3 responses to “Chomsky on What is Anarchism?”

1. Here is the thing about anarchism. Often slated as anti-intellectual, or lacking a rigorous account of political economy, anarchism isn’t essentially about the theorisation of abstractions but the reflection on and elaboration of a diversity of tactics. Ideological discontinuities among anarchists more often than not, although not at all times, comes down to a disagreement over tactics and the deployment of forms. This even counts for the debates around building specific assemblages. Looking at the accelerationist manifesto, I’m sure you could read a large swathe of it as if it were written by a federalist anarchist (and perhaps this is why Mark Fisher exempts the UK’s Solidarity Federation from his critique of neoanarchism, and why the Anarchist Federation should also be considered exempt).

   • interesting have they been doing something akin to case-studies to compare & contrast differing attempts that they have made at re-assembling?

2. no rush to these things, glad to hear people are gearing in and grinding it out much harder with 3D flesh and blood people than on the page/screen, would be nice to have an ethnographer or two in the mix to come up with something like open-source platforms from the tactics and even thick accounts of the failures so we don’t keep starting over from scratch.