C) Individualist atomization
D) Social authoritarianism
  • 25. Who wrote 'Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism' in 1995?
A) Max Stirner
B) Kevin Carson
C) Murray Bookchin
D) Benjamin Tucker
  • 26. How did Murray Bookchin characterize the divide between social and lifestyle anarchism?
A) A minor ideological difference
B) An unbridgeable chasm
C) A purely tactical disagreement
D) A unified synthesis
  • 27. What term have social anarchists and anarcho-capitalists debated over?
A) Libertarian
B) Individualism
C) Collectivism
D) Socialism
  • 28. Who suggested that left-wing market anarchists could mediate between social anarchists and anarcho-capitalists?
A) Peter Kropotkin
B) Roderick T. Long
C) Murray Bookchin
D) Emma Goldman
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