Mertcan Bulak
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Argentina best illustrates the general principle that the degree of anarchist activity in a Latin American country depended on the extent of its industrialization and the number of its Italian and Spanish immigrants. As the most industrialized and urbanized country in the region, Argentina developed the most powerful anarchist movement.
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The assassination of President McKinley by a young Polish immigrant Leon Czolgosz in 1901 was the last straw. Theodore Roosevelt, the new President, denounced anarchism in his message to Congress in December 1901 as ‘a crime against the whole human race,’ and urged that ‘all mankind should band against anarchists’. Two years later a law was passed banning alien anarchists and any person ‘who disbelieves in or is opposed to all organized governments’.
They did not question the market economy and saw like Proudhon that private property was a guarantee of personal independence. As such most American individualist anarchists might be called ‘right-libertarians’ since they felt capitalism would encourage anarchy.
Indeed, life in the commonwealth passed off so quietly, and the people spent their time in such peaceful and productive activities that Benjamin Franklin apparently warned the delegates of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention not to stall in drawing up a new government: ‘Gentleman, you see that in the anarchy in which we live society manages much as before. Take care, if our disputes last too long, that the people do not come to think that they can very easily do without us.’
The writers Jaroslav Hašek and Franz Kafka were both exposed to anarchist ideas in the bohemian circles of Prague before the First World War. Kropotkin’s memoirs became one of Kafka’s favourite books.
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