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Full Idea
Anarchism in the 1960s was libertarian and organised around issues of sexual liberation. That moment has passed. People are and should be organising around responsibility.
Gist of Idea
Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility
Source
Simon Critchley (Impossible Objects: interviews [2012], 3)
Book Ref
Critchley,Simon: 'Impossible Objects: interviews' [Politty 2012], p.55
A Reaction
So there are two types of anarchism, focused on freedom or on responsibility. An organisation like Greenpeace might represent the latter.
Related Idea
Idea 20450 The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [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] |