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(en) Poland, FA: Anarchism and War and Peace... New Publication (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Date Tue, 4 Aug 2026 07:45:55 +0300


Anarchism and War and Peace. From Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Leo Tolstoy to the End of the Pax Americana ---- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon argues that we have every reason "to distinguish between the primary cause of war and its secondary motives or causes, the latter being purely political in nature, the former purely economic." Without economic imbalance and pauperization, war would be impossible. Therefore, it is not caused by human nature or the will of the gods, as many contemporary writers would have it.

Tolstoy does not deny that people participating in war have a certain agency. Much depends, he writes, on whether a single corporal refuses or not to refuse service, and if there are more of them, thousands of corporals and soldiers, war may become impossible. In his article "The Inevitable Revolution," Tolstoy writes, however, that this does not mean that individuals are to blame for instigating conflict. This lies in the organization of social life, which is based on violence.

Despite the strong influence of Tolstoy and Proudhon, the anarchist movement, drawing on their intellectual achievements, among other things, never developed a coherent position on war, and the disputes within it often resembled those taking place today in connection with the current armed conflict in Ukraine...

Anarchism and War and Peace. From Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Leo Tolstoy to the End of Pax Americana - Jaroslaw Urbanski Bractwo Trojka Online Bookstore
https://bractwotrojka.pl/pl/p/Anarchizm-wobec-wojny-i-pokoju.-From-Pierrea-Joseph-Proudhon-and-Leo-Tolstoy-to-the-end-of-Pax-Americana-Jaroslaw-Urbanski/6053

https://federacja-anarchistyczna.pl/2026/06/19/anarchizm-wobec-wojny-i-pokoju-nowosc-wydawnicza/
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