- Re: Does it include the all-important topic: 'How to make anarchism actually work in a mass, industrial Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne
on December 19, 2019, 11:57 am, in reply to "Does it include the all-important topic: 'How to make anarchism actually work in a mass, industrial"
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who lived anarchistically and socialistically without even having to theorise about it That's why I like to distinguish 'anarchy' from 'anarchism', the lived practice from the ideology. Any ideology, including anarchism, can have an authoritarian turn. We were social beings long before we had a sense of ourself as individuals. We develop as individuals always within a social context. Naming ceremonies are formal inductions into the tribe - a biological being becomes a social being. There is always going to be tension between individual desires and the need for social cohesion. In earlier societies, this tension could be reduced (an economic needs served) by different activities at different times of the year. Large groups might gather at certain times of the year (e.g., at salmon runs), then disperse into small groups and individuals at other times. I think Graeber talks about this somewhere. I think it's called fission and fusion. As cooperation and social cohesion is necessary for survival of the tribe, serial recalcitrants could be banished, temporarily or permanently, or, in extreme cases, killed. If LBN were a tribe or, in modern terms, an 'anarchist collective', I fear our self-proclaimed 'anarchist' (and 'moral conscience') would be one of the first to be banished. |