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The language we use in large part creates our social reality. The character of our social institutions emerges from the things we say about them, and…
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Yesterday (August 18, 2022), I had a new opinion piece run in The Hill. I wanted to share a longer version of that piece here at The Peaceful…
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We disagree, as anarchists, about what exactly it is that we’re up to. It isn’t just the question of why to embark on such a project—it’s the question…
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New Ways of Thinking and Talking About Social Dilemmas
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In his introduction for Ivan Illich’s Celebration of Awareness, Erich Fromm defined radicalism not as “a certain set of ideas,” but as an approach or an…
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The social meaning of modernity expresses itself in domination, hierarchy, and oppression. The individual person living under such a social system is…
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It’s never been easy to know what to make of self-styled free-marketers who see global capitalism as a real-life instantiation of their values. Given…
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Part II
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In the spring of 1888, the great American anarchist and publisher Benjamin R. Tucker wrote of the “till lately undisputed” idea “that the permanent…
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As human beings, we’re confronted with a puzzle: are we doomed to hierarchy, domination, and class oppression, or is it possible to disrupt and escape…
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Using Our Knowledge in the Service of Wisdom
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