Anarchism and Marxism: A Comparative Study on Equality

“Anarchism recognizes the rights of the individual, or numbers of individuals, to arrange at all times for other forms of work, in harmony with their tastes and desires.”(Goldman, 56) An Anarchic state provides the ability of equality not only between gender, and class, but also between race and religion. Emma Goldman fought for political and social equality between men and women. In some aspects Goldman argued that when a decision is freely chosen then the outcome can be drastically different compared to a decision that has been forced upon the person. In Goldman’s essay’s she propagates that by getting rid of the state it would not create chaos, but would help create harmony.

Marx in all aspects believes that all inequality arrives form economic

Both argue that the structures in place that are meant to maintain order, in actuality are not in the general interest and make problems worse. “In bourgeois society, living labor is but a means to increase accumulated labor.”(Marx, 19) The bourgeoisie benefit from the oppression of the proletariat through the means of production. Marx argues that to fix this problem of the proletariat being oppressed would be for the state to own the means of production. “The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”(Marx, 5) Marx argues that the government in place at that moment was not there to ensure the public interest but the interest of a select

An anarchic state is not a free for all like people believe when they think of anarchy. There is still some semblance of control. An anarchic state is based off on no state control, state control can lead to the domination and oppression of races and classes. For example in Goldman essays she gives an example of the oppression on women in the United States. She believes that in an anarchic state the possibility between equality of gender and race and social