Albert Camus’ Anarchist Conclusion
Apparently, almost everyone who has made a statement about Albert Camus’ political ideology skipped the end of his most extensive essay in political philosophy: The Rebel. I have found few commentaries that refer directly to the conclusion of this work as evidence of Camus’ stance. Some have at least traced Albert Camus’ commitments to anarchist […]
An Anarchist Approach to Policy
To people who don’t know much about anarchism, it seems like a completely unrealistic worldview. To those people who know a little bit about anarchism, it is obvious that anarchism has a messaging problem. Anarchists have attempted to solve this problem in a variety of ways. Recently, one of those attempts has taken the form […]
Existentialist Anarchism: A Rough Sketch in Progress
Introduction I want to introduce the conceptual framework of existentialist anarchism lightly, without providing more argumentation than is necessary to paint the picture. Depending on the audience, that can be a more-or-less realisitic expectation. Both existentialism and anarchism are widely misunderstood and even then, there is much debate about who is and who isn’t either […]
How Liberal and Right Wing Anti-Communism Continues to Fuel Fascism Today
The storming of the US Capitol Building was only one of a series of right-wing attacks on 01/06/2021, adding to decades of nationalist reaction. Yes, you read that correctly. What happened was not a mere 4-years in the making. It wasn’t even a decade in the making. This movement in US society goes back far […]
Identity is Impossible
“You are what you are not and are not what you are.” – Jean-Paul Sartre According to the famous psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, the defining crisis of adolescence is the “identity crisis”. Erikson recognized that in our society, the world of childhood and the world of adulthood are distinct from each other and for […]
What is Socialism? Yesterday and Today’s Distinctions…
Most discussions of socialism don’t begin at the beginning. Instead, they begin from the works of Marx and Engels. Or worse, they begin from the assumption that socialism is some sort of system and/or some series of government policies. This omission of early socialist thought and practice causes these discussions to become lost in endless […]