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Single Idea 24432

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish]

Full Idea

Anarchism needs the negation of free will and the right to punish. Every human individual is but an involuntary product of natural and social environment.

Gist of Idea

Deny free will, and abolish punishment, since human actions are the consequence of society

Source

Mikhail Bakunin (Science and the Urgent Revolutionary Task [1870], p.134)

A Reaction

[He then spells out four social causes of immoral behaviour] I don't think negating free will entails the abolition of punishment, so these two are separate. Hegel and Marx seem to be the sources for this view. All actions are 'involuntary'?

Book Reference

'The Anarchists', ed/tr. Horowitz,Irving L. [Dell 1964], p.134