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Full Idea
I begin with the ontological premise that the state is a limitation on human existence. I am against the state, law, bureaucracy, and capital. I see anarchism as the only desirable way of organising, politically. ...Its political form is federalist.
Gist of Idea
The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism
Source
Simon Critchley (Impossible Objects: interviews [2012], 3)
Book Ref
Critchley,Simon: 'Impossible Objects: interviews' [Politty 2012], p.50
A Reaction
Hm. Some sympathy, but caution. All systems, even federalist anarchism, are limitations on our lives, so which limitations do we prefer? The law aspires to a calm egalitarian neutrality, which seems promising to me.
Related Idea
Idea 20452 Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley]
| 539 | Nothing is worse for mankind than anarchy [Antiphon] |
| 5968 | Diogenes masturbated in public, wishing he could get rid of hunger so easily [Diogenes of Sin., by Plutarch] |
| 23163 | In an anarchy universities, research, books, and even seaside holidays, would be impossible [Russell] |
| 23168 | A state is essential, to control greedy or predatory impulses [Russell] |
| 21521 | Anarchy does not maximise liberty [Russell] |
| 23809 | Our only social duty is to try to limit evil [Weil] |
| 23870 | Decentralisation is only possible by co-operation between strong and weak - which is absurd [Weil] |
| 18642 | Individual rights are so strong that the state and its officials must be very limited in power [Nozick] |
| 20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley] |
| 20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley] |
| 20487 | A realistic and less utopian anarchism looks increasingly like liberal democracy [Wolff,J] |
| 20488 | It is hard for anarchists to deny that we need experts [Wolff,J] |
| 20578 | Anarchists prefer local and communal government [Oksala] |
| 9391 | Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W] |