It seems your analysis of the meaning of sovereignty and legitimacy highlights the absurdity of idealist liberal explanations of the evolution and rise of states. It’s more than slippery wordplay, it’s an omission of the materialist class antagonism at the heart of liberal states and democracies.
Not sure to what extent it fulfills this, but it was somehow among these lines of criticism that I wrote it. Yours is better elaborated though. We should definitely republish it!
it’s interesting - in the article i’ll leave below, someone was quoted saying anarchism is the quantum physics to the classical physics, a building on the previous system, digging deeper and forming a new paradigm. in some ways, i think this is true; if people are equal, then power constructs, as they move from small and supreme to wide and democratic, ought move towards the realization of that notion of equality.
It seems your analysis of the meaning of sovereignty and legitimacy highlights the absurdity of idealist liberal explanations of the evolution and rise of states. It’s more than slippery wordplay, it’s an omission of the materialist class antagonism at the heart of liberal states and democracies.
Not sure to what extent it fulfills this, but it was somehow among these lines of criticism that I wrote it. Yours is better elaborated though. We should definitely republish it!
I really like the hallucinatory feel of your writing. Also happy to republish.
it’s interesting - in the article i’ll leave below, someone was quoted saying anarchism is the quantum physics to the classical physics, a building on the previous system, digging deeper and forming a new paradigm. in some ways, i think this is true; if people are equal, then power constructs, as they move from small and supreme to wide and democratic, ought move towards the realization of that notion of equality.
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/anarchism-elbows-up-and-daoism?r=4ysygi&utm_medium=ios
I'll read and address this in a couple of days, mate!