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Anarchy and its Uses
Contr’un Revisited: What is anarchy good for? I will admit that I have been prone at times to think of anarchy as good for all purposes, at least as an antidote to the pervasive influence […]
Propositions for Discussion
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But What About the Children? (A Note on Tutelage)
It’s a question again of “legitimate authority” and “justified hierarchy,” and specifically of the favorite example used by those who want to leave a space within anarchist theory for those things: the care of very […]
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Anarchism, Plain and Simple
I’ll do a proper year-end round-up sometime soon and talk about a number of changes coming to the Libertarian Labyrinth, but I’ll start with some updates on publishing and translating projects. If things have […]
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Anarchy and Anarchism, Insides and Outsides
“Dad blame anything a man can’t quit.”—Roger Miller Make a more or less angry break with the anarchist milieu. Settle down to write a book about anarchism. It might all seem a bit bizarre […]
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Toward a General Theory of Archy
A lot of my frustrations with the anarchist milieu have less to do with the sorts of internal problems we face, which seem to me to be logical manifestations of the larger social environment, […]
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Propositions for Discussion: The Scope of Anarchy
[Here is a rough outline for the second section of the “Propositions:] The Scope of Anarchy To claim that anarchy is sufficient as an anarchist goal or ideal is not, of course, to claim that […]
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Propositions for Discussion: The Idea of Anarchy
[ezcol_2third] [Since posting the first installment of this project, I have considerably expanded the scope of the material to be covered, with the result that what was supposed to be a pamphlet’s worth of provocation […]
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Propositions for Discussion (on Anarchy and Anarchism) — I
Anarchy is a simple, accessible notion, sufficient to provide the necessary glue for a real anarchist current or movement. I’ve been struck by the number of times recently that I have encountered the argument that […]