A conversation with a friend who recently gave an “introduction to anarchism” workshop and is also writing an article called “Making Our Relationships More Free.” He’s putting forward an anarchism that seeks a collective, relational freedom rather than an individual one.
Topics include:
– how to frame anarchism to people who don’t understand it yet.
– a forthcoming anthology about the place of individualism in anarchism.
– the difference between freedom and capacity.
– the definition of freedom, and how to envision freedom without relying on liberal or capitalist conceptions of the individual.
– how we get free through changing and remaking our relationships with other people and other living things.
– the possibility of global revolution.
– the difference between anarchist analysis and revolutionary strategy.
Links:
The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
23 Theses on Anarchism: Revolution is More Than A World
