What is Rulership?

What is Rulership?

Anarchism is defined as opposition to rulership. All anarchists are in principle against rulership. Every type of anarchist agrees. But what is rulership? That is a question about which anarchists have many, often radically different, opinions. Here is a list of interpretations of rulership, from the narrowest bare-bones definitions to the most all-encompassing definitions. The anarchist schools favoring that conception of rulership are noted.

Rulership is ...

Compulsory government aka political authority - the right to rule & duty to obey
(king, president, dictator, junta, legislature, ...)
Anarchism without Adjectives;
generic anarchism
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Any use of aggression, defined as non-consensual initiation of force or threat of it
(Non-aggression principle, or law of equal freedom)
Voluntaryism; NAP-based anarchism;
liberal anarchism; most anarcho-capitalists are voluntaryist
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Any use of aggression, or use of "commons" without compensating others
(Georgist principle - natural resources cannot be owned outright, but must be rented from the community)
Geoism (ne Georgism); like anarcho-capitalism but without sticky property in land and natural resources geoism-symbol
Any use of aggression, or control of productive resources in absentia.
(Possession principle - resources must be personally used by the owner(s) to retain ownership)
Mutualism; like anarcho-capitalism except with stricter abandonment conditions mutualism-symbol
Any use of aggression, or profit ("usury") derived from the labor of others.
(Soft socialist exploitation principle - usually based on the labor theory of value or unequal bargaining power)
Voluntaryist anarcho-socialism; against sticky property but considered a vice, not a crime (so would not be forcibly opposed) anarcho-collectivism
Any profit ("usury") derived from the labor of others. Aggression is okay to stop usury.
(Hard socialist exploitation principle, allowing aggression to expropriate profits and capital goods aka "MOP")
Aggressionist anarcho-socialism; sticky property is considered a crime, so would be forcibly opposed ancom-symbol
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