Crispin Sartwell - Anarchist Philosopher

"Growing up in D.C. will turn you into an anarchist," jokes Against the State: An introduction To Anarchist Political Theory author Crispin Sartwell. "I'm expecting the revolution to emerge from Wheaton (Maryland), high schoolers in the D.C. area who are embroiled in the bureaucracy of the American state." This five-and-a-half-minute-long interview was conducted by Nick Gillespie and shot and edited by Dan Hayes.

Widely published in both popular outlets and academic journals, Sartwell teaches at Dickinson College. For more information on him, go to his website.

For an audio podcast version of this interview, go here.

And check out his October 30, 2008 appearance on the Reason.tv Talk Show, where he discussed anarchy, Darfur, and hip hop with the journalist Eli Lake and hosts Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie.

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[Regenmacher175]

@mythhealer because wishing for an all-powerful protector isn't insane? i am saying that because the all-powerful protector (state) can turn around and sell you out to people who offer him more power (financial institutions, corporations, banks, etc.). Your life can be ended also in a society with state power. The state has to justify EVERY action it undertakes and if it can't justify it then it should not exist in THAT form. ANY form of hierarchy is objectionable.

[mythhealer]

@johnosmeltzer - the discussion about anarchy, no law? Irrationality is associated with insanity.

[johnosmeltzer]

@mythhealer As a nurse that takes care of psychotic patients, I have to disagree.

[mythhealer]

"Rather a philosophical than a practical approach.... " Insane people make these comments....

[mythhealer]

When you remove state power, you remove the Bill of Rights... you revert back to the days of Socrates, and smart people such as your self get voted to death by Democracy.... you sir are an idiot!

[paradoxparody]

We've always had anarchy. whether you believe it or not through history a certain group of people get to have anarchy and the rest of us obey. Structure is an illusion becuase if something as empty as the word "no" can crumble structure then that means structure is only perceptive. Thats whats funny about humans; they treat these laws as absolutes so they can hide from the reality of anarchy. You live under someone elses anarchy.

[rickbster]

my question stands. It is of course to CS + ReasonTV, and while rhetorical I do wonder, if these viewers are living the life they describe... in other words are they fish, or are they fishing.

If you can discuss this, then respond, please.

richard, who skipped school for months at a time to read through the anarchist books and pamphlets held by the Library of Congress... before 1960 -- I didn't see you there

[meskuzi301]

@rickbster run to the woods and stay there, it's pretty simple

[meskuzi301]

@SuperiorRobot that is the final state of marxism, but he is right fulfilling alot of marxist goals calls for a totalitarian regime

[SuperiorRobot]

marxism calls for the deletion of the state....