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Chapter: Anarchism
Are we the 99%?
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Learning aims:
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Last week: Environmentalism
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Anarchism flashcard:
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What do IR scholars mean when they talk about anarchy?
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Difference in how IR theorists and
anarchists value states and anarchy? (table 10.1)
Anarchists reject Hobbes premise that anarchy implies a
“state
of
nature”
where life is
“solitary
, poor, nasty, brutish and
short”
(
Hobbes, 1651/2008
: 37)
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Graeber’s
definitions of anarchism:
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Three basic assumptions of
anarchism (table 10.2)
Assumption about
Explanation
Liberty
Expanding the realm of individual
liberty is both desirable and possible
Human Capacity for Self-Organization
Human beings are, under ordinary
circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how (
Graeber
,
2012:2)
Power
Power
corrupts (
Graeber
,
2012:2)
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Key Concepts of (New)
anarchism
(table
10.3)
Concept
Definition
Horizontal
Direct Democracies
Leaderless,
self-organizing structures like the
“General Assemblies”
that were popularized by OWS, in which decisions are made collectively and
consensually
Utopian
Preconfigurations
Enacting the anarchist belief that
“another
world is
possible
by taking direct action to live
that other world now through peaceful means, rather than taking on the state through any violent
resistance”
(
Graeber
,
2002: 72)
Ethical Common Decency“Having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them to their logical conclusion” (Graeber, 2012: 2)Taken to its extreme, this means we need to fundamentally rethink how we ought to behave toward one another in terms of what we each of us really owes one another (Graeber, 2011a)
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Theory activity: Rethinking the meaning of debt
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What is typical and deviant in the world of
The Hunger Games? (box 10.1 & 10.2)
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How to understand
Katniss Everdeen (table 10.4)
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What must go without saying for the myth
“We are the 99%”
to appear to be true
(box
10.3)
Just because a person battles for their private liberties
in public
does not mean they are battling
for the public or constituting a new public
like the 99%
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Film activity: Communitarian and
individualist anarchism
in
The Hunger Games
and beyond
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Next week: Conclusions
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