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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Existentialist Anarchism: A Rough Sketch
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 […]
