Submitted by humanispherian in Anarchism
More from the pre-Proudhon period. From Etienne de la Boétie to Sylvain Maréchal, with a little more critical apparatus added.
Submitted by humanispherian in Anarchism
More from the pre-Proudhon period. From Etienne de la Boétie to Sylvain Maréchal, with a little more critical apparatus added.
humanispherian OP wrote
Anarchists often find ourselves surrounded by "anti-government" critique, though we are clearly not surrounded by anarchists. Some of that is probably a sort of throwback to the "natural government" arguments of earlier eras—and perhaps the same could be said of some of the "good governance" arguments made within anarchist circles by proponents of "pure democracy." The early history we're tracing gives us an opportunity to try to decide at what point something emerges that really feels like "anarchism" to us and a chance to address the conflicting tendencies in the stories we tell ourselves about anarchist development, where, on the one hand, we search history for examples of anarchism as a kind of perennial philosophy, but, on the other, also often try to exclude explicitly anarchist approaches as not anarchist enough.