David Graeber There Never Was a West Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between 2007 From the collection “Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy,...
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!
David Graeber Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! 2000 See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ &...
Western Standard | The independent voice of the New West
westernstandard.news | The independent voice of the New West
Democracy and the Epistemic Commons
The Consilience Project is a publication of the Civilization Research Institute (CRI)
“Few societies can so conspicuously lack those judicial, administrative, and political procedures which lie at the heart of the western conception of government. The traditional northern Somali political system has no chiefs to run it and no formal judiciary to control it. Men are divided amongst political units without any administrative hierarchy of officials and with no instituted positions of leadership to direct their affairs.” (Lewis 1961 p. vii)
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, a…
A quote from 1984
In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
Hyperpolitics? Yes, Please • Protean Magazine
Alex Colston reviews Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics," filling in gaps in the book's short argument and arguing for the importance of political formations and activities independent of official political society.
Imperialism and Unequal Development - Monthly Review Press
“The societies of the dominated periphery no longer can wait,” said the great Egyptian economist Samir Amin, over half a century ago in the lively and re...
Anarchy & the Philosophy of Anarchism Collection: Mutua…
Anarchism claims that there's no need for a state and t…
The Ecology of Freedom
Murray Bookchin The Ecology of Freedom The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy 1982 Converted September 2018; footnotes, section spacing, and...
Great Men and how they are upheld
Part of a series, Autonomy, Diversity, Society. Posts about our roles, relationships and governance. No article in this section is meant to stand alone, there will be a lot more coming soon that wi…
Democracy has Hamlet’s Problem: The Search for Relevance in a Complex World
To cope with the complexity of the world, cognitively limited agents must employ framing to identify what is relevant and stabilise meaning. Yet democracy rests on the Popperian fallibilist imperat...
Democracy Needs Friction To Function
AI promises to help us find common ground. But democracy was never meant to resolve our disagreements.
David Graeber Left Us a Parting Gift — His Thoughts on Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid”
Graeber, the anarchist scholar who played a prominent initial organizing role in Occupy Wall Street, has died at 59.
