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Basic Principles of Anarchism
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- date
- 2003
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Motifs or claims
- Social sanctioning is caused by hierarchies [2] -> no. it's pretty
often caused by Communities. - Giving orders is having illegitimate authority [3] / It is illegitimate authority to divide society into order givers and order takers -> god if this isn't one of the orangest things I've ever heard. not one of anarchism's highest moments in my mind.
- Being an authority is good, having authority is bad [4] -> when I read this I automatically assumed the anarchist would call the opposite of the two things bad. being an authority is bad because class territory owners and bigots clinging to positions and generalized dictators etc, having authority is okay because anarchism has to enforce its structure and Ideals somehow. and I was like, oh, wow, maybe anarchism actually makes sense and I'm being too harsh on it. and then, like it always does, it pulled a left turn and ceased making sense, and I was genuinely baffled. though unsurprised, because what came next was very familiar to the kinds of nonsense I'd already heard.
- dividing society into order givers and order takers (anarchism) [5] / The ideas of the ruling class become the ruling ideas of the age (Marx) -> this is a legitimate description of society in the end, but anarchists always seem to get the causality behind it wildly wrong.
- There is a difference between expertise and irrational authority, and anarchists are able to make this distinction and honor legitimate authority -> there really isn't though, as far as anarchist movements are concerned. Stalin had "socially acknowledged expertise". but anarchists didn't like him. and the whole reason capitalism is a problem is that many or all of the people who "irrationally" dominate people first get into positions of power because they do have legitimate expertise in something that other people don't have; capitalism comes to exist because expertise becomes a matter of quantity rather than quality and the "expertiest" people within the few areas that capitalism actually values come to define what facts everyone is allowed to acknowledge as real and to "own" everyone else. in practice anarchists don't actually like experts being in charge if they violate other conditions that are much more important to anarchists than this distinction without a difference.
- Anarchism means abolishing domination / Anarchism is partly defined by the concept of abolishing domination [6] / (9k)