newpipe hooked me up w niel gaiman in the autoplay
Too bad she was an anarchist…
Anarchists do have solid critiques of capitalism, it’s when it comes to solutions when things get shall we say questionable.
Honestly, their critiques of capitalism stems from their individualism.
Yeah generally that’s the case. Personally, I don’t see any fundamental problem with empowering individuals, but I look at it from Maslov’s hierarchy of needs perspective. Once we make sure everybody’s basic needs are taken care of, then we can start worrying about maximizing personal freedoms. Anarchists generally only tend to care about the top end of the pyramid, and often it’s because they have their needs largely met already.
Fair enough.
I don’t know if she was actually a practicing anarchist but she had a pretty interesting take on it IMO:
My novel ‘The Dispossessed’ is about a small world full of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn’t get into the action - except implicitly, in that all the action started with her.
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right, but anarchism as pre- figured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.
The Dispossessed is honestly an awful book, and the political philosophy she espouses in it is fully incoherent and politically stunted.
I guess that aligns with Anarchism as a whole, though.
This book doesn’t get anywhere near enough hate.
* idk if I’m more annoyed that you’re resurrecting a dead thread or recommending that
Oh, I didn’t even see how old the thread was. It just showed up in my feed somehow. My bad.
