2- Research Paper

The second research paper of the semester will focus on anarchism and especially the contrast in beliefs between “pacifist” anarchists and “revolutionary” anarchists. One of history’s most famous pacifist anarchists, and the first man to ever call himself an “anarchist,” is Pierre-Joseph Proudon (1809-1865). Of the revolutionary anarchists, Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) is widely regarded to be the founding father of this line of anarchism and is unquestionably history’s most famous anarchist. For this paper, you will explore the ideological beliefs of these two men with any eye on how each defined and described anarchism and how each believed revolutionary change in society should happen. The sources you will use for this paper are:

1. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon

Read and write on the section entitled “philosophy” and on the section entitled “controversy”. (In your paper cite this as Wiki-Proudhon)

2. Mikhail Bakunin, Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin

Read and write on the section entitled “thought” and on the section entitled “criticism”. (In your paper cite this as Wiki-Bakunin)

Rather than provide you with a series of “leading” questions, I am going to leave it up to you to decide how best to discuss the anarchist vision of each of these men. However, make sure you have some healthy discussion in your paper on how each of these men viewed revolutionary change in society, especially with respect to the use, or non-use, of violence. There is a lot of material to work with in the two sources so be creative and original in how you present your ideas.

Writing instructions for the assignment from the professor:

You MUST use both sources of information and cite them often;
You WILL NOT have direct quotes in your paper. You will paraphrase the material (IN YOUR OWN WORDS!) and then provide a citation after each paraphrased passage. If you have direct quotes in your paper you will fail the assignment;
You will provide plenty of discussion and analysis of Proudhon’s and Bakunin’s thoughts on anarchism and revolutionary change within your paper;
The paper will be an absolute MINIMUM of 5-FULL-PAGES in length. Writing less than 5-FULL-PAGES will earn you a grade of zero on the paper—writing more than 5 FULL pages will prevent this fate from befalling you;
You will use a 12 font with 1” margins around the page (this is the standard default setting in most word processing programs so be sure to check your margins);
You will type your name at the top of page 1 and then start writing. If you give me fluff like the date, the course name and number, my name, etc., you will fail the assignment;
You will hit the “enter” key once, and only once, after each paragraph or heading that you use. Put another way, you will not hand me in a paper with a lot of “white space” on the pages. Make sure you turn off the auto-paragraph function that inserts an additional line-space after each paragraph. If you hand me in a “white space” paper you will fail the assignment;

IMPORTANT:
Please remember to only use the two sources provided. Only put Student Name at the top of the page. Please do NOT put course name, professor name,title etc. It has to be 5 FULL pages and only press the enter key once after each paragraph. No direct quotes