Anarcho-Humanism

Anarcho-Humanism is a meta-political philosophy that espouses the ideals associated with the French revolution of 1789: liberty, fraternity, and equality. Unlike the French revolutionaries, however, Anarcho-Humanists relate those revolutionary ideals to one another in a fashion that, had the French done so, would have spared France the Terror that followed the revolution and which shocked many Romantics into a Wordsworthian reactionary conservatism.

For Anarcho-Humanists (like Tolstoy), the ideals of liberty and equality emerge from an underlying commitment to fraternity. That is to say, without a commitment to viewing human beings as indivisibly connected to one another and invested in each other's well-being, liberty and equality are emptied of all meaningful signification.

It is precisely because the Anarcho-Humanist stipulates this connection to others that she desires for them treatment equal to that which she would receive herself and freedoms equal to that which she would enjoy.

Fraternity as such is the alternative to fratricide; it is the antidote to the fratricidal tendencies that emerge when familiarity breeds contempt.