# [2019.09.22] Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

During flights, I finished listening to an audiobook by Colin Wards.
I can't say that I found anything particularly surprising about the
matter, but surely, there were a couple of noteworthy moments. First,
two of the four founding fathers of anarchism were Russians: William
Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, and
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin. Maybe that's one of the reasons for my
interest in this philosophy. Second, before Proudhon, the word
'anarchism' wasn't used in a positive sense. It meant chaos and
wilderness, and now it's all about freedom and peer respect. Third,
it never crossed my mind that snail mail operates on a mutual
agreement, and there is no International Post Office. Yes, nowadays
many things changes but sending letters works similar to how it did
150 years ago. Federalism can help us to scale freedom to the whole
globe.