ABSTRACT
The term anarchism is much used in popular debates, especially in relation to anti-capitalist and Antifa protests. Andrew Vincent, like Goodwin, has a separate chapter on anarchism and makes the point that the doctrine overlaps with both liberalism and socialism. But whatever the overlap between some kinds of anarchism and socialism, there is also an anarchism that is explicitly non-socialist and in some of its forms anti-socialist. Bertrand Russell has referred to syndicalism as ‘the anarchism of the marketplace’, and it focuses on the role of industrial workers who are to organise themselves into revolutionary syndicates, making ‘war on the bosses’ and not bothering with politics. Anarchism continues to be influential, with adherents like Herbert Read stressing the relevance of anarchism to various contemporary social movements. Anarchism is often analysed as part of socialism, but anarchism is so distinctive that it deserves treatment in its own right.
