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Rejoinder to a Toothless Critique
Posted in Ideas, tagged anarchism, anarchists, armies, capitalism, foucault, history, marxism, modernism, stagism, state socialists, subjectivity, the state, utopian socialists, war on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The ‘political’ legacy of anarchism is hard to measure; even more so if the standards applied to anarchism come from lateral projects like state socialism or communism.
Anarchism comes from utopian socialism and often unknowingly continues politically paralyzing assumptions that are unnecessary to anarchism more generally. The two most common are: 1) a naive Rousseauian faith in the ‘goodness’ of human nature, which presumes that projects based on cooperation generate superior outcomes to those based in competition; and 2) a reactionary conservatism based in romantic attachment to pre-industrial ways of life. (more…)
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