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'''Anarcho-Pacifism''', referred to by the abbreviation '''AnPac''', is an usually economically left, culturally ambivalent, and anarchist ideology that advocates for the use of non-violent action to facilitate the abolition of the state and [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]]. |
'''Anarcho-Pacifism''', referred to by the abbreviation '''AnPac''', is an usually economically left, culturally ambivalent, and anarchist ideology that advocates for the use of non-violent action to facilitate the abolition of the state and [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]]. |
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Anarcho-Pacifists believe that the use of violent force stands contrary to the anti-hierarchical principle of anarchism, as a group using force to topple a hierarchy has not eliminated it, but established itself at the head of it. |
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Anarcho-pacifist thought is predominantly based in the writings of [[wp:Henry David Thoreau|Henry David Thoreau]], [[wp:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]], and [[File:Ghandi.png]] [[Ghandian Socialism|Mahatma Gandhi]], and serves as a core tenet in most variants of [[File:Anrel.png]] [[Religious Anarchism]]<ref>Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre. (March 2010). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110812071723/http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2010/1338_1226.pdf "A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State"]. Political Studies Association. Archived on 2011-08-12.</ref>. Despite significant anarcho-pacifist thinkers citing Thoreau as an influence, Thoreau himself did not subscribe to pacifism<ref>Meyer, Michael. (1980). [https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30228175?uid=3739832&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104259840033 "Thoreau's Rescue of John Brown from History" Studies in the American Renaissance], pp. 301–316</ref>. |
Anarcho-pacifist thought is predominantly based in the writings of [[wp:Henry David Thoreau|Henry David Thoreau]], [[wp:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]], and [[File:Ghandi.png]] [[Ghandian Socialism|Mahatma Gandhi]], and serves as a core tenet in most variants of [[File:Anrel.png]] [[Religious Anarchism]]<ref>Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre. (March 2010). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110812071723/http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2010/1338_1226.pdf "A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State"]. Political Studies Association. Archived on 2011-08-12.</ref>. Despite significant anarcho-pacifist thinkers citing Thoreau as an influence, Thoreau himself did not subscribe to pacifism<ref>Meyer, Michael. (1980). [https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30228175?uid=3739832&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104259840033 "Thoreau's Rescue of John Brown from History" Studies in the American Renaissance], pp. 301–316</ref>. |
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