L'anarchisme chrétien

the long version

Familiar with anarchist phrases such as "no gods, no masters", we forget that anarchism and socialism have more in common with Christianity than any other doctrine or philosophy. Jacques de Guillebon and Falk van Gaver take us on a journey into the world of Christian anarchism and two centuries of noncompliance with earthly authority. Far from the "revolutionary catechism" Nechayev suggests, the bombs of Ravachol and Makhno's Black Army, Orthodox and sometimes heretical religious anarchy is based on nonviolence, criticism of the state and liberalism. Christians were the first anarchists to speak out against our rapacious world. For them, "order without power" is a phrase for God's children.