# The Anarchist Handbook  ## Metadata - Author: [[Michael Malice, Murray Rothbard, Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, David Friedman, Peter Kropotki...]] - Full Title: The Anarchist Handbook - Category: #books ## Highlights - Antinomianism in ethics is anarchism in a sociopolitical context, ([Location 112](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=112)) - they have taken the legitimacy of government for granted all of their lives. ([Location 120](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=120)) - Anarchism is not a location. Anarchism is a relationship, one in which none of the parties has authority over the other. ([Location 129](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=129)) - all anarchism claims to do is to resolve one major problem in interpersonal relationships: the forceful interjection of the state. ([Location 134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=134)) - society based on mutual aid and complete equality. ([Location 147](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=147)) - Though the social contract is often posited as the origin of a just government, no government in history has ever so much as pretended to have come about as the result of it. ([Location 173](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=173)) - Locke, the great champion of the doctrine of an original contract, ([Location 197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=197)) - The laws which the community does not ratify in person, are no laws, are nullities.”[iii] ([Location 218](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B094XR9LGV&location=218))